15 in 60 Mailbag (West 12.23.23)

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

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🗓️ 24 December 2023

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Our bi-weekly look at the Western Conference with great questions from listeners: UTA: Did they blow up the Mitchell/Gobert team too early? What are the trade possibilities? SAS: Should the Spurs be tanking hard? Would Trae Young be a fit? SAC: Can they afford Malik Monk? Should they make a lower-level trade for a forward? POR: Anfernee Simons, point guard? PHX: What do they need to add in a trade? What’s the concern level right now? OKC: Will Sam Presti approach adding to this young core differently than the last one? NOP: Should they look to trade either of their All-Stars? And why the Pels have a high floor MIN: Yes or no only: Would we have done the Gobert trade knowing what we do now? MEM: Who do they move to elevate Vince Williams? Should they look to improve this year’s team or is it too late? LAL: Is Cam Reddish playing well enough to start for a great team? Who are the realistic trade targets? LAC: Is Ivica Zubac good enough on D to help a deep playoff run? HOU: When is the Jedi 3-point defense real? How valuable is Ime Udoka vs Stephen Silas? GSW: Who should the main rotation players be when healthy? DEN: Discussing Reggie Jackson’s 6th man candidacy and Peyton Watson’s role in the playoff rotation. DAL: How are they running more this year?

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0:00.0	All right, time for a holiday mail bag edition of our 1560 on the Western Conference.
0:07.6	We will begin at the bottom of the alphabet, Danny, that that's easy enough, and that leaves us with not quite the bottom of the
0:14.4	conference or are they the Utah jazz who's worse right now Portland or
0:18.2	Utah in terms of player in terms of, well and also the spurs are at the bottom
0:25.8	to come, but in terms of record it's Portland in terms of play. It depends on the day.
0:30.6	The Utah Jazz 11 and 18 on the year though four and three since the last
0:34.8	1560 and they've looked to me significantly more competent once they've gotten
0:38.4	Lowry Markinin and back in the fold they have a negative 7.6 cleaning the glass net rating that is 20 the BP's projections have the jazz finishing with 30 wins which would be 13th in the west and I'll do one of these pretty quickly from Jacob Moskowitz
0:58.4	basically asking why is it Walker Kessler the de facto 30 minute per game starting center.
1:03.2	And I think it's because the jazz organizationally are just being judicious with him coming
1:07.5	back from this injury.
1:08.5	If you look at what Kesseler's role was at the beginning of the year, he wasn't always playing
1:12.2	30 minutes game, but he was starting every beginning of the year. He wasn't always playing 30 minutes game but he was
1:13.2	starting every game and usually playing in the mid to high 20s if the game was competitive. So I think this is more just being a little bit cautious,
1:21.2	seeing how he feels
1:22.8	rather than some sort of indictment or anything like that
1:25.8	of what Walker Kesselor is or has been.
1:28.1	In their glorious victory to keep the Pistons losing streak
1:32.3	alive, Kesselor came in and changed the game. to keep the Pistons losing streak alive.
1:33.3	Kessler came in and changed the game.
1:35.0	The Pistons were killing at the rim early.
1:38.4	And then when Kessler came in, they were able to choke that off
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