NBA Podcast: Where is the NBA trending?

Welcome to the series finale of "Pound the Rock," an NBA podcast hosted by Joseph Casciaro and Joe Wolfond.

Find the show on iTunes, Soundcloud, and Spotify.

For the final mega episode of the show, we’re joined by a quintet of returning guests to discuss the various trends shaping the NBA’s present and future:

• William Lou on potential rule changes, the league’s changing media landscape, and the influence of Nick Nurse’s Raptors teams (1:19)
• TrillBroDude on the two sides of the Joel Embiid discourse, the marginalization of "unitaskers," and the future of Slop in a second-apron world (41:09)
• James Herbert on this age of skilled bigs, the new possession game, and defense getting increasingly weird (1:24:44)
• Dan Devine on defense as a weak-link system, positional size and the phasing out of small guards, Julius Randle and the state of the power forward position, and trying to solve the Cavs’ big puzzle (2:06:20)
• Seerat Sohi on the 3-ball as the last great paradigm shift, offensive rebounding, the homogenization of shot profiles, and the importance of stretch 5s (2:44:25)