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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Who are the teams that missed the postseason last year
that have the highest chance of making it next season,
Because even if you feel really comfortable and confident about
the sixteen teams that made it last season, we never
see a repeat. Just last season, we saw four new
playoff teams and new playoff teams, just teams that missed
the previous season in the back on track. So for example,
the Grizzlies missed it the year before and made it
this season. Same thing with the Warriors, and then we

(00:21):
had the new Houston Rockets Corps and then the Detroit
Pistons Corps. It's four new playoff teams. Yeah, before that,
we had five new teams. Year before that, we had
five new teams. Yeah before that, we had five new teams.
You get what I'm saying, ain't done yet. Before that
we had six new teams. There's only sixteen spots because
I'm not even talking about playing, I'm talking about being
in a seven game series.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
And yet before that move we got to the bubble,
there's only three.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
But we see this time and time again, they're gonna
be new teams to jump onto the scene. And personally,
I'll be trying to predict those teams.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Last year, I fumbled it completely.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
I did not see the Detroit Pistons having the season
that they did, but they did it.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
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Speaker 1 (02:02):
So in order to talk about the potential what four
to five teams are gonna surprise us, we got to
look at who didn't make it in the Eastern Conference.
It feels like the safest place to be when it
comes to new playoff teams, right, we already made a
video about like the Indiana Pacers in the Boston Celtics
who knock on wood are like one more injury away
from completely missing the postseason. But both of those teams,

(02:23):
even with the Notatum and no halliburt and have the talent,
especially in the Eastern Conference, to still be a playoff team.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
They just not contenders anymore.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
But we can't predict injuries, we can't control injuries, and objectively,
injuries are going to matter when it comes to new
teams jumping on to the scene. So those are maybe
the candidates you could potentially see falling out of things.
One team I feel like most people are really comfortable
and confident will be like, oh, one hundred percent, that
team is the playoff team next season is the Atlanta Hawks.
The Atlanta Hawks, of course, had a really great offseason

(02:52):
all things considered, bringing in Christasporzingiz, bringing.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
In Lukunar and the Keyalys and the Walker.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
And hopefully having a healthy Jalen Johnson season, it is
very easy to predict that that team is going to
be a postseason team next season. So that would be
the one. I'm like, right now it's August. We don't
know what's gonna happen once the season starts, but that team,
I'm like super super comfortable and confident with saying they
will be a playoff team next year.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Then after that we got the Bulls. I feel like
the Bulls.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Could be a playing team next season, which is usually
their goal, but I don't see them winning to playing
games to get there. It would have to take like
a really big jump for one of the young guys,
and I just I really don't see that for them
to be a playoff team. We got the Toronto Raptors,
who are one of the I've said it before, most
confusing teams. Because obviously on paper, they have a extreme

(03:38):
amount of talent, right, they have Scottie Barnes, who's a
former All Star. Brandon Ingram is a former All Star
man you quickly wasn't healthy last season. RJ Barrett at
least in the first half of the season was showing
us and play making things. And then Yaka Pertle is
a super solid center. And then their bench mob has
a bunch of young guys. Yeah, but like I like
a lot of those year guys. OJ Biz is a
real NBA player, you know. Even with saying that, I

(03:59):
just struggle to figure out if their pieces will fit right.
The three point shot, as you know, is extremely important
in the game of basketball in twenty twenty five, and
they just don't have a ton of that now. If
you're going to play Devil's advocate, you can say, hey man,
Brandon Ingram just last season, even though of course he
didn't play a ton of games, he averaged the most
catch and shoot three pointers of his career and he

(04:19):
shot forty percent of those. That's great, but that's not
really his game, you know what I mean? Like he
is a guy that you want handling the ball and
creative for himself because he's a dog at that. But
also Scotty Bares is a twenty nine percent three point shooter.
So it's just I think that they need to be really,
really creative offensively. Like I feel like defensively they should
be decent to good, but they have to be really

(04:40):
creative offensively given the talent that they have on their team.
And I can't I can't say confidently that they're going
to be a playoff team, but I could see it happening.
I guess the Brooklyn Nets are out.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
I don't see that happening at all.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
The seventy six ers obviously in the amazing candidate here,
you know, a semi healthy season from Joel Embiid wouldn't
be enough to just make the post season, right, semi
healthy ain't even talking about sixty five games.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Paul George will be back.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
In theory, and we don't know if he's a sixteen
game a point per game score or twenty was last
year fluke, who knows. But even if it was not
a fluke, he's still okay to decent NBA player, right,
And then you got Maxi and so on, so I
could see them being of course that team to do it,
and they have no incentive to tear it all down
like they did last season right where they phoned it

(05:25):
in order to retain their own first round pick. From
my understanding, they don't hold the rights to anything in
their twenty twenty six draft, so it's not like last
year it was like bench everybody. Let I don't even
know who's super for them last season, less so and
so hoop, so we can get our pick. They got
their pick, that's VJ. But next year, I don't think
they have any ties to their our first round pick,
so going out there, wins should be their priority. The

(05:45):
Charlotte Hornets, I don't think it's their just shet even
if I like the small moves they had and it
looks like a cohesive NBA team outside of them having
like I really like Musa Diabate, but I don't know
if he's a starting center just yet. So the center
corps is pretty like les In. The Wizards are just
too far away as well. So in the Eastern Conference,
the real candidates will be Atlanta, the seventy six ers,

(06:06):
and maybe the Toronto Raptors. Now you're asking the Kenny, Yeah,
those will be the teams potentially jump in, but who's
falling out. I'm not playing that game, damn it, because
part of that is wishing an injury, and I'm not
doing it. I'm not doing it. Let's look at the
Western Conference. Things are really tough here, man, And I'm
looking at last season. We had three new Western Conference
postseason teams. Of course, that was the Rockets, that was

(06:28):
the Warriors, and the Grizzies. Both of those teams were
back in the playoffs for the first time in the year.
So but it's really hard to make the postseason the
Western Conference. Man, if there's anybody from this playing team,
you could maybe convince yourself that the Dallas Mavericks will
be a really good team next season. I don't know
if I'm there to say really good, but a playoff
birth wouldn't surprise me whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
I do believe the next.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Season they're going to be at the bare mental and
be a really good defensive team. The offense, I'm really
struggling willing to figure out exactly what the identity is
gonna be. They don't really have a a lot of
guys that put pressure on the rim. They don't really
have a lot of facilitators or just guys that are
opened the game up for Anthony Davis or so on.
A lot of this also boils down to how good

(07:10):
Cooper Flagg will be in this rookie season. I just don't.
I don't know just yet. I'm a believer, but again,
the NBA is a different monster. If he came out
and struggled, I'm not gonna be panic or anything, but
you know, that's kind of what being a rookie is,
especially if we're considering that Carrie Irvin may not be
able to play at all next season, so could be
a playoff team for sure, But there are a lot
of different variables right the.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Suns, I just don't see it.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
I just it's not really a well constructed roster for
the season. The Trailblazers were hot at the end of
last season, like the last month or so.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Defense was real good.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Denny had turned into, you know, a guy that was
putting up all star level numbers for the last couple
of months of the season.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
They made a few trades.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
They brought Intrew Holiday to be a veteran and to
be a defensive monster, even if his offense is wavered.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Over the last season.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
So if the Trailblazer were in a postseason series a
seven seed or an eight seed next season, I would
it be that surprised, you know, like they got a
lot of things on that roster that I really do like.
There's a lot of variables, just like all of these teams.
I mean, if you miss it last season, there's obviously
gonna be variables for your next season. But like, what
was school Henderson Toning two? Will shake and sharp be healthy?
And how much is his game evolved? Is Donovan klan

(08:15):
and gonna be ready to play twenty five to thirty
minutes a game?

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Like, there's just a ton of.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Variables, But I do like what they got. The San
Antonio Spurs were probably the pick that a lot of
people have for the Western Conference victor of Byamader and Fox.
When you played a handful of games together the last season,
think it was like five or six games, and I.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Didn't even look at the numbers.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Let me see if I can look at the numbers,
even though again such a small sample size, I'm curious
if it was really if it was really good, I'm
gonna use it as like, oh, yeah, they were great together,
But if it was really bad. I'm gonna say small
sample size, so let's figure it out, and a negative
net rating. It was a negative one point five one
point nine to five, so small sample sazz only one
hundred and twenty minutes. I mean, you know what I'm saying.

(08:54):
But objectively, they're a better team this season.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
Right.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
One thing that happened a ton with the San Antonio
Spurs is that soon as Victor Biaba went to the bench,
all hell broke loose and they didn't know how to
maintain the defense or maintain any flow offensively. Now they
added a few bench pieces for a backup for Victor
Byam He's like, okay, obviously he ain't win Bey, but
Luke Cordnett is a real ballplayer. Maybe the idea of
Kellyolinic is better than the real Kllyolinic, but that's a

(09:18):
real ballplayer.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Like those are.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Guys that you can rely on to give you, you know,
ten to fifteen minutes per game. That's a win, because
last year they didn't really have a lot of that.
But it still is a young team, right, They're gonna
be relying heavily on Rookie of the Year Stefan Castle.
What does his game look like at year number two.
What does Ron Harper look like in his first season
as an NBA player. We don't know, and there's a

(09:40):
lot on their plate. But when you have a guy
that could be like we can look into next season,
like that guy is a top ten player on opening
night and he's done not to but get better throughout
the year and a half two years of his career.
Maybe by the end of next season he's wildly considered
top five. Like that's enough for me to be on
the bandwagon and say that they could be a postseason
team next season. Even if you know there are some

(10:01):
players on the team, I question how they fit alongside them.
The Pelicans would really surprise me. I really love watching
Zion play. He's one of my favorite view views in
all the basketball. Herb Jones one of my guys as well.
But it's I just don't look at that roster and
think playoffs. Man, not in the Western Conference. I mean,
it will be amazing if they did, but it's just
it's hard to get there, and the Jazz are jazz

(10:22):
in the round. They not ready at all. I think
the three teams out West with the highest odds, and
I'm sorry Kings. I looked over you at this point
in time. Man, I don't know what I've said it before,
but I don't know what the hell is going on
in Sacramento. So it's hard to even talk about them
as a roster as we don't even know the hell
they gonna look like. If they will be making another trade,
Will Russell Westbrook end up on the team, I don't
really know. But the three teams we look at is

(10:42):
maybe new playoff teams will be the Dallas Mavericks, the
Portland Trailblaze, and the San Antonio Spur. This offseason definitely
was different than like any other offseason in recent history,
where there wasn't a ton of movement going on. So
maybe that lack of movement prevents us from having five
to six new players off teams. Maybe this year is
the outlier when we only get one or two. I'm

(11:03):
not completely sure, but I'm excited.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Man.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
This is why we love sports. You never really know
what's gonna go on.
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