The Lakers continue to struggle after a loss in Orlando, how can they bounce back? Es Baraheni and Isaac Gutierrez of the Deep 3 Podcast discuss which trends are real, and which are just a product of March in the NBA. Then, the Athletic’s Hunter Patterson joins to discuss the Detroit Pistons and who they’d want to play in the first round + what has led to the turnaround for Detroit.Host: Es BaraheniWith: Isaac Gutierrez and Hunter PattersonExecutive Producer: Andrew SchlechtAudio Producer: Grayson Moodyhttps://www.nytimes.com/athletic/nba/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Good morning and welcome to the athletic NBA daily coming up. We've got Isaac Gutierrez coming on from the deep three podcast. We're going to talk about Devin Booker hitting a game winner and the sun's winning four in a row. We've got Hunter Patterson coming on to talk about the Pistons. Let's break it down. Good morning, Isaac. How you doing?
Good morning, everybody else watching a another crazy night in the NBA. I know it's kind of the dog days, if you will, but it's March. It's March basketball. And I thought it'd be a fun way to talk about this night by doing a segment called Is it March or not? Basically. Is it real or not? Do we believe in what's happening on the court right now for some of these teams?
Isaac, I want to start with the Suns. All right. Suns win four in a row. They just beat the Milwaukee Bucks. No Damian Lillard for Milwaukee in this one, but it was the KD show. He dropped 38 points. He was awesome throughout this game. Another great game for Kevin Durant. And then Devin Booker hits the game winner with about like 1.5 seconds left to seal the deal here. So Suns win four in a row.
Is that real or is it just March basketball?
Well, I mean, four wins are on the schedule. They are in the column. It's real to that extent. Yeah. I'm always hesitant with March basketball for all the reasons you mentioned. You know, the fakest time in the NBA calendar. Half the league, if you watch the schedule every night, is almost unwatchable with the mad tanking.
We had a hilarious game today with Pelicans versus 76ers, which I won't even tell you who was starting those lineups. Go take a look for yourself. That's half the games these days. So I'm always hesitant. I do think it's real. I'll say that. There's some quality wins. They beat the Cavs. They beat the Bucs. Obviously not having Damian Lillard relying on Kevin Ford Jr.
minutes, which is obviously a different beast than going against Damian Lillard. But I do think it's real. I think we're seeing them look pretty good with Devin Booker taking on a bigger playmaking role. I think I saw he's averaging almost 10 assists over his last six games. That feels real to me. Huge night from Kevin Durant. No Bradley Beal in the lineup, which...
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