142. Basketball & Indore Cricket (with Throwback Hoops)

Recorded 5 & 8 March 2023

 

(00:22) Teeing Off (with flashbacks)

(04:30) Big Shoes to Fill (with Woody V & Robbie C from Throwback Hoops)

(05:46) Basketball: NBL. FIBA Break; Game 1 (BMW, Barry Brown Jnr); Injuries; Game 2 (Justin Simon, Kouat Noi, gutsy coaching)

(23:00) Cricket: Australian Women win T20 World Cup (again); WPL; Thoughts on the 1st three tests of the Aussie men in India and a look ahead to the final test (Selections, Aussie and Indian spinning stocks; the importance of practise matches; sweeping and other tactical errors; pitch conditions; Indian home losses extremely rare!; A look ahead to the World Test Championship & Ashes; Warner's test future and batters in the wings: Bancroft, Pucovski); Other Test series around the globe (Windies in South Africa; England in New Zealand with random stats)

(52:47) Woody's Party Trick II

(58:11) Time for a Chat...GPT

(59:12) US Basketball - NBA/NCAA (and a little bit more of NBL): Ja's got a gun; 76ers snap 16-game winning streak; Who can win it all?; Contenders pick the waiver wire; The smear campaign against Nikola Jokic; Looking ahead to the NCAA tournament (Bacot passes MJ at UNC; Jay Bilas misses Brady Manek?)

(1:23:00) Plugs. Check out Throwback Hoops on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0WRZ0vCJ-M4M55dFYOJ3bw. Twitter: @throwbackshoops. Email: throwbackhoopspodcast@gmail.com. TikTok: Woody_V83

(1:24:40) Final Thoughts.

 

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