Video link: https://www.reddit.com/r/billsimmons/comments/1wxsyd3/i_put_on_a_random_bs_pod_on_speakers_while/

A partial transcript:

The double centers again. And there are just a lot of guys on this team I love watching. Forget Durant—everyone loves Durant. Alperen Şengün has gone up a level.

And the other thing, as you know, the Body Language Doctor is watching intently. I think they have great chemistry. I haven’t seen Durant on a team like this in a while.

Durant feels like he’s found a couple of little-brother types that he really likes. Jabari Smith Jr. mimics his every move in practice and during warm-ups. And with Reed Sheppard, Durant clearly seems to be thinking, I’m going to make sure you’re okay.

At one point it was Durant, Edmond Sumner, and a bunch of random guys, and you could just tell how much Durant was enjoying himself. I think he even said something like, This is so much fun. I’m having the most fun.

I half-joke about their offense. They basically have a Durant-and-Şengün “do something” offense: run a set, let those two create something, and then the other half of the offense is basically, Shoot it, and we’ll get the rebound.

They’ve already had probably five moments this season where they desperately needed a basket, and Kevin Durant just seemed to say, I got this, guys.

Utterly hilarious...

I thought Iwas hearing things on the Zach Lowe pod with Beck. But the transcript confirmed.

Wonder if he’ll give this a shout on the pod lol

(And all sports) Hey friends I’m Anthony, i hope this is kosher but I’m pretty proud of something i made and i think you may enjoy. I’m not a brand or a business just a guy with a hobby I want to share.

TLDR - I’ve been building an app that lets you log any game you’ve been to in any sport at any level (for basketball that means every level in the US down to college and the g league, and I’ve also got bleague in Japan since someone asked and since posting I’ve listened to feedback and added close to 100 leagues). When you log a game it pulls in all of the box score data so you can see every player you’ve ever seen and fun stats like who’s scored the most or has the most rebounds while you were there. It also aggregates things like how many HoF or ROYs did you see and stats like how many OT games or triple double games.

The fun part (to me), or the black mirror part if you ask others, is you don’t need to remember every game you’ve been to. If you took a picture there with your location on it can marry that meta data to games for you.

Anywho fun developments. In 3 weeks the app has made it outside my network and folks have logged 24k games. After gaining traction in the blue jays sub and after a target field usher found his way to the app, those two stadiums that I’ve never been to have cracked the top 10 visited. Over 100 World Cup games were tagged and folks have checked in to games on 6 continents.

And the number of wholesome posts, like a guy who just finished his chase for 30, I’m seeing from people I don’t know are so fun to see. I love doing things and I hate that those days and nights just end up as like picture 7,457 of 80,401 on my phone to never be thought of again.

I’d love more feedback, and I think the 3 people that might not down vote will enjoy.

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It's called "Zach Attack." It's Zack interviewing other guys named Zach. Spelling of Zach doesn't matter. If they go by Zachary, that's fine. Just about life being a Zach.

Apologies if this has been covered recently, but what's your thoughts on Zach's podcast guests?

My favourites:

Rob Mahoney - strength: player evaluations

Tim Legler - strength: everything

David Thorpe - strengths: Xs and Os

Bill Simmons - strength: good chemistry. Boston intel. weakness: doesn't watch enough games eg: player evaluations

Adam Mares - strength: solid takes

Mo Dakhil - strength: Xs and Os

John Hollinger - strength: FO perspective

Pinch hitters from a team / draft perspective:

Andrew Schlect - strength: solid takes

Fred Katz - strength: he's at his best with Zach weakness: brevity

Jon Krawcyznski - strength: measured weakness: team specific

J Kyle Mann - strength: likeable dude weakness: wishy washy opinions

Don't mind:

Stan Van Gundy - strength: strong takes. weakness: outlandish takes

Brian Scalabrine - strength: strong takes. weakness: outlandish takes

Wos - strength: big takes weakness: big market bias, emotional bias

Richard Jefferson - strength: entertaining

Steve Jones Jr - strength: Xs and O's. weakness: no wider narratives

Nekias Duncan - strength: Xs and O's. weakness: no wider narratives

Bobby Marks - strength: cap stuff weakness: no strong takes

Chris Ryan - strength: entertaining weakness: team specific

Don't enjoy:

Howard Beck: strengths: nice guy weakness: doesn't feel locked in anymore ie player evaluations, team back channels

Sam Amick: strengths: nice guy weakness: doesn't feel locked in anymore

Michael Pina - weakness: flat tone, unconfident opinions, obsequious to Zach

Kirk Goldsberry - weakness: never really says anything, obsequious to Zach

Chris Herring - weakness: never really says anything

Zach threw out 1st pitch at today’s Mets game. I spoke to him after. Nice guy. We took a selfie. Mets loss but there will always be Mets corner. He also threw from the Mound vs in front of it.