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Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

ATL | NYK, MIN | DEN and TOR | CLE Game 3s

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.52.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

New York and Atlanta play another one-possession classic. How was Atlanta able to weather the 18-point comeback by the Knicks at the end? Minnesota absolutely derailed Nikola Jokic in a way we’ve almost never seen before. How did the Wolves do it, and what can Denver do to rebound? Scottie Barnes and Collin Murray-Boyles led the Raptors in what may be an exciting harbinger for the Raptors’ future. Also, Taylor Jenkins will be the new Bucks coach.

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0:00.0

All right, welcome on to another great night in the NBA playoffs.

0:04.4

I've now switched our windows.

0:07.2

I'm in the correct window.

0:09.1

Start talking without that.

0:12.6

So, yeah, we got to get right into it here.

0:15.3

Nix versus Hawks, another crazy one possession game.

0:20.6

And we'll talk very much about the end and some of the

0:24.3

key strategies here but as we get into it what stood out to you from the meat of this game.

0:31.1

Well something that I thought was really interesting and for me one of the biggest stats of

0:35.1

the night is that the Hawks have been primarily fueled

0:38.5

in this run by the play of their five best lineups. And we talked about in game two, there was also

0:45.9

you could swap out Dyson Daniels for Jonathan Camingo. That was a huge part of that win.

0:50.6

The Atlanta Hawks won game three at home with those groups being deeply negative.

0:57.7

When the five starters, that group that had a plus 22 net rating this year, they had a negative

1:02.7

22.5 net rating in 16 and a half minutes with that's the starting five of Kongwu, Jalen Johnson,

1:08.8

Cidum McCollum, Nikola, Alexander Walker, Dyson, Daniels. You go, oh, well, you know, the, the hot thing in game two was Jonathan Kaminga in that spot. That negative 27.3 net rating there. Instead, it was the mixed lineups, and it was the bench, including some big performances that we'll talk about, that really fueled it. And so it was an unusual Hawks win in a lot of different

1:27.9

ways. Yeah, for me, a big early takeaway was just the Knicks struggles with some of their

1:33.8

main guys as well. Mikhail Bridges, negative 26 with four turnovers, 0 for three from the field.

1:41.6

And it just, it was pretty clear. I mean mike braum pulled him about two minutes in

1:46.0

the second half and then went back to him at the start of the fourth and that was pretty ugly as well so

1:51.6

he did not close either half barely it played basically as little as they could possibly play him

1:57.7

landry shamet also basically excise from the rotation as well. I don't know that

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