Rule of Threes: Recent Episodes
Casey Lawrence & Chris Grace
The season is approaching very quickly! We talk about some team's offseason moves, LaMelo, and most importantly, the 2015 All-Star results.
That's right! The league is back December 22, which means we have to cram all of our offseason cycle into a few weeks!
Trades!
Draft!
Free Agency!
Regular Season!
Finals!
Congratulations to Bruce Brown!!
Instant reaction from Chris & Casey! A great bubble with a great result. Thank you so much for being fans and listening to the show!
Chris and Casey talk the end of the conference finals and the first game of the Lakers-Heat matchup!
Casey was an electronic ghost! We talk his experience as a virtual fan at the Lakers game tonight! And we discuss Lakers/Nuggets, Lakers/Rockets, Celtics/Heat, and of course.... the Clippers.
SHOW INFO:
Chris is doing "Baby Wants Candy" as part of the InterCity Improv Jam on SUNDAY September 20 at 6PM PST/9PM EST!
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7167021992
We talk the four, uh, three competitive round two series left! And we are getting at least one game 7, which we're happy about!
We talk all the brackets including the series that ended ... sooner than we thought they would.
PREDICTIONS.
PERFORMANCE.
AND THE WINNERS OF THE KIA NBA SEEDING GAMES FIRST TEAM AWARDS BUBBLE WINNER AWARDS
We talk Lakers-Thunder, pick our next and final 2019-2020 game of the week (Thunder v Heat) and catch you up on Dame-PG3-PatBev drama!
Talking Jazz-Pelicans and Clippers-Lakers. With bonus discussion of COVID and what we like to call "deepdrake".
We're back! And we're not in the bubble, like the Morris brothers. With some bonus video game discussion at the front.
Chris's show:
http://twitch.tv/themagnettheater
Sunday at 9pm EST, but check out the other fun musical improv at the same channel this weekend!
We talk about the Lil Rel vehicle UNCLE DREW. We also talk a tiny about the actual league!
Next week's movie: "LOVE AND BASKETBALL"
We talk about the pandemic documentary "Space Jam", with some bonus coverage of "The Absent-Minded Professor". Next episode's movie is UNCLE DREW!
We talk about the new Michael Jordan documentary, fudging the facts in biographical sports movies, and which NBA player Josh Lucas is like. Next week's movie is SPACE JAM.
We discuss Stephen Soderberg's "High Flying Bird", and whether the rift between Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert is UNSALVAGEABLE.
Next week's movie: "Glory Road"
We talk a tiny bit about Tiger King, but mostly about the movie "White Men Can't Jump". We already know from last week it's one of Chris's favorite sports movies, but did Casey like it?!
We're going to discuss a basketball movie every week... the next movie is WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP... possibly the best sports movie of all time?!
We talk how happy Casey is, and who is gonna grab the 8th seed in the West, strength of schedule, and how Chris can't find proper Biden merch.
Try and guess what they are. You can't. I've never even heard of half of them. Anyway! We discuss Lakers-Pelicans, Casey's favorite stat PER, and his change of heart on KCP and why he should be arrested for it.
This week's game is Lakers at Clippers on Sunday, 3:30PM ET!
We talk about it all! Was Aaron Gordon robbed? Who were the mic'd up celebrities? What did Casey think about "The Assistant"?!
This week's game of the week: The All-Star Game!
Next week's: Celtics at Lakers, 3:30PM EST/12:30 PM PST on February 23rd!
We talk Pacers-Nuggets, Thunder-Rockets, the 8th seed in the West, and the ultimate Lakers-Raptors trade that is a complete waste of time to discuss!
We talk Nuggets-Clippers, pick our next game of the week, Player A vs Player B for how much money, Michael Porter Jr as the next George Gervin, and most importantly... Kyle Kuzma's fashion choices.
Pacers, Sixers, and Nuggets are on the plate for discussion, along with some random Slay the Spire talk, and Casey's adventures returning gifts to Kohl's (former owners of the Milwaukee Bucks) and trying to find something worth buying.
Happy New Year!
We talk shifting to the East for the Game of the Week, review the bespoke suits that CP3 made for the Thunder, and more!
This episode was recorded before the Jordan Clarkson trade, and also the power went out while we were uploading it, so we'll get back to you next episode with our reactions to that! We'll also put up a short recording after the new year to let you know what our second game of the week is as we'll be off for Christmas.
This week's Game of the Week: Sixers at Pacers on December 31!
We check in on the standings and surprises and not surprises, and follow up on the Warriors/Kings matchup from Sunday. Our next game of the week is Kings at Pacers on Friday night! Watch it and check back next week to see whether or not Chris and Casey are sad or happy!
We talk Kings-Mavs, why you shouldn't say "NoCal", which teams have been disappointing. Game of the week: Sacramento Kings at Golden State Warriors on Sunday December 15!
The Mavericks take the crown, we talk the best player in the West this past week, and... is it possible the Pelicans just didn't want Kuzma?
This week's featured game: Kings at Mavericks, Sunday!
We talk the proposed changes to the schedule, the mid-season and play-in tournament, East versus West, why Chris never loses a Reddit argument, and Luka!
Also we talk about the nailbiter that was the Lakers-Hawks game! And check out the trailer to Charlie's movie "Death to Metal" here:
Death to Metal | Official Trailer [HD] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LyTayUIw4w
Plus the unholy abomination that was the Heats-Rockets game.
This week's game of the week, Miami Heat at LA Lakers, November 8th! We're gonna ride the winner of each week's game as long as they keep winning!
Chris proposes a switch, and then announces a switch. Casey is doing 10 shows in 10 days. The Lakers are 0-1.
Zander Frost (from UCB Harold Team Bitchin' and "Are You the Two?") joins us to talk LeBron, Hearthstone, and the incredibly bad New York Knicks.
Darin Webb, Clippers fan, joins the podcast as we talk wins and losses for the Pacific Division, and more thoughts on James Harden and Lonzo Ball.
We preview another NBA division, talk about a new advanced stat, and Chris reiterates that Andrew Wiggins is going to win Most Improved Player next year.
Another divison preview and a few hot takes on FIBA and an opinion that Casey REALLY disagrees with Chris on!
We're back, and please send your feedback on the last question to ruleof3spodcast@gmail.com.
Hell yeah!
We ALMOST buy a bottle of chloroform while this episode is happening. Also, Southwest division preview!
Chris is back in the US and we're back from vacation! Casey says "Hell yeah!" or "I'm furious!" to the USA Basketball roster. This one goes out to Travis Wear for leading the Select team to victory!
We talk about Russ for CP3, Tacko Fall, summer league, Chris's starting five of hot guys in NBA history, and THE BEST SHOOTING GUARD IN THE LEAGUE.
Chris is back from Australia, and Casey's maybe living his darkest timeline... and what does he really think about Kentavious Caldwell-Pope?
Ok, so it just so happens that one of Casey's best friends is a guy named Dan Green who also went to UNC- Chapel Hill, but he's a jewish doctor instead of an NBA Star. Casey and Dan talk about what it was like growing up in a family where dad's weekly basketball game took priority over everything, and talk about Dan's journey through basketball
Chris is back in the country now though, and once we get a Kawhi signing, we will be back in the studio having a blast. Enjoy this bonus episode!
With Chris still exiled to Australia, Casey invites NBA fan Gavin Gronenthal on the podcast to talk NBA Free Agency. It's a wild one, y'all! The two get into Orlando's constant pyramid scheme, The New York Power Forwards, and the desert in southern California.
Casey is joined by the fantastic Loring Griggs for a summer cast where we talk about the NBA draft, being a Celtics and Kings fan, loving superteams, and Casey's ever present Lakers troll. Follow Loring on instagram at @loring.g and buy his album, Periphery here: https://music.apple.com/us/album/periphery/1468361709
The NEWS is HOT, y'all!! Chris and Casey give you their reactions from game 6, thoughts about what the Warriors do from here on out, deserved congrats to the Raptors and more. THEN! The Anthony Davis to the Lakers trade news breaks, and the guys tack on another 40 mins to the podcast to react to the Lakers' decimated roster, AD as a laker, and call in the power of wildly rampant vet min roster speculation to see who joins the big 2 in LA. It's a wild one!!
Chris and Casey have a discussion about the events of Game 5, KD's injury, the troubles of being an NBA fan abroad, and much more!
Casey is joined by his old college roommate, Seth Rotkin to talk about the surprising NBA finals games 3 and 4. There is some talk about Casey's really bad prediction, and his really bad NBA 2K19 preview game, and a lot of talk about poor study habits in college. Chris is still out of town, but we will be sure to have him back after the finals are over
Chris and Casey fight Skype, Sniffles, and a 15 hour time difference to talk Game 2, Australian storefronts, and Tillman Fertitta. Thanks for listening!!
Apologizes for my brain in this one, I'm tired. Signed, Chris. PS The podcast has been downloaded at least once by someone in Australia so please send us an email and let's do a meetup while I'm there. Just me and ONE listener. I will do an individual meetup with one listener in every country in the world. That plan sounds very do-able and practical.
We talk how the East is not going how we thought it would, whether the Bucks or Raptors can compete with the Warriors, Klay not being All-NBA, and the most important matchup of all: Pusha T versus Drake.
We discuss the Warriors-Blazers, Bucks-Raptors, and Rob Pelinka and Frank Vogel vs Magic Johnson.
Hey this is Chris. I'm uploading this now. My prediction in this episode looks VERY GOOD in hindsight. I hope you are well.
We say goodbye to the Rockets, Nuggets, and Sixers with special guest Kyle Kenyon! Check out his hilarious independent television show, Schmotts!
http://schmotts.com
Chris and Casey talk about the upcoming Game 7 drama, and bid a fond farewell to the 2019 Celtics. Oh yeah, there is a bunch of Lakers drama that they shoehorned into the end of the episode so you can skip it.
Bookmark this one to prove Chris wrong in five years. We talk all the round two series matchups so far, including the game 4s of Bucks-Celtics and Warriors-Rockets.
We say goodbye to five teams from the first round and make our famous "1 Game In" picks for round two!
We say goodbye to the Pistons and the Pacers, talk potential second round matchups, and another update on Landry Shamet's shot arc godammit!
And it's Chris's turn to come with a BOLD TAKE. And he inadvertently compliments Chris Paul! What world are we living in?!
We discuss LeBron sitting for the rest of the year, the Bucks, the Raptors, why everyone hates Duke, and why just because people also like the NBA doesn't mean they know how to talk about sexual assault. FUN!
SPOILER ALERT: We talk about the movie "Us" for the last portion of this episode, don't listen past that point if you haven't seen the film yet.
We talk seeing Clippers v Nets in the first official Rule of Threes hangout game, being the second team in a given market, Lakers-Knicks, Giannis-Simmons, and of course, Super Mario Hezonja.
Chris went to a Clippers-Celtics game! We also talk about the Westbrook fan incident, Draymond and the Warriors, and the Lakers shutting it down.
Casey and Chris discuss the Bucks-Suns, more sad Lakers, and we make a dream first-round NBA playoff bracket for the most entertaining and interest matchups.
Discussed: the Lakers, the Bucks, the MVP race, the Rockets, the Warriors, and the Oscars.
We discuss the All-Star Weekend, and why one of us hates it. Oh and we forgot to talk about the Rising Stars game but yay Kyle Kuzma.
Casey and Chris lament that AD probably isn't going to move, and we also talk about Krystaps, and the All-Stars, and our favorite television comedies.
And Ted Kennedy.
Discussed: Carmelo, DSJ, Lonzo, Warriors resurgence, Boogie, All-Star voting, Zaza, and is Tskitishvili... attractive?
There are a LOT of amazing individual performances happening right now, and we run through a few of them. And yes I know that Harden just had 57 points. But we recorded this before that. So I look dumb. Or do I? This is Chris, by the way. How are you? Do you actually read these episode descriptions?
- Bug fixes
- Routine optimizations
- Third thing
We both watched games between Christmas and New Year's and we have thoughts. What is "joga bonito"? What are our resolutions for our NBA lives in 2019? And what's Casey's hottest hot take?
On switching to T-Mobile, trading for Ariza, Luka, injury watch, Kyle Lowry's slump, Swaggy P, the continued incompetence of GarPax, which All-NBA players truly have charisma, and which NBA player should host the Oscars.
Email us at ruleof3spodcast@gmail.com if you want in on that house party.
Geoff Tate is in town so we jumped at the chance to have him come in and talk basketball. He's a hilarious stand up comic and loves the NBA just like Chris & Casey, and he comes in hot with a singular take on Dwight Howard. Follow Geoff on Twitter at @geofftate96!
Email us at ruleof3spodcast@gmail.com!
2nd Round picks for Posterity:
CASEY * Warriors in 7 * Jazz in 6 * Raptors in 6 over Cavs / 5 over Pacers * 76ers in 4 over Celtics or Bucks
CHRIS * Warriors in 5 * Rockets in 7 * Raptors in 5 over Cavs / 6 over Pacers * 76ers in 5 over Celtics or Bucks