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The Most Confusing Teams in the NBA!

Oct 12, 2026 · 1h 26m · take 24 of 38

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LoweWe've hit the Hawks section of the podcast.

LoweBlitzed the entire league to finish last season.

LoweThey might need to hang a banner for this because everyone has to say it. Now it's obligatory to mention that they are the only team to beat the Knicks twice in the playoffs in the same series last year that's that's a banner for the hawks and yet i'm just sort of and they have a great coach in quinn snyder i get it i'm just sort of unconvinced that it was that real um in part because they fattened up so

Lowemuch on the tanking teams who are now gone in the league and by the way just hovering over all of this and i'm doing over unders with bill tomorrow in the house i think people if anything are underestimating what a sea change is coming because of the lottery reform just how much more competitive the league is going to be on a night -to -night basis having removed that incentive to lose almost completely i think it's going to be like

Lowea borderline revolutionary kind of change in how the season goes and you know they pick up dort they also pick up aaron wiggins um and largely bring back everything that happened well for them everyone that played well for them last year i just i i don't know if they call it lightning in a bottle i i worry about the collective shooting when they have daniels and dort and jalen johnson on the floor together even with onyeka kongu having turned

Lowehimself into like an a plus spot up shooting center quite good size undersized i worry like can nikil alexander walker do that again i think he actually maybe can um and then you know i'm this all presumes that they're going to bring CJ McCollum off the bench again and start Alexander Walker, Daniels, Dort, Johnson, Okongwu, even though the CJ starting experiment worked like gangbusters that turned around their whole season.

LoweSo it feels like they're going to have some puzzles to solve.

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