OKC Levels It Up; Lakers Put Portland on the Ropes; Pacers Postmortem; Brett Brown fired

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

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🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

OKC outmaneuvers HOU as Chris Paul again gets the better of James Harden in crunchtime (0:00). The Lakers jump out 15-0 and never look back as Portland leaves its best card in the deck (23:00). Indiana gets swept, we take stock of what went wrong for them in the series and what it means for their future (29:40). Brett Brown’s inevitable firing occurs in Philly (41:45). Starting September 8, Dunc’d On is exclusively ad-free four days a week, and we’re offering new bonus content as well. Sign up for our presale and get one-time only pricing as a Founding Member, plus get locked in at that price going forward. 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	Welcome on to dunkdown. Let's get right to it here. The game of the day was Oklahoma City a beautiful comeback win
0:06.9	Against Houston. They trailed by 13 late in the third after the rockets made eight straight three pointers and
0:13.5	Eventually came all the way back defeating the rockets in crunch time for a second consecutive game
0:20.1	117 114 and
0:22.5	Mr. Leroux your thoughts here parts of this felt similar to
0:26.6	Clippers Mavericks on Sunday where the team that we expected to win the series went comfortably ahead kind of midway through the
0:34.3	Like I got ahead through dominant fashion like midway through and just like okay
0:39.5	That's kind of what I expected and then it the wheels came off the wagon differently for the two teams
0:44.1	But the I full credit in this case the thunder and also to the Mavericks of course in their classic of
0:49.6	Keeping on competing doing what they did well and also, you know, the rockets coming back into it and something that I've gained
0:55.8	An appreciation for in this series was basically this idea that Houston switching system forces teams to beat them one on one
1:02.2	And I talked in the pre-series stuff about Galenariath that the Galenari could be a an advantage for the thunder in this
1:09.1	He draws fouls well. He has a positional size all that and instead at times spend Shay Gilger Salis entered
1:15.1	But a lot of it has been Dennis Rooters was just blitzed his guy one on one
1:18.6	Yeah, and the rockets part of why they caused problems for the Warriors back in 2018
1:24.2	They don't have the same quite the same guys no Trevor Risa now who was a big part of what they did defensively back then
1:30.4	But was they had all these like big strong guys Eric Gordon and PJ Tucker and Harden and so you couldn't really
1:36.6	Attack them in the post and okay, he has done absolutely zero of that to their credit galo a little bit in the first couple of games
1:43.4	But you know, he was three attend for nine points in this one
1:46.3	So yeah, it's been all the speed they have picked things up by just attacking much faster
1:51.9	Just even more of the same stuff that we talked about in game three and I think that they have comfortably outplayed
1:59.3	The rockets say in the last two games even before getting in to crunch time frankly
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