Playoffs Outlook and Awards Debate

Hollinger & Duncan NBA Show - NBA Basketball Podcast

John Hollinger and Nate Duncan

Sports, Basketball

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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We start with John’s award picks, hitting on some of our different philosophies plus why John has Gobert #2 on his MVP Ballot. Then we look ahead to the first round of the playoffs, looking at: Most interesting series Least interesting series 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 Best playoff defense Best playoff offense MVP of the first round 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	Today's episode is brought to you by Michaelab Ultra.
0:13.6	Are you happy because you win?
0:14.9	Or do you win because you're happy at only 2.6 carbs and 95 calories?
0:23.1	It's only worth it if you enjoy it. Stay tuned for the Ultra Player of the Week coming up later in the episode. All right, welcome on everyone. If you're
0:27.6	listening on locker room and of course if you're listening after the fact on the pod, let's get
0:33.7	rolling here. We got a lot to talk about. We're going to go through our annual
0:37.5	playoff preview, which is a little bit more difficult than usual, but considering that we're
0:42.7	not going to be recording between 11 p.m. Pacific time on Friday and noon Pacific time on Saturday,
0:49.8	we're just going to have to go ahead and do it now. Those are you in locker room, feel free to
0:53.8	get your speaker requested now. Of course, the way we're doing this, we're just going to have to go ahead and do it now. Those are you in locker room, feel free to get your speaker requested now.
0:55.2	Of course, the way we're doing this, we're just going to record our normal show for
0:58.0	about an hour, and then we'll get to some questions after that.
1:01.3	But feel free to jump on in with the speaker request, and they will be handled in the order
1:06.8	that they are received.
1:09.6	You're going to talk a little awards first here, though, John?
1:12.1	You came out with your column.
1:13.2	I did my pod about a week ago.
1:16.7	So I think we're largely in agreement on most of these here.
1:21.1	But MVP, you had Rudy Gobert second in MVP, pretty much higher than anyone else that I've seen.
1:28.8	I'm on my own.
1:29.5	I'm on my own island on this without a question.
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