Have you ever been in a room with James and Mark while they talk about basketball and other stuff and thought "wow, I want to hear more of this"? No? Well this is your chance.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
(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 […]
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 […]
We went kind of long. Sorry / you’re welcome. This time out, James and Mark are joined by James’ national team teammate, not to mention World Champion, 4x European Champion, Paralympic Bronze Medalist and former champion of both the Spanish and Italian leagues: Gaz Choudhry. Gaz joins the podcast for a detailed look into his […]
You never heard the saying “Don’t rob a bank across the street from a diner with the best donuts in three counties?” This episode marks our first true attempt at diversifying what we talk about (in terms of actual chosen topics, not the stuff we usually get sidetracked with). This is the first in a […]
Left high and dry by multiple guests, James and Mark are freed from the restrictions of being courteous hosts and ready to churn out enough inconclusive ramblings to see you through until the end of global lockdown. In what turns out to be a very Bulls-heavy episode, the guys discuss the first two episodes of […]
James and Mark got their guest! Run out of budget-friendly Swedish furniture to knock together, Ben Fox admits defeat and jumps on a Zoom call with our two hosts. The guys go over how they’re all keeping safe and sane in the ongoing quarantine, before turning talk to basketball. Ben airs his grievances over his […]
Hung out to dry by the guest that they’d arranged, James and Mark knew they had to get a podcast recorded and released to help get people through these uncertain times. They had to scrap their episode run-down and improvise, facing down the task of filling an hour with no real preparation. How did they […]
Yeah, we dunno either. Hope you’re all staying safe during the quarantine, and that these episodes are filling your times but also that you’re having better conversations than this one. Check back this weekend for a special bonus episode – one that was recorded back when there was stuff to talk about but […]
We’re back! We hope you’re all enjoying solitary confinement as much as James and Mark are enjoying having more time and excuses to float their opinions. For the third instalment of our Quarantine Specials series, the guys have some very special company. Our guest is a man who needs no introduction, but we just couldn’t […]
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