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September 28, 2024 • 12 mins

Jason Timpf reacts to the Minnesota Timberwolves trading Karl-Anthony Towns to the New York Knicks for Julius Randle, Donte DiVincenzo, and a first-round NBA Draft pick. Jason shares why he LOVES the move for Jalen Brunson and New York...and he can't same the same for Anthony Edwards' Timberwolves..

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to tonight. You're at the volume heavy Friday. Everybody. If
all of you guys have had a great week, we
got a bonus episode because the New York Knicks are
trading Julius Randall and Dante DiVincenzo to the Minnesota Timberwolves
for Karl Anthony Towns, a classic instant chaos NBA trade.
I'm just gonna give you guys my initial impressions on

(02:18):
this deal in this video. As you know, we're going
through a power ranking series that is full season previews
for all of these teams, and thankfully we haven't gotten
to either of the Knicks or the Timberwolves yet, so
now when we hit those teams, we'll be able to
get into more detail. So I promise we'll go into
much much more detail when we get to those videos.
But I wanted to give you guys my initial impression

(02:38):
on the deal. You guys owe the job before we
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them throughout the rest of the year. All right, let's
talk some basketball. So I want to focus on the
Knicks angle first, and also we're getting this out before

(03:00):
we see any additional details, so I'm not sure if
there was any draft compensation. I'm not expecting much in
the way of draft compensation, if any, just because this
seems to be a player for player type of deal, right,
But let's focus on the Knicks first. So obviously you
lose Dante DiVincenzo. You're a little thin at the two
now right. My guess though, is that duce McBride ends
up sliding into that spot in the short term. There's

(03:22):
also an opportunity for them to go bigger if they
wanted to go with McHale Bridges at the two and
og In and Obi at the three. But either way,
this could be a precursor to another deal. I'm not
sure what the Knicks are going to do about the
two spot, but that is a small price to pay
for what is an incredible fit at the center position.
This is a center position where you're already gonna have
some depth issues. You lose Isaiah Hartenstein. Obviously Mitchell Robinson

(03:45):
is dealing with an injury to start the season. So
it was a position of specific need and you paid
one of you paid the weakest of your starters from
last year. And I really like Dante Devincenzo for the record,
and we're gonna get into more details on Dante. I
think Dante's awesome. He is a great in Minnesota two.
We're going to talk about that. But of all the
players that you gave up, you give up Dante DiVincenzo,

(04:06):
but you give up this kind of clunky, janky fit
in Julius Randall, who when the original version of this
team before McHale Bridges, before Ojananobi made some sense as
like a secondary shot creator of Ford that you can
use to attack matchups, as a kind of like a
guy to spell and give some rest to Jalen Brunson. Right, However,

(04:26):
now that Ojan Andobi's in the building, now that Michale
Bridges is another shot creator for you, that Julius Randall
thing is a little clunky, and you didn't have anybody
to play at the center position. Karl Anthony Towns seamlessly
slots in at the center position. Now you're going if
McHale's at the three, you're going Mkale, Ogan Andobi and
Kat at the center position. Just a lot more like

(04:48):
natural basketball fit there. One of the things that I
didn't like about Carl Anthony Towns with Minnesota is Minnesota
really needed a secondary shot creator, right. Anthony Edwards was
creating most of the stuff they needed Cat to like
actually create shots, And that, to me, is not my
favorite use of Karl Anthony Towns. To me, I love
Carl Anthony Towns more as an off ball score, meaning

(05:08):
I want him picking and popping and then catching and shooting,
or catching and driving on the closeout or okay, you
get a favorable matchup like a switch. I like Carl
Anthony Towns attacking mismatches in the post. I don't like
him attacking other big forwards in the post. Right, So like,
in order to get those mismatches, you run the screening
actions that you like to run. Karl Anthony Towns gives

(05:31):
you somebody that can attack a mismatch on the other side. So,
like imagine a Jalen Brunson Carl Anthony Town's two man game.
A team switches it. Now you've got a small on
Karl Anthony Towns. You dump it to him in the post.
He can go to work. They run a drop coverage.
Jalen Brunson can get downhill and engage the screen defender,
kat can pop the pick and pop is the hardest

(05:51):
action to guard with a traditional drop coverage because your
center is dropping to the basket and then has to
close out to the three point line, or you have
to rotate from the weeks, which now your defense is
in rotation and you're running around like your hair's on fire. Right,
So like Karl Anthony Town's absolutely seamless offensive fit. Now
as far as the off the defensive end goes, obviously,
Carl Anthony Towns is not the type of defensive player

(06:14):
that Mitchell Robinson is, not even quite as good as
Isaiah Hartenstein was or I actually thought it was pretty
solid for the Knicks last year. However, if you're going
to be weak protecting the rim, you want to be
good on the perimeter. And so let's say to start
the season it ends up being duced McBride at the two.
If I have Duce McBride on the other team's best guard,
or McKale bridges on the other team's best guard, in

(06:34):
Duce McBride on the second best guard, and I have
og on the other team's best forward, I've got three
like outstanding, very very good perimeter defenders, all of different archetypes.
Deuce McBride is like a small, super quick footed player
that can really pressure the ball. Mckaal Bridges has length
and can apply back pressure as good screen navigator, a
guy that's more using his long arms. And then No

(06:56):
g Nanobe has the strength. He's this big tank of
a And so you can kind of pick and choose
how you match up with those guys and give yourself
a chance to contain the ball. If you contain the ball,
rim protection is nowhere near as big of a deal.
And so like again, if you're gonna have Karl Anthony
Towns anchoring your defense, you'd prefer to have the defensive
personnel that the Knicks have. And like, quite frankly, right now,

(07:19):
if you imagine a lineup with Jalen Brunson and let's
call it Duce McBride for now, Michale Bridges, og Ananobi
and Karl Anthony Towns, that is just a shit ton
of talent and that it just gives that team another
dynamic that they didn't even have after the McHale Bridges trade.
So I'm super super excited to see what the Knicks
look like with this group onto the Timberwolf side, I'm

(07:40):
a little bit confused as to where they're going here.
I like the Dante DiVincenzo fit. That to me is
like if you remember last year how spotty the Nakille
Alexander Walker minutes were. If Dante DiVincenzo slots into the
starting lineup and then you put Mike Conley at the
two or whatever you decide to or Mike Conley, I
should say, off the bench, whatever you decide to do.
I just like that core better, like if I like

(08:01):
a three guard core of Anthony Edwards, Mike Conley and
Dante DiVincenzo more than I like it Anthony Edwards, Mike
Conley and the kil Alexander Walker right, Like, Dante's just
a way more reliable and is a way more reliable
shooter than Nikil Alexander Walker. But he also has a
lightning quick release and he can shoot it from deep
and like you guys saw in the playoff run like

(08:22):
he had some stretches where he shot the seams off
the basketball, and like I even like it because you
guys know, I've been critical of Anthony Edwards navigating ball
screens and just as it just has a tendency to
run into him and die unless he's trying really hard,
which he just doesn't do all the time. On defense, right, well,
you can imagine a scenario where Dante DiVincenzo is next
to Aunt. He is an excellent ball pressure guard. Dante

(08:43):
Devincenzo is like a scrappy pain in the ass point
of attack defender, and so like him next to Aunt
can slot him into an easier defensive role as well.
That I like, here's the problem. What has been my
issue with Minnesota over the last couple of years. It's
been about their ability to create space for Ant, who
is one of the best drivers of the basketball in
the league right now, arguably the best driver of the

(09:05):
basketball in the league right now, right and so if
Ant needs space to work, and it was already clunky
with Jaden McDaniels, Karl Anthony Towns is one of the
best shooting bigs in the league, and Rudy Gobert. If
you shoot in Julius Randall there, it's going to be
really weird when Ant has the ball that's a three
four five, that there's not a single guy in there

(09:26):
that you're really scared about burning you from the perimeter consistently. Now,
Julius Randall, when he's healthy and in rhythm, has had
stretches where he shot the basketball well, but it's been inconsistent.
And he's very much a rhythm player. So when he
gets out of the lineup and then comes back in,
he usually doesn't shoot the ball well for a little while.
And so again it's it's a bet on Julius Randall

(09:46):
shooting the ball well when he gets over there. But
even as we've talked about, it doesn't really matter how
well you shoot the ball. They don't guard you, okay.
So I like the Julius Randall fit when he has
the ball. I think Julius Randall, when he's healthy and
in rhythm, is better at creating his own shot and
creating shots for others than Karl Anthony Towns. He's nowhere
near the off ball threat that cat is, But on
the ball, I think when healthy, that's how Julius Randall

(10:09):
made all NBA teams. He's a big, bullying forward that
can pick on matchups, has a good mid range game.
When he's in shape and in rhythm, can be a
scary player there, But whenever Ant has the ball, the
fit makes absolutely no sense to me, and so, like,
I don't really know what Minnesota's ultimate goal is here.
We want to try to kind of wait and see
if they end up making another deal or if there's

(10:31):
a larger plan here in place, Like where does nas
Reed fit in all of this? Is he still just
the bench big? Like, I'm curious to see where Minnesota
goes from here. It's in a very simple sense, you
turned one player Carl Anthony Towns into two players and
Dante DiVincenzo and Julius Randalls. So you could argue it's
an increase in depth, but I just worry about Ant
on the ball, not having the space to get to

(10:53):
the rim. This to me, I think Ant is the
next truly great superstar in this league, and he is
a downhill for so space to work. And even though
Julius Randa will help him to be able to take
over the offense at times, I'm not sure that fit
makes much sense when Ant has when Ant has the ball.
So again, that's just kind of my initial impression on it.
I'm gonna sit on this, sleep on this, get into

(11:16):
it in way more detail. I want to say, I'm hitting.
I can't remember how I have my rankings, but I'm
hitting at least one of these two teams. Next week
in the season preview segment, we're going to get into
much more detail. But that's my initial thoughts. Knicks fans,
Timberwolves fans, drop your comments in the YouTube comments underneath
this video. If you have any questions or thoughts Basketball

(11:38):
takes about this particular move, let me know. We might
shout out in our mail bag later next week. All right,
As always, I appreciate you, guys. I hope you have
a great weekend, and I'll see you on Monday the
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