Playoff Extravaganza

Hollinger & Duncan NBA Show - NBA Basketball Podcast

John Hollinger and Nate Duncan

Sports, Basketball

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

A different approach to the playoffs, in which John and Nate discuss: Most interesting series Least interesting series Individual player matchup you are most interested in seeing Star player with the toughest matchup Star player with the easiest matchup Best coaching matchup Biggest coaching mismatch Series with the most variables Rotation players most likely to have their roles cut Deep rotation players who could emerge Most important non-star player Best playoff defense Best playoff offense Then we make our picks for the entire playoffs as well as our picks for playoff MVP and coach of the playoffs.

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0:00.0	Welcome on to the 2022 Hollinger and Duncan NBA playoff extravaganza.
0:08.9	Can't take a little bit of a different approach to this.
0:11.6	Go through some of the categories that we are anticipating here, some of the matchups we
0:17.3	really want to look at.
0:18.7	Take a little bit of a different lens than just go through
0:21.4	series by series and preview each series although we will of course get to our picks by the end
0:28.1	so let us begin here john with the first round what is the most interesting series to you and why
0:36.1	i have a couple of candidates, actually.
0:38.8	I'm interested.
0:39.6	I'm genuinely interested in probably at least four of these series.
0:44.0	But the number one has to be Brooklyn, Boston, just because A, Boston was so awesome the
0:51.0	second half of the season.
0:52.7	And B, Brooklyn built this super team that has not been super, but you look, and they're
1:02.2	dangerous as hell with Durant and Kyrie, like a plus 13 scoring margin with the two of them
1:07.8	on the court together.
1:09.3	And you saw during these last several
1:12.0	games how good they can be, at least in moments when they put shooting around them and almost
1:18.8	don't even worry about defense and just say, you can't stop us so it doesn't matter. Yeah,
1:23.6	it's going to be absolutely fascinating. And how much the loss of Robert Williams is going to hurt Boston in this series will be fascinating as well.
1:31.5	I have another one that I thought is the most interesting personally.
1:35.0	Okay, okay.
1:35.4	But we'll get to that.
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