Most Surprising and Disappointing Teams and Players; Tatum’s Return is Imminent; News

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Nate Duncan

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🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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It’s time to break down which players and teams have surprised us, and which have disappointed. (42:31) We break down all the candidates and each pick a top three for all of the categories. We turn to news, where it appears Jayson Tatum will be returning in nearly unprecedented fashion. How do we think it will go? Plus, we catch up on the rest of the news around the league from this week. And of course, we can end the podcast in only one place.

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0:00.0	End of the week edition here of Dunkton and Dunkton Prime.
0:05.7	And we wanted to follow up on our words to talk about our most and least surprising players.
0:12.6	Maybe that's not the way to talk about it.
0:14.4	Most surprising and most disappointing players and most surprising and most disappointing teams.
0:20.4	So we'll start with that, Danny. I guess the
0:22.9	one thing that I usually like to caveat, I mean, this is, of course, very subjective, but I'll throw in
0:28.4	both a component of disappointing or surprising to me personally, but also maybe disappointing or
0:34.2	surprising to the national media, the fans of a team, and that team's management
0:39.4	as well, even if it's something that I didn't necessarily think it was going to work out
0:43.5	particularly well. So let's get rolling here. I will leave it to you. Let's start with our
0:48.8	most surprising teams. This is a fun year because there are a number of different legitimate
0:56.0	candidates for most surprising team. And I think I might as well just start with my number
1:01.1	one. We can, I mean, we'll talk about a number of different teams. But the Detroit Pistons,
1:06.9	their over under was 46 and a half. And I went under.
1:11.8	They've already hit the over now.
1:14.4	Like, I guess they're technically one win away, but they're going to do it.
1:18.6	Third best net rating in the league.
1:20.6	And they were a big, you know, positive team last year.
1:23.6	They, but like they were a big surprise.
1:25.6	They had a plus 1.6 clean the glass net rating last year. Even after their loss on Thursday to the Spurs, they're still plus 7.9 third best in the entire NBA. And so I thought there was going to be a Plexiglass principle with them. I thought that they, you know, they had this really big year, but that they weren't going to do it. And they've been fabulous.
1:44.7	Yeah, there certainly are up there for me.
1:46.1	I think the candidates are Detroit, Boston, San Antonio, Phoenix, and Charlotte. Is there anyone else that would be in that mix to you? No, that's everyone I had. And Charlotte, 32 and 31. I mean, I was just went on the Buzzbeat podcast today with our guy, Brian
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