The Deep 3 Podcast - Which NBA Teams Will Win MORE Games This Season? | TD3 Clips

Episode Date: October 1, 2025

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I'm going to name some NBA teams, and I wanted you to tell me if you think they're going to win more or less games than they did last season. Okay, let's do it. Talk to me. So, you know, think about all things. The roster talent, the coaching, the state of the conference, whatever comes in the equation, will this team win more games in the regular season, that is? First off, Los Angeles Lakers winning 50 last year. I think they're going to surprise a lot of people. I think they're going to underestimate Luca Donchison in the MVP year that he potentially might have.

LeBron still got more in him. DeAndre Aidan. It's DeAndre Aiden. but it's not Jackson Hayes So with that being said I think they will win more than 50 games Not is he not Jackson Hayes He is not Alex Len

My God you guys had Alex Lynn last year Correct I'm so sorry And that's why I also agree I think 51 wins is in the car For the Lakers Hell yeah But guess what

That's more than 50 It is so I'm thinking it's a cool 56 win season That's a lot 56 is a lot I think Luke is very good at basketball I understand that you are also what three weeks away or not three weeks but like

LeBron can miss three weeks any time you can say that about anybody LeBron does he miss time you can say it about anybody yeah you literally you said those words about maybe one of the last players I would say is going to miss three weeks when's the last time he missed three weeks I mean the man's 41 has been a minute and when he was 40 he didn't miss three weeks yeah it's been a minute when he was 39 we've seen whole championship windows when he was like like 21 I just like a year and a half go. No, I know. He can't get hurt. He's missing time.

Sure, he can get hurt, but it's not like he's like injury prone. So I think, probably 54, 55, I think it's pretty possible. I agree. Next up, Oklahoma City Thunder winning 68 last season. Yeah, that's coming down. They're winning less. Really? I understand the idea that like,

they're going to be better. And granted, all time, all time defense, all of that. If we're talking about winning more games, put the bet in that they're just going to win the most games of all times. Like 69, 70, 70 games. That's a lot. I mean, Chet missed half the season. Isaiah Hardinstein missed a big

chunk. They had no backup point guard. Now they do. Whenever the Warriors won 73, they won like 60 the year before that. I think it was 65 actually. But while all those things you said is true, Chet assuming he's healthy, they will be a better team. But that doesn't mean that they'll necessarily win more games. Because the Western

Conference also did get a lot better as well. You got a full year of Luka. Yeah, the Clippers got better to a degree. The Denver Nugas got better. Um, The Warriors have Jimmy Buller for a whole season, though they're going to be better as well. All these teams are good last year. The West wasn't soft last year.

But they got better, though, is what I'm saying. Maybe a little bit, but I don't think enough that it would change their outlook. I just think so. I just think 68 is a lot of wins to replicate. Yeah. And so I'm going to go under. They might win 67, though. Yeah, I'm going under.

I think they might win 70. I guess obviously injuries will come into play. But, like, I don't think they're a team that's going to take their foot off the gas and, like, coast in the regular season, the way some veteran teams do. So, I don't know. I kind of felt that we just as dominant. there's no reason to outside of like

it's hard to do that every year which it is but like if I'm actually looking at like reasons to and not just like assuming because people don't do that very often I don't have a reason

to doubt they'll do it again it's hard I mean we're talking about them starting off it's hard to do it once and they did it like I don't know like 17 and oh again

like would that really shock you yeah anytime you can win 17 games in a row it shocks me yeah regardless of who it is yeah I mean again like law of averages

it's not that many teams do that on an average 10 year block so I get it it. But if there was ever going to be a team where I assume they'll dominate again, it would be this one. So you are saying more? Sure, for the sake of this game. Sure. Okay. No, no, not not even for the sake of this game. Well, am I putting money down to wins? How do you feel in your gut, in your loins? Do you feel like the Thunder are winning more? Yeah, I think there'll be a 68 win

team plus again. I have no reason not to. Yeah. I'm not like, fucking putting my reputation on it because anything can happen. But like I have, with how much diversity ever came last year, I have zero reason I doubt they can do it again Okay No I need your rent money I need that The Boston Celtics

Clearly less Hell now The question is Will they win half as many games next year Yeah They should If now Think about their depth

Like Jalen Brown Derek White Anthony Simons Peyton Pritchard If Jalen Brown tweaks an ankle They're gonna go Winless for two weeks

They're dude Their depth is non-existent You clearly don't know what Payne Pritchard is capable of. You clearly don't know what Sam Houser's capable of, man. My bad. We didn't say his name all episode. We should have mentioned him. Come on now.

Respect. Now, this will be a cool 43 win team if they don't tank on purpose. 43's a lot. He almost threw up, man. For 43? If they don't tank. If some injuries happen and they lose on purpose and obviously that changes. But if they're fully healthy for a full year to, you know, like regular health level,

not fully healthy, no one's at. 43 wins. They're definitely going to win less. I don't know about the number. We ain't going to be no damn 60 or 50, man. Yeah. Not touching a 5 on the front of that number? Fuck no.

Are you still to touch a 4? They could touch 4, I think. They can't will day is a question. I wouldn't do it. Right now, I'm thinking like 38 for them. Nah. I guess they could stealthily tank towards the second half of the season.

That wouldn't be shocking. I just like, I don't think that they are going to be a hard team to play because Missoula is like a madman. And they can shoot 100 threes. Yeah. Yeah, so like on a Tuesday night in December, you know, like they're, they're going to knock down like 19 threes and beat somebody. Yeah, there will be games where they literally hit 33s and they're like, wow, they could beat anybody.

Are they still contenders? Then they get their basketball out the next night. Yeah. Yeah. Dude, I just realized, dude, the playmaking gap on the seam is insane. The hole is insane. Who's rebounding? You know what?

Yeah, I also don't know that. The playmaking thing is underrated. If I can beat my man one-on-one every single time, like Peyton-Pretting. Richard can, yeah, I'm scoring 30. I'm curious. Derek White's going to be like full-time point guard. That's going to be really interesting for sure. Jaylon Brown full-time score. I think Jaylon Brown will step into a number one option as a score pretty nicely.

Like, he's equipped to do that. It's not like he's like being force-fed off of Jason Tatum playmaking anyways. He gets a lot of isolation buckets. He gets a cool 27. Yeah, like those two will do well. It's just like the big man rotation is anemic. Yeah. Nicks.

Last year they won't be gunning for 60. They can go for 60. I don't know if they're going to get it, but they can be snout. I don't know if they're going to get it, but they can be sniffing 60 for sure. High 50s, you think? High 50s. But why? Do we just, like, really think that Tibbs held them back in a regular season sense?

I think Mike Brown's going to give them an entirely new, fresh worth of air, and he's going to, like, make this more of an even balanced offense, for sure. Would that lead to more regular season wins to that much of a degree, though? Yes. Yeah, I think so. Yes, it will. Better bodies on this team, too. They are deeper, too, which helps.

There were plenty games last year where they lost because it was like, you know, why are we just making things hard? on ourselves yeah and so now that i think having mike brown in there making the offense much more modern whatever but like that don't that'll help and i think having mckell bridges be be more comfortable not having to play the the celtics the like celtics four times a year yeah we can add four wins to that or three we can actually know because they never beat the celtics in the regular season add four wins to that oh interesting okay that's that's that's decent logic actually yeah true And Mr. Robinson is healthy now.

Yeah. Not missing the full first half of the season. So, okay. I really bother them being more hard of an out in the playoffs. I'm not out on like the regular season jumping there. I just don't know. I have no clue how to decipher how much of a regular season jump it'll be. Yeah.

Yeah. All these other teams are just out of the mix. Oh, the east is worse. Yeah, I don't see them like getting, having much issue with anybody other than like maybe the cast. That's it. Yeah. That's going to be a war in the regular season. Okay.

But there will be two games where we play the Hawks And the score is going to be like 135 to 136 And we probably will lose two of those It's going to split. Yeah Orlando Magic winning 41 last season Man, I pray they win more than they're 41 If they don't win over 41 games

You need to fire everyone in that building No one can come back, not even the mascot. If they win sub 40, Franz Wagner, get ready to speak Charlotte Hornet You're getting tattoos with Lamello. We are blowing the team up if they lose more than 40 games. and trading you away so fast, the leash could not be even shorter.

We're going to swap him for Brennan Miller in an instinct, an instance. Yeah, there's just, there's absolutely no way. The fact that Paolo missed all the time that he did within oblique, Franz missed all that time within oblique. Like, if those two guys are relatively healthy and you had Desmond Bain, if you do not, in this Eastern Conference, if you do not win minimum 46 games, fired. Relegation.

On top of that, too. We're taking back to New Jersey. We're taking back to the city Dude, we're taking back their team from them They don't belong in Orlando no more Pallas's gonna go to Seattle He's gonna go home while Franz is in Charlotte We're changing everything up

No, I'm making this team actually pay You're going to Vancouver buddy Come on now Is that Vancouver nice? I don't know I watched a video about that the other day actually That's why they moved From but yeah

Is it like a good sports city? I don't even know Yeah, they're serious about their hockey I know Toronto is a beautiful city Like top tier I don't know what the other major Canadian cities are like? I have no idea. I could name you more than

two Canadian cities. Basically, Toronto is elite and players still hate playing there? I got three. I got three cities. What's the other one? You got Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal.

Oh, shit, of course, Montreal. Oh, where's name of cities we know? Yeah. You thought we're naming cities we know that are good. Oh, no, no. Oh, we just know they exist.

Canadian cities, yeah. I also know those three. I got three. Yeah, okay. Next up. A guy I used to work with, he's from Halifax. Nice.

Four? No what I'm saying? Nice. Golden State Warriors, last year winning 48. guess what i don't know they went 48 again exactly the same exactly the same remember last year they were a disaster in the first half yeah and then they went 18 and three like that's also a crazy run so like it'll probably balance what if that's sustainable what if that thing is just like real it to be

bother and they can at least in a regular season sense what if that's sustainable to some degree everybody's also a year older though yeah we have no idea you're adding even more age when out horford comes in eventually we'll see if that happens but like we there's so there's so many old questions about this team. I think I feel comfortable saying they're going to win more, but not much more, though. 40 is a lot of wins. It is, but it isn't, though.

Like, we've seen the Warriors. Like, it is for most teams, for the Warriors, and we know they have enough juice around stuff. It's not crazy to think they can get to 50. But I think I agree. I think around 48 is probably what's going to be. Yeah.

Which really means it could be anywhere from 46 to 51. Like, that'll be the general range. I think the sweet numbers for me is like 51, 52. For sure. No, so you say more. Yeah, I'm going to say right. but at 51 might be like the fucking five seed or six seats so like and that checks out for them yeah if the lakers are like five and the clippers are four

like tell me there's six right below those teams yeah yeah 51 yeah they'll be they'll win more Chicago Bulls last year winning 39 this year again 39 locate I mean no they they can win more the east this is a down year the Chicago Bulls are 41 41 every year I forget Kobe White 42 and 40 oh Yeah, you're swinging for the friends is now. I'm sorry.

Don't get the bullshit. That's too excited. My bad. Don't be a little too much for Homer. My bad. I know we moved here and all, but don't get to do it. 43? Now you're expecting a miracle.

Yeah, that's a lot of those. That's a lot of it. That's a lot of it. One out of 41 and 41. More. You know, I'm going to be lofty. I'm going to go 42. Dude, you're fucking insane.

You got to stop glazing so much. Clippers at 50. I think they're going to be right. At 50, probably. They might win more. I think they might win more. They're very good. very well equipped for the regular season.

Yeah, I really like the, and we talked about it earlier, I really like the John Collins edition. And Brooke Lopez is kind of wash, but for 10 minutes a game behind Zubodge, like, that's good. That's valuable. I like those two. The fact that you do have Bradley Bill and like, that is true Bradley Bill's there again. And Bradley Bills good on $5 million a year instead of 50. Facts. So that's, like, that's one of the more underrated talking points in the league this year is that

we're going to talk about him way different now that he's not an albatross of a contract. Yeah. Yeah. Same dude. Just different contract. That's a bargain. Like, that's good. Yeah.

18 points a game on slightly above average true shooting percentage? Five million, you could do a lot worse, man. I can see them winning more. I can see them winning like 53 games or 54 games for sure. Yeah, I'm going to say more for them. Yeah, I think they'll be around the same as the Lakers, both around 55. I think those are two really good regular season teams. Spurs at 34.

It's about time to get more. It should be more. I think, like, everybody's trying to convince themselves that the Spurs can be like some 45 win team. That might be a bit much. let's get to 500 first but you have to see improvement from this team because we're starting to we saw earlier wendy's the fifth best player in the in the world yeah it's about to be that time they got to 34 without having a full season of de r fox he was traded there only played a certain amount of games and got like fully shut down they can definitely hit 40 matches without full season dearon fox

without victor wem and yama exactly too they better win 40 like that'd be insane if they won less yeah i agree they should smash this Assuming no more blood clots Which I don't think that's a recurring thing So I think we can feel fine But he's not injury prone or anything So yeah, more than 40 Yeah

But probably not more than 43 I think there's going to be a very middling team Yeah There's baby steps Their team is still so young But then again, I don't know Fox and Wimby That's gonna be like a lot of regular season

Like floor Yeah Their their bench and their depth Still has to be worked out a lot Like But how many teams have a top five player And don't have like 40 wins

That gets you pretty far in the regular season I think I agree I think 40 wins like is the expectation yeah I don't know if high 40s 50 is where we think it's mid 40s for me personally yeah yeah 45 is like the ceiling I think yeah I agree well I may not say a ceiling because maybe maybe I can't say I can't see 50 bro 50 that means like someone took a massive leap I could see Harper being a day one star and when I say star I mean relatively for a rookie you know like like a Donovan Mitchell rookie season not like a not like Donovan Mitchell's really good as rookie year. You're right. It's a bad example. That's like one of the best rookie seasons. But whatever that means, you know,

like something that's clearly a star for the day one. If he like comes in and is like actually like productive and can play with any line of his shooting, specifically the shooting like isn't as much of an issue when he can shoot like 33% from three point line, I can see that. Well, I hope we're better than that. But yeah,

Donovan Mitchell is a bad example because he was borderline all star. But I mean, whatever it looks like when somebody is clearly on Star trajectory year one, if that is him, which really means for the grand scheme of things like a great, great role player, I could see this team being subtly good. Okay.

But that's also asking a lot from rookies. And I'm certainly not betting the over or anything. Nets at 26. Hell no. They're losing more winning less. I think they might literally win half of this. 13. We're on single digit watch with the Nets this year.

This team might be terrible. Nah, single digits really ever happens. I'm obviously joking with that. But have you seen Michael Porter Jr.? Dribble? It did look bad. You're going to see it a lot this year. I don't have fun.

And I was just that media day. Yeah. Winsle heard Jones. is hounding them. It's not going to go well. Yeah. They're going to probably win like 15 games. Let's do it. Hey, starting today, we are on single-digit watch for the Brooklyn Nets. Oh, my God.

We're certainly on like sub-15 watch. Oh, for sure. I think sub-20s a lock. Easily. Like, I think, like, I know people are like down on the jazz is like they're tanking, tanking for real this year. I'll be shocked if this isn't the worst team in the league. If this isn't like the worst team and if they somehow get over like 17 wins,

that means like some young player one of those five rickies maybe two of them really stand out yeah i i want it to have the tracker on both ends of the can o kc get to 70 and can can they win nine games you know what's funny those can both happen and they can help each other hmm it is listen this is a stacked NBA right now there's a lot of contenders that they all stay healthy that helps the team like this get to nine

nine wins okay oh yeah i'm thinking 13 is probably a realistic number Okay. Hornets at 19. They'll win more. They got to win more. I'm thinking about 27. I would say I agree, but we also said this last year. Yes, but last year we were like, they went 30-something.

And this year, I'm dropping it. Yeah, Grant Williams is healthy. They got, um, use of Nurkits now. Colin Section is there. Conquinnip was there. Those are four like, useful players. Like, we're here. Hornets FC, man.

You remember that battle that they had like. Yeah. And I told you, I'm firmly winning. his FC. I don't remember who I was, man. Yusuf Nurkidge, Grant Williams,

and a rookie, a rookie I like. And I do like Colin Sexton. And I do like Colin Sexton. I'm not. I like Colin Sexton, but I also am not impacting a team's win line

because they added Colin Sexton. Brandon Miller is healthy now. Great. Yeah. They're going to win more than they should win over the 19, bro. They should, but I'm kind of sick of hoping,

so just barely. This is what my line is, I'm not saying that you're going to win 30 games and I refuse to be. be like, this is the year. Hornets can be sneaky in the playing. Absolutely not.

At this rate, I've been burned so many times with the Lomello era Hornets. I'd rather than surprise me and be a good team, and I got to say I was wrong. I'm no longer going to say they're going to be good. I can't deal with that. That's a level of being wrong. That would be insanity. You know what? Single did you watch?

No, man. Oh, man. Fuck. The Phoenix Suns, 36 wins last year. Honestly, sadly, they're going to win less. They might win like 32 games. They're not bad enough to be on single day to watch, obviously. They're going to win more than like 25 games.

Is there 16 and 40 at the deadline? I mean, yo, Devin, I will drive down there and pick you on myself. I do that math wrong. What? Yo. Six to and 40. I mean, if there's 16 and like 25, I'm pacing for 20, for 32 wins,

then better trade Devin Booker. Devin, I will pick you all myself, brother. I mean, you could, well, honestly, no, no, you could be like 16 and 40 by the Allstar break and like the trade deadlines like a week before it. Yeah. How many games are played like 55 games before the All Star break? It's more than half. It's like, yeah, it's like two thirds of the season now. Yeah, I think it's like 58 games or something like that.

It's not 60, but it's a good chunk. It's like at least 50. They could be 16 and 40. Devin, I'll buy you a train ticket, right? Come on now. You can put Devin book on the ground. Yeah, man. Amtrak, something, man.

I give you a nice VIP. seat. The seating isn't that big. But come on, man. We can do better for you. Where are you sending him? Dude, not there. I don't know. I will figure that out later. This is a dire situation. I don't know. He just can't be there. He's got to be away from in and drive. Yeah. Just away from Ed Ispia, please. You're like a parent who's a kid through a party. I don't care where you go, but you can't stay here. Facts. Get your shit and get out, Devin. That's just a plot of cars I got to rewatch the movie man

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