The Rapcast

This week on Confederacy of Dunks, hosts Freddie Rivas and Andy Hull welcome special guest Alan Shane Lewis from This Hour Has 22 Minutes and The Canadian Baking show to talk about insane Toronto Raptors Pre-Season grades that Freddie made up, teams that have never won a championship and they finish off brainstorming nicknames. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Samson Folk takes listener questions with Louis Zatzman. They discuss how many All-Stars are on the Toronto Raptors' roster, Scottie Barnes' improvements, and a whole bunch of basketball stuff. 0:00 - Introductions 1:20 - How many All-Stars are on the roster? 5:50 - Gradey Dick's Development 9:30 - Scottie's Unique Development 11:35 - Gradey's Shooting 17:15 - The Raptors are Screening Better 21:22 - Scottie & Gradey better than Scottie & IQ? 27:33 - Can a Gorilla play basketball? 30:35 - Can the Raptors offense be good? 32:50 - 15th man (speculation/reasoning, skip ahead for answers) 42:55 - Mogbo's Role/Development 48:00 - Ochai looks much better 50:20 - Reacting to Raptors roster moves 56:22 - Lonnie Walker 58:46 - Mikal Bridges jumper 1:00:30 - Authoritarian Basketball 1:01:55 - What's important from Preseason? 1:05:00 - Scottie's perfect co-stars 1:08:20 - Raptors identities? 1:14:15 - What makes a backup guard successful? 1:18:20 - 2 Guard Lineups 1:23:25 - How many wins for the Raptors? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Buckets & Tea NBA Show is Back! Hello & Welcome's Jerome Cheng joins host Cathryn Naiker to discuss some wild NBA predictions. Which team is going to surprise a casual out of the East and West? Which team is going on sale (blowing up/trades) by the deadline? and by the end of the season? Who is going to win the stupid NBA Cup LOL Biggest Leap forward? Newest All-Star? Biggest shock of the season? Then in Raptors Predictions: Who is going to be most improved? Will Scottie make the all-star team? and will we make the play in? Do we want to make the play in? In our Hottie Highlight of the week Jerome has to choose between Vince Carter's Hall Of Fame Speech or VC moved to tears at the news Toronto is retiring his jersey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Samson & Tre are joined by producer Es to discuss Gradey & Scottie popping off, plus the awards draft. 0:00 - Introductions 2:10 - Boston win recap 4:40 - Gradey's offensive improvements 11:30 - Should Gradey start? 13:30 - Gradey's passing 15:50 - health updates for the team 16:27 - Scottie Superstar 18:40 - Scottie's pnr numbers 20:00 - Scottie's 3 level scoring 24:18 - Drafting Awards 25:45 - Scottie Barnes All-Star 28:23 - Scottie Barnes All-NBA 31:00 - RJ Barrett MIP 33:50 - RJ Barrett All-Star 36:25 - Garrett Temple Good Guy Award 38:28 - Scottie Barnes All-Defense 40:20 - Immanuel Quickley MIP 42:20 - Jonathan Mogbo All Rookie 45:40 - Ja'Kobe Walter All Rookie 47:00 - Davion Mitchell 6MOY 48:50 - Samson's Weasel Selections 50:45 - Jakob Poeltl All-Defense 56:00 - Enjoying the season 57:00 - IQ getting up threes 57:45 - Gradey Dick will be the 2nd best Raptor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

On this week of Confederacy of Dunks, Freddie Rivas and Andy Hull welcome guest Anthony Hall from Toronto's Second City. They of course riff on the insane new theme song that Andy has created, and move on to talk a little bit about the Toronto raptors pre-season. The guys talk about IQ, Jamaal Shead, Chris Boucher and Peyton Prichard somehow always going off against the raptors. They touch on the low stakes of the pre season and how this team is in hard to evaluate without having IQ and Scottie on the floor together. After the pre season talk they get curious about the hall of fame. Vince Carter's hall of fame addition as a raptor sparked Freddie's curiosity so the guys riff on hall of fakes in general. What makes them matter? Where are they? Who gets in? Should we care? Do we care? They decide to make a Canadian heritage minute where Andy heckles James Naismith (played by Freddie) until James Naismith gives up his idea. Anthony suggest that he could be one of the guys who is wearing tight clothing. Pretty good idea honestly. Question three is all about the new documentary series the starting five which features LeBron, Jimmy, Anthony davis, Anthony Edwards and Domantis Sabonis. They each choose their own starting five and explore different angles like journeyman, veteran players, instigators and player coaches. Between the in three of them we get a big variety of takes and some straight up golden ideas if we are being real about it. Topic number four is all about the Donte Divenenzo and Rick Brunson beef. During the Minnesota Timberwolves vs New York Knicks game, don't was talking some smack to Tom Thibideau and it went viral. The guys explore other potential beefs this year like Bronny Vs Dillon, Paul George Vs Kawhi Leonard and Taylor Swift Vs Tom Thibideau. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]