WEBVTT - Northwest Conference Preview: Overview and Timberwolves

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<v Speaker 1>On this episode of the Heat Check. It's another preview time, Baby.

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<v Speaker 2>We finish it up. We finish it up.

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<v Speaker 1>The Western Conference with what the division of champions, Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>the Northwest.

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<v Speaker 2>We will dig in to the Timberwolves.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, see Thunder, Portland Trailblazers, the Utah Jazz, and of

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<v Speaker 3>course you're defending champions, the Denvers.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's get right to it.

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<v Speaker 1>William, do me a favor and drop that generic ass

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<v Speaker 1>beat that should be Rihanna's.

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<v Speaker 2>Breaking down all the biggest NBA storylines. You're chilled in

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<v Speaker 2>the heat Check.

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<v Speaker 1>The Heat Check, let's just a crak, the best podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>Covering all the drama around the association. All right, let's

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<v Speaker 2>do it.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's continue down the road down with what we're supposed

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<v Speaker 1>to do, which is getting you ready for the NBA season.

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<v Speaker 1>We get the loaded Western Conference, the final Division, the Northwest.

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<v Speaker 2>We talked about the Pacific.

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<v Speaker 1>The Pacific is the Cadillac, the Southwest Division, the upscale Honda,

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<v Speaker 1>the Southwest airlines of the NBA, the Northwest outside of

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<v Speaker 1>the Portland Trailblazers, because we have to have the NBA

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<v Speaker 1>champions in here.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like the black Car Baby, because.

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<v Speaker 1>It is produced the NBA Champions aka the Denver Nuggets.

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<v Speaker 1>It also has the best young team in the league

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<v Speaker 1>and the OKCS Thunder, a fully sleeper team in Utah,

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<v Speaker 1>a team that I think is going to be a

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<v Speaker 1>very successful rebuild in Portland, and the team that I

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<v Speaker 1>think might be the most disappointing this season. Yes, yes, yes,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm talking about the Minnesota Timberwolves right now.

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<v Speaker 2>Key additions, let's go into it.

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<v Speaker 1>Shake Milton, Yeah, that's the key edition for the Minnesota

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<v Speaker 1>timber Wolves. Day Shan Knicks, Dayshon Knicks. What the fuck

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<v Speaker 1>is going on? Torreon Prince is a key subtractions. We

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<v Speaker 1>am Minnesota, now we in Minnesota?

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<v Speaker 2>What is happening with them? Guys? I love Anthony Edwards

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<v Speaker 2>so much. I do.

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<v Speaker 3>Uh.

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<v Speaker 1>He's probably one of my favorite players, if not my

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<v Speaker 1>favorite player in the whole entire league.

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<v Speaker 2>This roster, this roster don't make no sense, right.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a team that has largely been like, let's

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<v Speaker 1>be disappointing and do nothing about it. Right. They largely

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<v Speaker 1>stood pat in the offseason. They add shake Milton, Shake Milton,

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my god.

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<v Speaker 2>Shake.

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<v Speaker 1>Mostly this team was all focused on locking down Anthony

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<v Speaker 1>Edwards to a five year extension. Congratulations to Bill Duff,

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<v Speaker 1>get that man paid, Get him his money. Then they

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<v Speaker 1>re signed Nikile, Alexander Walker, Troy Brown, a guy's name

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know how to pronounce Vit, Kretci and noz Reid.

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<v Speaker 2>Why is noz red here? I like naz Reid?

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<v Speaker 1>Why is noz Reid on this team in any real capacity?

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<v Speaker 1>When you have Rudy Gobert and you have Karl Anthony Towns?

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<v Speaker 1>Why why?

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<v Speaker 2>Someone tell me coming into the season the Wolves can

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<v Speaker 2>hang their hat on one thing and one thing alone.

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<v Speaker 1>The Denver Nuggets will pitied them and said that they

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<v Speaker 1>were the toughest out that they had and the entire

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<v Speaker 1>buzz saw that was them running through the playoffs like

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<v Speaker 1>it was a train, and the rest of the teams

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<v Speaker 1>that they encountered were the girls that were on the

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<v Speaker 1>No Jumper podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, you know, you know so Other than that, the

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<v Speaker 2>questions are looming.

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<v Speaker 1>Can Rudy Gobert and Karl Anthony Towns play on the

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<v Speaker 1>floor at the same time.

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<v Speaker 2>That has yet to be settled.

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<v Speaker 1>The jury still out, largely because now we've got rumors

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<v Speaker 1>Carl Anthony Towns is going to the Knicks. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>even know if these rumors are true, but they are circling.

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<v Speaker 1>Karl Anthony Towns is hurt most of last year. He

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<v Speaker 1>is healthy.

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<v Speaker 2>Now they say, what is this Minnesota team? What are they?

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<v Speaker 1>Well, it starts with the folcrum of the offense and Edwards, who,

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<v Speaker 1>as we know, is Elite twenty five, six and five.

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<v Speaker 1>He's gonna look to be a top five player this year.

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<v Speaker 1>He worked all summer to get to the peak of

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<v Speaker 1>his game. He was insane the foeba and he's now

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<v Speaker 1>going to France. Most likely he went to France to.

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<v Speaker 2>Work with Rudy Gobert.

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<v Speaker 1>Carried the team, like I said, through the World Cup

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<v Speaker 1>for the entire tournament. The only reason they did as

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<v Speaker 1>much as they did is because of him. There's not

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<v Speaker 1>any real weaknesses to his game.

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<v Speaker 2>It's all about improving for him.

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<v Speaker 1>He is a star on a roster. He is the

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<v Speaker 1>steak at the Applebee's, you know what I mean. He

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<v Speaker 1>is the Fois Gras sitting inside. I have a red

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<v Speaker 1>robin and you're like, fam, you don't belong here. You know.

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<v Speaker 1>The roster construction is so bad. It's so much more

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<v Speaker 1>important too than people realize. It's like just a collection

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<v Speaker 1>of items on the menu. It's like tacos and fuh

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<v Speaker 1>no shade to that combo.

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<v Speaker 2>I've had that myself many times.

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<v Speaker 1>And then you add like cheesecake, and it doesn't make sense.

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<v Speaker 1>What the Wolves have is random collection, collections of assets

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<v Speaker 1>and redundancy. It's not clear who Anthony Edwards prefers to

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<v Speaker 1>play with, Rudy Gobert Carl Anthony Towns. We have more

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<v Speaker 1>evidence of how he and Cat played together, but again

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<v Speaker 1>that was a lesser version of for most of that

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<v Speaker 1>time with Rudy, He's led lots of things, lots of nice.

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<v Speaker 2>Things about Gobzilla. They call him go. I don't know

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<v Speaker 2>how this tandem works.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know either of those guys. I'd rather have

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<v Speaker 1>nas Red trade them both. Why not both all three

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<v Speaker 1>on the floor at the same time. I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>The bigger issue is that you can't trade Rudy Gobert

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<v Speaker 1>even if you wanted to. He paid a million first

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<v Speaker 1>rounders for him. It was the most historically bad trade

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<v Speaker 1>we've seen in a long ass time. Now, Carl Anthony

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<v Speaker 1>Towns is healthy. He's drawing interest from a lot of teams,

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<v Speaker 1>including the Knicks, and that is where I think he

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<v Speaker 1>probably works out the best, probably not for the Knicks,

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<v Speaker 1>but for him and maybe Carl Anthony Towns does get

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<v Speaker 1>traded and they reconfigure this lineup based on Anthony Edwards

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<v Speaker 1>and Rudy As for the rest of the team, Mike Conley,

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<v Speaker 1>Mike Conley's a fine veteran okay, as is Shlomo, Kyle Anderson.

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<v Speaker 1>I like Naz Reed, I like Jade McDaniels. He's on

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<v Speaker 1>his way to becoming his own little star let your

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<v Speaker 1>star shine bright, Jade McDaniels. Don't punch any walls while

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<v Speaker 1>you're at it. Luca Gard's an average seven points and

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<v Speaker 1>nine minutes of play last season. Leonard Miller comes in

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<v Speaker 1>courtesy of the draft and the G League ignit. He's

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<v Speaker 1>very athletic, six', ten a lot of, player a player

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<v Speaker 1>that a lot of teams, like so we know there's,

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<v Speaker 1>Talent but, like do those Guys Mesh shlomo almost?

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<v Speaker 2>Punched was It?

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<v Speaker 1>RUDY i think it. WAS i don't like their mix at.

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<v Speaker 1>All they won forty two games last. Year With Karl

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<v Speaker 1>Anthony towons missing half a, season they could win fifty

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<v Speaker 1>games and still be. Disappointing can this roster win when

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<v Speaker 1>it counts that remains to be.

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<v Speaker 2>Seen