{"id":5639,"date":"2017-04-06T11:23:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T15:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/?p=5639"},"modified":"2024-12-14T17:01:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T22:01:16","slug":"coast-2-coast-podcast-episode-24-final-four-recap-nba-draft-primer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2017\/04\/06\/coast-2-coast-podcast-episode-24-final-four-recap-nba-draft-primer\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast 2 Coast Podcast Episode #24: Final Four Recap, NBA Draft Primer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s podcast, Austin and Dante are joined again by Thomas Tittley to wrap up the college basketball season. After discussing Austin&#8217;s sorrows following the Oregon loss, the three break down the Championship game between UNC and Gonzaga. Following that talk, they look forward to the upcoming NBA Draft. Does <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cbb\/players\/markelle-fultz-1.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Markelle Fultz<\/a><\/strong> have competition for the #1 pick? Who is the better prospect, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cbb\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=josh-jackson-1,josh-jackson-2&amp;search=Josh+Jackson&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josh Jackson<\/a><\/strong> or <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cbb\/players\/jayson-tatum-1.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jayson Tatum<\/a><\/strong>? Which top-five point guard are both Austin and Thomas both down on?<\/p>\n<p>After considering different draft scenarios for the weak teams of the league, the three speak to possible top 10 picks and who could slide into the top 5. They wrap up by talking about the end-of-game idea by Nick Ealon as seen in an article by Zach Lowe. To no one&#8217;s surprise, they agree that the D-League (or Summer League) will end up bearing the brunt of this change following the The Basketball Tournament.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Coast 2 Coast Podcast Episode #24: Final Four Recap, NBA Draft Primer<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/vjgut-696fb4?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 legend being thrown out of the Garden.<\/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\u00a0Last Word On Sports. He is currently attending the\u00a0University of Oregon\u00a0and enjoys watching, talking about, and playing sports. He is a shameless Colorado Buffaloes\u00a0and\u00a0Oregon Ducks\u00a0fan.<\/p>\n<p>Dante studies Financial Economics at\u00a0Columbia University. 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\u00a0New York Yankees\u00a0and\u00a0New York Giants, but cursed by the turbulent history of the\u00a0Brooklyn (New Jersey) Nets.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-author-name vcard author\"><span class=\"fn\">Thomas c<\/span>urrently attends the University of Ottawa.<\/div>\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: 434px;\"><\/div>\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: 434px;\">\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\/664270806\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 136.866359% 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\/664270806?et=nT1utQJWQ5tIFv0wjfd07w&amp;tld=com&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=xoI0izOY9daEv1XdzxTs7L_rharmTe7aUbotpVOcCAk=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"434\" height=\"594\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin and Dante hop on the pod, along with Thomas Tittley, for a Final Four recap with mixed emotions as well as turning their attention to the NBA Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":5645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[36,62,556],"tags":[865,826,895,832],"class_list":["post-5639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","category-nba","category-nba-draft","tag-final-four","tag-march-madness","tag-nba-podcast","tag-ncaa-tournament"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639","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=5639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}