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Is This Year's Timberwolves Better Than Last Year's WCF Team? | Inside the NBA · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Minnesota moves on second straight Western Conference finals. Is this
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  Speaker 1: a better Timberwolf team than the one that got beat
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  Speaker 1: by Dallas last year?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I was getting ready to say this one
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  Speaker 2: the rare NBA trades? What it worked out for both
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  Speaker 2: teams with Julius and Cat? I mean, and don't forget
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  Speaker 2: the Vitenzo. So how about wouldn't it be great if
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  Speaker 2: they played in the finals. I know Julius round has
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  Speaker 2: been fantastic and Cat has been fantastic for the Knicks.
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  Speaker 2: So this is a It reminds me of the Halli
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  Speaker 2: Burden Sabona's trade. Well, it worked out great for both teams, right,
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  Speaker 2: but Julia's been great and Cat been great.
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  Speaker 3: To answer your question and answers, you know, I think
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  Speaker 3: last year they're a little bit more explosive. I think
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  Speaker 3: Ad was a little bit more explosive. He's been a
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  Speaker 3: little bit too up and down for me. Is this
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  Speaker 3: part of the playoffs? You need your superstar to be
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  Speaker 3: defendive of what he's gonna do. He had a good
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  Speaker 3: game tonight, but this game does not win the championships.
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  Speaker 3: The games will not be Okay See or Denver. So
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  Speaker 3: answer your questions, No, they are good. Congratulations to them,
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  Speaker 3: but I would like to see him step up to
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  Speaker 3: the level we all know he can play it.
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  Speaker 1: Good.
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  Speaker 3: Good is not going to get your championship. Kenny knows
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  Speaker 3: that we need you to be great.
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  Speaker 1: Every time they swept, Minnesota swept Denver, a series which
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  Speaker 1: included jokers sixty one, ten and ten triple double. They
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  Speaker 1: were two and two against Okac. The thing that concerns
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  Speaker 1: me if they play Okac is the fact Minnesota has
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  Speaker 1: been turning the ball over like crazy, and that's what
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  Speaker 1: okay See feasts on. So how do you see this
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  Speaker 1: potential These potential matchups for Minnesota, Okac or Denver.
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  Speaker 4: Both okay See and Denver would be favored to me,
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  Speaker 4: he just told you the world swept Denver, Denver would
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  Speaker 4: be favored. Yes, I just think that you asked. You
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  Speaker 4: asked a great question. I think they have a better team.
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  Speaker 4: I think they've had a better opportunity this year. I
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  Speaker 4: think that they had this team. If this team had
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  Speaker 4: to play the teams that they played last year, they
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't be in the Western Conference finals. The way they
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  Speaker 4: are hit now. I don't think they're a better team
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  Speaker 4: this year yet. Uh and it is what Shaq said
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  Speaker 4: is there was a fear that Anthony Edward has not
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  Speaker 4: imposed yet, and and when if he imposed that fear,
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  Speaker 4: then his his play was so relentless. He he was
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  Speaker 4: the new version of what Russell Westbrook kind of played
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  Speaker 4: at along with. They were comparing him to the scoring
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  Speaker 4: ability of what Michael does at times. So at times
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  Speaker 4: I never said that, but that's what they were saying,
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  Speaker 4: and that was and that was accurate.
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  Speaker 2: It was accurate answer a question y. Sure, nobody's going
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  Speaker 2: to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder this year. They're gonna
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  Speaker 2: go to the championship and they're gonna win it. Whether
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna beat Denver, they're gonna beat Minnesota, and they're
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  Speaker 2: gonna beat whoever come out to East. They have been.
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  Speaker 2: We keep looking for holes. They they they're starting to believe.
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  Speaker 2: That was impressive what they did yesterday. I believe, and
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  Speaker 2: I could be wrong. I think the Oklahoma City have
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  Speaker 2: proven they're the best team in the NBA.
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  Speaker 4: I think he also said that about Cleveland, and I said,
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  Speaker 4: I said, Oklahoma City don't have no holes. Oklahoma City
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  Speaker 4: does not have anything.
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  Speaker 2: Every team left in the NBA, every team left in
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  Speaker 2: the NBA the Knicks have a lack of depth. Denver
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  Speaker 2: has a lack of depth. Minnesota's got a really good team,
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  Speaker 2: Indiana's got a really good team. But I have not
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  Speaker 2: seen any team that could be Okay, see four times
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  Speaker 2: in a week.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you what. Okay, see better win tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: They don't have to win tomorrow. Denver gotta win tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: He got to win tomorrow. Definitely got to win tomorrow. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: the Knicks didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Have to win tonight home for Game seven?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, what that means? That don't mean nothing, Gym, you
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  Speaker 3: know it's gonna you know it's gonna happen. The back's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be tight.
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  Speaker 2: They were tight last night they won. I would say
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  Speaker 2: this game seven, yes, where it is.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you have to know that there is a guy
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  Speaker 4: from from the.
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  Speaker 2: Cert Buken Man.
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  Speaker 1: It's very different and.
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  Speaker 4: He is a different words, and I would not want
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  Speaker 4: to have that one game against him, not one.
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  Speaker 2: I just wouldn't want to play better than he did
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  Speaker 2: last night. Yes, he had sixty one this year. They
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  Speaker 2: lost that game, but he lost that game. Play better.
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  Speaker 2: They lost that game, but they lost that game. Okay, Okay,