What We Learned About Tatum & the Celtics + Heat, Lakers, Spurs & Suns Big Wins | ALL NBA Podcast
Adam Mares and Jason Timpf break down the biggest NBA games and storylines from around the league, starting with the Boston Celtics blowing out the Cleveland Cavaliers and what Jayson Tatum’s return means for Boston’s offense and defense. They analyze Tatum’s playmaking, shot creation, and the lineup flexibility he gives the Celtics, along with why Boston’s style of play creates problems for Cleveland. The episode also dives into James Harden’s off-ball defense, the Miami Heat taking down the Detroit Pistons, the San Antonio Spurs beating the Houston Rockets, and the Los Angeles Lakers’ win over San Antonio. They wrap with quick reactions to the Phoenix Suns defeating the Charlotte Hornets and Paolo Banchero’s recent strong stretch of play. A must-watch for NBA fans tracking contenders, star performances, and the biggest games shaping the playoff race.
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00:00 Intro
02:14 Celtics blow out Cavs + Tatum’s return
04:35 JT’s playmaking + helping against better teams
06:00 How he changes the defense
06:47 Tatum’s shot creation
10:48 Boston imposes its style on the game
13:55 Celtics lineup flexibility with Tatum back
16:44 Celtics exhausted Cleveland
17:40 Does Tatum’s role change?
22:52 Boston is a bad matchup for the Cavs
29:48 Harden’s off-ball defense
33:01 Heat take down the Pistons
40:29 Spurs take down the Rockets
51:05 Lakers beat Spurs
53:58 Suns beat the Hornets
57:04 Banchero has been balling
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15 Comments
Great work as always Adam! But this bum just Jason is the fakest “laker fan” in media. He’s clearly just a Bron fan. Speaking on other teams he’s decent but on lakers he’s biased garbage. Spends 3min after a huge Knicks W basically calling it a fluke. Luka has an incredible weekend of elite MVP level hoops and he says not a word about him at all. Whenever he has half a bad performance he spends 15min bashing him on every podcast he can possible get on that week. It’s embarrassing disappointing and tragic. Brunson was embarrassed on defense all night and Luka had awesome defensive effort for a while now. When they win it’s “lakers this lakers that” when they stumble it’s “Luka is the worst of all time” it’s a wild narrative. Imagine home town journalists that actually liked their franchise. Brunsons media force field must be studied. He’s everything people pretend Luka to be- heliocentric, non floor raising, scoring only, non playmaking, non rebounding, absolutely no defense ever player. And he’s worshipped at all times by all media nationwide.
Denver blows out the lakers? Brah it was a 6 pt game wtf is Adam on about.
Adam is on crack
Chapter says “Lakers beat the Spurs”
lol in Jason’s dreams. 😆
Go Spurs Go!
23:34 you dont fear a dragon's teeth, you fear the flames
It is wild to me that Cade has kept the pistons at the 1 seed since Nov 7th. That team has 0 consistent role players and he has to create shots for everyone, is guarded by the best defenders in every game, doubled constantly, works with the 4th worst spacing in the league and still manages to get 25ppg and 10 assists while playing good defense. And he is only averaging 3.2 free throws in the last 10 games. It’s pretty impressive. But he seems to be wearing down a bit. It’s just too much to put on 1 person.
I am surprised they just lost 4 in a row though. You’d think that they’d win that Nets game even without Cade and Ausar..
Fleming and Maluach starting to look like real players
Celtics vs Spurs NBA finals 🔥 🍀
Honestly, I think if anything we’ll learn from JB & JT and the injury is that their passing and less ISO will help the team as a whole and them picking the times when they do, will be important going forward…you’ve definitely seen that growth in JB, not getting into a pile of bodies to the basket and turning it over because they’re passing just before the lane closes matters. JT seems to be doing this as well. Probably seeing stuff off the bench changes the points of view.
CELTICS NATION!
If the lakers can get to the three seed, Adam silver will take care of the rest… lakers Celtics finals, anybody?
On your own podcast, you can manage to put a sentence together without misusing the word like, but every time you come on this program, it's like like, like and it drives me nuts.I cannot listen to it
Tatums only flaw is his double jointed elbow. He flares that thing out on every shot and it sends him into bad shooting slumps. I also feel it’s the reason he loves sidestepping to the left and drifting left when he shoots because that somewhat counteracts how far right his wrist juts out from his elbow joint.
I really don't care what any of these guys say about the spurs for the rest of the year. The Spurs could be like 59 – 5 right now and all these guys would still say, they're playing great, but blah blah blah. Let's just see what happens in the playoffs. I know we need daily content but its just so reactionary from game to game