{"id":2168,"date":"2016-11-02T10:49:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T14:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2016-11-02T10:49:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T14:49:38","slug":"coast-2-coast-nba-week-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2016\/11\/02\/coast-2-coast-nba-week-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast 2 Coast Podcast Episode #10: NBA Week One Breakdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: Welcome to the tenth episode of Coast 2 Coast, the basketball podcast right here at <strong>Last Word on Sports<\/strong>. As always, LWOS is committed to bringing you the very best in sports news, analysis, and commentary. In putting together this <strong>NBA<\/strong> podcast, we continue to stay committed to our high standards. Enjoy the show.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Austin and Dante are as excited as any for this first week of NBA play. Beginning with the past week\u2019s news and notes, the two discuss some of their favorite and least liked 2013 draft class contract extensions. They also consider some of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/a\/allenra02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ray Allen<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s actions and how difficult it will be for him to choose a team with which to retire.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back at the week, Austin and Dante speak to the biggest NBA Week One disappointments and make some wild overreactions. After discussing the downfall of NBA defenses and choosing their Week Two players to watch, the duo decides on their Week One Team of the Week. They wrap up their first regular season podcast by picking the must-watch game of the week&#8230;surprise, surprise:\u00a0<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>\u2019s triple doubles are involved.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Coast 2 Coast Podcast Episode #10: NBA Week One Breakdown<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/hnh8q-642a08?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<h4><strong>Follow the show on Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Coast2CoastPod\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Coast2CoastPod<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\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<p>February 1, 2016 Oklahoma City Thunder Guard Russell Westbrook (0) bringing the ball up court versus the Washington Wizards at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (Torrey Purvey\/Icon Sportswire) (Photo by Torrey Purvey\/Icon Sportswire\/Corbis via Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin and Dante hop on the pod to break down NBA Week One, including who they expect to improve after slow starts and who is for real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":2174,"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":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,62],"tags":[65,552,96,184,264,53],"class_list":["post-2168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-coast-2-coast","tag-nba","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-ray-allen","tag-russell-westbrook"],"modified_by":"Lior Kozai (Managing Editor)","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168","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=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}