One Shining Podcast with Tate Frazier

Yes Tate I know what you mean.

Sorry Tate. Good job dealing with these two and they’re off the cuff baloney. Your boy voted Ben Simmons all NBA at least twice Lombardi has the 30/10 hindsight. Maxey iverson comparison is the dumbest thing I’ve ever listened too

I’ll start by saying I like this podcast. I’ve listened to this and Tate’s previous podcast since 2020. I’d call myself a fan of a team rather than the sport, so I appreciate the 10,000 foot view of what else is going on, along with Tate’s podcast demeanor. Frankly, there’s never been a great depth of knowledge about west coast basketball on any iteration of a national college basketball podcast. That’s fine: it would be unreasonable to expect them to know every detail about every team. I do expect them to not be factually wrong on their platform, like calling a lead guard with a 2:1 assist-to-turnover ratio a “turnover machine“, or saying that a 21-year-old is “in defiance of God still playing college basketball,” or claiming that continuity will be a plus on a team with 9 new players. I wouldn’t care if—in their analysis—they disagreed with my assessment of players, but true inaccuracies like these make me question how much they actually know about other teams. There are many great media personalities with deep knowledge about west coast basketball. I hope in the future Tate will invite one of them on, rather than have national figures give their 30-second espn.com read-off on teams in the sport they cover.

Tate’s compulsion to mention UNC (even when it’s apropos of nothing) is like a tic. He’ll literally explode if he has to go more than 10 mins without mentioning North Carolina. We get it Tate, you went there!