meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Hollinger & Duncan NBA Show - NBA Basketball Podcast

The 2026 Crucible Week 2, Lottery Reform

Hollinger & Duncan NBA Show - NBA Basketball Podcast

John Hollinger and Nate Duncan

Basketball, Sports

4.6 • 866 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Hollinger and Duncan react to Minnesota’s stunning series win over Denver, the Knicks’ historic Game 6 destruction of Atlanta, the proposed lottery reform, and the biggest strategic developments of the playoffs so far. They also hit Celtics-Sixers, Pistons-Magic, Lakers-Rockets, and the players who have either survived or been exposed by the playoff crucible. Nuggets-Wolves fallout — 1:27: Minnesota’s defense, Denver’s offensive and defensive issues, the state of the Nuggets around Nikola Jokić, and whether Denver can still contend in a loaded West. Knicks-Hawks — 12:19: New York’s historic beatdown of Atlanta, the Knicks’ series adjustments, Karl-Anthony Towns and OG Anunoby’s impact, and Atlanta’s offseason questions. Lottery reform — 24:07: The proposed new system, its anti-tanking incentives, and why it could make late-season basketball more watchable. Best teams and contender check-in — 32:33: Oklahoma City vs. San Antonio, the most impressive playoff performances so far, and Boston-Philly heading into Game 7. Coaching and tactical takeaways — 36:58: The best and worst coaching ideas of the playoffs, including San Antonio’s creativity and Portland’s struggles against Victor Wembanyama. Pistons-Magic and East bracket chaos — 39:39: Orlando’s depth issues without Franz Wagner, Detroit’s concerning matchup problems, Cleveland’s shaky path, and Toronto’s impressive adjustments. The playoff crucible — 48:49: Which players have been exposed or survived under postseason pressure, including Atlanta’s failed counters and Detroit’s center questions. Lakers-Rockets and other series notes — 53:56: Houston’s shortened rotation, Tari Eason’s importance, the Lakers’ health questions, Jalen Brown’s off-arm struggles, and the second-round outlook. Final playoff thoughts — 58:14: Potential Knicks-Celtics, Sixers-Knicks, Thunder-Spurs, and Embiid-Harden scenarios, plus closing thoughts on the postseason landscape.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Yeah.

0:03.1

I'm too tired for this.

0:07.2

Man, how many more three-game overlapping nights are there going to be?

0:13.1

Well, regardless, that's that strangulated cackle is about which

0:21.1

uh, which, uh,

0:21.4

team's ending last night does that describe, but maybe the hawks, right? The, the cacaw, that was kind of a caccaw. Yeah, the cacca, putting, putting the, uh, the cacaw in awful, right? Um, I, I want to make one, uh, one, One quick change to my set here before we get going. Hang on.

0:41.1

All right. I want to make one quick change to my set here before we get going.

0:38.7

Hang on.

0:41.0

All right.

0:42.2

John is taking down his Hawks jersey and putting up a Milwaukee Brewers jersey.

0:48.3

I have no idea who number 50 on the on the brewers is.

0:51.7

I could tell you like Paul Mulder and Robinin yount and that's probably ben oglavy ben oglavy okay uh yeah so i think we'll get to the game that i assume you're in attendance for last night uh which uh game game doesn't quite describe it i must have never finished a column more quickly.

1:15.2

Yeah, it must have been nice to be able to get home by halftime, really beat traffic out of the arena.

1:20.7

No, I was in the traffic at halftime.

1:23.4

That was the problem.

1:27.5

Yeah, seriously.

1:29.0

All right, well, let's talk about, I mean, we'll get to some of our criteria if we had time,

1:33.6

but I mean, just your overall reaction to what took place between the nuggets and the timber wolves in this series

1:41.4

because just that was, it was truly incredible in a number of fronts so let's give a

1:47.9

lot of credit to minnesota's defense to rudy gobert and jaden McDaniels especially because i i mean the

1:56.1

absolute key was that they made murray and yok look pretty ordinary, right? And that's been incredibly

2:05.0

hard to do. Like, yeah, sure, Denver didn't have Aaron Gordon. They didn't have Peyton Watson.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from John Hollinger and Nate Duncan, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of John Hollinger and Nate Duncan and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.