Houston Rockets 2021-22 Season Outlook with Kelly Iko; Philadelphia 76ers 2021-22 Season Outlook with Derek Bodner

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Nate Duncan

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🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Kelly Iko of The Athletic joins to discuss the Houston Rockets season. What to expect from Jalen Green, and what to make of his pairing with Kevin Porter, Jr? How will the rest of their rookies fare this year? What will it look like with so many potential rotation players and scorers? Is the offense or defense more likely to improve? And of course our predictions for the season. Derek Bodner on the Sixers. I guess we had to talk about Ben Simmons. But we also look at what this team would be without him, the prospects for Tyrese Maxey, starting point guard, and of course our predictions for the season. If you like Dunc’d On, you or someone in your life might like my wife Aislinn’s analytical approach to yoga. Check out her streaming service, Yoga With Aislinn, free for a week. Subscribe to our new weekly mailing list for free bonus content and all the info you need to keep up with the latest from Nate and Danny! Get this show ad-free, plus another four episodes per 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	All right welcome on to the man covering the Houston rockets. He's been there for a while now the athletics beat man
0:07.7	And came up with maybe the best column name that anyone has the ecosystem. What's going on Kelly?
0:14.8	How are you doing?
0:15.8	How are you doing man?
0:16.6	Well, I wanted to actually do this as one of the last ones because they have so many rookies
0:26.2	I wanted to get a look at guys in preseason and the biggest takeaway I mean we knew this during the offseason
0:33.8	Obviously when it happened but just what a seminal moment for the franchise is Feast or famine when they got that number two
0:41.3	Overall pick they statistically were more likely to lose that pick to the thunder as number five then keep it instead
0:48.2	It bumps up to number two. They got one of the two guys to meet in this draft
0:52.5	I had those two guys above mobily and some people had those all on the same tier
0:57.6	But Jalen Green looks like he could be the transformative star for this franchise to make this rebuild not nearly as painful as it might have looked like it was going to be
1:06.9	About maybe eight months ago.
1:09.0	Yeah, and you know going to that whole process you know the team tried to have to evaluate you know because Jalen Green was the prospect as well
1:16.8	Evamobile the possibility of even going number one you know potentially taking cave. There were a lot of moving parts in that whole process because they weren't sure
1:24.8	You know Detroit kind of kept their cards close to the chest for a number of weeks
1:28.6	They left to do the due diligence and while Jalen Green was a superstar talent
1:33.9	They also looked at cadets of superstar talent also so I have a mobile superstar talent
1:37.6	So it just came down to I think for them explosiveness the potential to be a superstar in this league
1:43.4	The potential to be a high level score and the possibility of pairing Jalen Green with I can't afford a junior that's where ultimately lead
1:50.7	You know he's taking green and he blew them away with the work
1:53.6	I think that the the practice is the individual drills and stuff like that and just speaking with the team and the coaching staff is kind of a person
2:01.2	You know make the decision.
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