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Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Decade Tournament Part 2 with Ben Taylor

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.53K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Preeminent NBA historian and analyst Ben Taylor of Thinking Basketball joins to continue the Decade Tournament.  A huge debate develops over which LeBron team, 2016 or 2013, was better, and we have to go to a tiebreak. Plus we get TWO rematches from the classic 2016 playoffs.  And can anyone challenge the 2017 Warriors? Ben is fantastic as always. Please subscribe by searching “Dunc’d On” on your favorite podcast player.  And if you like this pod and want additional bonus content, please subscribe to support Nate and Danny at Patreon.com/DuncanLeroux.  Merchandise available at NateDuncanNBA.com, sponsors list also available at NateDuncanNBA.com. With Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA and Danny Leroux @DannyLeroux).

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0:00.0

I we are going to finish up the decade tournament. This has been really fun with Bentele who did part one

0:07.0

But 10 days ago, so make sure you go back it and listen to that

0:10.5

But for those who it's been a while since they listened to it

0:13.4

We can kind of catch people up a little bit the format was Ben and I alternated teams

0:19.9

until we got 16 of the best teams of the decade from the 09 10 season to the 18 19 season and

0:27.9

To go through those Ben's head first pick he picked the 2017 Warriors as the number one seed they defeated the

0:35.7

Number 16 seed the 2010 Lakers 4-1 in the first round

0:41.7

Also in the first round we

0:44.1

Relitigated somewhat unintentionally, but it just turned out this way

0:47.5

I had picked as the eighth seed the 2019 Raptors Ben picked as the ninth seed the 2019 box

0:53.6

Raptors had home court advantage they took it 4-3 really struggled on who should win that series then the

1:00.4

Number five seed 2016 Cavs

1:03.7

Defeated the number 12 seed that was Ben's pick versus my pick his pick the 2016 Cavs went on to win that 4-1

1:11.6

We felt like just the modern spacing of that Cavs team LeBron playing it maybe as high as several level

1:18.0

It would be too difficult to deal with there and then in another somewhat sentimental matchup the 2013 heats

1:24.7

defeating the 2012 bulls important to remember here are caveat that at least going into this tournament

1:31.2

These teams are healthy and as long as you had a guy you played either the entire playoffs or at least

1:37.4

Half the regular season enough to get a sample size of what they looked like with that player

1:41.1

So Derek Rose was healthy on those 2012 bulls

1:44.0

But we felt they couldn't match up with that great spacing that that team had with Bosch at center

1:50.3

So that's where we are now Ben any reactions for you

1:56.4

Going through the first part of this as you think back on it before we finished up with the second half of the first round

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