Phoenix Suns 2021-22 Season Outlook with Michael Schwartz; Portland Trail Blazers 2021-22 Outlook with Mike Richman

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Nate Duncan

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4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Michael Schwartz of ESPN on the Phoenix Suns. What will continue from last year’s magical run, and will anything regress? We also discuss the Ayton and Bridges extension impasses and give our predictions for the Suns season, including a discussion of potential playoff matchups. Mike Richman of Locked on Blazers discusses the acquisitions of Larry Nance and Cody Zeller, how Chauncey Billups will affect this team, and see if a new Achilles heel for this team emerges in our discussion. Plus, we make our predictions for the Blazers season. If you like Dunc’d On, you or someone in your life might like my wife Aislinn’s analytical approach to yoga. Check out her streaming service, Yoga With Aislinn, free for a week. Subscribe to our new weekly mailing list for free bonus content and all the info you need to keep up with the latest from Nate and Danny! Get this show ad-free, plus another four episodes per 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	I welcome on to a man who is probably a lot happier about his favorite basketball team
0:07.0	than he was a year ago.
0:09.3	One Michael Schwartz of ESPN to talk about the Phoenix Suns.
0:12.7	How you doing, man?
0:13.7	We're two years ago, three years ago, ten years ago, all the years ago.
0:17.5	I'm doing great, Nate.
0:19.3	Yeah.
0:20.3	That sounds a good starting point for us to talk about here.
0:24.7	The Phoenix Suns, who made it to the conference finals and some said they had an easy path.
0:32.2	Others would say, well, they had their own injuries that they overcome.
0:35.0	Other teams weren't able to overcome those injuries.
0:38.7	Had the lead in the finals, we're not able to take it home, but obviously doing it with
0:43.6	some really young players as big parts of this.
0:47.2	I guess maybe the place to start though is just like how they did it.
0:51.2	What was so good about this team compared it to years prior?
0:55.7	Well, I mean, I think the biggest thing, obviously, is the addition of Chris Paul.
0:59.9	I think that kind of was what got all the parts together.
1:03.9	Devin Booker has been putting up incredible numbers for years.
1:07.0	It should have been all start numbers.
1:08.7	He'd only made one before this season.
1:11.5	Then I think the Deandre Aiton we got in the playoffs was one of the biggest keys because
1:16.9	even a lot last season, he was getting benched in fourth quarters for Dario Sharich and
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