diff --git a/xarray/namedarray/pycompat.py b/xarray/namedarray/pycompat.py
index f04e290344e..16136b632c3 100644
--- a/xarray/namedarray/pycompat.py
+++ b/xarray/namedarray/pycompat.py
@@ -161,14 +161,15 @@ def to_duck_array(
     from xarray.core.indexing import ExplicitlyIndexed
     from xarray.namedarray.parallelcompat import get_chunked_array_type
 
+    if isinstance(data, ExplicitlyIndexed):
+        return data.get_duck_array()  # type: ignore[no-untyped-call, no-any-return]
+
     if is_chunked_array(data):
         chunkmanager = get_chunked_array_type(data)
         loaded_data, *_ = chunkmanager.compute(data, **kwargs)  # type: ignore[var-annotated]
         return loaded_data
 
-    if isinstance(data, ExplicitlyIndexed):
-        return data.get_duck_array()  # type: ignore[no-untyped-call, no-any-return]
-    elif is_duck_array(data):
+    if is_duck_array(data):
         return data
     else:
-        return np.asarray(data)  # type: ignore[return-value]
+        return np.asarray(data)