Why Luka Doncic had MOST IMPRESSIVE 2023 NBA season for Mavericks | Hoops Tonight
Jason Timpf reveals which NBA player has “bragging rights” heading into the 2024 NBA season among LeBron James, Luka Doncic, Nikola Jokic, Jayson Tatum, and many other stars across the league! Later, Jason answers listener questions during an NBA Mailbag segment.
Timeline:
00:00 – Introduction
04:02 – Bragging Rights Criteria
09:10 – Why Luka Doncic has bragging rights
15:49 – NBA Mailbag
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38 Comments
Over half an hour of mailbag questions, love it!! š¤©š¤©
I agree that the West is better, but the West 1st round was actually less competitive then the East this year. In the West there were two not particularly competitive sweeps, a 5 game series and a 6 game series that both felt somewhat inevitable. Meanwhile in the East, other than the Celtics series every series went at least 6 games, and while injuries took away from what could've been, they still seemed more competitive to me.
"Luka good off-ball work on D" really?
Why doesn't this guy use advanced metrics and instead focuses 95% of his analysis on POINTZ???
Jason who do you think is the better scorer, Luka or Kobe?
He lost the Finals. He's not ahead of ANY Celtic, ESPECIALLY NOT Tatum or Brown, who locked him up.
Losers don't get to brag…
When you make it to the Finals, and lose, you don't have bragging rights! Great player, fine, but they didn't get the job done, and he was culpable for the loss!
LLAMF MAN ..JASON….
JUST SAY THE DAMN TRUTH MAN…
HE IS THE BEST PLAYER….SMDH
Boston and OKC are in their own tier
The Celtics ended the season 80-21 and one of the 5 most dominant teams in the regular and postseason.
I wouldnāt say it was just a bad matchup š
I really don't understand why you cant just give Boston the credit that they deserve. Every chance you get you continue to hate on Tatum and make him out to be the ONLY player in history to every have help. We get it: you want the Lakers front office to go after players like the Celtics core have (jrue, d white, horford/porzingis) but you don't have to project the jealousy onto us. Man TF up and tell the truth
23:43 āIf Iām a freaky athleteā.
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It's so crazy to me Luka's this good while clearly not in his best shape. On the other hand, getting the scoring title as a chubby white guy is quite the flex š¤£
Finals MVP
Uh oh, here come all the triggered Celtics fans. lol
It is really hard to call it bragging rights when you pick a guy who was thoroughly embarrassing in the Finals that Brian Windhorst went off on him.
If Luka started bragging, anyone would say āYou played terribly in the Finals, threw a massive hissy fit and fouled out in the must win game, and then got blown out by Giannis in Olympic qualifying.ā
If this was a satisfying season, he is never going to get a title.
It seems crazy but I think itās a good idea to abolish conferences. It should be immediately implemented after the retirement of LeBron. Closing of an era. Much more competitive finals and more coast to coast rivalries that we never get to see now such as Celtics Lakers
MAILBAG MAILBAG
Hi Jason Iām from New England so I grew up a huge Celtics fan. Outside of the two Jās, my favorite player from the 2022 Celtics run by far was Robert Williams the third. Assuming health, what team do you think would be able to maximize his huge defensive upside? I canāt imagine a rebuilding Portland Trailblazers team will be able to do him justice, thanks and love the show!
Luka should have been MVP, period. Its quite possible he could have had 2 by now.
Guarantee thereās still going to be a Luka fan crying in the comments šš
Wait….Boston was a tough match-up for Luka? You mean with his 29/9/6 average (injured) for the series? What was Boston's best player's averages again? Oh yeah….21/5/5. Sounds like Boston was the ones with the bad match-ups (except KP if he'd stayed healthy), but Dallas lacked firepower at SF and the bench, and it cost them in 2 close losses. I'm really looking forward to Dallas facing Boston again this year with 20ppg coming from their SF and two bench players who shoot 38% from three. I'll be curious to see how bad that match-up is going to be for the Mavs this time around. š¤£
You claimed that the east had bad first round series but if we compare it to the west they had a much more entertaining first round series. The west had 2 sweeps and one 4-1 after a 3-0 lead. The only decent series was the mavs which didnāt even have a healthy Kawhi. The east had one 4-1 series, the pacers bucks series went as long as any western series in that round. The two best first round series were in the east, with 7 games in Orlando and the best first round series and honestly best series in the whole post season was the sixers Knicks.
You saw an ESPN survey that had NBA basketball personnel involved. Not quite the GM survey but you didn't hallucinate
I hope Minnesota goes to the east, the next expansion will either make the parity so much better or worse. Grizzlies & Minnesota to the east, Vegas and Seattle on the west
Maybe itās because Iām old, but there was a time when the West was worst that the East.
The East was dominant in 60s, 80s, and 90s, and that was just fine. The West got better in bye late 90s when 3 of the all-time greats of the next generation went to Western teams, either in trades or drafts (Duncan, Dirk, and Kobe).
If Milwaukee kept Dirk and Charlotte kept Kobe and Orlando didnāt go cheap on Shaq, the West not have been so poor.
having bron in ypour thumbnail in september 2024 for views xDDDD
MAILBAG
Hey Jason, watching from NZ. I enjoy seeing your content, particularly the breakdowns about different NBA skills and players that demonstrate elite skills.
You've said that you have two different all-time lists – Perimeter players vs Bigs. I'm curious where you would have Jokic on your Bigs list, particularly if he is able to continue his dominance and get a couple more rings. Also can you do a video on your top 10 all time Bigs? I think it would generate a lot of debate with the generation that grew up watching Kareem, Hakeem and Shaq.
With elite centres like Jokic and Embiid not just having an interior game but also initiating on the perimeter, I'm curious if they would better sit on a perimeter list rather than a Bigs list?
I'm a Heat fan so while I've enjoyed the past few years of basketball, I wish the front office would commit on a direction because the two times the Heat have gotten to the finals, they've really struggled, particularly against the elite Bigs in those series (AD and Jokic).
I would take Jamalās winner over AD after big comeback, than Lukas shot over Gobert.
Tim Bontemps of ESPN did a survey of NBA personnel with questions pretty similar to the GM survey so maybe that's what you saw recently.
He also holds the most blowby in the HISTORY of the NBA… So yeah include that in his bragging rights.
Good choice. What does MVP mean if not results like those you mentioned. Best stats, and dragged team deeper in playoffs than any pundit predicted.
Oh yeah, the all important ānarrativeā
Brunson top 5
Luka was ROBBED OF MVP this season: ā¢ 34/9/10 ā¢ 1st in points ā¢ 2nd in assists ā¢ 73 point game (4th highest ever) ā¢ First 33/9/9 season in NBA history ā¢ Most 30-PT TDās since MVP Russ ā¢ 1st in 25-point games ā¢ 1st in 35-point games ā¢ 1st in 40-point games ā¢ 1st in 45-point games ā¢ 2nd in 3ās made ā¢ Top 10 in steals ā¢ 61.7% TS ā¢ Highest scoring season in Mavs history ā¢ Most PPG + RPG + APG since the merger. ā¢ Most consecutive 25 point triple-doubles ever ā¢ Most consecutive 30 point triple-doubles ever ā¢ Lifted Mavs from 11 seed to 5 seed ā¢ Most games missed by teammates among all playoff teams ā¢ Mavs 50+ wins ā¢ Mavs 1st in clutch win% ā¢ 6th best record in entire NBA ā¢ 9th best ISO Defender ā¢ Carried mid Mavs team to the finals while injured the whole POššÆ
For me personally, Lukaās best moment was the first quarter in game 5 when he singlehandedly destroyed the wolvesā belief that they could win while silencing the whole arena..
In the press conference after the game Ant said himself after being asked what the reason for their meltdown was. He said āLuka! Itās just that simple..ā
COOL, CANT WAIT FOR THIS SEASON
MAILBAG question – i love your reference to Curry about his fight, sheer competitiveness and making the most of his gifts. What are your thoughts on Embiidās lack of fight and effort and is he wasting his physical gifts? Who else would you rank as the most competitive players who give everything every game. Josh Hart comes to mindā¦love listening to your show, Australia
Appreciate you reading my question bro, love the show
Should have been the MVP