15 in 60 (Western Conference 3.29.21)

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Nate Duncan

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🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

A look at each team in the West in alphabetical order, including Jalen Brunson’s season (0:00), Aaron Gordon’s Nuggets debut (8:07), Golden State’s weird frontcourt (17:20), John Wall’s toil this year (26:12), how Rondo will fit on the Clippers (34:21), the Drummond signing in LA (42:27), Ja Morant’s development and Justise Winslow’s play so far (49:42), Karl-Anthony Towns in Chris Finch’s system (58:05), Zion’s continued development and Kira Lewis getting more time (1:03:51), a debate on Al Horford being shut down in OKC (1:10:30), Chris Paul’s brilliant passing (1:18:28), Norm Powell’s debut in Portland (1:23:47), Sacramento’s crazy win over Cleveland (1:30:38), Derrick White plus the Spurs’ great defensive combos (1:38:17), and the Jazz getting back on track (1:45:03). Also, our next NBA League Pass game is Monday, March 29 at 7:30 PM ET. Join us live for Miami at New York and send your questions for us to answer live on air using #NBACast on Twitter! Dunc’d On is exclusively ad-free four days a week, join us here! Get new bonus content as well like private Discord access, regular chats, our cap projections, subscriber mailbags, and more. Please read this letter about what you’ll get and why we are doing this, plus this FAQ for your more specific questions. With Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA) and Danny Leroux (@DannyLeroux).

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0:00.0	The trade deadline is now in the rearview mirror and it's time to start taking a look at how all these pieces are going to fit.
0:06.8	See how the stretch run is going to watch some more NBA basketball as well.
0:11.7	See how it's all fitting on the court and so 1560 Western Conference style here.
0:16.5	Let us begin Danny with the Dallas Mavericks.
0:19.6	Yeah, the Mavericks over 500 now 23 and 21 10 and 6 and the last 15 and 60 up to 13th and net rating.
0:27.2	Just up plus 0.6 the big improvement has actually been on defense.
0:32.2	There's still ninth and offense which they were before but they've jumped all the way to 26th but that actually matters.
0:36.8	Yeah, in terms of in terms of where they were before Mavericks currently on 530.
0:40.5	It's Raptor model projected to win 40 games which would be seventh in the Western Conference and both Raptor
0:46.9	you low give them in the 80s as the percentage chance that the Mavericks make the playoffs.
0:51.0	Yeah, and also worth noting too with Dallas a 114.6 defense of rating Orlando at 17th is only 1.6 points per 100 above them.
1:01.0	And Dallas is only is less than two points below Detroit which somehow is 15th.
1:08.2	So it's not like that makes a huge huge difference.
1:12.4	Right and they were like kind of that bottom tier and moved out of that bottom tier so basically the next tier just happened to be at the bottom of it at the moment.
1:19.9	Yeah, and for perspective 27th is Minnesota.
1:23.4	They are 1.5 points per 100 worse than Dallas so it's really the the tiering that is important there.
1:30.9	So let's get into talking about the Mav's Luca Dantica has been missing time with the sore back of late when Luca has been available.
1:38.7	They've really been on fire here.
1:41.3	What are you so you did a bunch of work in these guys?
1:43.9	What are your thoughts on the Dallas Mavericks right now?
1:46.8	Well, so I'll talk more about Jalen Brunson but just a quick step before that the Mavericks have the number four half-court offense in the NBA.
1:53.5	Not a huge surprise when you think about their personnel and you think about how amazing Luca has been but they are not running nearly enough for me.
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