The Towns/Randle Trade + Indiana Pacers 2024-25 Season Outlook with Caitlin Cooper

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Nate Duncan

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🗓️ 29 September 2024

⏱️ 118 minutes

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A late-night pod on the blockbuster Wolves/Knicks deal involving Karl-Anthony Towns, Julius Randle, and Donte DiVincenzo. We go through the salary cap math as it stands now, how good this Knicks team is, and whether we’d have done the deal as New York. We disagree on the impact of this deal for Minnesota, in which Nate likes it a lot more for the Wolves than Danny. Caitlin Cooper of Basketball She Wrote joins to look ahead to a highly-anticipated season in Indiana. What part of last year’s season is most relevant for predicting this year? How much did Tyrese Haliburton’s injury bother him and what do we expect this year? Why Caitlin expects a big year from Andrew Nembhard. Will the Pacers change up their scheme that was so obsessed with taking away threes? It’s a crucial year for Benn Mathurin to prove he can contribute to winning. How Rick Carlisle’s rotation will shake out. The epic backup center competition between Isaiah Jackson and James Wiseman. Can the offense reach the same heights as last year? Plus, other strengths and weaknesses. Was Pascal Siakam what the Pacers thought they were trading for? How much of a weakness will the defense be? A tangent on Jarace Walker and whether he can figure this year. Our predictions for the season.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this free episode of Dunckedon. This is a two-part episode starting with
0:05.0	Nate and Danny's analysis of the Carl Anthony Town's trade, followed by the Pacer
0:09.7	season outlook with Nate and Caitlin Cooper. Thank you for listening and if you'd like more
0:14.2	dunk done content you can subscribe at dunk done that supporting cast that's
0:19.7	dunk done that supporting cast that fm well good Saturday morning everyone from
0:26.3	Taipei Taiwan and a good Friday night from the West Coast, USA.
0:33.0	Danny, we have a trade to announce.
0:35.0	We do.
0:36.0	And I got a text from you saying,
0:38.0	I guess we need to record and I had no idea what was going on.
0:41.0	I was, you know, enjoying my Friday evening and it is a big one. It is a one that absolutely
0:46.7	merits and merits an emergency pod. It is Carl Anthony Towns going from the Minnesota Timberwolves to the New York Knicks in exchange for Julius Randall and Dante G. Vinchenzo,
0:58.6	we know there will be other mechanisms because this trade is not legal due to the constraints on both
1:03.9	teams the Knicks are taking in too much money to go they would go over the
1:09.2	second apron hard cap which they are not allowed to do so we we know there will be something else involved. It appears that the hornets are involved in that, but we can focus on the principles here, which is towns to the Nix, Randall, and D'Vincenzo to the Timberwolves.
1:24.2	Yeah, and real quickly, the salary cap issues at play because both teams are over the first
1:30.4	apron, neither can take back more money than they are sending out as part of this
1:36.0	individual trade. The Nix have a couple of small trade exceptions that they might be able to
1:40.5	use to take back salary separately as rather than into the trade exception
1:47.0	created by sending guys out but as of right now the nicks are taken back 8.8 million more than what they are sending out so
1:54.9	they're going to have to come up with 8.8 million in salary and Charlotte as the third team
2:01.3	is going to have to take in 8.8 million more than they are sending out,
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