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Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Live Mailbag: Thunder and Spurs Cores, G-League Ignite a Success, DeMar Back to the Raps, and Much More

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.62.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Taking live questions from listeners: Was the G-League Ignite a success, and how will it change college basketball? Who on the Thunder will be part of their future? What should the Raptors do in free agency, and would a DeMar return make sense? Should the Magic have blown up their team, and do we discount the pain of doing that too much? Plus many more questions. Also, our next NBA League Pass game is Monday, April 5 at 7:00 PM ET. Join us live for Utah at Dallas and send your questions for us to answer live on air using #NBACast on Twitter! Dunc’d On is exclusively ad-free four days a 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

Okay, so we can get to we can get to questions. We'll start with this one from Justin

0:04.7

He's been waiting for a while. Hey guys. Can you hear me? Okay? Yes. All right

0:09.0

So you guys did a deep dive on Derek White during the last 15 and 60 which spurs fans definitely appreciate because if you can reach

0:14.9

The levels of performance he had in the bubble it raises our ceiling the spurs

0:18.3

But my question is about Dejonte Murray and Yaga Pertle pop of it just clearly falling in love with this tandem

0:23.5

And it's been backed up by their defensive splits together

0:25.7

They're both clearly on positive contracts right now. How do you feel about investing in Murray and Pertle moving forward as a focal point on the next great spurs team?

0:34.7

So it's interesting I I have really liked those two together and this this came up of course on them on the last 15 and 60

0:42.6

Because you get a couple of different pieces of a defensive foundation there you get

0:48.4

Pertle's been a great room protector

0:49.7

I mean I had him third in defensive player the year the last time he's not getting that buzz

0:53.5

But that's not how I do my rankings and Murray has been an absolute, you know turn over forcing machine defensive playmaking is a

0:59.8

Shorthand that we've used for that my concern about that pairing if the goal is the next great spurs team as you said Justin

1:06.7

The challenge is how are you gonna generate that offense? And I really like Murray

1:11.2

But I don't I don't have trust yet that he is that player now the good news is that Murray

1:16.1

You know his jump shot has been a little hitter miss from three

1:18.8

But I think that you could theoretically get somebody else to fill that role. Maybe that's Derek White

1:24.0

Maybe it's somebody that they'll still need to find so you with those two players is the foundation and also

1:30.0

This person a lot of other good defenders. I think you have that part pretty squared away

1:33.3

Then you devote a lot of the resources to

1:37.1

Finding that primary ballhandware and if if Dejante gets to that point if you know in 26

1:42.2

He's a much better creator awesome

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