Refreshing to have one ESPN production without someone yelling at the camera.

I freakin love the Hoop Collective. I look forward to every episode. They each have such different personalities, and I’ve noticed they’ve started being kinder to each other. I mean, except for brotherly word noogies. It’s strange, their newfound charity, but it is refreshing to hear them respect one another. I mean, we now have TW@$$T’s; who woulda thunk it? I love it.

But the constant interrupting gets annoying and cuts off what would be some good points. Just be aware and dial it back a bit please?

Brian, to go with your “Satan’s Jail” you mentioned on the Tony Kornheiser show, might I suggest “The Devil’s Armpit” because it something you definitely don’t want to go near.

Most informative NBA podcast. Not snarky or sarcastic like the other popular NBA pods. Really enjoy these guys for keeping it about the NBA and not spiraling into stuff nobody cares about. Keep up the great work!!

Gang, I have been listening to this podcast since the first few episodes. Not sure I can keep listening because, while the banter has always been a feature, MacMahon has become much too self-absorbed. He spends all his time now trolling others or extolling himself. He, and by extension this show, is getting boring.

I listen to 2 pods with Brian & Iman and they have a great rapport and add a bit of flavor to straightforward information. Perhaps having a player always spices things up a bit!

Have loved Windy and Shumpert together. The best episodes have been just the two of them. Big Windy fan and Shumpert is a natural at this.

Love the show listen daily. Unfortunately had to skip the Game 5 instant reaction when you and Shumpert brought on the constant yelling personality please don’t sink to his hot take level I really value you and the hoop collective insight.

They should resurrect the name PTI for this show because all these 3 do these days is try to cut off whoever is talking. It’s to the point where any coherent thought is just lost in the squabble. I stopped the most recent ep 10 min in because I was over it.

Bontemps ruins every single pod. Please send him packing

Thanks for all the hours you put into the pod. Thank you Windy for being so consistent with releases and thanks Tim and Tim. The three of you have different strengths and styles and it makes for a fun and insightful pod. Producer Jackson thanks for putting it all together. Keep up the great work - appreciate you!

I love listening to NBA discussions and Windhorst is interesting to listen to, but man everyone else on his pod just angry ALL the time. They can be talking about something exciting and cool but they somehow still manage to sound like miserable people. Do all these guys hate basketball? Why are they on this pod? Truly insufferable, especially Tim. Now that Zach has his pod back I’m not putting myself through this agony anymore. Windy, please get new friends.

Do yk what else is massive…

For guys who are so clearly plugged into the NBA they don’t really ever have their own opinions…idk if it’s the ESPN of it all but if you’ve seen Mondays sportscenter you’ve seen the show for the week. It used to be better

Everything about Bontemps is annoying.

Hard to listen to this particular broadcast. Commentators are stepping on each other’s comments - interrupting. One guy seems to think he’s got the best thought because he keeps interrupting everybody. Are all you guys from New York? Lol.

The Hoop Collective Community deserves a better guests than Iman Shumpert after game 1 of the finals. As Bontemps would say: “What are we doing here?!” Bring on a Hoop Collective regular guest (e.g., Ramona), not someone who sounded like he was analyzing an NBA game for the first time. Love the show overall, you just need better guests for the Finals’ postmortems!

I had previously given 5 stars but the interrupting each other and nonsense has really ramped up lately. And now that Zach Lowe has a new podcast, this one is just not as high up the list.

Not much chemistry in this trio. Bontemps is VERY hard to listen to.

Definitely the best podcast to catch up with the nba

Been following this pod for years and I’m reaching the point where I can’t listen anymore because of Bontemps and his awful attitude. Why does he always need to be right and have the last word? Why can’t he let someone else have an opinion without cutting them off? It’s infuriating. I listen to this pod to relax but he makes my blood boil. Whenever he’s not on an episode it’s 1000x better. PLEASE get Bobby Marks or something! The chemistry this pod used to have is COMPLETELY GONE

The worst. This man is the worst. Making fun of hockey? Get a life. He is the worst.

One of the tims is beyond annoying calling hockey fans not a sport and just whines is he does t get credit if Brian doesn’t agree with him or has a negative attitude towards a ton of topics… I like Brian but both tims or atleast one of the. Needs to go!

How can you be in media and be so awkward.

I like Windy, but the chemistry on the show is toxic and makes for an uncomfortable listen

Tim MacMahon is making this show impossible to enjoy. He’s mean, not very funny, and constantly hogging the mic with obnoxious petty gossip and obvious basketball points. He would be better off as a gossip columnist.

I don’t review things hardly ever but I expected way more from this podcast. I feel like the goal of these guys on the show is to be as passive aggressive as possible and plain aggressive sometimes when they scream at each other. They need guys that actually mesh well together.

The 3 amigos!

“Howdy, partners. And by the talent, you mean my wife, the IT department, had to make a sprint home to take care of some things with her, to see her, to service her, you might say. And all's good.” -Tim MacMahon

I’m close to being finished with this pod due to McMahon’s constant and insufferable insults which he seems to think are clever and amusing but are simply juvenile and detract from the otherwise quality discussion of basketball by Windhorst and Bontemps. Just stick to basketball.

Why listen to this when the Zach Lowe pod exists

Im a kid so I like nba and I can’t listen to cussing

I've enjoyed the different iterations of this podcast for many years, but I think it's time limit this in my rotation. I really miss the rotating guests. I enjoy Windy's perspective and his connections with the basketball world. Why do we have to tolerate CONSTANT bickering of the two Tims?!?! As Bob Newhart made famous, "Just stop it!" Bite your tongue and let Brian speak! MacMahon is amusing when not with Bontemps.

I’m pro Windy but wow does MacMahon have a big head for someone who covers a children’s game. Not to mention the golden ticket he was handed can’t even crack the NYT Best Sellers and is currently sitting at 31 reviews on Amazon. And his podcast epically failed within three months. The writing’s on the wall.

Thank you Tim B. for pointing out what I am now TIRED of. It is ridiculous what Draymond is doing and getting away with. I am a teacher and it reminds of my students playing victim when they blatantly do something undesirable. Tired of Draymond , he is gunna hurt someone again

Emergency pod? How about you give the Knicks their due and admit how wrong you were

I just wanna say two things. One being that ESPN is turning into the most hollow network there is out there, as the Ringer gets fatter and fatter. And two, is that I wish McMahon would shut his pie hole a little more often so that the others can speak. He thinks he’s funny, but he really is not.

I like windy. But man. Between bontempts SCREAMING and mcmahon’s brutal jokes, I’d describe thjs pod as insufferable. I won’t listen now that Zach Lowe is back. McMahon and Bontempts just seem like people I don’t want any part of.. so unsubscribe for me!

They must understand they are creating a mess. The two from the remote constantly overlapping each other, and it’s so miserable. They’re doing this a lot and they has to learn when to shut up for other speaker. That’s basic. If they can’t just come to the studio in person.!

Get Bontemps decent equipment! Cannot listen to in the car due to volume level differences. Sounds like he’s screaming into a tin can

The Zach Lowe pod is back. There’s no reason to listen to Bontemps whine anymore.

This may not be a show problem but I need the previous episodes? Like from before 2023? Where are they why is it capped at 200?

Since Zach Lowe got taken off the air, this has become my favorite basketball podcast, but there are two things to improve: there’s too much interrupting of each other, and tell the editor that commercials should come in between topics, not sentences.

You promised some content about the Warriors you started, and then got distracted/ interrupted, and never got back to the subject. Come on! that’s your job Wendy or at least Bontemp should’ve brought you back to the topic except that he was one of the distractions.

Really bad mix of personalities. There’s one guy, Bontemps?, who is confrontational and defensive. It’s bizarre; he brings everything down. I enjoy Windhorst so I thought I’d give the podcast a try but he desperately needs to replace one of the guys.

Been listening for awhile and Windy these dudes don’t sound like they like basketball. All these digs and slights on players. Go cover something else cause it’s clear you are hate watching these games. Bontemps, how many years did Nico said they had? You literally repeated 12 times in a 20 mins span. New material for the love of ducking god

This show used to be a good listen but now it’s devolved into a hypercritical show where they constantly talk about only 3 realistic teams to win a title and everyone else stinks. These guys obviously hate their jobs and covering the league. They trash a lot of players and really only get excited when they talk about restaurants and their hotel accommodations.

I must say I was not pleased with Kyrie’s behavior in Brooklyn, but you are correct when you observe how much he has grown in Dallas-very impressive. The way he honors Luka in a very delicate situation, excellent. I agree with the observations that the Mav’s leadership should try to keep him long term. That would be a smart move. Yes it may even attract other players who have tremendous respect for him.

The last thing anyone wants to hear is more lies from Bontemps. Ultimate hater of the game and he sucked in high school.