Jason Timpf answers five questions heading into the second half of the NBA season. Will Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks win the Eastern Conference over Jayson Tatum’s Boston Celtics and Joel Embiid’s Philadelphia 76ers? Are Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving destined for failure with the Dallas Mavericks? And is it NBA Finals or bust for Kevin Durant in his first playoff run with Chris Paul and the Phoenix Suns?
Timeline:
00:00 – Introduction
03:33 – Who wins Eastern Conference?
11:15 – Will Nikola Jokic win 3rd straight MVP?
25:08 – Will Luka Doncic & Kyrie Irving duo be a failure?
36:07 – NBA Finals or bust for Kevin Durant & Suns?
46:18 – Amen Thompson NBA Draft buzz
57:34 – Bronny James top 10 prospect? + Closing
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37 Comments
I do believe assigning KD to the Mikal bridges role limits the ceiling but that might be what they have to do so everything goes smoothly and whatever the result is they will have to live with it.
Next season is when they will have the time to construct an offense around this starting 5.
I suppose they can try to do it in these last 20 or so games but that might frustrate Ayton who is currently playing his best basketball and I'm sure he doesn't want to sacrifice at this moment for a team who forced him to be there after disrespecting him
In my opinion they should get rid of CP3. I think he's at the point where he limits the offense. If you want consistency he is the perfect guy but I'm pretty sure having a PG like smart is what the suns team needs.
Pelicans make finals if McCollum Ingram and Zion healthy
Lebron could've easily won 5 straight MVPs at least
THANK YOU JASON. Can we stop using on/off as a way to quantify contributions to winning? That lineup staggering effects almost ALL advanced stats
The Golden State Warriors come alive in the playoffs. It's definitely make or break for the Suns. The Mavericks could make the West finals with Kyrie but Kyrie will leave the following year for the Lakers once the Mavs lose. The Nuggets aren't going anywhere, despite being at the top of the West. The 6ers wont beat a healthy Bucks team. And the Bucks have a score to settle with the Celtics. This could be a Giannis v Curry final. The teams to watch out for. Clippers in the West, Cavs in the East. The 2 dark horses of the NBA. June 2023 will reveal all 🏀🏆💍
I think yall are messing up by not leaving jayson tatum in the mvp convo the dude literally always has an amazing stretch of basketball right after allstar break so when he comes out and averages 37 7 and 7 and plays lock down defense for the next month I dont want to hear yall talk about it at all because yall are not worthy of talking about it
So defense don’t matter with the MVP?!
Man J I’m definitely gonna watch the vids with just you my guy 😂
Everyone hyping up Jokic lmao this guy hasn’t done SHIT in the playoffs
Prime Lebron James could of carried that Nuggets roster further haha but yeah thats about it..
They can pick up stanely now
Imagine being Dallas you pick up Kyrie but the team already better than yours the suns pick up KD.. And yes Dallas beat the Suns last years playoffs but the Suns have a better team
Carson need to come back more
Missed you Buddy Carsen
Carsons great!
Always love your takes and your duo was also spot on
Simmons lead the 76ers to the 3rd seed when Embiid was out injured.. He was good.
Jokic winning mvp 3x in a row is pure prejudice… mj an bron have never done it so what makes him deserving of 3x ! Voters trying to make him an Luka the new faces !
😂 can’t believe Carson is 6”5
You guys are good man Carson a cool cat but I gotta say looking at him I would never guess he loves basketball and is so smart about it lol he looks like a real estate agent but carry on great podcast
Devin Booker is another amazing player whose played for the Suns
Saying that Jokic dosent rely on isolation is first of all not true just because he dosent dribble 10 times and shoot a contested jumper dosent mean he dosent iso, but its also trying to subtly penalize him for generating "easy" shots (that arent easy at all because most of them come from 6-12 feet floaters) at the highest rate ever, as if thats supposed to be a bad thing
Imagine if jokic got the biased whistle of embiid or giannis and jokic had 11 fta instead of 6, he'd average close to 30 on higher ts% because of the fts
Jokic decided not to attack pj tucker in the embiid game because it was a regular season game vs an eastern conference team, the next game they beat a western conference team and the sixers lost to the magic
That game was won against the nuggets bench without jokic who gave up 15 points in 2 minutes
The on off is very real and very important, as you cant really beat jokic himself but the bench
Never understood giving in to the haters, validating their insane and unjustified hatred based on no basketball reasons
And 99% of arguments are without 'catchall metrics' (who no one says are actually the be all end all) which do actually matter and Jokic clears
This is my push back on Joker is that when stats are this close , there are other things to consider , Giannis in the biggest games has been able to go like 90% from the line in a game or be able to fit more roles since he can be used different ways at an elite level on defense and offense . Giannis should have won it last year , I am butthurt about that still but with him missing games and now the wrist , if he plays the rest of the way close to what he was doing , it should be him this year . The straw pole like said in the video seemed weird since Giannis should of had more votes and then does make me think it's just going to be about stats…………….watch the game lazy voters!!!!
I know its only Maxi Kleber but for Mavs,if he will be healthy for the end of season,it will be huge for their defensive problems.
Nuggets are regular season frontrunners. They’ll be exposed in the playoffs. The Suns or Clippers will come out of the west. Mavs and Warriors are the dark horses. Memphis, Denver, Kings, all frontrunners who will not make it past the 2nd round
it'd be sick to see you guys have a weekly talk
Don't forget Portis has been out most of the season. Giannis is always the MVP just like Lebron used to be yet hasn't won an MVP in over a decade. Jokic is incredible, so I understand the argument fie him.
Steve Nash is a multi time MVP. He is about KD level all time.
Yeah I think Phoenix Suns are going to the NBA Finals with Boston Celtics
Lebron for mvp
Jason got a new guitar!
I can’t wait to see this Bucks team down the stretch.
Giannis will be back soon, Portis should be coming back too, AND they haven’t even added Crowder to the rotation yet for added 3&D help.
Give Kyrie whatever he wants tell him he can no call no show 50 games a year if he so chooses