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Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Re-Grading the 2018 Offseason (West)

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.53K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Nate and Danny shift to looking back at the offseasons for the Western Conference from a year ago. How do teams like the Warriors, Lakers, Mavs and Rockets look with the benefit of hindsight? We assess the moves made a year later, and also assess...

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0:00.0

Saturday afternoon taping here for Duncton,

0:03.7

going to do some re-grading of the West off season now.

0:07.2

You guys know what this is in general.

0:10.2

We did the east a little bit ago,

0:12.9

but just a reminder of exactly what our criteria are here.

0:17.3

Basically based on the available resources that you had,

0:21.0

how much did this team improve its future based on where you would have thought

0:24.7

that it would be before the summer.

0:26.5

If you're the Phoenix Suns and you had the number one overall draft

0:29.4

pick, your expectations are pretty high for improving your future.

0:33.0

If you're a team like say, OKC last year when you're already really taxed out

0:38.8

and actually have to cut salary,

0:40.4

obviously that's going to be reflected in your grade

0:44.0

that you're not going to be able to do that much.

0:46.5

You want to get started here with the 2018 off season re-graded for the Dallas Mavericks.

0:52.5

Yeah, the Mavericks are a good one to start with because of the big decision that they made,

0:56.9

but I'll run through the whole thing.

0:58.2

So they drafted Luca Donchich, Jalen Brunson.

1:02.0

I believe technically spallding and cost us on Tadakumpo were draft picks as well.

1:06.2

Then they signed DeAndre Jordan and Ryan Brokoff.

1:09.3

They retained Dirk Nwitsky, Salah Mezary, Devon Harris.

1:13.1

And then what they lost was their 2019 first,

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