Mailbag! Value of Bigs; Hawks’ Future; NIL Effects and More

John and Nate catch up on the playoffs so far and discuss:The best team so far?Where we’d edit our overall predictionsThe biggest change to our pre series predictionsBest and worst predictions we’ve made?Best coaching job, and best specific coaching adjustmentsWorst coaching job, and worst adjustments or non-adjustmentsMost surprising playersMost disappointing playersBest GameWorst gameBest individual performance in a gameMVP/ first-team all playoffs (any position)The playoff crucible (rotation players who either thrived or couldn’t hack it)Who withstood?Who is ash? Four more episodes with Nate & Danny per week are available exclusively on Dunc’d On Prime, plus it’s the only place to hear John Hollinger & Nate as well! DuncdOn.SupportingCast.FMPlus, subscribe on YouTube to see our hilarious faces and, more importantly, the key moments from the pod each week.

Zach Lowe joins John and Nate to draft the star players we think are most likely to be on another team 18 months from now at the start of the 2025-26 season.Plus, John and Nate set the playoff field in the West and discuss the future of the teams we’ve eliminated. Four more episodes with Nate & Danny per week are available exclusively on Dunc’d On Prime, plus it’s the only place to hear John Hollinger & Nate as well! DuncdOn.SupportingCast.FMPlus, subscribe on YouTube to see our hilarious faces and, more importantly, the key moments from the pod each week.

A special 3-man pod with John, Danny, and Nate discusses the best players in the NBA. Where do Giannis, Jokic, LeBron, Shai, Steph, Luka, Tatum, KD, Kawhi, Edwards, AD, Brunson, and the rest of the All-NBA talents come in on the eve of a playoffs that will prove us all wrong? Four more episodes with Nate & Danny per week are available exclusively on Dunc’d On Prime, plus it’s the only place to hear John Hollinger & Nate as well! DuncdOn.SupportingCast.FMPlus, subscribe on YouTube to see our hilarious faces and, more importantly, the key moments from the pod each week.

John and Nate pick the NBA’s best passer, dunker, floater game, handle, and athlete.Then we rule an Eastern Conference team that doesn’t have their draft picks from ‘25 to ‘27 and will be looking to trade a point guard this season out of the playoffs, and discuss what they can do going forward.Plus, what does John think of the NBA moving the draft to 2 nights as a former executive? Four more episodes with Nate & Danny per week are available exclusively on Dunc’d On Prime, plus it’s the only place to hear John Hollinger & Nate as well! DuncdOn.SupportingCast.FMPlus, subscribe on YouTube to see our hilarious faces and, more importantly, the key moments from the pod each week.

It’s time to look at the best coaches in the NBA. What are the ways to evaluate a coach? How do the young wunderkinder stack up against the established playoff coaches? John and Nate look at the best coaches in the league.Plus, we each eliminate another team from the playoffs and take stock of their organizations. Four more episodes with Nate & Danny per week are available exclusively on Dunc’d On Prime, plus it’s the only place to hear John Hollinger & Nate as well! DuncdOn.SupportingCast.FMPlus, subscribe on YouTube to see our hilarious faces and, more importantly, the key moments from the pod each week.

John and Nate look back on perhaps the biggest trade deadline ever to evaluate all these transactions a year on. How do the KD and Kyrie deals look, and would we have still done them as both teams? Who won the Westbrook/Conley/Russell swap? How have the trading trends evolved since this year? And which acquisitions actually fortified playoff teams? Four more episodes with Nate & Danny per week are available exclusively on Dunc’d On Prime, plus it’s the only place to hear John Hollinger & Nate as well! DuncdOn.SupportingCast.FMPlus, subscribe on YouTube to see our hilarious faces and, more importantly, the key moments from the pod each week.

A big topic of the day is whether offense is too high right now. We discuss whether that is in fact the case, and suggest a number of interesting possible solutions, including many which haven’t yet been proposed.Next a discussion of the unintended (but entirely foreseeable) consequences of the NBA’s 65-game rule.John explains the rationale for both sides in the Steven Adams trade between Houston and Memphis.The going gets tougher as we again rule a team out of the playoffs.Finally, we discuss some of the more realistic trades we might see at the upcoming trade deadline.  Four more episodes with Nate & Danny per week are available exclusively on Dunc’d On Prime, plus it’s the only place to hear John Hollinger & Nate as well! DuncdOn.SupportingCast.FMPlus, subscribe on YouTube to see our hilarious faces and, more importantly, the key moments from the pod each week.

Join Dunc'd On Prime with an unprecedented offer: a 1 month free trial!John and Nate start by discussing the pros and cons of the Siakam trade. Would we ultimately have done the deal knowing his likely contract expectations?Then, we scrape the bottom of the Joe Johnson Memorial Barrel to fill out our East All-Star teams, before we wrack our brains on how to limit ourselves to 12 in the West. Four more episodes with Nate & Danny per week are available exclusively on Dunc’d On Prime, plus it’s the only place to hear John Hollinger & Nate as well! DuncdOn.SupportingCast.FMPlus, subscribe on YouTube to see our hilarious faces and, more importantly, the key moments from the pod each week.

John and Nate discuss:The Memphis Grizzlies’ future now that injuries have officially wrecked their season.Theories on why this year’s bad teams are worse than any other year’s bad teams.What the Knicks might be looking for with Quentin Grimes available and the Magic for Wendell Carter or Markelle Fultz. Also, what team could most use Dejounte Murray?What other available players could potentially help a playoff team?Four more episodes with Nate & Danny per week are available exclusively on Dunc’d On Prime, plus it’s the only place to hear John Hollinger & Nate as well! DuncdOn.SupportingCast.FMPlus, subscribe on YouTube to see our hilarious faces and, more importantly, see the key moments from the pod each week. Four more episodes with Nate & Danny per week are available exclusively on Dunc’d On Prime, plus it’s the only place to hear John Hollinger & Nate as well! DuncdOn.SupportingCast.FMPlus, subscribe on YouTube to see our hilarious faces and, more importantly, the key moments from the pod each week.

John and Nate discuss Jonathan Kuminga’s loss of confidence in Steve Kerr, and whether it makes sense for the Warriors to make a big deadline move.  Then, a look at the markets for Donovan Mitchell, Pascal Siakam, Dejounte Murray, DeMar DeRozan, Zach LaVine, Kyle Kuzma, and Alex Caruso.Catch every Hollinger & Duncan Episode on Dunc’d On Prime, plus five more Episodes per week with Nate Duncan and Danny Leroux. You also get Daily Duncs, Dan Feldman’s newsletter analysis of the most important NBA writing and news of the day, and Seth Partnow’s Nerd Nosh as well.  DuncdOn.SupportingCast.fm Four more episodes with Nate & Danny per week are available exclusively on Dunc’d On Prime, plus it’s the only place to hear John Hollinger & Nate as well! DuncdOn.SupportingCast.FMPlus, subscribe on YouTube to see our hilarious faces and, more importantly, the key moments from the pod each week.