TIMBERWOLVES-NUGGETS REACTION: Anthony Edwards & Julius Randle SMOKE Nikola Jokic & Jamal Murray
Jason Timpf reacts LIVE after the conclusion of the Denver Nuggets vs the Minnesota Timberwolves to break down Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray taking on Anthony Edwards in a Western Conference playoff preview. Then he discusses the first game of the doubleheader, the Boston Celtics vs. the Oklahoma City Thunder. Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown battle with Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Chet Holmgren in a potential Finals preview. Finally, he gives Steph Curry his flowers for his patience through the down years of the Golden State Warriors and discusses how they’ve emerged on the other side since the Jimmy Butler trade.
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Timeline
0:00 – Start
5:00 – Intro
6:45 – Timberwolves/Nuggets reaction
22:45 – Thunder/Celtics reaction
37:30 – Steph Curry’s patience
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48 Comments
Timberwolves have been charging all season. Now they’re fully charged.
4.5 min intro jesus christ.
The west in my opinion is like, all matchup based. Just like last year, each team has a weakness that another good team could exploit, it just depends on the luck of the draw
Jokics roster has gotten worse and worse each year the gm has made horrible moves he signed Dario Saric for $10.6 million and he’s dnp and the whole bench is g league players . Murray and Porter get paid more than tyrese maxey and haliburton and are the most inconsistent players.
Also gotta disagree w shai being the best player on the floor tn, i thought it was comfortably tatum tn, he wouldve had well over his 8 assists as well if his teammates werent being brick layers. The team is miserable without him, meanwhile the thunder actually excelled when shai was out. Also, whos gotta beg the league to give tatum his ft’s?? Say what u will about tatum, but he works on offence, and goes up with the intention to score most times, and i just cant say the same about shai, whos rewarded for playing soft sometimes, where he purposely flails or falls down on minimal contacy
Here's how Denver can fix their struggles vs the Wolves, get a bench 😂. Because they have none and Minnesota has a great one. That and a Wolves just erase Jamal Murray time and time again.
Timberwolves fans bout to be out there chanting “Who’s your daddy?” to the Nuggets as they send them to Cancun for early vacation. Nuggets fans better pray they don’t meet in the playoffs.
OKC is like Canada basketball. They fold under pressure.
Shai was incredible tonight but I actually think Tatum played slightly better than Shai.
Watch how many open shots Tatum was generating that his team just weren’t able to capitalize on.
In this game:
Player A: 34 points, 5 rebounds, 7 assists, 1 steal, 0 blocks, 5 turnovers while shooting 55% from the field, 90.9% on free throws & 28.6% in 3 pointers
Player B: 33 points, 8 rebounds, 8 assists, 0 steal, 0 blocks, 4 turnovers while shooting 52.2% from the field, 100% on free throws & 30.8% in 3 pointers
Player B leads in rebounds, assists, turnovers, FT% & 3P%
Player A leads in points, steals & FG%
Player B is Tatum, player A is SGA
Idk why ppl write that Jokic is smoked. Not like everyone except him didnt shoot like its their 1st time shooting 3's
Analysis starts at 6:42
This is getting out of hand
Once again, you "commentators" took your eye off the Wolves this season, assuming the struggles in the beginning meant their season is done. Wrong.
26:00 Not the mamba. He wrecked Indy in his first finals.
Giving Murray the max might seal the deal for Denver's future, he's completely neutralized by NAW and Jaden
I tried to tell people. We fundamentally are better than we are last year in a playoff context. Kat did not help us really at all in that atmosphere. He was actively hurting us in fact. Randle may not be much better but you at least added a guy who can handle the ball along with divo, rob and Shannon might not be ready but I do believe we can get some usage out of both guys. It all goes to the goal of keeping and fresh. That’s the most important thing
Westbrick
Why does this guy keep putting out anti jokic narrative? His channel getting paid to spread propaganda? No way this is an actual opinion. Put me on the show and I’ll debate you down with your narrative
Show starts@ 6:41
Tame intro bro. Someone with a guitar need at least an intro with guitar
If Denver meets them in the first round tbh I think I got Minnesota winning again. Matchups are very important in basketball
This game is actually the great explanation on why Joker is MVP.
Nitpick for sure but why doesn’t a producer just trim the front of the video before posting, does it auto post from live?
Nuggets FG%: C.Braun 30%, MPJ 30%, Murray 26.7%, Picket 20% and Watson, Nnaji, Alexander and Jones combined for 0000%. 11/48 Nuggets' shot possesions right there. Combined FG% 23%. It is way worse than it looks. Jokic and Westbrook combining for 53pts on 21/35 for Fg% 60 were not in same universe with rest of the team.
In my opinion, Jamal Murray is a good to great 6th man on a dynastic championship team. He’s not a great second option because he’s too short and he’s not a good two way player.
The sole reason why the wolves beat nuggets every time is that they have bigs sho slow Jokic down and they win easily. Take out Jokic during the play you will win the game
11:50 Ant has passed to Jaden in the corner for their entire careers, regardless of his shooting numbers, Jaden shoots like 4-5% higher when assisted by Ant as well, that part of their game has never really gone away. The times it's been really bad has been the times that the shot clock winds down and he's in the corner standing still and shoots it with 3 seconds to go
Yeah idk how the story of that game was “Shai was the best player on the floor and the Celtics had bad process.” Like did they take some bad shots sure, but only Tatum could confidently dribble inside the OKC defense so credit OKC. I also thot shai and Tatum were both amazing I thought their play was even. Really I thought the difference was Payton jrue and JB all shooting a combined like 2-30 from three or whatever it was. JB played horrible and the Celtics fouled too much. Ik that’s not a headline grabbing take but that’s what I saw
I thought you said you were working on providing clips of the plays you’re referencing??? Like, a year ago you mentioned this.
Wolves are better than last year. This is the best defense in the league, it took a minute but Julius bought in and it’s a wrap.
KAT isn't that much better than Randle. Both are very flawed players.
I said last season jrue shot way better than he normally does he wont replicate that
Celtics fan, we tried too hard to spread the wealth. This was game where they could have ran JT pick and roll to the ground as his decision making and patience were next level and OKC could not stop it. Trying to force feed JB in the post and too many corner isos from auxiliary players that weren’t at their best really hurt. All in all I feel better after this game than the one in OKC because we didn’t get absolutely shut down like that second half in January
Best thing to happen in Minnesota was the injuries. Allowed the young guys to share the ball and make the offense flow. Now the vets have to play the same way.
Takes almost 7 mins to start 😅
Minnesota is quite comfortable playing OKC and Denver.
Wolves are arguably the second best team in the west when fully healthy. They are deep, have the superstar play, great defensively, and can shoot the 3 ball really well. The only thing that will stop them from a deep playoff run is themselves
Are any teams matchup proof?
Wolves are just warming up. I've predicted them to go to Conference finals this year once everyone is healthy. Now that they are healthy, they are blowing teams by 20
I feel like every video Jason makes he changes his opinion 😂
Every time Jokic touched the ball, he was getting hacked. Do the same to Edwards. Make him have as many scars as Gobert and Reid give to Jokic.
The refs let the Wolves hold and grab Murray and other which throws Denver off their rhythm. Got to own their spots and do better.
Damn the mvp can’t beat the Ant Edwards anymore 😂😂😂 he be kickin jokic ass since last year and in the Olympics and now he 3-0 against him this year? Look like jokic was a 1yr wonder 😂
JAFAL WORRY IS NUGGETS BIGGEST PROBLEM! THEY HAVE TO GET RID OF HIM ASAP ❗️‼️
The Wolves ceiling is the Finals and their floor is losing in the play-in. As a MN sports fan, this is apt
P.S. Jokic isn't shooting the ball too well. He's shooting 33% from three over the last two months.
Great Warriors analysis….
Julius Randle being a + offensive player while being a guy who can bang down low w bigs on D is a slept on piece of this, he made Jokic work last night
Julias is a much better playmaker than Kat