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Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

15 in 60 (Western Conference 11.28.22 Part 1)

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.62.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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0:00.0

Well, Quon, West 15 and 60 time. Let's see what we get through here. We're going to go net rating

0:05.2

style cleaning the glass net rating through the Western conference at Danny put on your navigation

0:11.7

hat. Where are we starting? We're starting in Phoenix where the Suns are actually number one in

0:16.8

the Western conference in both record and net rating at 13 and six overall five and two since the

0:23.4

last 15 and 60. There are second in the overall NBA plus 6.6 in net rating third and offense, fifth

0:29.5

in defense and the 538 models actually disagree a little bit. They're third in the Western raptor

0:35.6

52 wins and at the same 52 wins in elo 538's model. But that they project to be first in the

0:41.6

West and over 90% chance of making the best of seven Western conference playoffs. And I kind of

0:47.6

ended up going in two directions with Phoenix. And the first of those was kind of how are they

0:53.0

navigating the absence of Cam Johnson and the answer primarily has been playing more of Tory Craig.

0:58.4

And the Suns do not really have a ton of front court depth in part because Jay Crouter is still

1:04.0

not with the team and not traded for somebody else who could be with the team. But what

1:08.5

Tory Craig has done, which is nice for them. I mean, of course he competes defensively. But he

1:13.5

occupies kind of a different space because Craig only 13 usage this year. But he's making his

1:19.0

threes 41% on a reasonable rate, you know, 5.2 for 36 and it's not Cam Johnson level. But he's doing

1:25.6

for a power forward, which is what playing that's that's acceptable. That's maybe a

1:31.2

it's about average the five or six for 36 minutes. That's about it for a power forward in today's

1:37.5

NBA and hitting 41% like that's I don't expect that to continue. But we're talking about what they've

1:42.4

done so far and it's been good. It has been and what's even more impressive from Phoenix's perspective

1:48.1

as they've been kind of going through this is in quote unquote normal circumstances, he would say,

1:52.4

oh, yeah, I mean, Phoenix, if they need to stop up usage the difference between Tory Craig's offensive

1:57.6

role in Cam Johnson, they have lots of ways they can do that. But remember that this absence is

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