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Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Western Conference: The Best and Worst Decisions of the Last 5 Years

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.52.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

A look at each Western Conference team’s best and worst decision for the last 5 years, in reverse alphabetical order from Utah to Dallas. Note that COVID Daily News is now a separate pod. Please subscribe to that show on its own feed via Apple, Spotify or RSS Feed, or by searching “Nate Duncan” in your podcast player. 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

Closing out the week and we're gonna finish out with our ranking the best and worst decisions by each team in the last five years the

0:07.8

Dunkdown era we started this podcast in April of

0:11.5

2015 here we missed our five-year anniversary. I guess there was just something else going on that distracted me at that point

0:18.1

But anyway, we're gonna finish this out as a great part of our listener poll

0:22.5

We're gonna have more of that coming up over the weekend

0:24.7

You can vote in that we're taking the top four out of the 16 and even that was curated out of about a hundred submissions

0:31.7

Maybe more than that for podcast topic ideas

0:34.6

So it's always Austin interact with you guys to get these ideas

0:38.0

And we got a lot of great feedback on this topic in the east

0:41.1

So let's start here in the West why we start at the end of the alphabet with the Utah Jazz this time Danny

0:47.9

Four minutes on the clock. Give me your best decision of the last five years for the Utah Jazz

0:54.4

For me this was one of the easier decisions on the board

0:58.3

I

0:59.3

Grouped I grouped them together because I think Dennis Lindsay in their front office

1:03.9

Did it together and that was trading the number 24 pick and tray liles to move up to number 13 to get Donovan Mitchell

1:11.5

A player of Mitchell's eventual caliber not usually available at 13 the cost of moving up from 24 to 13 being

1:18.8

Tray liles is a smaller cost than usual to do that

1:21.3

So that was a transformation to move for the jazz and they didn't have a lot of other

1:25.8

Transiration moves a lot of things that they did well, but to me that was the one that stood out

1:29.6

Yeah, where would they be right now if they hadn't made that move Gordon Hayward would leave in just a few days after

1:36.5

Mitchell was selected

1:37.8

They had had that team that got into the second round but got swept by the Warriors in 2017

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