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Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Season Predictions plus Opening Night: LAL/LAC and NOP/TOR

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.52.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

We take a look at the opening night games and what they might portend for the season to come, including how the LeBron and AD pairing looked, how Kawhi fit in with the Clippers’ established players, the ex-Lakers in New Orleans, and Pascal Siakam’s...

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0:00.0

Well Mr. LaRou, we have much to discuss here with opening night.

0:05.0

Did you want to respond to my awesome Bram Stoker's Dracula voice there?

0:09.0

I'm just happy we have actual basketball talk about.

0:12.0

Yeah.

0:13.0

A 70 year old movie doesn't appeal to you.

0:17.0

No, I mean a 70 year old will run James, doesn't necessarily either.

0:21.0

Yeah, I mean that's my biggest takeaway from the beginning here is a pretty comfortable

0:26.0

clippers victory.

0:27.0

They led by 10, most of the way with a couple of Lakers scoring sprees led by Danny Green

0:33.0

got them back in a contact briefly.

0:35.0

But that was the biggest thing to me is LeBron James could not beat Montreys Harrel one on

0:40.0

one.

0:41.0

And the clippers were just switching everything.

0:43.0

They weren't able to get the pick and roll going with him in a D for that reason.

0:47.0

And they left it up to Harrel who is not a strong switch defender to guard LeBron and LeBron

0:52.0

struggled to finish at the rim.

0:54.0

He had five turnovers.

0:55.0

He didn't have the jump shot working either and only one game.

0:59.0

But it was definitely a big time struggle for him not help by some of the other issues that

1:03.0

the Lakers certainly have.

1:05.0

But those I think could be overcome if you have everything working around LeBron.

1:09.0

This team was built with him as the sole printer creator.

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