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Hollinger & Duncan NBA Show - NBA Basketball Podcast

NBA Finals Adjustments; Playoff Awards; Brooklyn Offseason; Listener Questions

Hollinger & Duncan NBA Show - NBA Basketball Podcast

John Hollinger and Nate Duncan

Sports, Basketball

4.6853 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

The chess match of the 2021 Finals is underway. What can the Bucks do differently to slow down the Suns’ midrange attack?  We give our playoff awards, including MVP, best game by a player, best overall game, most surprising and disappointing players, and more. A look at an interesting offseason for the Brooklyn Nets. And we take listener questions via Spotify Green Room. Nate’s podcast Dunc’d On has become Dunc’d On Prime, exclusively ad-free four days a week. Become a member! With @JohnHollinger and @NateDuncanNBA. Subscribe now via iTunes, RSS Feed, or search "Hollinger" in your favorite podcast player. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day.

0:10.9

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0:15.6

It's only worth it if you enjoy it.

0:17.5

Stay tuned for the Ultramomomomomit segment coming up later in the episode.

0:20.7

All right, welcome on to an NBA finals edition of Holland Jun, Dundon. If you enjoy it, stay tuned for the Ultramomomond's segment coming up later in the episode.

0:25.1

All right, welcome on to an NBA finals edition of Hollinger and Duncan.

0:30.6

There are times maybe we didn't think we would ever get here over the last couple of years, but we are there now.

0:33.2

And game one is in the book. So as we've been starting here, once John has doneling around, I'm going to ask him how he took away.

0:41.9

Quite all right.

0:43.5

I'll ask you what you took away from game one in the final.

0:46.6

So, you know, we always want to overreact to a game one, I think.

0:51.9

And I'm always reminded of the old saying, play better is always the

0:58.0

best adjustment. And as much discussion as there was about the buck's switching strategy and some

1:06.1

things they could do there, I also think just playing better and the fact that the Suns played really well

1:13.9

was probably the biggest factor. I mean, and the thing that stood out to me, not just the shot

1:20.0

making by Chris Paul, which is not necessarily repeatable. He's a good mid-range shooter, but he's,

1:25.4

you know, nobody's as good as he shot last night.

1:28.8

But I was really taken by Phoenix's tempo and how quickly they were able to get to these switches.

1:35.6

And the play that really stood out to me, because Phoenix can get into this malaise where they're

1:40.9

very sluggish and methodical and predictable.

1:43.8

It's one of Chris Paul's worst weaknesses, right? Yeah. And then they're very sluggish and methodical and predictable. It's one of Chris Paul's

1:44.6

worst weaknesses, right? Yeah. And then they're playing against the shot clock. They got into

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