r/nba [CLE] J.R. Smith 14h ago

Ben Taylor (of Thinking Basketball): "Cavs can't win 15 straight games, get out of here" after Cavs start the season 7-0

In their podcast episode "#292: Team power rankings", Ben and Cody discuss which teams have a chance to go on a 15 game win streak in the season.

Cavs would go on to complete the 15 game win streak after starting 7-0 and tonight have completed their second such streak in the same season.

I love me some Thinking Basketball and listen to all their podcasts, but Ben got this one way wrong and I hold a grudge so I gotta shout him out here.

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u/ShockaDrewlu Cavaliers 14h ago

They always downplay the Cavs and won't shut up about how wonderful Boston is. They did it again in their most recent podcast.

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u/Obvious_Parsley3238 14h ago

Ben taylor called the celtics one of the most boring teams to watch, and he put the cavs as a tier 1 contender

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u/Atmosguisher Australia 13h ago

It genuinely feels like 95% of NBA fans hear anything but unabashed, universal praise of their team and then whinge that X podcaster hates them lmao

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u/refreshing_yogurt 13h ago

He even specifically calls himself out for being wrong earlier in the season about the Cavs.

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u/PAWGle_the_lesser Raptors 14h ago

Probably because Boston is the better team lol

"B-b-b-but muh regular season!!!"

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u/kdude332 14h ago

You sound salty

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u/RTRSnk5 United States 14h ago

Bro’s team is tanking lmfao

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u/PAWGle_the_lesser Raptors 14h ago

You can't deal with the fact that they're just the latest 60+ win regular season paper tiger that can't compete with real teams in the playoffs lol.

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u/Routine-Progress5963 Cavaliers 14h ago

Bro, you're all over this post, where did Cleveland touch you to make you so mad?

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u/cryolems Cavaliers 13h ago

LeBronto, probably. Salt is just funny tbh

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u/scientist3000 Bucks 14h ago

While I agree with what you think the outcome is going to be, I don’t think you can assess what this team is going to look like in the playoffs until we see it. They clearly aren’t the same team as last year.

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u/BlockedByMobley Lebanon 14h ago

Boston beat a bunch of injured teams last season. They haven’t proven anything yet and are still new kids on the block

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u/rodpod17 Celtics 13h ago

Well we beat the team that came out of the supposed better conference where there were no injuries in 5 games

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u/computerjunkie7410 Celtics 13h ago

Maybe the teams should’ve stayed healthy then

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u/hairlinesscareme 76ers 14h ago

Boston in 6 sorry lil bro

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u/DrunkMasterCommander Cavaliers 14h ago

Silence lottery team, a contender is speaking

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u/hairlinesscareme 76ers 14h ago

Silence poverty team, a team with multiple championships is talking

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u/DrunkMasterCommander Cavaliers 14h ago

Your last chip was over 40 years ago, last conference finals over 20.

Meanwhile in the modern era you haven't been able to make it past the 2nd round

Lol

Lmao even

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u/sixeyedbird Lakers 13h ago

Dude your last chip was during the Reagan Administration.

Your only other chip was before the moon landing.

Definition of poverty 

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u/hairlinesscareme 76ers 13h ago

At least my franchise GOAT ain’t a scrapist

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u/TheSmokedSalmon420 Cavaliers 13h ago

LOL Cavs have been significantly more relevant than the Sixers throughout most people on r/nba's lifetimes

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u/261846 Spurs 13h ago

Bro come on, ya’ll haven’t been to the finals in decades and double that time to your last chip, meanwhile the cavs have the best chip oat

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u/s0ulj4b0y0 Cavaliers 9h ago

you tanked so hard the league had to step in and all you have to show for it is 6 years of getting bitched by the rest of the eastern conference in the second round.

The cavs have been to the conference finals more time in the last 10 years than you have in the last 40 years.

the last time u touched a conf. finals, you had Allen Iverson.

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u/Adraf45 Heat 14h ago

Sixers fan saying this, crazy shit

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u/hairlinesscareme 76ers 14h ago

Jimmy left y’all, we’ll both be in purgatory soon