Jason Timpf reacts to the Wednesday slate of NBA games. Kevin Durant, Devin Booker, and the Phoenix Suns blew out Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves 133-115. Jayson Tatum and the Boston Celtics beat Joel Embiid and the Philadelphia 76ers despite not having both Jaylen Brown and Kristaps Porzingis, and the New York Knicks edged out Trae Young and the Atlanta Hawks 116-114. Later, Jason answers mailbag questions including why he remains high on Austin Reaves despite his struggles for the Lakers, his thoughts on Brandin Podziemski’s breakout performance with the Warriors, and more!
Timeline:
00:00 – Introduction
02:00 – Timberwolves vs. Suns
15:48 – Celtics vs. 76ers
29:59 – Knicks vs. Hawks
44:14 – Why so high on Austin Reaves?
51:32 – Brandin Podziemski breaks out for Warriors
54:29 – Improving ball handling
59:17 – Jason doesn’t hate the Thunder
01:01:50 – Mixing up Tyrese Haliburton & Tyrese Maxey
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20 Comments
Can you breakdown how Bucks can build off Dame's huge game without Giannis?
FYI, It’s actually pronounced okogie with a soft “g”.
The magic just walked off the bulls where’s that
As a suns fan, and a constant watcher of your channel, I was literally praying you did a reaction to the suns game, love the channel brother keep going 👊
cs have ton picks and a tpe to go get one more guy at the deadline
First time Jason has spoken about the Celtics that wasn’t one of their two losses. Well done
Wish you would’ve mentioned it was the 2nd night of a back to back right after the draymond incident. That’s part of the reason the wolves got smoked. Didn’t have a ton of gas.
damn no dwhite love?! 27 and 5 on 12FGA. was huge in the 4th quarter
The Wolves are nearing the end of a 10-day road trip, they spent 4 nights in the Bay Area in one of those stupid mini-playoff series, and had their plane land in Phoenix at like 3 am to play a game that started roughly 20 hours after the previous one ended. You won't see a more obvious schedule loss for any team this year.
I like Austin, but you saying he had a top 20 ball handle in the lg last year…was crazy.
I’m not sure how the mailbox questions work but I would love if you could talk about if you feel that Devin booker outplaying Ant so heavily means anything or if it was just a bad game for Ant
Philly problems started when they were missing Kelly outbre and batum we saw Philly be lockdown on the premiter when both teams were fully healthy and rested crazy were taking more from a game off a back to back with starters missing on both teams
Mailbag question: is the reason that your favorite type of player is a strong forward because they can get the most efficient shot which results to winning?
Lakers already trying for a full rebuild lol
you said there is a time and place for doubles and i think there were a lot of good reasons nurse doubled dwhite at the end of the game:
1 – 76ers were in a drop against white in pnr to start the 4th and he had 12 points and a couple assists on damn near consecutive possessions w/o breaking a sweat. like you say – it had become untenable to continue dropping. then they tried going to a zone and he picked that apart and hit a 3. following that sequence, sending two makes more sense.
if anyones interested * i responded to jason's twitter break down of this play with 4/5 clips of dwhite cooking philly's drop coverage and that zone possession in the 4th *
2 – nurse doubled dwhite on a night where the celtics were missing two of their biggest offensive threats off ball.
3 – nurse didnt spam the double. nurse mixed up his coverages n tried to surprise dwhite w the double in a high leverage situation w less than 2:30 in the game.
4 – white was red hot. 27/5 on 12FGA
soild strategy. tough result.
strategically you have to pick your poison but the celtics can hurt you every way. if anything id blame the players for bad rotations behind the double and dying on screens in the drop. nurse couldnt even evaluate the strategy bc they didnt play w a lot of energy. the back 2 back prob played a roll
Mailbag Q:
Hi Jason, I love watching the Paolo/Franz duo in Orlando and am bullish they can become the next Brown/Tatum, but in order to maximise their potential I think the Magic need to figure out what sort of guards can play alongside them offensively. Been having an argument with a pretty passionate Magic mate and I'd love you to settle the score. I think guards that can set up the offense and put Franz/Paolo in spots to attack (aka the Fred Van Fleet player archetype) would allow them to just focus on scoring/secondary playmaking and let the other role players feed off that initiator. My friend think Franz in particular can develop into a true point-forward and Paolo enough of a DHO/High Post passer that the guards they should target are more off-ball shooters/cutters (aka the Zach LaVine player archetype) and let the combined aggregate ball handling you talked about before sort out the team offence. Obviously the dream situation is that guard that can do both but those guys don't grow on trees
Suns won because they shot 17-31 from 3 (.548) and 34-54 (.629)while Wolves shot 5-27 (.185) from 3. A 30+ point differential just on the 3s.
Mailbag Question:
Huge fan of the show, and like that you go into detail about advanced stats and some of what is behind them instead of just throwing out numbers like a lot of media does. On that topic, what would you say about contenders like the Bucks, 76ers, Suns or Lakers who have an extremely high regular season free throw rate compared to teams like the Celtics, Nuggets and Warriors who don't. I know those teams tend to struggle more in the playoffs when they don't get the calls, but what goes into making a team that relies on free throws still successful in a playoff setting and what goes into making a team that doesn't get a lot of calls more successful? The way coaches scheme that has been something I've always been curious about.
Mailbag question: Jason this is a long question please bear with me😂, You always mention at the start of every season how the league continues to be stacked and better yearly and how the previous nba champs are gonna have to accomplish bigger goals than the year that they won the chip and so I am curious as to why you believe that every team needs to be at the level they were when they won the chip to be able to win another chip. For example the warriors, you mention how wiggins and klay need to play like the 2022 season to be able to win this year but the truth like you mentioned is that everyone else got way better at this point and so will that still be enough ?
Mailbag question: Jason, why do nba teams rely so much on traditional PR every possession(center coming up to set screen for a guard) to start an offense, instead of actually running plays/sets that are effective. Yes it’s a brute force offense, but didn’t you also say that is something you really need that in playoff crunch times when things are tight…