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Damian Lillard has come back from the all-star breaking looking like a man on a mission. Mo Harkless is back into the starting lineup. Why are we encouraged about the Blazers? The Jazz entered the break with an 11 game winning streak and split their first two games back. The one loss was a costly one. Are we optimistic about Utah? The Suns were fun to watch. We are all in on Devin Booker. What about the other young Suns players? The Thunder took their first loss of the season to the Warriors in prime time on Saturday night. Their depth remains a concern for us. Is there any hope to get their big four some help? And who got our awards this week? Listen and find out.  All of this and more. Follow us on Twitter: @willis_glen / @LawtonWillis / @presspodcast Follow us on FaceBook: @fullcourtpressnba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Important Note: This episode was recorded before the disturbing news regarding the Dallas Mavericks organization. The conversation regarding the Mavericks on the podcast are limited to Ownership, Head of Basketball Operations, Coach and players. We don’t know if as the news unfolds if it will changed the viewed expressed on this episode. We will address that if and when appropriate. The Hawks have gotten good rookie campaigns from their drafted rookies John Collins and Tyler Dorsey. What else is developing with the team. Is Dennis Schroder the point guard of the future? The Mavericks have a significantly worse record than their point differential and net rating would suggest. What’s going on with that? Also, are they invested in Yogi beyond this season? The Bulls got harshly criticized this past offseason. What are the chances they actually might have landed the best player in the 2017 NBA draft? The Kings have been the usual mess for the better part of their season. But they’ve not been so bad as of recent.

The Sixers are back to a full roster with JJ Redick’s return. Also Joel Embiid is playing on back-to-backs. What did we learn about the Sixers this week? We watched the Clippers and Pistons and had a challenging time trying to keep our analysis look something like a PBJ… hopefully we did right by the analysis we provided on both teams. It had been a while since we checked in on the Rockets. What did we learn about them this week> And who got our awards this week? Listen and find out.  All of this and more. Follow us on Twitter: @willis_glen / @LawtonWillis / @presspodcast Follow us on FaceBook: @fullcourtpressnba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Which teams do we think will be most aggressive in the trade market this week? How seriously should we take the Celtics in terms of their postseason potential? The Knicks are struggling to win games at the pace they were last month. What is going in with them? What should they be evaluating right now? We picked a bad week to watch the Magic because Aaron Gordon did not play. What were are observations? This season in Orlando is still mostly about Aaaron Gordon, but we enjoyed watching some of their other players this week. The Lakers had an impressive win in OKC on Sunday. They seem to be heading towards a crossroads offseason this summer. How did what we saw this week inform us about what they might evaluating heading towards the summer? And who got our awards this week? Listen and find out.  All of this and more. Follow us on Twitter: @willis_glen / @LawtonWillis / @presspodcast Follow us on FaceBook: @fullcourtpressnba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The OKC Thunder have won 8 in a row and seem to have put it together on offense. Are they a threat in the Western conference? The Cavaliers are dead last in defensive rating. Are they likely to make the NBA finals? Not as constructed. What needs to happen? The Pacers are the team that if the NBA were March Madness would be called the Cinderalla team of all Cinderalla teams which seems appropriate given that Victor Oladipo is playing basketball in Indiana again. The Jazz got an impressive win in Toronto this week. Should Jazz fans be hopeful that they can get back into playoff contention? And who got our awards this week? Listen and find out.  All of this and more. Follow us on Twitter: @willis_glen / @LawtonWillis / @presspodcast Follow us on FaceBook: @fullcourtpressnba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now that it’s widely known that the Hornets are looking for a trade partner for Kemba Walker as to dig out of some of their financial contraints we discuss which organizations should step up and make a serious effort to acquire him. Are the Miami Heat a team that is going to have to be dealt with in the Eastern Conference playoffs? What is going on with Hassan Whiteside who sat the entire 4th quarter the comeback win over the Hornets? Are the Bucks as pedestrian as their numbers indicate they are? It really comes down to 2 positions on the roster… which ones? And that analysis might be quite similar to our perspective on the Wizards. Weird! Why are the Nets still so much fun to watch? Why are they still winning games they are not supposed to be winning and how is that low wrecking what is going on in Cleveland? And who got our awards this week? Listen and find out.  All of this and more. Follow us on Twitter: @willis_glen / @LawtonWillis / @presspodcast Follow us on FaceBook: @fullcourtpressnba Lear

In 2017 Glen said that January would be the right time to evaluate the Timberwolves. Well, January is here and the Timberwolves are on fire. Is there or should there be a controversy at the PG position? What did we learn when they beat the Raptors without Jimmy Butler? Is the defense permanently fixed? Who should they be looking to do at the trade deadline and in the buy out market?   All of this and more. Follow us on Twitter: @willis_glen / @LawtonWillis / @presspodcast Follow Dane on Twitter: @DaneMoreNBA Follow us on FaceBook: @fullcourtpressnba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Cavaliers had a rough week. Are the Raptors playing better than any team in the Eatern Conference right now? If the playoffs started today would we consider them to be the favorite to win the Eastern Conference finals and make the finals? The Pelicans had some nice results this week? Do they enough depth and diversity on the roster to moves toward the middle of the Western Conference playoff standings? The need to add to their roster. Where do they need to add? The Grizzlies season is more than off track. What should be their objectives for the rest of this season? Why might Tyreke Evans prefers to stay in Memphis for the rest of the season rather than being move to a playoff bound team? The Nuggets are a strange team. Could they get better via subtraction rather than addition? The Pistons are trying to survive in the post Reggie Jackson era (of this season). What should be their objectives for the rest of the season? Why might Avery Bradley prefer to finish the season elsewhere? And who got our awards th

Is Kyrie Irving a legitimate MVP candidate? We discuss. Are the Bulls as good as their 10-5 stretch might suggest? No. But we had fun watching some of the young players on the Chicago squad this week. The Mavericks have been pretty good since Maxi Kleber was inserted into the starting lineup. Do we expect that to continue? We discuss. Guess who are the two players with the worst individual net rating in the league averaging 30 minutes or more per game? Hint: They both start for the Mavericks. What did we learn about the Warriors this week? What did we learn about the Spurs this week? We discuss. And who got our awards this week? Listen and find out.  All of this and more. Follow us on Twitter: @willis_glen / @LawtonWillis / @presspodcast Follow us on FaceBook: @fullcourtpressnba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We continue our in-season analysis. Is there anything we enjoyed about watching the Kings? Yes, his name is Garrett Temple. What are our views on Willie Cauley-Stein, Buddy Hield and Malachi Richardson? We discuss. We had way more fun watching the Suns. Who would have thought that the first week of this season?  Why is it critical for Tyson Chandler to be on this roster? We discuss. How have the Clippers remain in contact with the rest of the playoff contenders in the Western Conference? We discuss. Is there any reason for us to be hopeful for the Hornets this season? Probably not apart from how incredible Kemba Walker is to watch any time. Why will we continue watching them this season? We discuss. And who got our awards this week? Listen and find out.  All of this and more. Follow us on Twitter: @willis_glen / @LawtonWillis / @presspodcast Follow us on FaceBook: @fullcourtpressnba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We continue our in-season analysis. How have the Blazers made themselves into a top 5 defense? We explain that it comes down to who is playing at the power forward and center positions and what they are asking their perimeter defenders to do. Have they sacrificed too much on offense to achieve what they are doing on defense? We discuss. The Nuggets are 29th in defensive rating but held the Warriors to 81 points in their matchup this week. What should we make of that? The Pacers might have won more games that some predicted they would on the entire season. We were optimistic about them prior to the season; but how sustainable is this? We still see roster construction issues for them at this point but a second round draft pick could solve a lot of that and it’s a player no one is talking about. Well, we talk about him on this episode. The Hawks are bad. But John Collins has been good. Taurean Prince is showing flashes of growth on offense. Dennis Schroder has been terrible on defense. Can a coach hold a team ac

Full Court Press NBA Podcast Episode 47 –  Team Updates for Raptors, Knicks, Nets, LakersWe continue our in-season analysis. This week we had to watch the Raptors. They are playing at such a high level we had to see if they are doing things that are sustainable. Are they? Yes! We had to see if they are doing things that if they keep doing them in the postseason will they present a different challenge. Are they? Yes! The Knicks look like a playoff team whether Kristaps Porzingis is playing or not. Are they one of the 6 best teams in the Eastern Conference? Not yet. But we must stay open minded because Kristaps Porzingis is a unique force and we need to see what they can make of that. With an addition of the right player could they enter a really positive chapter in their franchise history? Yes! Are any of the Nets players going to be on the next good Nets team? We discussed it. What do we think of Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram, Kyle Kuzma and Julius Randle after watching them this week? Listen and find out.A

Full Court Press NBA Podcast Episode 46 –  Timberwolves deep dive with Dane MooreThis is a special episode where we do a deep dive on the Minnesota Timberwolves with guest Dane Moore. We hope to be able to do a deep dive once a month on the Timberwolves for the rest of the season.Follow us on Twitter: @willis_glen / @LawtonWillis / @presspodcastFollow our guest on Twitter: @DaneMooreNBAFollow us on FaceBook: @fullcourtpressnbaLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We continue our in-season analysis. This week we wanted to see why the Jazz were playing so well, especially on offense. Well Utah did not get many wins this week but we came away impressed anyway. Why? Did you know they have the 4th best offensive rating in the NBA since November 15? Now you do. Listen to hear more about that. Are the Thunder as dysfunctional as the look? Yes? Is there hope? For sure. Might they need to make a coaching change? We discussed this. Are the Rockets doing sustainable things? Are they really a top 5 team on both ends of the court? We discuss this. The Bucks are 11-4 since the Bledsoe trade. Have they arrived? Most certainly not, they can get better and the rest of the league should be terrified of that possibility. Have we been too hard on Jason Kidd? We talk about why that might be the case.All of this and more.Follow us on Twitter: @willis_glen / @LawtonWillis / @presspodcastFollow us on FaceBook: @fullcourtpressnbaLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Full Court Press NBA Podcast Episode 44 –  Team Updates for 76ers Cavaliers Wizards CelticsWe continue our in-season analysis. This week we tried to assess whether the 76ers are a viable 50-win team. They had played an interesting schedule and come out largely successful. They are an incredibly productive team but one that still makes a lot of mistakes. What are those mistakes? Are they correctable this season? Might they look to add another veteran player or two to make themselves a more serious playoff team? Whether they do or don’t we think nobody is going to want to encounter them in any round of the playoffs. Why? The Cavaliers are on a double-digit game winning streak. Is everything fine in Cleveland now? The answer is NO, why? The Wizards are trying to maintain contact with the top 4-5 teams in the Eastern Conference while they await the return of John Wall. How are they doing? The criticized roster depth has not been an issue of recent and has actually been award worthy. Is that issue fixed? The

Full Court Press NBA Podcast Episode 43 –  Team Updates for Timberwolves Pistons Magic HeatWe continue our in-season analysis. We are adjusting to providing updates on four teams per episode as opposed to eight teams as to get back to providing as much depth as we did in the season previews. We saw the Timberwolves play live four times this week so we go in depth on where they are as a team. Why do we feel they are not currently playing as well as their record would suggest? What is going on with them in the fourth quarter? How is Jimmy Butler making an impact? Per point differential and net rating the Pistons should not be as good as their record suggests either? Why do we feel more encouraged about them? The Magic are off track. Why? And is there anything they can do as to try to get back on track? The Heat are trending in a good direction. Why do we feel like they are heading toward a 5th seed or better in the Eastern Conference?All of this and more.Follow us on Twitter: @willis_glen / @LawtonWillis /

We continue our in-season analysis. The Pelicans bigs are dominating the competitions. But the lack of wing players on the roster are holding them back. Can they find a way to get and stay better than .500? The Spurs have gone back to Patty Mills to start at point guard, how does that affect the rotation? How does that help Kyle Anderson and Rudy Gay? The Jazz believe in themselves while most of the rest of us are writing them off after the Gobert injury. Are the Thunder what their record says they are? Or is it the net rating? The Blazers are the second best defensive rating in the league? Is the defense for real? The Rockets are playing really well but are key rotation players playing too much? The Kings are depressing, but as always we hope it gets better. The Mavericks are lining up for a good amount of ping pong balls. But what is up with Noel’s playing time? All of this and more.Follow us on Twitter: @willis_glen / @LawtonWillis / @presspodcastFollow us on FaceBook: @fullcourtpressnbaLearn more abo

We continue our in-season analysis. We share thoughts on the Eric Bledsoe trade and what might happen with Greg Monroe. We hand out our weekly awards and then get into team by team analysis. Why are the Bucks just a .500 team even though they have the most efficient offensive player in the league so far this season? What are the Pistons doing that is so fundamentally different from what they were doing last season? Are the Knicks doing sustainable things? Are the Hawks this bad? Are the Bulls doing right by Lauri Markannen? Is Brad Stephens into voodoo? What are the Wizards trying to be? Where did the Heat hunger go? Does it still exist? Then in our guest segment with Nat Kitaw we talk about positional gravity. Do big men that can shoot from three point range have more gravity than gaurds? The what to make of the Sixers roster decision as the date on which a Robert Covington renegotiation and extension can happen nears? All of this and more. Follow us on Twitter: @willis_glen / @LawtonWillis /

We continue our in-season analysis. The Grizzlies look like a serious playoff team so far with impressive wins. Is their play sustainable? The Thunder are 4-4 entering play at Portland but look very good at times. Will they find a way to play together but let their star players still be themselves? The Timberwolves still have serious issues on defense it would seem. Are they going to be OK? The Clippers roster is losing a player to injury week by week. Can Blake handle the workload to keep them afloat without risking injury to himself? The Nuggets had a slow start but looked better in week 2. Will they make the progress they are hoping to make? The Warriors are the Warriors. But there are still interesting things upon which to focus. The Lakers and Suns are exceeding expectations in the win-loss column. What should we make of their play to this point in the season? All of this and more.Follow us on Twitter: @willis_glen / @LawtonWillis / @presspodcastFollow us on FaceBook: @fullcourtpressnbaRead more at http:

We begin our in-season analysis. The Hornets only home loss has been to the Houston Rockets, are they on track? Is there any chance the Magic are as good as their 4-2 start suggest? The Pacers now have some impressive wins to feel good about? How good are they? The Nets have already surprised. Are they fundamentally a different team than they were last season? The Cavaliers are definitely not track. How back are things in Cleveland? The Raptors are the Raptors, or are they? The Wizards are attacking their early season schedule, literally. Should Wizards fans be encouraged? The Sixers are one missed foul call away from being 3-3. What do we see in their early season performance? All of this and more. Follow us on Twitter: @willis_glen / @LawtonWillis / @presspodcast Follow us on FaceBook: @fullcourtpressnba Read more at http://fullcourtpress.libsyn.com/podcast#uYuxgLWgV5eB6DK8.99Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices