NBA Podcast: The massive Magic and the tall-ball revolution
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Welcome to the latest edition of "Pound the Rock," an NBA podcast hosted by Joseph Casciaro and Joe Wolfond.
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James Herbert of CBS Sports joined Joe Wolfond for this episode to discuss his piece on the NBA's upsizing trend. Topics include:
- Why the league is starting to re-emphasize size after years of trending smaller
- How is the Magic's tall-ball experiment going? Do they have the makings of a trendsetting team?
- Is Bol Bol a 7-foot-2 shooting guard?
- Why elite shot creation is essential for making multi-big lineups work
- What's going wrong in Minnesota?
- The evolution of the power forward position
- Should the Pelicans lean harder into bully ball?
- Actual size versus functional size
- Is the post-up making a comeback?
- Offensive rebounding versus transition is one of the league's most important battlegrounds
- How the modern possession game is being played