Heat vs. Nuggets Game 2️⃣ preview & building small market contenders | The Hoop Collective
Brian Windhorst is joined by ESPN’s Tim Bontemps, Tim MacMahon and special guest, Former Bucks Owner, Marc Lasry to talk the struggles with building title contenders in small markets, how rewarding it is to build a homegrown team, the process of changing coaches, how Giannis has stayed down to earth and who the new labor agreement will favor more. Plus, the guys preview Game 2 of the NBA Finals and assess the Suns hiring Frank Vogel and the Pistons hiring Monty Williams.
0:00 Intro
1:00 What went wrong in Heat-Bucks?
3:30 How hard it is to win in the NBA?
6:00 The Dynamics in the owners “fraternity”
12:00 Building teams and retaining superstars
20:15 Hiring and firing coaches
28:00 What makes Giannis Antetokounmpo special?
32:00 Who does new labor agreement favor?
34:45 TRIVIA
38:15 Reaction to Frank Vogel hire and offseason plans for the Suns
48:00 Detroit convinces Monty out of coaching break
52:15 NBA Finals Game 2 Preview
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Good stuff
DEN will win game 2. If they win game 3 then it will be a sweep. If they win game 4 this series will be over in 5. I don't see this going 6 games. This is painfully obvious and not up for debate 😤. DEN will get this done because they are the better overall team and MIA will continue to get exposed.
I now understand why Tim McMahon has a man crush on Jokic. They look alike. 😂 He is gonna be crushed when Miami win in 6. He is so smug about Denver. Very annoying 😂
Appreciate all your guys hard work continually putting out these podcasts
So no questions on why Marc Lasry is selling the team? Didn’t Brian had a whole segment on why would Lasry be selling the Bucks?
Love the hoop collective. Wish there was more weekend content for ESPN
They are getting swept LoL Same were Wolves fans then Suns fans and LA fans ! Did you see Miami Heat players faces at the end of the game ! They were shocked how strong and good Denver is and this was a mediocre to bad Nuggets game !
ASKHIMWHYHE SOLD PART OF THE BUCKS THATS What we want to know!!!!
Has Windy ever shot a basketball?!
I think we are witnessing the best single playoff run in NBA history.
Heat in 5
Two back to back great guests.. Mike Brown (Light the Beam!) then Marc Lasry! Was really impressed by Marc's insight and grounded perspective. 👏 🤙💯
Hoping the Kings can follow the Bucks and Nuggets (dont forget the Warriors) path of growing organically 🤞
The Suns should pick up the Paul option and trade him for Gordon Hayward, Paul goes back to NC and Hayward gets one more chance. Both expiring deals. If Hayward can stay healthy a 2-3-4 of Booker, Hayward, and KD would be formidable.
Starts at 52:00
This guy is making money from Disney while keeping his hand on his face during a podcast. Amateur hour.
Marc seems like such a great guy. I had always imagined owners as one of two groups: overbearing like Cuban or distant like Kroenke.
It would be cool to watch a game with him.
Started this, went for a 40 minute run, came back and it was still playing. And I have no need to rewatch it to know that nothing meaningful was said.
Somebody time stamp the time when the Game 2 preview begins. I’m at the 9 minute mark and still no talk about the finals
Great podcast
Good on MacMahon to call out Bontemps's take on Denver not being able to win a chip with Jokic as the centerpiece. All those media members and their absolutely horrendous takes just prove they don't do their job and follow Nuggets (and other teams) play. Bontemps ofc backpedaling and not answering his trash take.
Keep posting these podcasts. Great work guys!
awesome episode
CP3 to the celtics
Wait ….. Fatty knows players outside of LeBron and the Lakers ?
He's even talking about them ?
I'm flabbergasted
The Pistons' future looks really bright. Monty Williams coaching a young core with Cade, Ivey, Duren, Stewart, potentially Cam Whitmore or a Thompson twin, plus vets like Bojan and Alec Burks. I'd like to see another vet shooter like a Luke Kennard and maybe a vet PG that can shoot. They might jump about 5 spots in the East next year if things break right.
Do these guys get paid fat for doing these podcasts?
Game 1 was a preview of G2.
Also, entire LAL series.
HEARD McMAN ASKING POST GAME PRESSER QUESTIONS
😊😊😊😊👏👏👏
TRIVIA TIME….
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Top 1 of 3 of my favorite channels to watch here on YouTube great work guys 💯🔥🔥🏀
It’s important to remember that Jokic is slow. Don’t let anyone forget that. If he plays well and dominates the game make sure you issue the caveat of how slow he is!
"In a year that the east was a good as it's been in 20 years." Just east coast media bias. Clearly that was B.S. The Heat was the best team in the east, beating all the supposed "best teams in the NBA" including Bucks and Celtics; and the Nuggets are the best team in the NBA beating the brakes off the Suns and Lakers with Lebron. Arguably, the best teams in the NBA playoffs have been the Nuggets and Lakers.
are you joking! 16 mins on the game 1 out of an hour?
What a experts 🙂 Today is one, tomorrow is opposite. Who are this guys, I'm just stumbled upon this channel by accident, have they ever kicked a basketball… who are this experts comedians
Best thing since sliced bread, thanks Windy
Great guest and program–aside from the big-brother-little-brother rapport plus good-natured disagreements amongst the 3 hosts, I prefer Hoop Collective over the Lowe Post because they're not as easily lost in the nuts and bolts weeds like Zach's show tends to meander toward at some point in each episode, and they feature guests like Marc Lasry, who offers a valuable non-media insider perspective. Lasry sounds like a honest dude and good owner, unlike the constant blowhard in Mark Cuban or the incipient Cuban 2.0, the new Phoenix owner. I hope the new Bucks owner will manage the team well and keep Giannis for the foreseeable future, if not his entire career (a rarity these days, with vagabond superstars conspiring to form superteams so they don't have to compete as hard). Stories like the (almost) Buck-naked Giannis (pun intended) with the little kid in the locker room (Giannis saying in sotto voce also like a little kid that he's au naturel) is priceless, something you just can't get from know-nothing so-called analysts with their recycled BS "hot takes" of the day.
This episode is also funny in that you could see Bontempts about to do his patented interruptions and then held back, 4-5 times at least. He was being more polite or had better control because of teh guest, I think. I wonder as a kid how many times his teachers had to admonish him for interrupting other students, but he obviously never outgrew that habit. 🙂
Jokic should be a defensive liability like DeMarcus Cousins.
Tim Bontemps sounds exactly like the young Sheldon when grown, without the intelligence.
For every Giannis and Jokic in a small city team that makes things right to elevate the roster around them there is a first stint in Cleveland Lebron or Timberwolves Garnett to remind you that many teams fail their stars
Columbine > Denver Nuggets
The bubble was exactly the same thing that happened this season try calling it weird but it happened again
Brook and Jrue were not drafted by the bucks but we're Very Important Pieces
I get it… you guys kinda know NBA. But my goodness, you're all unbelievably vanilla, lame, and annoying.
Yep Denver in 4!
2021 bucks was way better defensively with pj tucker