Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I have been listening to the pod consistently since 2015 and have been very satisfied overall — thank you!

In my opinion, the main advantages Dunc’d On has over other mainstream basketball podcasts are the following:

- More in-depth and substantive analysis
- Methodological Clarity
- Structured and Directed Discussions
- Specific and Precise Argumentation
- Creativity
- Lack of Bias (towards players, institutions, conventional wisdom, etc.)

Some drawbacks:

- The Paywall (no need to belabor this)
- Confusing Explanation of Film
- Rigidity
1) Very specific idea of what types of players work, leaving little room for diversity of play style
2) Generalize/stereotype players, not taking into account minute differences

The main issue that’s been bothering me recently is Danny’s role. He rarely disagrees with Nate and when he does, he does not sufficiently argue his point. (Nate makes this abundantly obvious, explicitly asking Danny to make counterarguments and then strawmanning Danny’s position when Danny inevitably fails to produce one.) Additionally, he is needlessly verbose and tries to compensate for his lack of content with flowery language. The only times he adds substance are when Nate would’ve made the point regardless and Danny happens to beat Nate to the punch.

I hope I don’t come off as overly-critical; I am just sharing the thoughts that have been percolating mentally for a while.

Thanks again for all your hard work, Nate and Danny!

Got hooked on this podcast during the pandemic. Nate and guests have taught me most of my salary cap understanding and how teams evaluate (and should be valuing) players. It’s brought me a new appreciation to the off-court business side of basketball and their discussions are always super-lively and while Nate and Danny are both highly data-informed there are also clear opinions that I appreciate them staking out.

Smart basketball discussion, but the show is terribly edited. Long stretches of dead air between segments or ads. Ads sometimes dropped into the middle of sentences. Shame to whiff on the easy things.

The amount of work that Nate and the team put into even the free version of the podcast is unbelievable. As the years have gone on, they’ve only found new ways to entertain and inform.

Edit: I am updating my review to 1 star as the ads have gotten even worse. This is ESPN halftime level amount of ads. I’m really unsure how people are able to even follow the train of thought in analysis with so many ads.

The content on this podcast is great, really insightful NBA analysis and they really put in the work. Very statistic heavy and love the game strategy and breakdowns. Recently, I’m not sure what has happened but there is an insane amount of ad reads. Seems like there is a 2min ad every 5 minutes. I’m not sure if they just accept any sort of ad revenue that comes there way and normally ad reads don’t bother me on podcasts but this podcast has so many. I would definitely recommend cutting down the amount of ads, ideally just have an ad at the beginning and end.

Really enjoy the pod, the most insightful basketball pod imo. I listen to every free episode and would pay for the premium but its really quite expensive. Im not knocking it, charge what you can but you might attract a broader more economically diverse audience if it was about half the cost.