{"id":7129,"date":"2017-05-31T14:24:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T18:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=7129"},"modified":"2017-05-31T14:25:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T18:25:33","slug":"coast-2-coast-ep-29-nba-finals-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2017\/05\/31\/coast-2-coast-ep-29-nba-finals-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast 2 Coast Podcast Episode #29: NBA Finals Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s podcast, Austin and Dante break down the upcoming NBA Finals between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors. While much has been previously discussed by the two on each team, they provide a fresh perspective on the various tight regular season matchups.<\/p>\n<p>After considering different defensive schemes for both teams, Austin and Dante speak to the impact interim head coach <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/brownmi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Brown<\/a><\/strong> might have in the absence of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kerrst01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steve Kerr<\/a><\/strong> and how he fares against <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/l\/luety01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyronn Lue<\/a><\/strong>. They touch on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jamesle01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LeBron James<\/a><\/strong>&#8216; legacy while discussing how the public could view him in comparison to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jordami01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Jordan<\/a><\/strong> following a Cavs win or loss in the series. After that, they give each of their keys to part three of the trilogy. How will the benches perform? Can <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/t\/thomptr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tristan Thompson<\/a><\/strong> do enough damage against the Death Lineup to make Brown adjust? They wrap up the podcast by providing series predictions and their votes for NBA Finals MVP.<\/p>\n<p><em>Check out our NBA Finals Roundtable <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/2017\/05\/31\/2017-nba-finals-predictions-roundtable\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"_h8t\">\n<div class=\"_5wd9 direction_ltr\">\n<div class=\"_5wde _n4o\">\n<div class=\"_5w1r _3_om _5wdf\">\n<h2 class=\"_d97\"><strong>Coast 2 Coast Podcast Episode #29: NBA Finals Preview<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/d7yp9-6b64f5?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<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.ca\/detail\/540012284\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 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\/540012284?et=oO3jsPRcQEVkU81mT89--Q&amp;tld=ca&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=ro3Z47KMbRHJ_h0LX9-ftphOZWIOIe7sI8Y9q13RXIo=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" 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 for the most in-depth NBA Finals Preview you can find, including how Steph Curry can improve and LeBron James&#8217; legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":7135,"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":[36,9,25,62],"tags":[1037,964,65,39,965,182,38,96,407,1040],"class_list":["post-7129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","category-cavaliers","category-warriors","category-nba","tag-2017-nba-finals","tag-austin-cracraft","tag-basketball","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-dante-guarneri","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-lebron-james","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-tristan-thompson"],"modified_by":"Lior Kozai (Managing Editor)","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129","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=7129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}