{"id":1446,"date":"2016-10-12T13:25:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T17:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2017-02-23T17:04:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T22:04:01","slug":"coast-2-coast-podcast-episode-6-northwest-division-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2016\/10\/12\/coast-2-coast-podcast-episode-6-northwest-division-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast 2 Coast Podcast Episode #6: Northwest Division Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: Welcome to the sixth episode of Coast 2 Coast, the brand new basketball podcast right here at Last Word on Sports. As always LWOS is committed to bringing you the very best in sports news, analysis and commentary. In putting together this NBA podcast, we continue to stay committed to our high standards. Enjoy the show.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is the fourth of our six previews. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/2016\/09\/30\/coast-2-coast-podcast-episode-3-atlantic-division-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Atlantic<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/2016\/10\/05\/coast-2-coast-central-division-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Central<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/2016\/10\/10\/coast-2-coast-podcast-episode-5-southeast-division-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Southeast<\/a>\u00a0can be found here.<\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019s to say a small market team can\u2019t be successful? That a team from a midmarket city can\u2019t build a roster or a culture? The Northwest Division offers a diverse class of organizations, committed to staying near or below the salary cap while maintaining high expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Austin and Dante examine the group in this episode\u2019s divisional preview, beginning with the advantages and limitations of midmarket teams. The two follow their normal layout by answering five burning questions on the division \u2013 including the team with the best chance at landing the next big free agent and the most exciting player or team to watch this season (hint: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/westbru01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Russell Westbrook<\/a><\/strong> is involved). They\u2019ll predict divisional standings and touch on the spiritual journey <strong>Tom Thibodeau<\/strong> went on to discover an offense.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Coast 2 Coast Podcast Episode #6: Northwest Division Preview<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/5weu6-638066?from=yiiadmin\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Austin Cracraft and Dante Guarneri discuss everything from the wide world of the NBA, whether it be the latest update from a Banana Boat or a rookie\u00a0screwing up on his Snapchat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow the show on Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Coast2CoastPod\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Coast2CoastPod<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Austin is a Staff Writer and Podcast Host\/Producer at Last Word on Sports. He is currently attending the\u00a0<strong>University of Oregon\u00a0<\/strong>and enjoys watching, talking and playing sports. He is a big\u00a0<strong>Colorado Buffaloes<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Oregon Ducks<\/strong>\u00a0fan.<\/p>\n<p>Dante studies Financial Economics at\u00a0<strong>Columbia University<\/strong>. For every statistic and analytic undertaking, he hopes to shed humorous light on the everyday parity of the sports world. A life-long sports fan, he\u2019s been blessed with championships from the\u00a0<strong>New York Yankees<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>New York Giants<\/strong>, but cursed by the turbulent history of the\u00a0<strong>Brooklyn (New Jersey) Nets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/494750872\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 68.350168% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/494750872?et=xuQsTpiETChATqJph1l0Mw&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=gzm_jgBIBkhdp8_sMZQ8lP5o_VY0DR5lF-yU_-7tOQ0=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"406\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Northwest Division preview Austin and Dante examine how these five teams deal with smaller markets and who they expect to win a KD-less division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,20,2,21,62,22,23,24],"tags":[65,108,214,96,438,54,184,144],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","category-nuggets","category-featured","category-timberwolves","category-nba","category-thunder","category-trailblazers","category-jazz","tag-basketball","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-nba","tag-northwest-division","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-utah-jazz"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}