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What Can We Expect From The NBA's Northwest?

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We have a fun episode of The Dunker Spot coming your way!

Nekias Duncan and Steve Jones preview the Northwest division (Thunder, Nuggets, Timberwolves, Trail Blazers, Jazz).

They break down the most exciting part of each team, the biggest questions they have and what splashy additions will make the biggest impact!

Check out today's WNBA conversation here: Dream Take Game 1 vs Liberty! How Can Aces...

0:00 Welcome
0:44 OKC Thunder
13:06 Denver Nuggets
23:07 Minnesota Timberwolves
34:19 Portland Trail Blazers
41:50 Utah Jazz

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20 Comments

@gravewalker1991 1 day ago

Liking these two more and more the more I watch them. Solid work

@MatthewSchilken 1 day ago

WOLVES: Beringer and foul issues may be a thing against certain matchups, (esp if Rudy is injured) although the Wolves might just answer that by outscoring the opponent

@donaldw12318 2 days ago

Great analysis guys. Gonna be a fun year. Go wolves

@ErikBergs 2 days ago

For the Wolves non-Rudy minutes, I think that Rudy and Kuminga are going to be linked together as bigs this year for most of their minutes. Lyles and Beringer are going to sub in together, so that the raw talent of Beringer doesn't get too out of control and you have a high IQ Lyles out there with him.

@nickc.4558 2 days ago (edited)

I will repeat it again. In the playoffs only teams with good solid defensive structure can survive. The Nuggets are far from that. They have zero chance to make a title run unless OKC ans SA have multiple injuries on multiple positions. I would also argue that Denver had the worst offseason in the NBA.

@yaxa0601 1 day ago

Lets go Minny!

@b33ft0n6 2 days ago

The questions about OKC’s defense with the loss of Dort are very misguided in my opinion barring injuries. Based on how good they were without JDub.

Cason is just a better on ball defender than Dort. And I think Caruso and Dub are just as good on bigger guards/forwards as Dort. Dort was also just not that good defensively last year. I also think Ajay is a very good defender. So they have the personnel to adjust well and maybe even be better than last year.

@verymadhatter 2 days ago

I feel like the reactions to dort getting traded are very overblown. He took a big step back last year and was practically unplayable in the spurs series. Same with Joe and Wiggins. They might come in second in defense instead of first, but their offense is about to get a lot better. Their rookies will supplement their depth in the regular season, and their playoff rotation will be far more lethal than last year.

@PDXborn 2 days ago

The starting line up comment is played out. Get a grip man. 😂. Tell me you have no imagination with saying it.

@jimbob1353 2 days ago

Starting lineup? If you don’t want to answer the question with thought, don’t be on the podcast

@avwillis 1 day ago

Funny how you can talk about the blazers and mention Denny only once in the whole thing. Goes to show how much you are not familiar with them.

@PetarZorić-k3b 1 day ago

Championship is going to Northwestern division

@ACNBATOVAN 2 days ago

starting lineup wbu :/

@basketballblablabla 2 days ago

It’s so strange you all do this podcast pretend that the podcast is continuing and then the WNBA stuff is on a completely different channel. Like whoever is running thing in yahoo is doing terrible here (not the dunker spot guys, the media people)

@Majikmystikk8019 2 days ago

22:10 missing ryan nembard in that graphic

@guyspiro5819 2 days ago

I was a viewer / listener until today when you were talking about Portland for more than 10 minutes pre season and haven’t spent any time talking about the 26/7/7 ascending 25 y/o allstar. You guys are jokes

@tonydombovy5207 17 hours ago (edited)

Lazy ass answer. You're telling me you're more excited for Kuminga than Dosunmu? You can tell Steve has no respect for his cohost or the show. Just a narcissistic vibe from him.

@seanmaertens8483 2 days ago

Gotta say, biggest concern for the Wolves has gotta be rebounding.

They were a mediocre rebounding team when they were bigger, now they really gotta lock in to avoid rebounding becoming their Achilles heel.

Great preview show!

@bgomezLLC 2 days ago

1:36 the western conference ain’t all that competitive it’s just the top two juggernauts at the top and okc is one of them, the east is vastly more competitive but they don’t have a juggernaut up top so while it’ll be harder to get a good seed in the east you have more of a chance of coming out of the east, whereas it’ll be piss easy for any half competent team in the west to get one of those 3-8 play off spots but they ain’t getting past the spurs or okc