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NBA Power Rankings: Jayson Tatum & Celtics DYNASTY loading? Boston’s top challengers | Hoops Tonight

  • October 18, 2024



NBA Power Rankings: Jayson Tatum & Celtics DYNASTY loading? Boston’s top challengers | Hoops Tonight

Jason Timpf concludes his NBA power rankings with Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and the defending champion Boston Celtics. Jason discusses what Boston must accomplish to enter the “all-time great team” conversation, breaks down the Celtics’ biggest strengths and weaknesses, and shares whether he expects Boston to end the season as back-to-back champions.

Timeline:
00:00 – Introduction
02:35 – #1: Boston Celtics
17:05 – NBA Mailbag

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39 comments

  3. You are a good, unbiased reporter; as a Celtics fan, I very much enjoyed watching your Lakers fandom peeking through the cracks a few times as you struggled to praise us! Congrats on finishing the rankings

  4. One on one, Tatum is around the 5th or 6th best player in the league. But as a super-flexible player who can fill almost any role (defending at center, and playing point forward in the playoffs) to build a team around? if I were starting a team, he'd be my #2 after Jokic.

  7. As a Celtics fan I think when we say the 2024 Celtics were an all time great team, we're talking about the greatest SINGLE SEASON teams of all time. Similar to the 72 Lakers or the 83 Sixers who only won one title but are universally recognized as top 10 all time teams on any list for one season. This team belongs on that list regardless of if we win again

  8. Mailbag:

    What do you think is the minimum amount of defensive talent to win the championship in terms of good, average, and bad defenders? We saw the 2023 Nuggets win the championship with 3 average-ish defenders in Murray, MPJ, and Jokic. They had a good perimeter/guard defender in KCP and a good versatile forward defender in Gordon. We saw a similar sort of roster construction with the 2024 Mavericks, who made it to the finals with bad defender Luka, average defender Kyrie, good perimeter defender DJJ, good wing defender P.J. Washington, and good rim protector Gafford/Lively. Can you win 4 playoff rounds with a bad defender if your scheme is good enough? Or do you think that the more equal opportunity teams like the Celtics will make it so that 5 average to good defenders are a must have to win the title?

    Thanks Jason, love the show as always. Keep up the good work.

  10. Around 13:00 Jason talks about how the Celtics are able to get about 20 wins off of the 7 bad East teams, that’s fine, but the other good teams in the East get around the same amount of games don’t they? Should be 20 easy wins for them too

  13. mavs were a top 5 team last year and were healthier than the celtics, and the series wasn’t close. People just want to discredit the team because they are jealous.

  17. Mailbag:
    Pels are a super interesting and often overlooked team.
    If you could make a realistic trade and or change for the pelicans to push them over the top into a playoff team, what would that be? Love the show man

  18. Imma keep it a buck with you Celtics were picked against in the finals you can’t say they didn’t face a legitimate team when everyone picked against them.

  19. Hello Jason, which role player on a bad/rebuilding team that can be the next PJ Washington and Derrick White help a contender either reach the finals or win a title on a smaller optimized role, Good work as always and love your content.

  21. You're funny to think SGA would be the best player in a Boston-OKC matchup… SGA got absolutely embarassed by Doncic and was THE REASON OKC lost against Dallas, and the Celtics punked Luka harder than he's ever been punked in his professional career. Tatum and Brown would absolutely embarass SGA and JDub, and Holmgren is nowhere near Porzingis

  22. As a Warriors fan, I wish my peers could accept that there are just better options on the roster than Moody. As cute as it would be to give him pity minutes.. we're trying to win a championship, here.

  23. No matter how this season goes. I would like the celtics to part with porzing… white.. and al.. pnce they get rid of that money they r under the cap with tatum brown.. holiday to get him we promised him we keep him till 37 atleast so he stays. Then we have home grown. Its ok if we take a small step back and never know we could shock the world. Celtics get under cap keeping brown and tatum. Brown and tatu. Accept taking a step back then we go back in over the cap to reset that tax and go for it round 2.

    Round 1 is now hopefully we get 1 tittles.

  26. Really enjoy your content. Your remarks about players getting progressively better over time struck me. I've been watching the NBA since 1963 and have certainly seen development in certain skills and an increase in tactical sophistication, much of which only became possible because of significant rule changes. For example, the ban on handchecking and virtual elimination of the offensive charge (with the "no-charge zone") set offensive players free to develop their moves in ways that would have been impossible or very difficult in the past. But there are factors that make players and teams "great" that transcend technical skill and even athletic ability. I remember the 1960s Celtics with their continuity and unselfish play, their exquisite team balance and familiarity with each other. Also, their absolute loyalty to each other, their fans, and the team. It's in the crunch and under pressure that a team's character really comes through. I've seen a lot of supremely talented and athletic players and teams melt down in the playoffs in ways that rarely happened in the good old days. The game has become technically more sophisticated, but basketball is still 90% guts.

  28. Nah not me. I've never fallen for the Kawhi crap. He's a damn good player, but he's also been a lucky benefactor of being on good and deep teams vs completely injury riddled teams in the playoffs. He has never carried a garbage team far, or defeated a healthy team that was favored. Never.

    That 2014 Heat was just LeBron and a bunch of fucking role players due to injured to Bosh and Wade (and he still was productive despite the lack of help, and boxes and elbows and trap defense by an all-time great Spurs team) and Kawhi was inconsequential to that Spurs win. He could have not played a second in that series and the Spurs are still winning that series in 5.

    That 2019 Raptors team was deep as hell, LeBron finally left the conference, the 76ers were injured and trash as usual as was Giannis and the Bucks, and in the finals it took KD tearing his achilles and Klay tearing his ACL for the Raptors to even have a chance of winning game 5 against role players and Steph who was NOT good.

    Those fluke playoff runs with the Clippers in which Marcus Morris and fellow thugs were overtly injuring Luka because Luka and a bunch of fucking role players that we can't name were SHREDDING the super team Clippers…

    And Paul George in playoffs? My fingers are too tired for me to name all his collapses.

  33. As a new subscriber I really appreciate your logical and we'll researched basketball takes…but COTDAMN the Lebron is the GOAT argument gets weaker each time you discuss it. Almost seems like you don't truly believe it lmao.

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