11 in 1:11 (Eastern Conference 12.9.24)

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Nate Duncan

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🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 111 minutes

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It’s a mailbag edition of our bi-weekly look at the Eastern Conference! We’ve got multiple questions for each team. A few examples: ATL: What does the future of the Hawks look like? BOS: Are the Celtics enjoyable to watch? Who is the biggest threat to them? 9:07 BRK: What of the Nets’ draft pick? Did they wait too long to move their guys? 21:11 CHA: Should the Hornets consider trading LaMelo? 29:36 CHI: The Bulls’ pick is top-10, then top-8 protected. Is it better to get the obligation out of the way now? What about trading Vuc? 37:03 CLE: Can the Cavs re-sign Merrill, Jerome, and LeVert? What trade could the Cavs make to get better? What’s Evan Mobley’s ceiling? 47:21 DET: The Pistons are respectable. What’s the next step with this core? 58:07 IND: Where has it all gone wrong for Indiana this year, and what do they do now? 1:05:50 MIA: What’s driving Herro’s improvement and Bam’s offensive regression? 1:16:28 MIL: Is Andre Jackson, Jr. a playoff player for the Bucks? 1:27:03 NYK: Is this Knicks #1 offense for real? Will it sustain in the playoffs? 1:35:43

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0:00.0	Welcome on to a 15 and 60 Eastern Conference Mailbag edition.
0:05.9	We have a ton to get through here.
0:07.8	Lots of great questions that we're really looking forward to.
0:10.3	We'll try to get to every single one of them and maybe some comments on YouTube as well.
0:15.3	So it'll be a chock full show, hopefully.
0:19.3	And I want to remind you all as well, if you're listening to the public feed,
0:22.1	please consider subscribing to Dunkton Prime or at a minimum to our totally free mailing list
0:28.5	where you can get Dan Feldman's daily dunks twice per week.
0:32.6	The link to that is in the show notes.
0:35.7	Let's just begin it.
0:36.6	Go our usual alphabetical order here with the
0:39.7	Atlanta Hawks, Danny. The Atlanta Hawks are 13 and 12, 7 and 4 since the last 1560. I think that might be
0:47.0	yeah. And their negative 1.8 net rating is 17th in the NBA. They are identical 16th in offense and 16th in defense. And you could see that
0:56.7	the BPI projections are getting a little rosier for the East. The Hawks are projected to win 39
1:02.2	games and that's the 8C. So we're getting closer to the eight seat at least being 500 and BPI gives
1:07.3	the Hawks a 58% chance of making the playoffs.
1:13.9	Yeah, a lot of teams have improved here.
1:19.5	And, you know, being up to 16th in defense and 16th on offense, both those numbers are maybe a little bit surprising.
1:20.4	So we can start here with Nassi Nixon, a continuation of our, will this trend continue?
1:27.0	Will the Hawks improved defense continue?
1:30.6	And I think it probably will, honestly, if you go up and down their roster, once they've gotten
1:35.3	their guys back, they've really taken off. I want to take a little bit of time to go through
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