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#SoWizards
by Kevin Broom
I considered making a podcast the Washington Wizards franchise deserved, but that would be #SoWizards.
Episodes
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Player Development: How the Washington Wizards Can Help Their Youth Improve, with Brian McCormick
We're back! The first episode of the #SoWizards Podcast in nearly a year is a fun one -- an in-depth conversation with coach Brian McCormick about player development strategies and techniques, and how those might be applied by the Washington Wizards and other NBA teams with young players.…
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Washington Wizards 2024-25 season preview with Troy Haliburton
In this episode of the #SoWizards Podcast, I’m joined by Troy Haliburton to discuss all things Wizards — everything from the season opener to player development and the team’s long-term competitive strategy. Our conversation covered: Last season’s performance The coaching change and the emphasis…
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Offseason smorgasbord with Ben Becker
The Washington Wizards have launched into a busy and somewhat perplexing offseason. Joining me to help make sense of the team's roster moves and long-term plan is my former cohost and longtime friend, Ben Becker. Ben is a stalwart member of the Wizards' online community from message boards to...
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Trade Deadline 2024: A Dose of Reality with Ben Becker
The Washington Wizards made one deal at the trade deadline, sending starting center Daniel Gafford to the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for a first round pick and center Richaun Holmes. Holmes is on the wrong side of 30 and hasn't been much good in a few years now. Gafford is pretty good and just…
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Wizards big picture as team replaces Unseld as coach with Ben Becker
The Washington Wizards replaced Wes Unseld Jr. as head coach, moving Unseld into a front office advisory role, and promoting lead assistant Brian Keefe to be interim head coach. When the team makes a big move, there's no one better to discuss it with than old friend and podcast partner Ben…
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Halfway through a #SoWizards season with Troy Haliburton
Just past the midway point, the Wizards are bumbling through what's likely to be the worst season in franchise history. To discuss the biggest issues the team faces as they attempt to rebuild, I invited on veteran Wizards observer and reporter, Troy Haliburton. We began with a couple big NBA...
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Pacers, Wizards, Haliburton and more with Tony East
With the Washington Wizards set to face the Indiana Pacers Wednesday night, it seemed like a great time to catch up with current Pacers journalist and Bullets Forever alum Tony East. In this episode, we talked about what makes Tyrese Haliburton special, Haliburton's hamstring injury, and what the...
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Are the Wizards blowing it with Coulibaly?
In this episode, I'm joined by Bullets Forever's Osman Baig to discuss the state of the Wizards. As I wrote in my big picture check-up on January 3, they're still bad. Oz and I drilled into concerns about how the Wizards are managing the development of French rookie Bilal Coulibaly. Suffice to…
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One Pass Away: The #SoWizards Defense with Bballbreakdown's Coach Nick
Why has the Wizards defense been so bad this season? I put the question to Coach Nick from BBALLBREAKDOWN, and the answer leapt off the screen: they're helping from one pass away. That's the team's scheme this season, and it's the root cause of giving up open threes, and the mad scramble that…
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Coaching a rebuilding team with Poole problems
Brian McCormick has coached at an array of levels in leagues around the world and has written books about basketball fundamentals, skills development, how to become a great shooter, running practices, and building an effective offensive system. I invited him on to discuss the unique challenges...
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Zooming out from the #SoWizards 1-5 start
The Wizards are off to a 1-5 start, which is to be expected from a team that lacked talent in recent years and traded away its two best players. In this episode, I'm joined by Osman Baig from Bullets Forever to discuss the team's start, what we're seeing on the floor and from the coaching staff,...
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A #SoWizards Mailbag: all-in one metrics, comparing Poole to Harden and Arenas, and more on teen rookies
For this episode, Kevin cracked open the mailbag and answered some questions, including: Thoughts on the NBA's Player Impact Estimate metric and how it compares to Kevin's Player Production Average (PPA) How Jordan Poole compares to James Harden and Gilbert Arenas, each of whom changed teams…
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Can the Wizards offense be any good this season? And just what is the difference between Tyus Jones and Monte Morris?
In this episode, Kevin takes a deeper dive into a couple somewhat related articles he published recently on Bullets Forever, including Is Tyus Jones a major upgrade at guard? and Will the Wizards' offense be any good this season? In the articles, Kevin wrote that the Wizards offense figures to be...
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Bringing the heat on the Wizards summer league and 2023-24 season
After a discussion of the relative merits of Dallas and Houston, we got down to talking hoops. We kicked around our impressions of the Wizards' summer league performance, whether Corey Kispert can be more than a specialist, and our divergent thoughts on how the team will perform relative to the...
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Coulibaly, Vukcevic and the New Vision for the Future
In this episode, Ron and Kevin analyze the Wizards draft, including trading up a pick to select 18-year old French wing Bilal Coulibaly, and moving back in round two to land Serbian big man Tristan Vukcevic. They also talk summer league, the state of the roster, how good/bad the team will be next...
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Wizards trade Bradley Beal: React with Ben Becker and Ron Oakes-Cunningham
In a move that was only a minimum of three years overdue, the Washington Wizards traded guard Bradley Beal. Because of the preposterous no-trade clause team president Tommy Sheppard gave to the team's "franchise player," Beal had the power to dictate his destination AND the compensation package…
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2023 NBA Draft: The Toughest Evaluations with Matt Modderno
With the numbers crunching in Ye Olde Draft Analyzer (YODA for short) nearly complete, Kevin and fellow draft nerd Matt Modderno got together to discuss the prospects giving them the most heartburn during the evaluation and ranking process. The two come at the draft from different perspectives —...
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On a Wing(er) and a prayer: New team president offers Wizards some hope
When Ron and Kevin last talked, the Washington Wizards had just parted ways with previous team president Tommy Sheppard. Now the Wizards have found Sheppard's replacement — Michael Winger, a 43-year old NBA executive who gained experience with three successful franchises over the past couple...
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Sheppard fired. Let's take a look.
Ted Leonsis and the Washington Wizards surprised outsiders by firing team president Tommy Sheppard after missing the playoffs in consecutive seasons and failing to produce even a .500 record in his four years at the helm. In this episode, Kevin and Ron break down the Sheppard era, including best...
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Postmortem: Wizards miss the play-in
In this reason, Kevin and Ron delve into some of the reasons the 2022-23 Washington Wizards failed to achieve their goal of reaching postseason play. They also end up in a discussion of efficiency in basketball and whether Bradley Beal and Delon Wright need to change their diets as they move past...
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As the Wizards slip-slide to 12th, should they regret anything?
The Washington Wizards are 12th in the Eastern Conference and will likely miss any form of postseason play. Nearing the end of a "win now" season, Washington is on track to have the sixth best odds of landing the top pick in the NBA's draft lottery. They're a game-and-a-half from passing the...
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Trade Deadline Interviews: Say less Tommy. Way less.
Washington Wizards president Tommy Sheppard gave interviews that were filled with nonsense, non sequiturs and incoherence. Kudos to Craig Hoffman for asking serious questions, by the way. In this episode, Kevin and Ron delve into five of the most absurd comments, and go on an array of tangents…
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What does the Hachimura trade mean for the Wizards?
The Washington Wizards made the kind of trade that’s become familiar, sending former first round pick Rui Hachimura to the Los Angeles Lakers for Kendrick Nunn and three second-round picks — two of which convey in 2028 and 2029. In this episode, Kevin and Ron analyze the trade for all involved,...
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Should the Wizards steer into the skid? Plus a 2020 redraft
The Wizards are on a seven-game losing streak, they've lost 10 of their last 11, and the schedule ahead is challenging. In this episode, Bleav In Wizards podcast host Matt Modderno joins us to discuss the relative merits of current Wizards players, whether the losing binge is actually a good…
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#SoWizards scheme, coaching, talent, front office and ownership with Kevin Folli
Kevin Folli is the man behind Wizards Film Room on Twitter (follow him @KevinFolliNBA) where he provides insights, analysis and data with illustrative video. In this episode, we discuss offensive and defensive scheme, Wes Unseld Jr. strengths and weaknesses, whether the Wizards have the talent to...
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Are Wizards fans really just masochists? With Ken Budd of The Atlantic
Ken Budd writes for an array of outlets, including Washington Post Magazine and The Atlantic. Writing for The Atlantic, Budd delved into why such thing as Wizards fans exist — complete with interviews of psychologists explaining why otherwise intelligent, accomplished people can't stop rooting…
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#SoWizards Forecast: How good will the Wizards be in 2022-23?
With guest basketball expert Mark Schindler joining the discussion, we went deep on the Washington Wizards and their prospects for the 2022-23 season. We touched on key questions like: What's the state of the roster and the franchise? Who will be the team's most impactful player? Which of the...
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Wizards Fanalysis: Preseason games plus key questions and position battles
In this episode we analyze the Washington Wizards preseason games against the Golden State Warriors and discuss some of the key questions and position battles for the Wizards, including: Who starts at guard with Bradley Beal? Who starts at forward with Kyle Kuzma? Who wins the role of backing up...
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Does Mid + MAGA equal a top four team in the East?
In this episode, Ron and Kevin talk about the Sarver Report, what to call the Wizards' current "Big Three" (hint: the Wizards don't have a Big Three), and then go into a hypothetical of how good the Wizards might be if they could acquire Michael Porter Jr. from the Denver Nuggets and Jonathan…
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Ron goes to a wedding, so we end up talking about whether bald players are better
Sometimes during a long offseason, you need to throw off the shackles of trivia, nonsense and offseason pickup videos in which *no really* he's *really-really-really* in the best shape of his life and talk about the important things like whether bald players are better, and who are the best bald...
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Way more than you ever wanted to know about the Washington Wizards 2022 summer league
The Wizards emerged from the 2022 NBA summer league with a 3-2 record, a positive scoring differential, and one of Las Vegas’s three most productive players, and the whole thing was still disappointing. In this episode, Kevin is joined by Matt Modderno, host of the Bleav in Wizards podcast, for…
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Ron & Kevin vs. The World (or Bobby Marks, at least)
In this kinda-sorta mailbag episode, Kevin and Ron answer basketball-related questions and end up covering a wide range of topics. The questions: From ESPN's Bobby Marks: Can a team build around a player like Bradley Beal and Damian Lillard at $50+ million per year without a clear number two in...
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Wizards 2022 Offseason: The Summer of Fine
This episode might have had a different flavor, at least at the start, if we'd known all of the preposterous details of the "let's just give him everything we possibly" can contract the Washington Wizards awarded Bradley Beal. In this episode, Kevin and Ron discuss the Beal contract, and the…
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LIVE Bullets Forever 2022 Mock Draft
Somehow, we coordinated schedules among five grown men and conducted a LIVE mock draft covering all 58 picks. Joining Kevin were Ron Oakes-Cunningham, John Heiser, Marcus Atkinson and Nathan Froe. The ground rules: one minute running clock per pick. While trades were permitted, we didn’t actually...
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NBA Draft Guide: Ranking wing and center prospects likely to be drafted
Matt Modderno teamed up with Kevin for a two-part crossover deep-dive into the 2022 NBA Draft. Part One — covering guards and forwards is Matt's Bleav in Wizards podcast. In Part Two, Kevin and Matt break down wings and centers that have a realistic shot to hear their name called on draft night…
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Player Development and the Washington Wizards
With the NBA Draft looming on the calendar, and the Washington Wizards committed to maximum salary players Bradley Beal and Kristaps Porzingis, the team will need to rely on the cheap labor of young players on rookie contracts. The burning question facing the franchise is one they've answered...
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NBA Draft Lottery Leaves the Wizards at 10. Now what?
Recorded shortly after the NBA's annual Draft Lottery, which left the Wizards with the 10th pick (the most likely outcome based on their record this season), Osman Baig from Bullets Forever and Matt Modderno, host of the Bleav in Wizards podcast, joined Kevin to talk about what the Wizards can…
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Ghost of Wizards Past...and a discussion of Nikola Jokic with Marcus Atkinson
In this episode, co-hosts Kevin Broom and Ron Oakes-Cunningham were joined by Wizards writer and youth basketball coach Marcus Atkinson. They discussed Ron's theory that fans need time off once their favorite gets eliminated to recalibrate their basketball eye and reset expectations. They also…
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#SoWizards Off-Season Thoughts and Musings
With the Washington Wizards not making the playoffs, Kevin and Ron took some time to reflect on weighty #SoWizards topics like whether Bradley Beal should take less than the maximum salary, which of the Wizards' players seem like they could compete effectively at playoffs intensity, and the...
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Looking back at Wizards draft picks and who they should have taken 2012-2021 edition
Osman Baig (@OBtoojiveforyou) and Matt Modderno (@MattModderno) are back for another Bullets Forever 3Pt Play! We all know the expression that hindsight is 20-20 so we thought it would be fun to fire up the time machine and rehash each of the Wizards' drafts over the last decade. We discuss what...
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Washington Wizards 2021-22 Season Post-Mortem with Ben Becker
Kevin Broom and Ben Becker have been having Wizards season post-mortem calls annually for nearly 20 years now. They've even recorded some of them and turned them into podcasts. That's what this is: two long-time friends who know basketball, know the Wizards and know the NBA dissecting…
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Do the Wizards have top 10 young talent? And other questions with Armon Lee
Here's the thing that makes a 96-minute podcast episode even crazier: it started with one of us saying he might need to keep his comments tight because he unexpectedly had to be somewhere. Instead of leaving early, the conversation went nearly two hours, and we overcome technical difficulties to...
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Free Rui! The Campaign Starts Here.
In this episode, Domo from the terrific podcast Wizards of Gallery Place joined Kevin and Ron to help Ron kickstart the #FreeRui propaganda campaign. Ron and Domo make a compelling case, but can they persuade Kevin to give up his Hachimura "hate?" Also in this episode, the guys talked about Kyle...
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A Deep Dive on Coaching and Wes Unseld Jr. with Troy Haliburton
#SoWizards hosts Kevin Broom and Ron Oakes-Cunningham have been nibbling at the edges of whether Wes Unseld Jr. is doing a good job as Wizards head coach, and in this episode they were joined by the great Troy Haliburton to take a big ol' bite of the question. The conversation was an unflinching...
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Talking Unseld, Beal and the Wizards future with Mark Schindler from Basketball News
Is it bad form to say your own podcast has a great episode? If so, I'm the Jamaal Wilkes of podcasting. Here's a YouTube link to his shot (and some other "bad form" shooters) for the youngs in the audience. In this episode, Mark Schindler, a contributor at Basketball News, joined Ron and Kevin to...
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The Wizards at the All-Star break, and what to expect over the last 24 games
With no one from the franchise participating in an official capacity, All-Star weekend was quiet for the Washington Wizards. Kevin and Ron took the time to take stock of the team and what they hope and expect to see from the Wizards over the final 24 games of the season. This episode includes a...
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BulletsForever 3PT Play: Tanking?! We're talking about tanking!
In the latest installment of the BulletsForever 3PT Play, Matt Modderno and Osman Baig joined Kevin to talk about tanking -- whether the Wizards should do it, and how to do it right if they do. We also discussed the team's trade deadline moves and what they could mean for the Wizards over the…
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BulletsForever 3PT Play: The Bealemma
In this episode, Osman Baig joined Kevin Broom and Ron Oakes-Cunningham to talk over the most important figure in the Washington Wizards organization: Bradley Beal. We discussed how the team's handling of Beal is symptomatic of the front office's long-running dysfunction. We assess where Beal…
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Is Wes Unseld Jr. Doing a Good Job Coaching the Washington Wizards?
Recorded before the debaculous 29-point loss to Jayson Tatum and the Boston Celtics, Kevin Broom and Ron Oakes-Cunningham batted around the issue of whether Wes Unseld Jr. and his staff are doing a good job. It’s been taken as a given by many Wizards fans and analysts that Unseld is good and a...
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Bradley Beal: Will he stay or will he go? And All-Star stuff.
The plan for this episode was straightforward: Ron and Kevin would spend a few minutes discussing the recent performance of the Washington Wizards and then move into picking All-Star rosters. What happened: the conversation evolved into a dissection of whether Bradley Beal will stay, when (and…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
I considered making a podcast the Washington Wizards franchise deserved, but that would be #SoWizards.
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Kevin Broom
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