FULL 15 in 60 (Western Conference 3.16.26)

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Nate Duncan

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🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Our bi-weekly look at the 15 teams in the Western Conference: DEN and LAL: A fascinating end-game as Denver is hoisted by their own fouling petard GSW: The totally injured Warriors limp towards the 10 seed — 25:20 MIN: They’ve really struggled in the possession game — 32:27 OKC: Why was Shai able to score 20 so many times when others failed? — 39:01 SAC: Dylan Cardwell has intrigued as a rim protector — 46:21 PHX: Jalen Green is being asked to do too much again — 57:21 SAS: How do the Spurs have the #4 offense? — 1:04:00 UTA: Which of the 4 youngs who are still playing could contribute next year? — 1:12:10 LAC: Yanic Konan Niederhauser was solid before his unfortunate injury — 1:18:43 MEM: Ty Jerome has duplicated his season a year ago so far — 1:25:35 HOU: They’ve struggled without Steven Adams — 1:31:47 POR: How has Scoot looked in his first month back? — 1:40:02 DAL: Can Ryan Nembhard be a major part of the Mavs’ plans? — 1:47:57 NOP: Dejounte Murray is showing some very encouraging signs — 1:54:26

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0:00.0	Welcome on to Dunkton, Dunkdown Prime, Dunkdown on YouTube.
0:05.0	Please give us a like and subscribe or consider subscribing to Dunkin Prime where you can get six episodes per week.
0:11.7	As we move forward here, we're going to do top 10 players in the NBA this week.
0:15.8	So definitely stay tuned for that one.
0:18.4	We've been going through our position rankings on Dunkdown as well, which is always a fascinating exercise. We've done shooting guards through power forward so far. So a couple positions remaining. Let's talk about the Western Conference, though, Danny. And for those of y'all who are joining us for the first time, what we're going to do is spend eight to ten minutes on each team in the West. We each pick something
0:37.5	that was interesting. Maybe it was a game. Maybe it's a certain players performs. Maybe it's an
0:41.4	offense, a defense, and we're going to break down something for all of these teams in the West.
0:47.7	Let's start, though, with a game that took place on Saturday night, classic game. L.A. Lakers
0:53.8	127, Denver 125 125 Austin Reeves ridiculous
0:58.6	missed free throw oh we'll get to that and tying bucket when Denver was up three late
1:05.6	and then Luca Donchich with the game winner as time nearly had expired along the left baseline.
1:12.5	We'll break all that down for you.
1:14.0	First, though, let's hit some stats for these teams, Danny.
1:16.7	We can begin with the victorious Lakers.
1:19.0	They are 42 and 25 on the season, a strong 8 and 3 in their last 11 games.
1:25.3	Their plus 1.6, Queen the Glassnet rating is 13th in the NBA, seventh on offense, 20th on defense, and ESPN's BPI, projects them to be the four seed in the West, 50 and 32, as their projected final season record. Yeah, and after that 8-and, admittedly, with some injuries, and the fact that, of course, they have had a negative net rating for most of the season.
1:46.4	We felt like the Lakers were, ah, they're just destined to be the sixth seed.
1:50.0	They're not a threat to get into things.
1:52.0	But much like last season, they are right there now.
1:55.0	They control their own destiny.
1:56.3	They're playing pretty well.
1:57.6	They got this nice win over the Denver Nuggets, who are pretty close to full
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