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Living in Loserville: Wolves 1-3 then 4-0! Recap Epic 2OT Win at Denver! Preview Last 5 Games! · The Rope A Dope Radio Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Minnesota basketball fans, Welcome back to the Living and Loserville Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: that out of the way. So the last time I
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  Speaker 1: did a show, we had just lost to the Pacers
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  Speaker 1: without their starting lineup, basically, right, And there was three games, right,
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  Speaker 1: two New Orleans games in another Pacer game, which you
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  Speaker 1: assumed then that they're going to be a little more healthy,
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  Speaker 1: and they definitely were, and they took it out on
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  Speaker 1: us and by the way, and so it was three games.
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  Speaker 1: I had guessed in that double Indiana, New Orleans. Those
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  Speaker 1: four games I thought would be two and two. I
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  Speaker 1: did get some pushback from that based off the New
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  Speaker 1: Orleans game, really, but we ended up going one in
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  Speaker 1: two and I guess you could say one in three
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  Speaker 1: really for those four games. But there was only three
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  Speaker 1: games that it passed. And I thought, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: like why even do a podcast right now, Like, let's
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  Speaker 1: see how this plays out. Let's see how the next
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  Speaker 1: couple of games play out. You know, they got some
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  Speaker 1: interesting games with Detroit that turned into a brawl and
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  Speaker 1: it was real, real feisty, right, but they were missing
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  Speaker 1: a key player. And I just knew, Okay, the Denver
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  Speaker 1: games come in Phoenix, you know, I just wanted to
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  Speaker 1: kind of see how we're what we what did they
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  Speaker 1: win eight in a row? And I kind of wanted
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  Speaker 1: to kind of wanted to find out how they bounce back.
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  Speaker 1: So I delayed the show a couple of for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of games, and then it was like, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: let's just run it all the way through this week.
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  Speaker 1: And I have the night off tonight, so I figured
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  Speaker 1: why not, It's a perfect time to do it. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, now they've won four in a round, and
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  Speaker 1: I mean part of that the you know, obviously the
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  Speaker 1: Denver game, that epic, one of the best regular season
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  Speaker 1: games I've seen in a long long time. It felt
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  Speaker 1: like the Timberwolves had lost it a couple times in
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  Speaker 1: that game, like that was a great game, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't think we got it, you know. And then same
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  Speaker 1: with Denver. I'm sure their fans thought they had won
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  Speaker 1: it or lost it. You know, I really thought we
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  Speaker 1: had won it a couple of times, then lost it
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  Speaker 1: a couple of times and ended up you know, getting
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  Speaker 1: the job done one to one thirty nine. That was
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  Speaker 1: just a crazy game. So we're definitely going to recap,
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  Speaker 1: you know a little bit of last night. Get my
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  Speaker 1: thoughts to just dig into some of the stuff in
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  Speaker 1: that Denver game. I mean, the heart, the will, just
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  Speaker 1: everything they showed in that game was just phenomenal. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you know, of course we didn't have Dante, and when
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  Speaker 1: I say we, I mean the timber Wolves they didn't
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  Speaker 1: have you know, they didn't have Dante and they didn't
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  Speaker 1: have Nas. But to be fair, like you know, Martin
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  Speaker 1: and Nas, you could kind of compare them a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: I'd say both offensive players. I'd say Nas is probably
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  Speaker 1: a better defensive player, although he has his wards as well.
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  Speaker 1: But I love me some Dante DiVincenzo, don't get me wrong,
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  Speaker 1: but I definitely would put Murray ahead of him. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So the fact that we, you know, had two suspended players,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say exactly even it out, but like
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  Speaker 1: I said, I just that game was just ridiculous. So
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  Speaker 1: I kind of have like two sets of notes because,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, I just gonna do that three games
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  Speaker 1: and then do another podcast because we had that three
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  Speaker 1: day last week. Remember we had a game Monday and
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  Speaker 1: had three straight days off, and I suppose Dante and
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  Speaker 1: Noz got another three days off, didn't they, or at
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  Speaker 1: least two? So there's some notes that I'll talk about,
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  Speaker 1: you know that kind of had to do with that
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  Speaker 1: little losing streak type frame and then kind of catch
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  Speaker 1: us up there obviously that you know, I hate to
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  Speaker 1: say I told you so, but I didn't feel good
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  Speaker 1: about that New Orleans matchup. You know, win Zion's plan,
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  Speaker 1: and I went over, Yeah, they missed this guy and
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  Speaker 1: that guy. But if they had Zion Zion and they
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  Speaker 1: had a home and you know it just we always
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  Speaker 1: play those guys, you know tight. It seems win Zion's
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  Speaker 1: on the court, so you know, losing that first game,
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  Speaker 1: Zion you know, had like a layup the end to
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  Speaker 1: kind of I think with like kind of know under
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  Speaker 1: twenty seconds. But you know, it's something I mentioned last
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  Speaker 1: podcast about the missed free throws, and I'm looking at
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  Speaker 1: my notes at the last part of that game in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, and Nas misses two free throws, Dante
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  Speaker 1: was one of two. Zion's just killing us. Now luckily
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans in a stretch missed three out of four
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  Speaker 1: free throws, but Ant you know, was missing driving layups.
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  Speaker 1: Randall was one in one of two, Nas was one
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  Speaker 1: of two. I'm just looking at it, you know, there
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  Speaker 1: was another three point attempt that was kind of like
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  Speaker 1: wishy washy from ant and he missed another layup. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, it was just a bad game, not a
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  Speaker 1: good game at all. It was winnable, though, it was
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  Speaker 1: definitely winnable. You know, we were up. It was kind
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  Speaker 1: of a back and forth game. Now with no Zion.
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  Speaker 1: There was this stretch where it was like twenty nine
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  Speaker 1: to eleven kind of opened up the game where really
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  Speaker 1: had a great game in that game and kind of
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  Speaker 1: broke open the game and we ended up winning it
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  Speaker 1: pretty handily, right as we should know Zion, right, and
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  Speaker 1: they already had some guys missing, so there was really
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  Speaker 1: no excuse not to win that game. I was really wondering, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you know, let's see how we do against Indy when
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  Speaker 1: they got their squad back, because that was another thing.
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  Speaker 1: Remember Indy was just pushing the ball on us, even
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  Speaker 1: with their backups. Push push, push, push, push, and it
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  Speaker 1: was killing us. And I remember, you know, thinking, man,
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  Speaker 1: like this is not like there's if teams can pull
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  Speaker 1: this off, they're gonna push. And you could even see
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  Speaker 1: Denver was doing that a little bit to us, you know,
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  Speaker 1: topping he uh, he went off again. Why not? But
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  Speaker 1: they had their full lineup right Indy did, obvious. Ant
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  Speaker 1: was a little in between with that. Was it his
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  Speaker 1: thumb or hand or whatever kind of thought it was
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  Speaker 1: a finger, then it looked like kind of a thumb
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  Speaker 1: hand thing. He did make it in that lineup and stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a slow start, no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 1: But for them, the game kind of even though we
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  Speaker 1: closed the I think Dante had like five quick points
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  Speaker 1: late and and we made it like I'm looking at
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  Speaker 1: my notes right now, eleven and four run to close
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  Speaker 1: the second quarter against Indy, and it was fifty four
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  Speaker 1: to forty eight at half. Hal Burton hits two threes.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Rudy's doing his thing, no doubt. Ant hit
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  Speaker 1: his first three in the third quarter. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: made a little run cut it back to under double
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  Speaker 1: digits because you know it was it was over that,
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  Speaker 1: that's for sure. But there was just some bad turnovers
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  Speaker 1: once again, Ant missing the layup, not finishing at the
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  Speaker 1: rim especially. It's something that especially lately, he's been kind
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  Speaker 1: of I don't know, he was sleep walking with a
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  Speaker 1: bad pass. Alexander Walker had a bad pass and then
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  Speaker 1: just dropped a ball that was passed to him or
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  Speaker 1: was that Ant? I can't remember. It's been so long ago,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, like top it hits a three, it's
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  Speaker 1: eighty five to sixty seven late in the third at
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  Speaker 1: that point, Ant, like I said, he got his first three,
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  Speaker 1: but he was one of ten at the time. We
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  Speaker 1: were getting beat by like twenty two points. Now they
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  Speaker 1: did make like a mini run, and you're thinking, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: can we get back. Nope, Nope, we can't. Uh Nas
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  Speaker 1: had a good game though. In that game, I'll give
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  Speaker 1: him that. Like I said, Rudy did too. We had
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of turnovers, just a poor performance overall. The defense,
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  Speaker 1: the offense. We just got out played, got out hustled.
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  Speaker 1: We had seventeen turnovers and only ten free thrones. So
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  Speaker 1: you know it was it was an ugly one, right.
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  Speaker 1: So that kind of catches us up to more recent
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  Speaker 1: games obviously, you know the Phoenix, it's similar to Denver
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  Speaker 1: at this point. Like the Phoenix, they must just hate us,
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  Speaker 1: Like Denver fans must just hate us when they're sitting
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  Speaker 1: there watching the ship. Now, don't get me wrong, they
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  Speaker 1: have a chip, you know. So I can't sit there
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  Speaker 1: and talk too much about it. Right, But what is
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  Speaker 1: it six in a row? Now we keep winning in
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  Speaker 1: their house? What is it four or three in a
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  Speaker 1: row in their house? We won the first two in
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  Speaker 1: the series, We won three out of the four home
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  Speaker 1: games in that seven games. I mean, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: they just must hate us with a passion. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's just crazy. But that that Sun's game too,
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  Speaker 1: What is it do we sweeping this year? Is at
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  Speaker 1: seven in a row against them? And which is so
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  Speaker 1: wild because you know, in the regular season before that series,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of those games we were getting our I
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  Speaker 1: was kicked against the Suns. We get like five six
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  Speaker 1: days off, get the game plan, and then we start
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  Speaker 1: whipping their ass, you know. So, yeah, we won seven
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  Speaker 1: in a row against the Suns. Now just owning them.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I remember like late was it the last
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  Speaker 1: game on the Sunday afternoon? For for whatever reason, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe this is just the Timberwolves fan fan fandom going
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  Speaker 1: on right now, but it just feels like we always
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  Speaker 1: get and I know it's not always, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: have the stats right in front of me or nothing,
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  Speaker 1: but it just seems like we always have the damn
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  Speaker 1: Sunday game to close the year. This one's at two thirty,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, so at least it's not like six or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But it really doesn't matter. It's just weird. It's just
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  Speaker 1: something weird. But anyway, I just I remember them beating
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  Speaker 1: our ass in that game and thinking, man, excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: be solf serious, dude, And you know, as we saw it,
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  Speaker 1: definitely wasn't. Definitely wasn't. So we're picking up a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of steam. And you know, the Detroit game, we
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  Speaker 1: started out speaking of sleeps walking. I mean that we
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  Speaker 1: were sleepwalking really bad in that game. And I forgot who,
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  Speaker 1: like who tweeted this. I think it was Dane Moore.
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  Speaker 1: He said, you know, they shouldn't they they they're really
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  Speaker 1: dumb to even this isn't what he tweeted, but basically
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  Speaker 1: he's like, why did they even like we were already sleepwalking?
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  Speaker 1: They wake us up? You know that they should have
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  Speaker 1: known that they're not We're not playing them without their
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  Speaker 1: best point guard, right, they're point forward. Basically the dude's
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  Speaker 1: a really tall dude, so like he's not a Ford.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what I mean, like they've been playing
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  Speaker 1: a good brand of basketball this year. It does help
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  Speaker 1: us with our pick by the way. But as soon
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  Speaker 1: as you know, things popped off and you could tell
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: something was gonna happen, not just from that little shoulder
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  Speaker 1: shrug with Danze, but before that, well before that, it
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  Speaker 1: was getting real. It was getting a little reckless on
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  Speaker 1: both sides. You know, I don't blame everybody wants to
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  Speaker 1: just put it on one player, but I think everybody
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  Speaker 1: kind of you know, the at least the players on
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  Speaker 1: the court. Obviously some coaches got suspended too, on both sides,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of that is just getting involved in
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  Speaker 1: in you know, you're not you're not supposed to leave
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  Speaker 1: the bench, right did they still have that rulers that
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  Speaker 1: is that out now that you're not supposed to leave
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  Speaker 1: the bench? But anyway, after that, you know debacle, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it really woke us up because we were down.
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  Speaker 1: We were down by like sixteen, and it was looking like, dude,
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  Speaker 1: are we really gonna it's not you know, this year,
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  Speaker 1: losing the Detroit is not like a slap in the face,
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  Speaker 1: but when they don't have their best player, then it
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  Speaker 1: does turn into a slap face. So it definitely turns
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  Speaker 1: into a slap in the face. So that I mean
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  Speaker 1: so Al Horton here just on Twitter, he said, this
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  Speaker 1: is at halftime. He said, Minnesota Detroit just played a
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  Speaker 1: first half that lasted an hour and twenty minutes, featuring
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  Speaker 1: thirty two falls, forty four free those eight technicals, seven
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  Speaker 1: ejections in a forty eight minute second quarter. That's wild
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  Speaker 1: when you put in that perspective. And I believe that
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  Speaker 1: night Rudy went off again, he had like nineteen and
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  Speaker 1: twenty five or something like that. Was that that game
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  Speaker 1: had a bunch of offensive rebounds. I think ten or
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  Speaker 1: ten of the twenty five was if I remember correctly.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, twelve technical fauls handed out. This is OPTA stat.
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  Speaker 1: Twelve technical falls handed out in that game, the most
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  Speaker 1: combined technicals in the NBA since the Mavericks and Warriors
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  Speaker 1: combined for twelve back in March twenty third, two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and five. So yeah, that kind of tells you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we were down sixteen. It marked our seventh fifteen point comeback,
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  Speaker 1: second most in the league at that time anyway, Right,
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  Speaker 1: and you know we got the most wins we've ever
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  Speaker 1: had in March. If you look at the net rating
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  Speaker 1: and the offense and defense, and I mean it's we're
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  Speaker 1: really putting it all together, man. I mean it's pretty
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  Speaker 1: crazy really, And yeah, I think it was let's see here, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: see go figure them and Boston had the best March
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  Speaker 1: record fifteen to one and fourteen one. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Timers were eleven and three, Golden State was eleven
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  Speaker 1: and four, and Houston was twelve and five, and they
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  Speaker 1: had made a nice little jump prior to that. And
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  Speaker 1: when we did beat We're gonna get to the Nuggets.
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  Speaker 1: That was the h the sweep. It was the first
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  Speaker 1: sweep of the Nuggets in twenty two years. That's just
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  Speaker 1: wild stuff, man, just wild stuff anyway, kind of just
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: going through that game. It just like I said, they
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  Speaker 1: didn't have Murray, they didn't have Porter. I think Nas
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  Speaker 1: and Porter in a sense, I know he's starter, in
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, I think they're pretty close to each other.
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  Speaker 1: I know that Porter is a starter and he makes
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  Speaker 1: a lot more money and all that, but I think
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  Speaker 1: they're a lot closer whereas I think Murray and Dante.
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  Speaker 1: I do favor Murray over there, especially on that team.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, we did start out like crap. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it was it was like twelve to two right away,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen to five, twenty one to ten, Rudy picked up
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  Speaker 1: a second fall and you're like, dude, what is going on?
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  Speaker 1: But they did make a nice little run to close
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  Speaker 1: eleven two to run, so it was only thirty two
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  Speaker 1: to twenty six, and before you know it, they made
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  Speaker 1: another seven zero run and we're only down by a
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  Speaker 1: few points, right so you're right in there, and Timberwolves
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  Speaker 1: on the offensive rebounds. Now they started to catch up
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  Speaker 1: a little bit Denver, but it was eight to one,
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  Speaker 1: like midway second quarter. Dylan am actually got in just
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  Speaker 1: for a little bit, had a nice steal and dunk
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  Speaker 1: not hit a three. Rudy had these rebound dunks. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Rudy lately has like five six eight, Like he's got
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of dunks in these games. And it does
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  Speaker 1: feel like we're starting to activate him a lot more
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  Speaker 1: like we did last year. So you know, Denver did
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  Speaker 1: was only up by a point. I think they was
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  Speaker 1: it sixteen points? Is that what I said? They were
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  Speaker 1: up by sixteen points at some point, and we actually
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  Speaker 1: took the lead from a from a Conley three very
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  Speaker 1: early in the third quarter, and there were these this
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  Speaker 1: is where he's getting a little frustrating in the game, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the start of the game is frustrating, but
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  Speaker 1: then they got their shit together. But there was these
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  Speaker 1: possessions in a role where we just couldn't get the rebound.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that even at that time it was
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  Speaker 1: twelve to six, but it felt like the third quarters
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  Speaker 1: when it started to fall apart for a little bit there,
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  Speaker 1: and you just kept giving these guys like extra possessions
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  Speaker 1: and ended up falling Yokic your you know, Jokic, you
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  Speaker 1: know sixty what sixty two points like he was he
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  Speaker 1: had more, pretty sure, Jokic had more nineteen. I think
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  Speaker 1: it was made free throws than the Timberwolves in general.
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  Speaker 1: And these for those who remember way back in the
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: day Arkansas, Scottie Thurman, those three point shots, remember the
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: one he hit against Duke the rainbow. It's it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like now, he wouldn't lean with it, you know,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: like like jokicch Jokics leans with this three points sometimes,
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  Speaker 1: but and we were giving them to him, like, hey man,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: we'll give it to you, but he's like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: I'll take it. Then his rainbow threes and some of
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: those shots he was making it's like, what can you do, man,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: There's not much you can do. Rudy though a couple
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: end ones the last couple of nights as well, So
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: it's back and forth, back and forth. And one thing
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: because they don't have a rim protector, which is the
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: weakness defense overall, Like Jokic can be in the right
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: spot and he's got a good defensive IQ in a
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: sense right, but as far as like him being their
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: center and him being able to play defense at even
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: a pretty high level, he's not all that great at
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: He's definitely not a rim protector, so that does help amp.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: And he was making some really really good decisions. As
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: we know it's been sometimes it's hit or miss, especially
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: when it's behind the three point line and they rush
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: them with two guys. Sometimes you know, there's a little
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: hesitant where you're like, dude, get rid of the ball now,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: you know, and you're waiting and waiting, waiting. But he
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: was doing a good job. He's driving and dishing, and
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: he made a lot of good points. There are a
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: lot of good passes, a lot of good plays, like
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: just decision making. Now, after I throw all the superlatives,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: there are a couple moments where you're like, are you serious, dude.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: But anyway, at that point, it's the end of the
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: third quarter, Timbers up by five. They had like an
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: eight to one run there and Alexander Walker five assists
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: at the time five boards, has eighteen points. Jokic. You know,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: here's the thing though, at the end of the third
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Jokic had thirty three points, right, which tells you what
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: he did in the fourth quarter overtime, But he only
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: had four assists, which also tells you you got six
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: you know the rest of the time. But for assists, dude,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: you know it sounds funny. You don't want Jokic just
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: to score like here, man, yeah, I have the bucket,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: like like that one Ant possession. I'll say that the
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: double team on him wasn't as effective at times, and
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: and some of it had to do with Ant just
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: wasn't good at double teaming, and he wasn't doing much
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: And there was that one possession. Here's a frustrating part
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: that one possession. Now it's it's yogich, dude. So I
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: don't expect you to like guard him, guard him, but
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: if you're on him, at least like put some effort
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: in there. It was like the most non effort here,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: you're gonna back me up, back me up, back me up.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: You know what. Here, I'll just let you take this
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: little nuffing shot and for him, shit, you might as
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: well put him on the free throw then. You know,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know not to say that he's a poor
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: free throw shooter, but it's like he missed one, you know,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: late in that game anyway, so like you might as
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: well follow him if that's the type of defense you're
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: gonna play. So I was a little frustrating, but there,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: it was just frustrating because the dude was just you know,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: like our doubles weren't working that well, and you could
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: there was like a moment there in the fourth where
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Ant was looking tired. Randall had some turnovers, he missed
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: defensive assignments. It's ninety five to eighty six, and Randall
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: had a turnover. Rudy got a fourth fall, then he
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: had a fall on the other end Randall after that turnover,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: and it was like, you know, this isn't working. But
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Randall did have a pretty damn good game. And you know,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: there was two different drive passes, very creative and then
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: explosive with his drive too from Ant, and as we know,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Rudy picked up a fifth fall and eventually falled out,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: but the game was tied one away. One away. Ant
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: hits a three and hit another three to go up. Jokic,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: you know, looked kind of like maybe he was a
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: push up, but then again maybe he got Rudy off
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: balance and that's how he you know, he falled out.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I believe in that moment. But it's like it's like
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: one eleven, one ten, like it's just the shots. That
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: the one thing I'll say, right, like I said, it
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: felt like we won this thing a couple of times,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: and it felt like we lost this thing a couple
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: of times. And as I mentioned, like I'm sure they
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: were thinking the same thing obviously, and we got the win,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: but it just to me, it just I don't know,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: you know, and had a charge you know, up up
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: up to he had a charge with twenty nine seconds left.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: We missed a wide open three with like fifty something
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: seconds left. Rudy did miss a free throw in there
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: as well, late or not in overtime, but in the
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: regulation the fourth quarter, i should say, in regulations. So
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: you know, we end up following Yokichi makes the two
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: shots right, and it was just a tough three. You know,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: we just weren't really getting good looks and sometimes and
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: that's where I'd say, Aunt, there's a couple of things
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: that I'll point out in general about the timber Wolves,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: but Ant in Randall, at times we're just holding the
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: ball a little too much. And in those games, you know,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: in the last part of those games or quarters, I
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: should say, the fourth quarter and first overtime, second over time,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: it's just the looks that we got were just not
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: that good. And to do it in the first and
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: then the second and then for stuff to happen, like
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: it was a good look from Randall late when he
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: got followed, no doubt, but like I don't know, but anyway,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: it's Aunt has he takes he has a mid range,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: he gets up right Jaden, I think I think Ant
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: took this like Steph Curry type three with like plenty
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: on the shot clock. Luckily Jayden did tap it in.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I believe that was the one. But you know, under
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: four minutes to play, Jokic's got fifty points. Nah hits
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: a three. It's one twenty one, one eleven with two
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: thirty nine left, a long jumper from and it looks
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: like a three, but it's not. So we're up. You know.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Once again, we're up by six, two fourteen. There's no
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: turnovers right in the in the quarter, we're five to
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: seven from from the field and and once again, like
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: the broadcast, someone on the broadcast team said it. He
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: said that that last three was kind of like a turnover.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: He air bawled it. It was just like a a
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: very heat checky Steph, but you're not step I know
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: he thinks a lot of threes, but it just it
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: was a bad shot and I it went end. There
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: are some times with Aunt where you're like, no, dude, okay,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: you hit it. Forget, I'll shut up, you know. But
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: I just didn't think it was time to heat check,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: that's all. And you know, so that was a I
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: had some issues with that, right I get. I definitely did.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: And this is where it got all crazy. Man. Jokic
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: hits the three with like seventy seconds left or something
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: like that, and they're down by three. Ant like a
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: great pass from Randall, like a give and go, and
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Aunt makes a great layup and you're like, dude, we're
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: up by five. And it just and literally I'm looking
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: at the clock fifty seven point one and at fifty
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: three point one, Gordon hits a three long three. You're like, dude,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: it's like you didn't even have time to like feel
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: good about stuff, you know, like it was like, hell, yeah,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: oh he just hit a three. Oh God, here we go.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: You know. It was just it was that type of game.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: And Alexander Walker missed the three. Jokic misses a pretty
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: close up shot. And here's where I have it. We're
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: in our first overtime, right, and here's where I'm just like, Aunt,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: what are you doing now? On the broadcast, they said
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: it was Alexander Walker has to go to the ball
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: when he passed the cross court kind of like a
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: wide receiver cornerback thing, right, Like you can't leave your
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: your your your quarterback out to dry. You have to
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: go to the ball. Sure, in that moment, could he
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: have gone to the ball? Yeah? Of course, did he
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: for sure think it was coming? I don't know about that,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: but so yeah, sure you could say that. And if
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: you did go forward and extend your arms, more more
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: than likely brawn who's coming through, it'll probably result in
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: a foul. More than likely. But the point is, Okay,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: like Randall got the rebound, dished it to Ant. There's
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: there's no shot clock. You're up by two. I mean
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: you're literally up by two. You have a timeout, and yes,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: they are attempting to trap him, right and you know
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: there's still time on the clock. So yeah, there's no
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: shot clock. But he turned it over at like the
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: eighteen second mark or whatever, and so yeah, he would
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: have had to get across the court at some point,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: whether he did it or passed it or whatever, but
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: not really because one, they hadn't fully trapped you yet.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: And I'm not saying wait until they try to grab
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: the ball from you, but you could have just dribbled
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: around more. And and you know there was there was
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: like west I think it was Westbrook and Gordon. Maybe
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: it's Westbrook and Jokic, but they were on the way
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: basically to trapping it. But they weren't. They didn't fully
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: take away his dribble yet. And I'm not saying he
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: could have dribbled to his left, but he could have
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: dribbled backwards into his right and you know, make them
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: follow you. And if they're gonna just let you dribble
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: for eight seconds and see if you can get you know,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: across the court. Sure, okay, then you call a timeout
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: or then you pass it. But when you're up by
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: two and you have a time out, you do not
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: throw that pass. I don't give a shit if Alexander
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Walker didn't extend his arms. It was just I just
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: can't believe that happened. And I'm like, are you f
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: and kidding me? And sure enough, Jokic, you know, just
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: an easy little back you down, no problem, right, and
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: then Walker put up a shot at the end of it.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: It we just didn't get really a good shot again,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: you know. It was like, eh, here we go again.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: We we we have this, we have a drawn up play.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: And yeah, there's sometimes where I think that the structure
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: is needed, more structures needed with with you know, with Finch.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: But there's also times where you're like a highly doubt
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: that the play was dribble for eight seconds and then
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: do this and that you know, or we've we've heard
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: plenty that you know, and just goes rogue and takes
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: a tough ass shot, you know. A few weeks ago,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: McDaniels wide open for a three and he and he
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: took a contested, you know, leaning tough ass shot. So
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: this game was great, and at in the first half sucked.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Second half was phenomenal, and he did so many great things,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: but the non effort on defense, and I just can't
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: believe his first instinct was to throw the ball, Like,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: why they haven't even trapped you yet. Sorry, I'll stop,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: I'll stop, Okay, I'll shut up. So Devery kind of
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: pops off right away with a little six to zero
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: run and they're up by three. Jaden has a nice
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: little put back and has a tough drive and it
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: should have been called there. I'll say that he was.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: We were up one thirty five, one thirty four with
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: like around a minute left, a little over a minute.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Probably should have gotten a fall there, I will say that.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: But we know the turmb rolves don't have a great whistle.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Let's put it that way. And then there was a
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: fall on ant and Gordon hit a three and they're
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: up by two. And now Walker comes back, We're up
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: by one. He hits a three. I think Conley assisted it.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Westbrook missed a free throw right and this is this
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: is where it just gets it just gets crazy. So
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Jokic uh, Westbrook miss Frito. McDaniel's lost the ball. Although
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: that that that whole Jayden, I don't know the Jaden thing.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know how they didn't review the play, and
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: even if it would have just been their ball, at
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: least review the play like that. I couldn't believe there's like, yeah,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: we're jump ball like what like, even if it's not
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: the Turmberwolves. Like I said, either way, Jokic did miss
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: a frito, so we got lucky with Westbrook missing it,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Jokic missing it, we call time out down by one
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: in Edwards once again. Now this one was it was
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: a turnover, it was a bad pass or whatever. But
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: I think it was just a miscommunication between him and Randal,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: I believe. So I wasn't at I was mad that
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: it happened, but I wasn't as mad in that scenario
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: because it looked like a miscommunicator. But I guess, before
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: you throw, you gotta know where the hell you're throwing it.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: But you know when there's seventeen seconds left or whatever.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: But you know, Conley did hustle and he at least
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: affected the play enough where Russell Westbrook missed the layup
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: and Walker gets the rebound, he goes down and Westbrook
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: follows him. In the second he followed him, you know,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Alexander Walker got followed. I was like, we got this dude,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Like all he has to do is hit two out
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: of three. I was very confident, and you know, I
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: watched this game on DBR, so I was up to
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: like probably one forty five something like that. It was
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: in the wee hours in the morning, and I'm already like, dude,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be able to There's no way I'm
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: gonna be able to sleep. You know. It's just like
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: there's just no way. I'm too I'm too energized. I'm
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: just too jacked up. And so I'm going to go outside.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Don't put something in the air. I mean, it's legal now.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: So I was gonna go do what I had to do,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: like just to be able to sleep because I was
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: so it was like playoff atmosphere, and I'm putting my
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: stuff on, like my hoodie and a jacket to go outside,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, we got in the bank. I really
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: felt that way now once I had to see the
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: first free throw to be fully committed with it, you know,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: but I just felt very confident that Alexander Walker was
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: going to knock those down. I mean, I was very
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: very confident and he did obviously at the first two,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: and it did like the perfect third miss where it
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: just went sideways off the rim. It was like the
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: ideal miss. Not that they would have been able to
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: do anything with it, but it was crazy, man. I mean,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: just like I said, just the most wild one of
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: the craziest games you know that you've seen in the
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: regular season a long time. And you know, Alexander Walker
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: twenty five points. It was, let's see, first player in
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: history to come up the bench and record twenty five points,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: fifty field goals, five make threes, five rebounds, five assistant
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: two blocks. I mean, this freaking guy. It's just man,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: It's just man. I can't say enough. It just I
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: did see someone on Twitter say the one he can
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: think of right away as far as the you know,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: one of the greatest regular season games for Wolve's history
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: was December fifth, two thousand and three at Sack. Wolves
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: were down with six points with twenty six seconds up.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: I remember this game, KG hit two threes, Wolves win
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: and this is you know, back when KG he said
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: he only hit you know, he made twenty all year.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: He barely shot him, so it wasn't you know. It
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: was kind of like that Sac game in the playoffs
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: where it was at the end of the shot clock
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: and they're just like, dude, we need you just just
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: make the shot and let's let's see here. Oh. There
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: was also a stat that that the Wolves took twenty
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: five more shots than Denver. Obviously a bunch of those
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: offensive rebounds twenty one offensive rebounds. By the way, mine
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: not got in the game real quick like, and that
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: was just an awesome little spurt. He gave us out
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: of completely out of nowhere. But you look at even
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: if you look at the last five games. This is
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: a tweet from Daan Moore. Rudy Gobert's rebound total in
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: the last five games sixteen thirteen, twenty five, twelve and
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: fourteen at half that was last night. Thirty of those
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: eighty had been offensive rebound. He's moving better. He's just
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: there's just something about him, man, There's just something about
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: him that he's just he's doing his thing, man, I mean,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: he's really really doing his thing. He looks great. He
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: looks great. Now. Last night had a slow start. Both
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: sides really slow. Then we went on. Theos went on
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: like a fourteen to two run, got up seventeen to nine,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: but the Nets made a ten to one run, so
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: it was like twenty to nineteen. Very ugly bunch of
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: turnovers early in the In the second we already had
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: six turnovers. We were like two of fifteen from three
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: sometime in the third. So it was in Randall like
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: had this little weird knee bump. I think he banged
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: knees with somebody. So he was okay, but just a
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: sluggish start, you could kind of tell. Besides, and Aunt
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: was playing pretty good early, but he he got he
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: twisted his ankle right because the coach was right behind him.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: And it's funny because I noticed before it happened, like
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: minutes before that happened, there was another time, and this
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: is the first time where the coach was behind him again,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: and Ant's running back after a shot and he almost
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: trips him there. So it's like, dude, what are you
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: doing right behind offensive players like on the offense when
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: your team's on the offense or defense whatever, Once they're
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: in your side of the court, you're generally closer to
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: half court. The half court marker than you are right there.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: It was a really weird place to stand and you
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: gotta give him room, dude. But he went down came back,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: you know, thank god. But uh, let's see Randall checked
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: back in, so you're like, okay, we're good. And it
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: was like thirty three to twenty eight under five minutes
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: in the second. Nas hit his first field goal at
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: that point, and that's right around the time Ant kind
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: of like bounces back and twists his ankle because he
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: kind of like suddenly stopped because the guy was behind him,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: and he just kind of bent his ankle, like I said,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: two times at a short amount of time where you
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: almost did it and then you did. It's kind of weak,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: but they did make a nice run to close. I
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: think the second was twenty nine to eighteen, so it
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: was forty nine to thirty seven. Aunt back in the
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: game and you're like, okay, here we go. Rudy had
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: got another end one because he had one earlier in
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: the game, had a really easy early dunk two. Ant
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: was already up to eighteen points. He was very Him
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: and Rudy were very efficient last night. Black Shots was
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: another one that that really stood out Jayden had a
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: block and then he had a steal and a dunk.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Nas was kind of like he had these moments where
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: he's playing good, but there he got this really kind
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: of bad fall and then gets beat on a play
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: for a for a bucket. He's been kind of up
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: and down. That's another thing that I'll mention too in
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: a little bit. But they they got their stuff together,
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: and you know, I think in the third they were
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: at one point ten to fifteen the tim rolls from
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: the from the field, but they were eleven eighteen eleven
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: of eighteen overall, Nas up to thirteen points. He had
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: this nice little fake pass layup Dante. He was struggling, man.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: He struggled last night really really bad. But they're up
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: by ten. Rudy had a nice catch and kind of
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: waited for the defense to clear in a in a
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: dunk and then he had a driving layup where you're like,
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: oh shit, what are you doing? You know, I little
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: eighteen oh run that turn into a thirteen to two run.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Ant started hitting threes and next thing you know, we're
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: up by seventeen. Had a lot of turnovers, I'll say that,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: but down the stretch, Nah had a great pass to
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Rudy for a dunk. I had an n one three pointer.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: You know, he was doing his thing too. So yeah, overall,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: like they won the game last night, right, so that
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: that's all we needed to get that dump. That's the
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: only thing we needed. So and by the way, I
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: will talk a little bit about Nico is well met dead,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: but the you know, these are some of the notes
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: I made after that little one of three streak, right,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: and ant his free throws were increasing at that time,
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: like and they still are for the most part, whether
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: he was tired or that hand injury thumb injury was
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: starting to mess with the shooting. It did. And just
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: the other night, I think it was actually last night,
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: he said in God, I can't remember who tweeted that.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: It's tribbly John, but he said, you know that three
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: point shots coming back, So you know he is starting
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: to have that come back. I'd say, you know, the
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: fact he definitely needs to finish at the rint better,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: I will say that. And he's been going to the
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: basket a lot more at times in drawing falls. And
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: you know he's had some games that were like you know,
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: eighteen and twenty one, didn't he have twenty or twenty one.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: One of those games trips to the free throw line,
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: but his three has been struggling lately, so you'd like
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: to see him a little bit more effective at the rim.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: His shot selection is still a shot selection, but I
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: have it has been nice to see him get to
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: that free throw line more, no doubt about that. And
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: we'll see ultimately in the playoffs or some of these
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: other teams coming up. We saund a little bit in
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: that Denver game, if you know, teams do push us offensively,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: kind of in defensively, making you know, making us really
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: play the whole time, but especially pushing that ball even
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: after makes. We'll see if that kind of blends into it,
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: because that definitely was the case in those two games.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: And then you know, of course, I'm going to talk
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: about where we're at in the seatings. I mean, it's
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: it's all over the place right now, Like we were
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: talking about, sixth fifth is on the on the plate now.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: But it's gonna be tough. But we'll go over some
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: of that stuff a little bit later. I did notice, well,
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: first of all, I have this little thing says no
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: more back to back losses, and that's just that's just
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: true because you know that India to New Orleans back
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: to back, that really sucked, man, and that knocked us down.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: But Randall, I have noticed, although I am pretty damn good,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: and you can also blame this kind of on the team.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: The team turnovers seem to be up, but especially the
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: assist to turnover ratio from Randall, I'd like to see
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: that improve a little bit more, maybe, you know, coming
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: off injury. Even before he got injured, you could see
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: him passing better. But you know, obviously those first handful
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: of games, he was averaging a lot of cysts, you know,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: and so some of it's maybe just extra pass too
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: much where it's like naw, dude, you're one on one,
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: take that guy or whatever. But I have noticed that,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: and the defense has kind of gone through some intent.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: It's intents, and it's there and then it's not there. Now's,
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: like I mentioned, has been a little up and down.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: This was, you know, before this little mini winning streak
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: that we got, he had games in the last five
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: of the six games he had single digit games for
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: scoring five, eight, eight, nine, and nine, and then if
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: you look recently, it's kind of been you know, he
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: has a twenty is a thirteen, but he also has
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: a seven, so he's been a little little bit up
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: and down. And Conley, I mean, I saw this tweet
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: from Dane Moore the last thirty games, right, Conley is
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: shooting forty nine point six from three sixty four of
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: up nine. That is just ridiculous. And you know, we
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: knew the risk stuff contained him. His workouts so not
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: contained him, but limited him from really doing a full
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: off season. So we knew that was going to be
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: you know, once I found out about that, as like, oh, no,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: wonder he had such a bad starting season, but it
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: lasted for a long time. But also something I didn't
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: know and Chase Uh Frederick, he was talking about, you know,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: cortisone injections in his knee from some old knee injury
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: that was misdiagnosed or whatever. I heard that on the
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Dame mor Show. I read it about it too. I
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: was like, oh wow, so it was even deeper than
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: deeper than I knew. How how messed up he is,
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: you know, just body wise, you know. But but he's
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: been back for quite some time now, and you know
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: he's he hits big shots. He gets us in the
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: right spots. It's just we really need him, man. And also,
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: like I said, you can see Rudy and the squad
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: is really coming together. You know, we've seen it. Randall
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: talked about that. I have the quote here someplace. He
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: talked about, hey, man, get in the dunker spot, dude,
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: I'll hit you, you know, And so they are. You know,
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: we've already seen don do that. You know, he can
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: throw a pretty good oop to him, or just give
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: him the ball where he needs it, you know. And
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: the one thing is, you know, what always takes a
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: while is just one you know, getting in the past
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: in the right spot because it has to be not
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: perfect but pretty close to it for being honest. And
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: then the thing is, and this is ever since he's
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: been here, like sometimes when you're not getting the ball doom,
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: he'll get frustrated, of course, like we've seen many at times,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: but he does have a point to that at times.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: And on the flip side though, it's like, well I'll
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: catch the ball more and people will you know, we'll
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: trust you more. But it's the fact of not so
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: you're not getting the ball doom right, and then you
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: force it to him, and that's where that's where it
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: all goes off the track at that point. But here's
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: the Randall saying the Rudy I tell his ass all
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: the time, Rudy getting the dunker. If you getting the dunker,
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna find you when we play. When Rudy plays
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: like that too, we're a tough team to beat. And
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: it's true, man, we're really taking advantage of him. I mean,
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: like I said, he had a he had a game
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: where it was like eight dunks in the freaking game,
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: you know, a bunch of offensive rebounds. He's you struggling
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: a little bit or a pair amount actually earlier in
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: the season with that, you know, with rebounding and which
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: is kind of sounds crazy, but he's really tightened that up.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: He's tighten that up. And another guy, McDaniels, Kyle t
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: He had a stat about McDaniel's rebounding. During his first
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: four seasons combined two hundred and eighty four games, McDaniels
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: tallied eight rebounds nineteen times out of all those years
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: four years, and he has he's tallied twenty four eight
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: rebound games this year. Wow, that is a huge, he says,
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: huge development. Yeah, that is big. That is really big.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: But yeah, like there's these stats here and I don't
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: what is it fifteen comeback victories of ten plus this season,
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: and weren't we just down by that in some other
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: game too? I mean, you know, so we can come back,
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: no doubt. You don't want to have shitty starts too
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: many times in a row, obviously, and just the kind
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: of you know, we're in April now, obviously, but like
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: we were first in steels there for a while. We're
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: very efficient the points per game, like I mentioned, the
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: offense and defensive ratings, Like March was one of our
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: best marches. It really was. I mean, we we put
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: it all together. And there was this other stat that
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: Mackie on Twitter shared. Here are the the best ten
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: teams in the NBA net rating minus garbage sheims since
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: early January, and we were fourth Oklahoma City, Boston, Cleveland, Minnesota, Detroit,
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: the Clippers, Denver, Houston, Indiana, and Golden State. That kind
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: of lines up. That pretty much lines up. Let's see,
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: do you? Oh yeah? So Horton the other day said,
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: it feels like the Wolfs have played a lot of
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: close games this season, NBA games decided by three points
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: or less. We have twenty two of them. Atlanta has sixteen,
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: Brooklyn has fifteen, Charlotte has fifteen. Seven of those twenty
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: two have been one point games, the most in the NBA,
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: most in the season franchise ever. Yeah, that's that's that's crazy, dude.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: I didn't realize it was like that, man. And then
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: speaking of comebacks, it's still that stat now from ever
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: since Finch got here, we have fourteen comebacks, right, ten
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: if you're down ten points in the fourth quarter. Okay,
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: in his in his five seasons as it coach, really
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: four full he has fourteen of them, fourteen comebacks, right.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: So in those previous you know, down by ten and
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: the fourth we were fourteen in one away. The previous
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: fourteen season we were fourteen and five forty two. For reference,
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: the league average over the last twenty years has been
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: five point six percent of those games. So that was
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: two point five the fourteen season before, percentage wise eleven
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: and a half like that. That's what the the fourteen
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: so far he's at. That's crazy, man, that is crazy. Also,
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: after that Denver win, the Wolves had clinched a winning
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: road record for the second straight season. They've had a
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: winning road record just three times, three times in franchise
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: in thirty four years. Oh my god. Charlie Walton's a
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: great follow By the way, the Wolves are second best
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: with a nine and ten league wide, or they're nine
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: to ten in league wide games where they're not the favorite.
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's that's good and bad. But in the
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: clutch time basically the last five minutes of regulation and
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: then the both overtimes, Anthony Edwards. I gave him some
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: shit for some of the decision making, but nineteen points,
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: eight of eleven, hit three out of six, he's plus seven.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: Two of the biggest shots were those back to back
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: threes with two minutes left out. Those were huge, man,
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: those were huge. So but just going off like some
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: of the standings and where we're it's it's a lot,
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: it's a lot. You know, we'll definitely get into some
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: of that and see where everybody's at, you know, when
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: it comes to that. Let's see here. Yeah, I've heard
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: you talked Rudy. He's the last five, six, seven games,
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: he's been awesome. Alexander Walker just a valuable asset, just
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: playing great. This guy's made a lot of money here
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: in the last little bit. Let's Let's let's say that,
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: as I mentioned, Aunt was passing pretty well, fairly well
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: against Denver when they're blitzing them and all that. What
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: else we got here? Oh, here's a crazy stat. I
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: heard this from Britt on the Dame Warren podcast. Their
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: last one together. Conley had five assists in overtime. In
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: the two overtimes he had five assists in the he
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: only took one shot. It was a make So that
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: kind of tells you something about that that kindly guy.
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: He's really him and Rudy are really clicking right now, man,
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: And that's just perfect timing. So you know, we got
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: a four game winning streak, could we There's five games left? Right?
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: You have tomorrow at Philly, who you know now has
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: lost another player for the rest of the year or
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: he's not gonna play anymore. Maybe not lost for like
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: he's he's hurt for six months. But so there's no
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: excuse not to win that game. Tuesday at Milwaukee, which
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: once again you get Monday and Sunday off, but really
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: Sunday Monday. That's that's the order, isn't it. At Milwaukee?
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: Now that's gonna be tough. Is Dame back? Either way?
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: It's tough. Milwaukee's tough. They got a lot of good players,
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: a tough matchup. Then Thursday at Memphis, who has struggled
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: a lot. Still don't know why they fired their coach.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: Maybe it got that bad, but while you were like
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: the fourth in the West or something. So we do
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: our last back to back at Memphis and then home
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: Brooklyn and then a two thirty Utah game in Brooklyn, Utah.
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: Both those teams do not want to win those games.
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: So we do have a back to back, but we
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: got to take care of business. But obviously at Milwaukee
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: and at Memphis is going to be the toughest, right
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: So will we go five and zero and that would
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: be our longest streak nine wins whatever, it was our
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: longest eight before. Right well, they go four and one.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of like, that's kind of where I'm at
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: right now. I think they're going to go four and one.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: Or hate to say it, because you know this team
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: as well as I do. This year, win a few.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: If you win, if you lose a few, lose a
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: game you shouldn't. I'm not a I'm knocking on wood. Okay,
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: I'm knocking on some wood, but don't count out three
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: and two. I'm just trying to get you emotionally ready
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: for it. Okay, don't you dare count that out. No,
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go four and one. I think they'll close
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: four and one. On the season, Matt has a good
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: chance of getting them out of the plan. And you know,
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: if you're if you're in seventh place at the end
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: of the season, you do get at least one home game.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: If you lose it, you get another home game. But
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: as we know, it just sucks, like if you if
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: you get the A spot, you know, you you're playing
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: on a Thursday or Friday, and then like forty eight
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: hours later you're like, all right, now you're going to
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: a seven game series. You know. So if you can
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: just the fifth spot's nice and all that. And you know,
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: we could sit there and say, well, technically the horse
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: bots open and you know, blah blah blah. But just
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: getting the sixth spot and above would do it, you know,
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: it really really would. It would be so great. I
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: mean that would be crazy. And honestly, if you look
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: at the Hasawa, someone posted the games through March thirteenth, right,
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: and how different it looks like Memphis was second, Houston
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: was fifth, right, and then you look through it through
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: April second, they're eighth. Now you know, it's just in
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: Houston second. Like I'm not saying we're gonna get second, right,
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: but when you look at the other teams, obviously we
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: do play Memphis straight up. Now they've lost, you know,
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: they lost the Cleveland no big deal, beat Miami, lost
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: the Sack Portland, the Clippers, bet Utah, then lost four
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: in a row. Most of those. Yeah, they're all good teams. Okay,
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: see La Boston and Golden State. They did sneak out
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: a win last night, so they've been struggling. But they
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: just beat Miami. Not they're not world beatiers as we know.
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: But they have to go at Detroit. Then they play Charlotte,
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: then they play US. Then on a back to back
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: there they played Denver and then Dallas, who actually showed
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: a little bit of life. I don't know if they
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: will you know, on the last game of the season,
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: but they have to play Detroit US in Denver. Okay,
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: so that's that's pretty good. As we know, Golden State's
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: been playing better. They play Denver to not tomorrow or tonight, someday,
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: they play Houston, Phoenix, you know, San Antonio, Portland, but
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: then they closed with the Clippers. So Denver, Houston and
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: the Clippers. That's pretty tough, man. And then the Clippers
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: they gonna play Dallas back to back. Maybe they lose
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: one of those games, I don't know, but then they
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: play San Antonio, eh, Sacramento, whatever, but then Houston in
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: Golden State. So you know, the Timberwolves definitely have like
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: the least I'm gonna I'm not gonna say easiest, Okay,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: the least difficult schedule remaining. They just do. So I'm
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: gonna say forn won, I want him to go five
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: and oh that would be phenomenal, but I think foreign
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: one will keep us out, and obviously the Memphis one
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: is very important. That's that's pretty easy. Here's a little
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: quote from Rudy Gobert. I feel like I'm telling you a
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: story like it's storytined from Rudy Gobert. I'm gonna do
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  Speaker 1: it in a French accent. I'm just kidding. We are
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  Speaker 1: the biggest we are our biggest opponent. We get a
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  Speaker 1: little complacent when people start saying we're good, and when
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  Speaker 1: the odds are with us, that's when we're not as good.
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  Speaker 1: It happened last year in the playoffs. The odds had
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  Speaker 1: us losing the first two series. Then the second we
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  Speaker 1: win those the second all of a sudden, Oh you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna beat Dallas. Boom. You know, so we gotta keep
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  Speaker 1: that mentality, man, we gotta keep that mentality real quick.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Schmidt, retiring sports director for KSTB Channel five, shouts
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  Speaker 1: out to you, Joe, SMI had a great career. I've
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  Speaker 1: been paying attention to you since I was a kid. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: We also got some pretty good news that we knew
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  Speaker 1: was gonna happen, just like we know that the sale
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: is going to go through in the NBA, right, But
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: technically I hear people saying, well, officially now officially, Mark
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  Speaker 1: Lori and Alexander Rodriguez are the owners of the Wolf
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: in the Links, but actually not officially just yet if
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  Speaker 1: we're being official about it, right, if we're being technical
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  Speaker 1: about it. But it's gonna happen, It's gonna happen. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's definitely gooda. It's gonna get approved. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: he had a little appeal potential he would have had
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  Speaker 1: to was it was it a federal case, and then
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  Speaker 1: he could have challenged it state wise or was that
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  Speaker 1: vice versa, I can't remember, but either way he would
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  Speaker 1: have to prove that, you know, I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: he'd have to prove. Just doesn't make sense to me.
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  Speaker 1: So it never did. But I did read the Athletic
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  Speaker 1: John today and he said win the two. Obviously, Robertguees
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  Speaker 1: and Lori take over control of the teams. They're expected
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  Speaker 1: to be aggressive about the gates, and they were aggressive
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  Speaker 1: when they were just co owner or like partial owners,
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  Speaker 1: I guess you could say. In addition to using the
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  Speaker 1: last year to prepare themselves financially for the transition, they
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  Speaker 1: have been working on plans for the new arena to
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  Speaker 1: replace Target Center, second oldest building in the league behind
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden. Keeping the team in Minnesota, they said
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  Speaker 1: numerous time, is their plans, so yeah, that they're going
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  Speaker 1: to keep it here. They're keeping it here, just so
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: you know. A crazy stat I saw on stat muse
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  Speaker 1: there have been two sixty point games this season. Both
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: of them were losses, and both of them were to
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: the Wolves. I forgot all about that, So obviously, you
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  Speaker 1: know it's time to retire KG obviously, and hopefully hopefully
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  Speaker 1: KG wants to join in some former fashion. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I heard about like the Minneapolis Farmers Market as a
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  Speaker 1: potential area. I've heard about a couple of couple of areas.
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  Speaker 1: Most of them have been well, a couple of them
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  Speaker 1: are in the burbs. I'd rather keep it downtown. I
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  Speaker 1: like having all the stuff downtown. I mean, when I
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: was a kid, the met Center was where the mall was,
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  Speaker 1: and technically the you know, there was a stadium that
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  Speaker 1: with the Twins and the Vikings played at all in
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  Speaker 1: the same place, right right by the Maldenburg obviously, but
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  Speaker 1: we'll see. But now that you know the backing that
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: they have, I mean, I'm not a fan per se
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: of Bloomberg, but as far as business goes, yeah, my
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: guess is they they're gonna sell that. And then there's
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: like an ex Google I can't remember his name off
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: the top of my head, but like an ex Google executive.
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  Speaker 1: My guess is they're going to sell that to them,
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  Speaker 1: you know, some of that to them, and use that
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  Speaker 1: money to to invest and build the arena, because they've
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: always talked about it privately building it, which I wouldn't
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: doubt if we kick something in once they prove they're
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  Speaker 1: going to privately do it, but that would be phenomenal.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if they privately funded, who's gonna complain, then
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: you know that'd be great. And the energy just everything,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: like any everything around this franchise is on the up
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: and up, man, and it feels great. And you we'll
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: see where this season goes once again to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: We're in the We're gonna be in the playoffs. But well,
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: you know, I say that, but if you're the if
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: you're the seventh or eighth, you might you know, there
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  Speaker 1: is that there is that shot that we don't do it.
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  Speaker 1: So real quick. To end the show, Nico Medven returns home.
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  Speaker 1: So we got another home home boy, like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people like to say, And that's not any kind
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  Speaker 1: of weird angle there. He's from here. He was a
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  Speaker 1: boy here. You know. Ben Johnson obviously was from here
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  Speaker 1: as well. Well. Shouts out to Ben Johnson. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it was a tough run for him. Last year was
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  Speaker 1: such a key year and had they have finished that
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: season better, he might have a job right now. I
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: don't know, but it I don't know. It does sound
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  Speaker 1: like the NL is in a lot better shape now,
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  Speaker 1: not just from people giving it to him, but a
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: lot of it has to do with Actually, I think
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  Speaker 1: Monday is that House bill that'll pass. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: this Monday. Anyway, we're gonna have more money. And the
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: way Coyle's talking about it, the athletic director, he's talking about,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be in the top third when it comes
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: to that, and this is a six year deal. It's
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: funny because Furman Drake Colorado State and now here. He's
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: been an assistant coach at all stops, which is a
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: good sign. They liked you as assistant, they brought you back.
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  Speaker 1: You know. The point is, what is he fifty one?
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: He has a lot of coaching experience. And the thing
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: about Ben Johnson, he never was a head coach. He
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: had two really good stops at Marquette in Nebraska if
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: I remember correctly, and he's a hell of a career
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: recruiter then, and he's a hell He was a hell
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  Speaker 1: of a recruiter here, he really was. He got us
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  Speaker 1: a lot of talent a lot of times, you know,
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: the best player in the state didn't come here and
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: stuff like that. Dude, it's so hard in basketball to
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: get the top player, man, because if Duke or North
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: Kaka Laker, one of these major programs come calling, it's tough. Man.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: It is tough anyway, you know, for him to have
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: I think twelve years of being a head coach Furman,
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: he was a head coach for a while. I think
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  Speaker 1: it was just one maybe two. I think it was
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: just one year maybe two at Drake helped turn that
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: around and then got the Colorado State job. In three
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: out of the last four years they were in the tournament,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: they were, you know, a crazy shot away from being
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: in the sweet sixteen. I'm really excited. I think it's
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: a great hire. Only one of the recruits are staying.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: That's not the craziest thing nowadays. I guess that Parker
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: dude said the fit didn't work for him or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: We have done a little recruiting. I'm not going to
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: get too much into the recruiting and who we're bringing
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: in just yet because I've kind of wanted to assemble
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: more and then I can get my full take on it.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: But it does. He did bring an assistant coach, Brian
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: Cooley with him from Colorado State and Dave Thorson, who
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: was previously here and they coached too before, so it
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: was jailing John Crocker Johnson, He's coming over. That's the
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: big one that's coming over from Colorado State. And then
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: there's another dude who came over who's from here to
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: a center, I believe, But like I said, I don't
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: want to get to its a mote, bj a mote
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: or whatever. Washington and Oklahoma State and Iowa a couple
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: of other teams are after him, but we'll get into
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: that once they built the roster in general, but I
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: think it's a great hire, really great hire. And like
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  Speaker 1: I said, to have twelve years as a head coach,
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: and you know, he went to a small school in Furman,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: and it's crazy that he was a manager here. And
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: you know, I remember him in this interview talking about
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: how Clem you know, got him an invite to this
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: abc D camp. Because back in the day, it was
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: a you existed, but at least in the Midwest, people
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: just called it traveling traveling basketball. It was like a
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: step up from your you know, normal basketball, so like
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: your local basketball team, right, and so it was traveling.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: But then you'd have these camps in the summer before
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: a you blew all the way up. This is back
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: in my day, and and it's just crazy that he
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: went full circle because technically he was here with Munson
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: for a year, I think as an assistant coach. But
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: when you have that, he's fifty one, dude, he's been
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: an assistant coach like a what four different stops, five
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: different stops, and you know this is this will be
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: his fourth program, like I said, Furman for a while,
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: one year at Drake, maybe two. I think it's just one.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: And then Colorado State. And the thing about Colorado State
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: is they won the conference last year. They in that conference,
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: the Mountain West. I think if you're a buck right now,
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: it's one of the better, if not lately been the best.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: They had a better display in the tournament, the big
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: tournament this year or last year they didn't. San Diego
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: State made it out of there not long ago. My
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: point is the Mountain West for a mid majors legit,
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: so he has legit coaching Chops and now it's like
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: he's fully developed as a fifty one year old to
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: come here. So I think it's I'm really happy with it.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: We'll see where it goes, but I'm gonna get out
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: of here. I Am going to let the rest of
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: this season play out and then do a show basically
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: before the series start. You know, I'm hopeful, right, Obviously,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: we may have to do like a certain show sometime
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: that just is a weird time frame, just because I
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: won't know if we're in the plane or not, or
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: it's too early to tell. If i'd be like, hey,
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: on this Monday, I'm gonna do the show. So I
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: will do one before we start our playoff series. But I,
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: like I said, I'm guessing my guess is four and one,
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: and I hate to say it, but if I had
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: to lean five and oh or three and two, I
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: hate to say it. Okay, I hate to say it.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: I would say three and two. But I'm gonna go
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: four and one to close out the year and that
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: should do the trick. Anyway, I'm gonna get out of here.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: You guys enjoy the rest of the regular season, and
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: hopefully we got a lot of good news, all right. Anyway, Peace,