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Speaker 1: Miles Turner has completely returned to form. He's playing the

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Speaker 1: best basketball of his career. His last eleven games. He's

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Speaker 1: averaging twenty points and nine rebounds, two point three blocks

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Speaker 1: per game, and shooting from three on over four attempts.

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Speaker 1: Overall's shooting fifty from the field. Miles Turner has been

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Speaker 1: so damn good that I I'm stunned that the Lakers

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Speaker 1: have not been begging the Pacers to make that deal now.

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Speaker 1: My guests uh Joan Jovan Buja went on um Alan

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Speaker 1: Silwa's podcast this morning I Believe and specifically said that

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Speaker 1: the Lakers are leaning towards a deal that would send

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Speaker 1: something like Kendrick Nunn and Patrick Beverley in a first

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Speaker 1: instead of a Russell Westbrook centric deal, and uh, if

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Speaker 1: they do something along those lines, uh that I would

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Speaker 1: be interested to see if they like kind of threw

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Speaker 1: another minimum contract in there and tried to target just

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Speaker 1: Miles Turner rather than Buddy Heals, giving them a legit,

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Speaker 1: big identity that they can go to. But the shout

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Speaker 1: out to Miles Turner, He's and awesome. And then the

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Speaker 1: big guy with the Pacers, we gotta shout out as

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Speaker 1: Tyrese Haliburton. He's quickly become one of the best passers

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Speaker 1: that we have in the league. And you guys know

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Speaker 1: how much I value high level playmaking. It's always been

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Speaker 1: my favorite NBA skill set because you know, all all

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Speaker 1: NBA players, especially in this era, are getting so good

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Speaker 1: at basic things three point shooting, wonderable pull ups, floaters, driving,

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Speaker 1: and kicking. The league in general is getting a lot

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Speaker 1: better at extending advantages and finishing plays. So having guys

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Speaker 1: that can beat that initial wall of the defense to

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Speaker 1: get them into rotation is so incredibly valuable, and Tires

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Speaker 1: is doing that an extremely high level. UM. He's got

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Speaker 1: a fifty five effective field goal percentage on pull up

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Speaker 1: jumpers this year, which is the You know, again, if

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Speaker 1: you want to be a successful pick and roll ball

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Speaker 1: handler or advantage creator in general, you have to have

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Speaker 1: a pull up jump shot. You have to be able

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Speaker 1: to dribble and beat people off the dribble, and you

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Speaker 1: have to be able to see the floor well enough

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Speaker 1: to pass. And Tyree's adding that legit pull up jumpers

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Speaker 1: opened up everything for him this year. He's one of

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Speaker 1: the highest volume pick and roll guys this year. So

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Speaker 1: he's only in the sixty three percentile in terms of

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Speaker 1: point per possession, but he's run four hundred and forty

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Speaker 1: pick and rolls this year. It's one of the foundational

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Speaker 1: pieces of that Pacers offense, and he's getting more than

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Speaker 1: one point per possession out of it, which is really good.

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Speaker 1: That means that in a set defense situation like half court,

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Speaker 1: everyone's trapped. They can wear out and spam tyrese Alibert

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Speaker 1: and pick and roll and get good stuff out of it.

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Speaker 1: So shout out to the Pacers playing some good basketball.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine they'll pull the plug eventually. Um, But

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Speaker 1: the one the one thing that's weird there is, uh

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Speaker 1: it be It would be a lot more interesting to

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Speaker 1: look at them if Malcolm Brogden was around still, But

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Speaker 1: then again, you gotta keep things open for guys like

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Speaker 1: Benedict mather and to develop Alright, moving on to the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Timberwolf. So Karl Anthony Towns had a cash strain.

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Speaker 1: Thankful it wasn't worse. Obviously, we were all terrified when

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Speaker 1: we saw that video clip the pace. The Wolves really

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Speaker 1: need to take their time with this one, because you

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Speaker 1: have enough talent with Gobert and with Anthony Edwards and

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Speaker 1: D'angela Russell, you have enough talent to play functional basketball

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Speaker 1: during this stretch, so there's no reason to rush Carl

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Speaker 1: Town's back. We've seen examples in NBA history, particularly with

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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant in two thousand nineteen, where a cash strain

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Speaker 1: when you rush back can turn into an achilles issues.

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Speaker 1: So I hope they take their sweet time figuring this

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Speaker 1: out and getting Carl Town's healthy. The nice thing, the

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Speaker 1: silver lining, whatever you want to talk about, the glass

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Speaker 1: half full way of looking at it is this will

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Speaker 1: actually force the Timberwolves to play some more traditional lineup.

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Speaker 1: So before we go any further. I just wanted to

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Speaker 1: give you guys some line up data about the Gobert

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Speaker 1: Towns fits. You guys can kind of see what it's

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Speaker 1: looked like in different combinations. These numbers are per cleaning

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Speaker 1: and glass by the way, which which filters out garbage time.

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Speaker 1: So when Rudy Gobert and Carl Towns are both on

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Speaker 1: the floor, the Wolves have a minus one net rating

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Speaker 1: in eight hundred and thirty two possessions. Remember net rating

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Speaker 1: is just differential per one hundred possessions, meaning they're getting

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Speaker 1: outscored by one point per one hundred possessions. Um defense

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Speaker 1: is good, not great with both of them on the floor,

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Speaker 1: which is concerning because that's why you make it go

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Speaker 1: bear trade. And then their offense is pretty bad. When

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Speaker 1: Carl Towns is on and Rudy Gobert is off, they

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Speaker 1: are dead even in six hundred and fifty seven possessions,

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Speaker 1: a hundred and nineteen point five offensive rating, which is incredible,

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Speaker 1: in a hundred and nineteen point five defensive rating, which

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Speaker 1: is atrocious, So kind of what you would expect Gobart

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Speaker 1: off in Towns holding things down on the center position,

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Speaker 1: especially with all the perimeter defenders they lost in that

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Speaker 1: deal with Gobert on in Towns off it's been bad there,

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Speaker 1: minus eight point nine points per one hundred possessions and

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Speaker 1: four hundred and thirty two possessions. Awful on both ends

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Speaker 1: of the floor. That's got to be concerning because that's

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Speaker 1: where you've got to go now with um with Carl

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Speaker 1: Town's being out. So now as we kind of talk

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Speaker 1: about what that's gonna look like, remember what worked for

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Speaker 1: the Jazz. What worked for the Jazz was Rudy Gobert,

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Speaker 1: everyone chasing guys off the three point line and funneling

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Speaker 1: to him, and then on the offensive end tons of

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Speaker 1: ball handling and shooting. Because Gobert's offensive limitations can be

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Speaker 1: a problem, but he's a great screener, and he's a

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Speaker 1: great vertical spacer, and he's a great offensive rebounders. So

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Speaker 1: as long as the aggregate lineup spacing and shooting and

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Speaker 1: ball handling is good enough, you can still run a

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Speaker 1: really successful offense with him. The problem is, this is

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Speaker 1: what's crazy. When Gobert has been on the floor without

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Speaker 1: Carl Towns this year, the most used lineup for the

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Speaker 1: Timberwolves has involved nas Read So they're playing two bigs

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Speaker 1: even without Carl Towns on the floor, which just doesn't

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Speaker 1: make any sense. That lineup is Jordan McLoughlin, Jalen Noel,

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Speaker 1: Torrian Prince, nas Read and Rudy Gobert. That's the most

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Speaker 1: commonly used Gobert no Town's lineup. They've played twenty seven possessions,

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Speaker 1: so obviously a little bit low volume, but they've only

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Speaker 1: had a seventy offensive right with that group just to

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Speaker 1: not enough ball handling, not enough shooting. Um. There are

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Speaker 1: some go Bear lineups that have worked. If you plug

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Speaker 1: in Anthony Edwards for nas Read and now it's Jordan McLoughlin,

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Speaker 1: Jalen Noel, Torrian Prince Anthony Edwards already Gobert their plus

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Speaker 1: thirty two net and they have a hundred and forty

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Speaker 1: two offensive rating, albeit in a somewhat small sample size

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Speaker 1: only nineteen possessions um. So again, like the Gobert lineups

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Speaker 1: have primarily been bench groupings, they're playing him a lot

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Speaker 1: with Jalen Noel, playing him a lot with Jordan McLoughlin.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna change. The Gobert by himself lineups are now

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Speaker 1: going to be a lot of like D'Angelo Russell Anthony Edwards,

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Speaker 1: And what I'd like to see them do is just

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Speaker 1: go with two wings and so go with like Torrian

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Speaker 1: Prince and Jada McDaniels, for instance, or you know, Kyle

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Speaker 1: Anderson and Jada McDaniels, and just lean on like you know,

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Speaker 1: a better version of the Jazz because the Jazz just

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Speaker 1: didn't quite have the perimeter defenders. But Kyle Anderson is

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Speaker 1: a really good perimeter defender. Torrian Prince is a really

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Speaker 1: good perimeter defender. Jaden McDaniels is a good perimeter defender.

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Speaker 1: Even Anthony Edwards when he's locked in, is a good

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Speaker 1: perimeter defender. So they could functionally have some groupings that

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Speaker 1: are better versions of what the Utah Jazz do. They

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Speaker 1: just need to actually put those groupings together now that

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Speaker 1: Carl Towns is out of the rotation and they actually

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Speaker 1: moved those Golbert lineups into those starting groups um specifically

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Speaker 1: when they and now I've tried to find some data.

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Speaker 1: They don't have a ton of data when those types

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Speaker 1: of groups are playing again because the starters have usually

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Speaker 1: included Cat. But when they've played dil ant, Torrian Prince,

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Speaker 1: Jada McDaniels and Rudy there plus forty four net rating,

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Speaker 1: although in a early small sample size, um, you could

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Speaker 1: also see a little bit of Jalen a Well mixed

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Speaker 1: in there, because he's a little bit better ball handler

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Speaker 1: and has a little bit more of that natural scoring feel.

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Speaker 1: But to be clear, at this point, when they have

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Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert with the starting backcourt, so Anthony Edwards in

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Speaker 1: D'Angelo Russell, no Carl Town's, no nas reads, so Rudy

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Speaker 1: Gobert with the starting backcourt and no other big they

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Speaker 1: are minus fifteen net rating in sixty in sixty three possessions,

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Speaker 1: which is pretty bad. So they're going to have to

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Speaker 1: figure out how to be successful with those groupings. They

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Speaker 1: should be. That doesn't actually that data doesn't even make

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Speaker 1: sense to me. They should be better than that. They're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to figure that out or the losses will

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Speaker 1: pile up. And this is where I want to talk

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Speaker 1: about Anthony Edwards for a minute, because he's been one

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Speaker 1: of the main culprits of the Wolves rough start. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, I was really high on him coming out

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Speaker 1: of last season. I believe I remember correctly. I had

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Speaker 1: him twenty in my player rankings, but he was he

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Speaker 1: was somewhere in my player rankings, which is higher than

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Speaker 1: most people had him, and it was I just saw

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Speaker 1: him as a superstar on the rise, a combination of

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Speaker 1: like I called him Mini Lebron because he's so big

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Speaker 1: and strong as a downhill threat that bodies just bounced

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Speaker 1: off of him on his way to the rim. And

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Speaker 1: then he had a good pull up jump shot to

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Speaker 1: end last season. Combine that with what he can do

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Speaker 1: defensively when he's locked in, and you see a superstar

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Speaker 1: in the making. But his pull up jump shooting has

604
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Speaker 1: been bad this year, just straight up bad. He's shooting

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Speaker 1: just thirty or percent on dribble jumpers this year, and

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Speaker 1: as a result, his pick and roll shot creation has

607
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Speaker 1: been bad. The Timberwolves have scored just a hundred and

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Speaker 1: eighty seven points and two hundred and seven Anthony Edwards

609
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Speaker 1: picking rolls counting passes, which is in the thirty six percentile.

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Speaker 1: Just not good enough. And I was watching a bunch

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Speaker 1: of film on it yesterday. He's still deadly when he's

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Speaker 1: going downhill and he's finishing really well around the rim.

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Speaker 1: It's just the pull up jump. It's just the pull

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Speaker 1: up jump shooting. That's causing problems. And the other thing

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Speaker 1: too that I've noticed too is if he doesn't like

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Speaker 1: the spacing, Like, if he likes his spacing, he's going

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Speaker 1: downhill and he's scoring. But if he doesn't like the

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Speaker 1: spacing and he doesn't get to his pull up jump shot,

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Speaker 1: instead of like going downhill anyway and trying the defense

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Speaker 1: even closer and making that kickout pass or at least

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Speaker 1: the defenses in rotation, he'll come off the screen, decide

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Speaker 1: he doesn't like the spacing and just throw a swing pass.

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Speaker 1: And so I like to see Aunt just be a

624
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Speaker 1: little bit more aggressive, even if he doesn't like what

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00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 1: he's seeing, just understanding what advantage he can create just

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Speaker 1: by you know, taking that extra dribble downhill with some

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Speaker 1: with some force and then elevating and kicking to somebody

628
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: on the wing, giving them a rotation situation rather than

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Speaker 1: just to kick out pass that doesn't accomplish anything um

630
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Speaker 1: and it's also only getting about a point per iceo,

631
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Speaker 1: which is only slightly above average. D'Angel Russell has actually

632
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: been pretty solid as a shot creator. So I don't

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Speaker 1: you know he D'Angel Russell is what he is, you know,

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Speaker 1: I I don't think he's considered part of the future

635
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: in Minnesota, but he's a perfectly fine shot creator in

636
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Speaker 1: the NBA, especially on the second side. You know, coming

637
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Speaker 1: into the season, we talked about when they traded when

638
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: they made that trade, because Patrick Beverley has been bad

639
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 1: for the Lakers this year, but he was good for

640
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Speaker 1: the Timberwolves last year. And you know, Timberwolves fans have

641
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,240
Speaker 1: some complaints about Malik Beasley and his commitment on the

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Speaker 1: defensive end of the floor stuff like that. I actually

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Speaker 1: thought Mollie Beasley was pretty good for them last year,

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Speaker 1: and he shoots the ship out of the basketball. They

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Speaker 1: were depending after that trade on guys like Jordan McLoughlin

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Speaker 1: and Jaylen Nowell to take steps up into those roles,

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Speaker 1: and they just simply have not been good enough. Uh,

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Speaker 1: those two guys are going to have to start playing

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Speaker 1: better if the Wolves are gonna have success on the

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Speaker 1: level that they had last year. I was low on

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Speaker 1: the Wolves coming into the season, as you guys know,

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Speaker 1: I'm still low on them. But there is enough talent

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Speaker 1: on this roster to be successful without Cat as long

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Speaker 1: as they lean into that Jazz model. Lots of ball

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Speaker 1: handling and shooting around Carl, around Rudy Gobert, and then

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Speaker 1: focusing in on the defensive end of the floor, getting

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Speaker 1: into that, you know, a classic jazz style screen and

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Speaker 1: roll to the basket, try to get Anthony Edwards and

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Speaker 1: Deangel Russell downhill and funneling guys to go bear on

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Speaker 1: the other end of the floor. As long as Anthony

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Speaker 1: Edwards gets back on track with the better spacing in

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Speaker 1: Jalen the well ends up kind of taking that step up.

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Speaker 1: I'm not I don't think much of Jordan McLoughlin, but

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Speaker 1: I actually like Jealen no Wells game a lot. If

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Speaker 1: he kind of steps up into that role, they will

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Speaker 1: hit a groove um pretty soon, I think, And I

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Speaker 1: actually think in the long run, I think this is

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Speaker 1: not a Carl Town's commentary. This is just a commentary

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Speaker 1: on the team. I think in the long run, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna hit a stride here, and I think they're gonna

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Speaker 1: play some pretty good basketball. You know. Um, it's just

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Speaker 1: a fundamental team construct thing that I disagree with. If

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Speaker 1: you have two bigs, the lineups are too slow footed

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Speaker 1: and there's not enough ball handling. So I think I

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Speaker 1: think they're gonna actually hit a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: stride here without Gobert. All right, guys, that is all

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Speaker 1: I have for today. Again, I sincerely apologize for the

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Speaker 1: technical difficulties yesterday. We will be back tomorrow covering all

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Speaker 1: of tonight's games as always. I sincerely appreciate your support

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Speaker 1: and I'll see you guys next time. The volume