NBA Awards (3.22.21)

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Nate Duncan

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🗓️ 22 March 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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We slog through a ridiculously crowded MVP field with 6 to 8 legitimate candidates before finally settling on our top-fives. All-NBA is no easier, especially the dreaded 3rd team guards. Plus DPOY, COY, ROY, Sophomore of the Year, Executive of the Year, and NOT Executive of the year. Also, our next NBA League Pass game is Monday, March 22 at 9:00 PM ET. Join us live for Boston at Memphis 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	All right, a brief interlude from all of the trade talk here to get to a podcast that we have put off for far too long and that is our awards.
0:08.6	Can't really say that this is through any specific month where like smack dab in the little month here, but it was time to get to this again.
0:14.6	The all-star break in the short season is kind of messed us up a little bit here.
0:18.0	So let us begin, Danny.
0:19.9	Well, I'll say as a caveat just for those of you who are newer to this, that the way Nate and I do awards in less, in less otherwise specified,
0:27.7	it is the full season to this point.
0:30.3	This is not who played the best since the last time we did awards.
0:33.4	It is not anything of that nature.
0:35.4	Unless we say specifically, it is the blank of the month like, I don't know, a trend or whatever thing like that.
0:40.7	And so it is the season to this point.
0:42.2	It is not a prediction of where things will be at the end of the season.
0:45.2	And we will say for each thing, if it needs to be clarified, what our criteria are.
0:50.6	So as I went through with MVP and the all-nb-a teams, which I'll do the research for in concert, this is just what voters in 1961-62 must have felt like with Bill Russell,
1:03.6	who I think actually won the award that year as the Celtics were in the midst of winning 8 championships in a row,
1:08.9	will average 50 points a game?
1:10.7	Oscar Robertson had the only season I've ever heard of average triple double, not that anyone actually cared about a triple double, I don't think.
1:16.8	Back then, up until 2017, was the only season to do that.
1:20.1	But of course, the thing that was remarkable about that season is they're playing about 120 possessions per game there.
1:26.0	And if you think about when the shot clock came in, it was 54-55.
1:30.2	And you go from that kind of dead ball era all the way up to still probably the highest scoring era that we've seen.
1:37.2	Certainly the fastest pace era that we've seen, although offensive efficiency was much lower at that point than it is.
1:42.6	Now, but that's kind of what we see now where the traditional number is not even just points per game and rebounds and assists.
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