Controversial Rookies, Controversial Teams, a Mailbag, and How Teams Make Cuts

Hollinger & Duncan NBA Show - NBA Basketball Podcast

John Hollinger and Nate Duncan

Sports, Basketball

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

John shows he'll give us the closest look behind the curtain of running an NBA franchise that we’ve ever seen. To start John and Nate discuss some of the rookies who will over- and underperform their draft slots and debate three West playoff contenders whose fortunes they disagree on this season. Then a mailbag from listeners, including the definitive answer on the value of midrange shots that will put an end to all discussion of this issue forever, how important ball movement is for an offense, what John thinks of his PER metric almost 20 years later, and whether Knicks fans have anything to look forward to this year. We finish up with discussing how cuts are made in camp. What kind of influence do coaches have, what happens if you have to convince the owner to eat guaranteed money, and whether it’s better to have a solid 15-man roster coming into camp. With hosts @JohnHollinger and @NateDuncanNBA Subscribe now via iTunes, RSS Feed, or search "Hollinger & Duncan" in your favorite podcast player. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:11.7	Maiden Voyage here for the Hollinger and Duncan.
0:15.6	NBA show, I'm Nate Duncan, joined by John Hollinger, fresh off a seven-year stint with the Memphis Grizzlies.
0:23.1	You've probably already listened to our trailer, so we don't need to tell you why you should listen to the show.
0:27.0	We're going to show you right now by having some awesome NBA discussion.
0:31.1	And where John and I wanted to start here is first by him saying hello.
0:35.9	What's up, Nate?
0:37.0	This is very excited.
0:40.6	But, and then secondly, he's been all over the world scouting for the last seven years.
0:48.4	We've seen some of these rookies now in preseason.
0:51.1	And so we want to talk about just some thoughts on some of the rookies
0:54.8	that John has a specific opinion about. And I've got some as well to chime in, maybe see
1:01.4	where our opinions differ from some of the consensus that's out there. So who's really stuck out
1:06.9	to you? Who do you want to talk about first? The guy who really sticks out to me, I mean,
1:11.2	I'm going to stay away from the Captain Obvious category, so I'm not going to talk about
1:14.7	Zion Williamson right now. But I will talk about a New Orleans Pelican, and that's Nikiel
1:19.0	Alexander Walker, because I never understood why he slipped as far as he did in the draft
1:25.4	when there were so many question marks about this class.
1:29.4	And he didn't have that sexy ceiling of some of these other guys.
1:33.7	He doesn't have freakish athletic pop.
1:36.5	He doesn't make plays above the rim.
1:38.6	He doesn't have super duper explosive burst off the dribble.
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