{"id":1810,"date":"2016-10-23T16:54:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T20:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2016-10-23T16:54:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T20:54:52","slug":"coast-2-coast-podcast-episode-7-southwest-division-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2016\/10\/23\/coast-2-coast-podcast-episode-7-southwest-division-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast 2 Coast Podcast Episode #7: Southwest Division Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: Welcome to the eighth 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 final division preview for C2C. 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>,\u00a0<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>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/2016\/10\/12\/coast-2-coast-podcast-episode-6-northwest-division-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Northwest<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/2016\/10\/20\/coast-2-coast-podcast-episode-7-pacific-division-preview-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pacific<\/a>\u00a0can be found here.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/2016\/10\/23\/nba-southwest-division-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Last Word on Pro Basketball<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s written preview of the Southwest Division, written by\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/author\/nick-dibona\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick DiBona<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/d\/duncati01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tim Duncan<\/a><\/strong>? No <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/h\/howardw01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dwight Howard<\/a><\/strong>? The Southwest division has gone through an offseason full of change, but still figures to be competitive with the additions of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/p\/parsoch01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chandler Parsons<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/barneha02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harrison Barnes<\/a><\/strong>, amongst others.<\/p>\n<p>Austin and Dante begin the podcast with a discussion of how teams deal with locker room leadership with an emphasis of the steadiness of the Spurs and whether the Rockets get resolved without Howard. Next, they answer five burning questions about the division. Questions include &#8220;Who will be the next MVP in this conference?&#8221; and &#8220;Which contract signed this offseason will provide the biggest impact?&#8221; Finally, the wrap up with their predictions for who wins a crowded Southwest division.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Coast 2 Coast Podcast Episode #7: Southwest Division Preview<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/gu9en-63cf78?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<h4><strong>Main Photo<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>James Harden Houston Rockets (Photo by Mark Downey Lucid Images\/Corbis via Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin and Dante hop on the pod to discuss the importance of locker room leadership and life without Tim Duncan in this Southwest Division preview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":1642,"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":[36,30,2,31,32,62,33,34],"tags":[65,497,175,333,207,96,477,220,55],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","category-mavericks","category-featured","category-rockets","category-grizzlies","category-nba","category-pelicans","category-spurs","tag-basketball","tag-basketball-podcasts","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-houston-rockets","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-nba","tag-nba-podcasts","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-san-antonio-spurs"],"modified_by":"Harrison Marcus","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","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=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}