15 in 60 (Western Conference 2.23.26)

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Nate Duncan

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🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 124 minutes

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A very full 15 in 60 of well over 2 hours looks at the 15 teams in the Western Conference: HOU: Breaking down their late-game offense in a rough blown lead against New York DEN & GSW: The Warriors pull off a troubling upset over the Nuggets 10:20 OKC: Has Cason Wallace shown more on-ball juice with their injuries? 28:17 PHX: Why is their defense so much better? 35:21 POR: Shaedon Sharpe’s development in his 4th year 45:29 UTA & MEM: The Jazz out-tank the Grizz while avoiding a fine. 53:05 MIN: How are and should they be using Ayo Dosunmu? 1:03:32 NOP: Is Trey Murphy III a threat as a shot-creator? 1:08:25 LAC: The early returns on Bennedict Mathurin and the chances of the Clippers re-signing him this offseason 1:19:26 LAL: Luka Doncic’s odd quarter splits 1:27:50 SAS: What do we think of their new starting lineup? 1:39:09 SAC: Nique Clifford’s numbers haven’t been good. Is there a silver lining? 1:46:57 DAL: How can Naji Marshall’s unique skills fit in on a better team? 1:55:00

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0:00.0	Welcome on, everyone, to a 15 and 60 on the Western Conference.
0:05.0	The All-Star break is over.
0:06.7	We're starting to get a look at some of these new players on new teams.
0:09.8	That'll be a theme of today's show.
0:12.5	And, of course, a lot of these teams back in action as the stretch drive has begun.
0:18.0	So we're going to go through each of the 15 teams in the Western Conference,
0:21.9	God willing, assuming my body holds up to that and talk at least some about where they
0:29.5	at right now and do some analysis, whether it's a game, whether it's a breakdown of certain
0:35.2	players, whatever we want to look at, offense, defense of that team,
0:39.8	whatever basically peaked our interest over the last couple of weeks.
0:44.5	So let's begin, Danny, with the Houston Rockets.
0:46.8	The Rockets are now 34 and 21.
0:49.9	They're 12 and 8 in their last 20 games.
0:52.7	Their plus 5.9, Queen the glass net rating is fifth in the NBA.
0:56.5	Their eighth on offense, fifth on defense, and ESPN's BPI projects the Rockets to finish with 51 wins, which would be the three seed in the West.
1:05.6	So against the New York Knicks, the Houston Rockets led it 9375 early in the fourth quarter. That's usually
1:13.8	when Kevin Durant sits on the bench. And you felt like they were pretty well in control.
1:19.4	They'd been controlling the Knicks offense and getting enough on their own offensive end as
1:25.9	well. And then everything fell completely apart for them.
1:29.5	They were only able to score 14 points thereafter.
1:32.9	Some of that coming at the end when the Knicks were in control.
1:36.5	And Imi Yudoka had some pointed comments after the game,
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