The Underdog NBA Show

On the 353rd episode of the Underdog NBA Show, Tyler and Zandrick discuss the Milwaukee Bucks in depth. They specifically focus on what to do with Giannis sparked by the news of Giannis unfollowing the team on social media. They go over a few different trade proposals involving the Spurs, Hawks, Heat, Thunder and the Knicks. They then talk a bit about roster construction and the Hawks future with...

On the 352nd Episode of the Underdog NBA Show, Zandrick and Tyler celebrate the return of Lebron James, by talking about everyone's favorite topic -- THE DETROIT PISTONS. All kiddign aside, they talk about how the Lakers good run of games pre-Lebron potentially sets them up well before diving into what Lebron's role may look like given the leap in Austin Reaves play. They then talk some Thunder be...

On the 351st episode of the Underdog Sports NBA Show, Tyler and Zandrick wildly overreact to the first 10% of the season. They focus heavily on the Chicago Bulls hot start, specifically about if Josh Giddy has become an all NBA-Player of if parts of his start are not sustainable. They then discuss the Philadelphia 76ers and Orlando Magic and why one hot start and one cold start aren't necessarily...

On the 350th episode of the Underdog NBA Show it is time for the annual tradition. For the seventh year in a row Tyler and Zandrick draft all the NBA teams, split by conference, based on how many wins they feel like they will have. Fresh off the closest draft in history (a Tyler 4 win victory) Tyler gets the prize of drafting first in the East, which will likely cost him the whole contest. Inflect...

On the 348th Episode of the underdog sports NBA show, Zandrick and Tyler discuss the pretty mediocre Atlantic Division. They start with the massive favorites in the division, the New York Knicks, and their new coaching hire of Mike Brown. They discuss how the team could be better, but could lose more games this year due to prioritizing more rest. They shift to the 76ers who they believe have the l...

One the 348th episode of the underdog sports NBA show, Tyler and Zandrick discuss the NBA Southwestern division overunders. They talk through the Rockets to start, who are the favorite to win the division, but are dealing with the injury news of Fred Van Vleet's ACL, and are suspiciously thin at the guard spot. They then shift to the San Antonio Spurs and discuss the logjam at the PG spot and how...

On the 347th Episode of the Underdog NBA Show, Tyler and Zandrick discuss the over/unders for the Pacific division. They begin with the Los Angeles Clippers, so they can quickly touch on the aspirations of LA's second-favorite team. After discussing the Kawhi situation and more, they shift to the Lakers, where Tyler defends his choice to go way over the 48.5, They then banter about what exactly th...

On the 346th episode of the Underdog NBA Show, Tyler and Zandrick preview the Southeastern Division and pick the over/unders of each team. They start with the Orlando Magic and discuss why they feel 50 wins is a lot, but also think Paolo could take a leap, and how they are due for injury regression after last year's bad luck. Then Tyler rants about how well constructed the Hawks are and why he thi...

On the 345th episode of the Underdog NBA Show, Tyler and Zandrick assess the landscape of the NBA's top 10 players with the injuries that have hit the league. They dive deep on Donovan Mitchell and why Tyler feels hes maybe slightly underrated coming off a 1st Team NBA season. They discuss how difficult it is to rank Wemby as well as the old guard of Steph, Lebron and KD -- and then go longer on J...

On the 344th episode of the underdog sports NBA show, Tyler and Zandrick go long on the three high profile unrestricted free agents, Josh Giddey, Cam Thomas and Jonathon Kuminga. They begin with Giddy and how surprised they both are that the bulls and Giddey have no reached a resolution given how he closed the season. They then move to Cam Thomas and debate his role and his quality in that role an...

With Tyler Laurie on load management, Zandrick Ellison and special guest Blake J. Harris (CONSOLE WARS) discuss the rumors about the NBA expansion into Europe and debate the best approaches for the league's global takeover. Should the NBA expand here in the United States? Shuffle around and relocate current teams? Or dip their tentacles across the pond overseas? Along with it, they discuss the tea...

On the 242nd Episode of the Underdog NBA Show, Tyler and Zandrick take it geriatric. They discuss the Clippers' signing Brad Beal and Chris Paul and how this creates some depth in the team that Tyrone Lue will need to figure out, but ultimately sets them up to be successful, pending health. They then transition to the Lakers and Marcus Smart reaching an agreement, and if that actually helps from a...

On the 341st Episode of the Underdog NBA show, Tyler interviews Ryan Kalkbrenner's childhood best friend and public relations manager. Kidding, but the guys talk about which NBA teams, like the Atlanta Hawks, are poised to take a big jump and which teams may be in for a Phoenix Suns-like collapse if everything goes wrong. They then talk about Ryan Kalkbrenner and discuss why he may be in the perfe...

On the 340th episode of the Underdog NBA Show, Zandrick and Tyler discuss the Norman Powell and John Collins deal and how the bigger picture seems to be shaping up with the Clippers trading a fringe all-star with the potential of signing Bradley Beal on the cheap. They then discuss Miami's future and why the Norman Powell deal makes sense in the future since it allows for a lot of cap flexibility...

On the 339th Episode of the Underdog NBA Show, Zandrick and Tyler discuss all things from the start of a fast NBA off-season. They start in the west and talk moves by the thunder and then how the rest of the west stacks up! They talk about the clear winners of FA, the Rockets and Nuggets and then talk about some shrewd moves made by the Lakers, Clippers, and Mavericks, before pivoting east to disc...

On the 338th episode of the Underdog NBA Show, the guys talk about game 7 of the NBA Finals from Sunday night. They lead with the tremendously sad news of Tyrese Haliburton's torn achilles and the effect it had on the game, but then also the Pacers' future, before pivoting to the Thunder's win and the performances of their key players. They then shift to discussing the Kevin Durant trade and how i...

On the 337th episode of the Underdog NBA Show, Tyler and Zandrick discuss the NBA finals winding down, starting with Tyrese Haliburton's injury. They discuss the Pacers' long-term outlook and also look back at game four and the odd officiating performance from the ref crew. They then discuss the Desmond Bane deal between the Orlando Magic and Memphis Grizzlies. They talk about the picks Orlando ga...

On the 336th Episode of the Underdog Sports NBA show, Tyler and Zandrick discuss the surprise start to the NBA finals. They begin with recapping game 3 and discussing how the pacers, ahem, pace, seems to be wearing the Thunder down. They then discuss Rick Carlisle's use of his bench while Mark Danigault appears to be using a smaller rotation. Then they discuss the Thunder's fouth quarter offense b...

On the 335th episode of the Underdog NBA Show, Tyler and Zandrick do a deep dive on the smallest market finals of all time and why that doesn't matter at all! They then discuss how Indiana can win despite being the biggest underdog in 25 years and which player matchups are the most important in the series. Finally, they discuss the New York Knicks firing Tom Thibadou and whether that was the right...

On the 334th episode of the Underdog NBA Show, Tyler and Zandrick talk through the end of the Nuggets and Thunder before pivoting to the conference finals previews and then talking about the future of the Nuggets and Cavs. First, they discuss the game 7 blowout and talk through Alex Caruso's defense, Aaron Gordon's hamstring, and more before shifting over to the Thunder and how they match up with...

On the 333rd episode of the Underdog NBA Show, Tyler and Zandrick talk through the end of the Nuggets and Thunder before pivoting to the conference finals previews and then talking about the future of the Nuggets and Cavs. First they discuss the game 7 blowout and talk through Alex Caruso's defense, Aaron Gordon's hamstring, and more before shifting over to the Thunder and how they match up with M...

On the 332nd episode of the Underdog NBA Show, Tyler and Zan jump around on a few different NBA topics. They chat through the NBA draft lottery and some conspiracies about it before discussing how Cooper Flagg fits with the Mavericks and then the Spurs' decision on two overall and why it's incredibly interesting to see what choice they make. They then discuss the NBA playoffs, starting with the Kn...

On the 331st episode of the Underdog NBA Show, Tyler and Zandrick discuss the beginning of the 2nd round of the NBA playoffs. They start off by talking through game one of Nuggets and Thunder and discuss Jokic's greatness, the Thunder's decision to foul, the defensive changes the Thunder should look into, and if Shai is going to fall into the Harden school of playoffs free throws attempted. They t...

On the 330th episode of the Underdog NBA show, Zandrick and Tyler discuss the interesting first-round series in the Western and Eastern conferences. They avoid the blowouts in Memphis, Boston, and Cleveland and take a deeper look into the Pacers and Bucks, and then the Knicks and Pistons. In between, they get sidetracked talking a bit about the Syracuse 2-3 zone, before shifting fully to Denver vs...

On the 329th episode of the Underdog NBA show, Tyler and Zandrick are joined by best-selling author, Blake J. Harris, for their annual playoff wins draft. They begin by giving the results of the full season wins draft, which saw Tyler win back the crown in the closest race of all time. They then shift into the wins draft and discuss why the Thunder may be a better pick than the Cavs or Celtics, an...