Selecting Team USA 2021; The COVID19 Fight With Ben Taylor

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.5 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Danny and Nate run through the candidates for Team USA in the Olympics and try to make the best team possible, with some controversial omissions. Then Ben Taylor joins for what will be a new daily segment discussing the latest developments in the fight against COVID19. We hit on the stimulus bill, the pros and cons of potentially removing social distancing restrictions in the near future, the latest developments in New York, worldwide measures against the virus, why nobody was able to see this coming and prepare, and more. We’d appreciate your feedback on this new segment and how to improve as we go along. You can subscribe by searching “Dunc’d On” on your favorite podcast player. And if you like this pod and want additional bonus content, please subscribe to support Nate and Danny at Patreon.com/DuncanLeroux. Merchandise available at NateDuncanNBA.com, sponsors list also available at NateDuncanNBA.com. With Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA and Danny Leroux @DannyLeroux).

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0:00.0	Welcome on to a Wednesday night edition of the pod big news here. I'm gonna actually
0:06.2	Start up pending a section where we talk about the world news
0:10.5	regarding the coronavirus and Ben Taylor is actually
0:13.8	Hopefully going to be a regular guest for that. So that's at the end of here
0:17.5	I know a lot of you guys aren't here to listen to coronavirus stuff. I completely understand that you
0:23.7	Wanting to get away and I really love talking about basketball still that's gonna be the meat of this program always but
0:30.0	Because I just been doing so much reading about it and so much on my mind and I think there's so much news to get through
0:35.7	I thought that Ben is someone who I really respect his opinion he is a background in following research and
0:43.4	I know he has been very much paying attention to everything that's been going on for a long time before I was so it was good
0:51.4	to have this because we recorded that previously. I think it was pretty good
0:53.6	So please check that out if that's something you're interested in if not though
0:57.2	Let's talk some basketball and that will be a topic of the
1:02.4	2021 nay 2020 USA Olympic basketball team the news that the Tokyo Olympics will be delayed to
1:10.5	2021 made this a good time because it changes the way you think about a lot of this stuff and there will be you know
1:16.3	practical effects that we don't know yet because one of the huge wrinkles
1:20.2	Potentially especially with basketball not being the centerpiece of Olympic activities is when they will occur
1:25.6	And so it's entirely possible that it will overlap with the NBA season whenever that is so that is something to consider
1:32.6	Another important factor is not only is it year or so later but also switching to 2021
1:39.6	Trigger something that has been a part of Olympic drama before which is pending restricted for agents the 2020 class
1:45.9	Didn't really have a lot of guys that were pending for agents generally those guys are a little bit reluctant to play in the Olympics
1:52.8	Even though depending on when they are sometimes they will have already signed their contracts
1:56.1	But for the ramp up and everything else sometimes they can get in there in yeah another thing we do about two is if we do
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