Welcome to the first of our Off-Ball Cuts Series, an admittedly tortured bit of wordplay that is to say that we’ll be analysing player movement, primarily through the medium of interviews with the players themselves, amongst wheelchair basketball clubs prior to the upcoming season. First up, recurring and usually indifferent guest star Ben Fox downs […]

RAW Chats

Bench Units Podcast – Off-Ball Cuts Series Vol. 1: Ben Fox to AMIAB Albacete

Not our usual episode format. This was recorded on Thursday 28th August, around 36 hours after the Milwaukee Bucks players refused to play in their playoff game. At the time of recording, whether the league would carry on its playoff run was still an unknown. Mark and James speak out in support of the players […]

Bench Units Podcast: In Support of the NBA Players’ Strike

So, we’re a little slow on the uptake of this, but we figured we may as well late-release our recorded-last-week episode of predictions for every series of Round 1 of the NBA Playoffs. James and Mark take you through their every semi-relevant thought, with some irrelevant ones thrown in at no extra cost. In the […]

Bench Units Podcast – Lockdown Not-Even-That-Special Anymore’s Vol. 21: Opening Round Predictions

A slight change of pace this week, as we come away from our usual meaningless musings to try and shed some light on a real issue that is happening right now. We are joined by George Bates; one of the players recently affected by the classification conflict, between the IPC and IWBF, that might cost […]

Bench Units Podcast: George Bates on his Future in Wheelchair Basketball

Basketball is so very nearly almost back, which means we are much too excited to have any measured opinions anymore. With the season due to tip off (again) just over 12 hours from release time of this podcast, James and Mark throw out any attempts at logic and reasoning in the name of just pinpointing […]

Bench Units Podcast – Lockdown Specials Vol. 20: Wouldn’t it be cool if…

Living, breathing basketball games are a thing again, and that sounds like the perfect vehicle to set our hosts off on a ramble. Listen in as James and Mark rattle off their lukewarm takes on how teams and players have looked so far, in a search for drastic and undeniable conclusions as to how these […]

Bench Units Podcast – Lockdown Specials Vol. 19: Bol Bol-ing Out & Other Scrimmage Takeaways

Part 2 of the NBA’s 2019-20 season is inching ever closer, with less than two weeks remaining until the first game in the Orlando Campus tips off. With 3 intense months of basketball viewing almost upon us, our hosts thought it was best to prepare for the viewing experience, by trying to identify how basketball […]

Bench Units Podcast – Lockdown Specials Vol. 18: Our NBA Restart X-Factors

There’s still 3 weeks to go until the NBA season restarts in Orlando, and having time to kill and now two actual microphones at their disposal means that James and Mark can and will continue to find kind-of basketball-related topics to talk about. This week, we’re debuting what we’re hoping will become world-famous as an […]

Bench Units Podcast – Lockdown Specials Vol. 17: Our Work-in-Progress NBA Draft Cheat Sheet

We are back! The easy excuse to make would be that James has been moving back from Gran Canaria to Belfast and that that was the reason we hadn’t been able to record. Realistically, it’s been long enough that James would be back in Belfast now even if he’d chosen to get there by hitchhiking […]

Bench Units Podcast – Lockdown Specials Vol. 16: Free-for-a-Reason Agency

It is official! The NBA has announced it’s campus-style return to action will begin on July 31st and will run through until mid-October. 22 teams will enter “The Bubble” of Disney World in Orlando, Florida. At this point, these teams will play: 8 “seeding” games – a shortened version of the regular season to allow […]

Bench Units Podcast – Lockdown Specials Vol. 15: What to Watch for when Basketball Returns

The world still hasn’t started turning again, and it looks like that will be the case until basketball starts again on July 31st. To occupy our minds, we take a step back to one of the biggest “what-if” NBA games in recent memory: Game 6 of the 2016 Western Conference Finals, a.k.a. The Klay Game. […]

Bench Units Podcast – Lockdown Specials Vol. 14: Bench Reacts to “The Klay Game”

Dear Listeners, It is with a heavy heart that we bring you an episode of The Bench Units Podcast that strays from our usual medium of conversation and approach, as we feel compelled to address the grim reality that the world has been forced to face over the last fortnight. While our hosts usually try […]

Bench Units Podcast – Lockdown Specials Vol. 13: Black Lives Matter.

We’re back to add our two cents, one final time, to perhaps the most psychoanalysed athlete of the last 5 weeks and ever. Following the conclusion of The Last Dance, James and Mark break down episodes 9 & 10 and give their final word on the season as a whole. This extends into drawing parallels […]

Bench Units Podcast – Lockdown Specials Vol. 12: The Actual Last Dance

(This is a slightly-too-late release of our analysis of Episodes 7 & 8 of The Last Dance. Episodes 9 & 10 have been released, and if you’ve already seen them then we apologise for not keeping up. Also, they’ve been out on Netflix for like 3 hours and that means you got up at 8am […]

Bench Units Podcast – Lockdown Specials Vol. 11: Trash Talk on The Last Dance and Trash-Talk

We’re back and, in our usual no-holds-barred form, we are ready to meekly tip-toe around some almost-30-year-old controversies. Following the behind-the-scenes viewing of some of Michael Jordan’s less glamorous moments, James and Mark use their recording time to point you in the direction of the coverage of informed people and encourage you to listen to […]

hubhopper

RAW Chats

hubhopper