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Speaker 1: to tonight. You're at the volume heavy Friday. Everybody. If
Speaker 1: all of you guys have had a great week, we
Speaker 1: got a bonus episode because the New York Knicks are
Speaker 1: trading Julius Randall and Dante DiVincenzo to the Minnesota Timberwolves
Speaker 1: for Karl Anthony Towns, a classic instant chaos NBA trade.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna give you guys my initial impressions on
Speaker 1: this deal in this video. As you know, we're going
Speaker 1: through a power ranking series that is full season previews
Speaker 1: for all of these teams, and thankfully we haven't gotten
Speaker 1: to either of the Knicks or the Timberwolves yet, so
Speaker 1: now when we hit those teams, we'll be able to
Speaker 1: get into more detail. So I promise we'll go into
Speaker 1: much much more detail when we get to those videos.
Speaker 1: But I wanted to give you guys my initial impression
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Speaker 1: them throughout the rest of the year. All right, let's
Speaker 1: talk some basketball. So I want to focus on the
Speaker 1: Knicks angle first, and also we're getting this out before
Speaker 1: we see any additional details, so I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: there was any draft compensation. I'm not expecting much in
Speaker 1: the way of draft compensation, if any, just because this
Speaker 1: seems to be a player for player type of deal, right,
Speaker 1: But let's focus on the Knicks first. So obviously you
Speaker 1: lose Dante DiVincenzo. You're a little thin at the two
Speaker 1: now right. My guess though, is that duce McBride ends
Speaker 1: up sliding into that spot in the short term. There's
Speaker 1: also an opportunity for them to go bigger if they
Speaker 1: wanted to go with McHale Bridges at the two and
Speaker 1: og In and Obi at the three. But either way,
Speaker 1: this could be a precursor to another deal. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what the Knicks are going to do about the
Speaker 1: two spot, but that is a small price to pay
Speaker 1: for what is an incredible fit at the center position.
Speaker 1: This is a center position where you're already gonna have
Speaker 1: some depth issues. You lose Isaiah Hartenstein. Obviously Mitchell Robinson
Speaker 1: is dealing with an injury to start the season. So
Speaker 1: it was a position of specific need and you paid
Speaker 1: one of you paid the weakest of your starters from
Speaker 1: last year. And I really like Dante Devincenzo for the record,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna get into more details on Dante. I
Speaker 1: think Dante's awesome. He is a great in Minnesota two.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about that. But of all the
Speaker 1: players that you gave up, you give up Dante DiVincenzo,
Speaker 1: but you give up this kind of clunky, janky fit
Speaker 1: in Julius Randall, who when the original version of this
Speaker 1: team before McHale Bridges, before Ojananobi made some sense as
Speaker 1: like a secondary shot creator of Ford that you can
Speaker 1: use to attack matchups, as a kind of like a
Speaker 1: guy to spell and give some rest to Jalen Brunson. Right, However,
Speaker 1: now that Ojan Andobi's in the building, now that Michale
Speaker 1: Bridges is another shot creator for you, that Julius Randall
Speaker 1: thing is a little clunky, and you didn't have anybody
Speaker 1: to play at the center position. Karl Anthony Towns seamlessly
Speaker 1: slots in at the center position. Now you're going if
Speaker 1: McHale's at the three, you're going Mkale, Ogan Andobi and
Speaker 1: Kat at the center position. Just a lot more like
Speaker 1: natural basketball fit there. One of the things that I
Speaker 1: didn't like about Carl Anthony Towns with Minnesota is Minnesota
Speaker 1: really needed a secondary shot creator, right. Anthony Edwards was
Speaker 1: creating most of the stuff they needed Cat to like
Speaker 1: actually create shots, And that, to me, is not my
Speaker 1: favorite use of Karl Anthony Towns. To me, I love
Speaker 1: Carl Anthony Towns more as an off ball score, meaning
Speaker 1: I want him picking and popping and then catching and shooting,
Speaker 1: or catching and driving on the closeout or okay, you
Speaker 1: get a favorable matchup like a switch. I like Carl
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns attacking mismatches in the post. I don't like
Speaker 1: him attacking other big forwards in the post. Right, So like,
Speaker 1: in order to get those mismatches, you run the screening
Speaker 1: actions that you like to run. Karl Anthony Towns gives
Speaker 1: you somebody that can attack a mismatch on the other side. So,
Speaker 1: like imagine a Jalen Brunson Carl Anthony Town's two man game.
Speaker 1: A team switches it. Now you've got a small on
Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns. You dump it to him in the post.
Speaker 1: He can go to work. They run a drop coverage.
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson can get downhill and engage the screen defender,
Speaker 1: kat can pop the pick and pop is the hardest
Speaker 1: action to guard with a traditional drop coverage because your
Speaker 1: center is dropping to the basket and then has to
Speaker 1: close out to the three point line, or you have
Speaker 1: to rotate from the weeks, which now your defense is
Speaker 1: in rotation and you're running around like your hair's on fire. Right,
Speaker 1: So like Karl Anthony Town's absolutely seamless offensive fit. Now
Speaker 1: as far as the off the defensive end goes, obviously,
Speaker 1: Carl Anthony Towns is not the type of defensive player
Speaker 1: that Mitchell Robinson is, not even quite as good as
Speaker 1: Isaiah Hartenstein was or I actually thought it was pretty
Speaker 1: solid for the Knicks last year. However, if you're going
Speaker 1: to be weak protecting the rim, you want to be
Speaker 1: good on the perimeter. And so let's say to start
Speaker 1: the season it ends up being duced McBride at the two.
Speaker 1: If I have Duce McBride on the other team's best guard,
Speaker 1: or McKale bridges on the other team's best guard, in
Speaker 1: Duce McBride on the second best guard, and I have
Speaker 1: og on the other team's best forward, I've got three
Speaker 1: like outstanding, very very good perimeter defenders, all of different archetypes.
Speaker 1: Deuce McBride is like a small, super quick footed player
Speaker 1: that can really pressure the ball. Mckaal Bridges has length
Speaker 1: and can apply back pressure as good screen navigator, a
Speaker 1: guy that's more using his long arms. And then No
Speaker 1: g Nanobe has the strength. He's this big tank of
Speaker 1: a And so you can kind of pick and choose
Speaker 1: how you match up with those guys and give yourself
Speaker 1: a chance to contain the ball. If you contain the ball,
Speaker 1: rim protection is nowhere near as big of a deal.
Speaker 1: And so like again, if you're gonna have Karl Anthony
Speaker 1: Towns anchoring your defense, you'd prefer to have the defensive
Speaker 1: personnel that the Knicks have. And like, quite frankly, right now,
Speaker 1: if you imagine a lineup with Jalen Brunson and let's
Speaker 1: call it Duce McBride for now, Michale Bridges, og Ananobi
Speaker 1: and Karl Anthony Towns, that is just a shit ton
Speaker 1: of talent and that it just gives that team another
Speaker 1: dynamic that they didn't even have after the McHale Bridges trade.
Speaker 1: So I'm super super excited to see what the Knicks
Speaker 1: look like with this group onto the Timberwolf side, I'm
Speaker 1: a little bit confused as to where they're going here.
Speaker 1: I like the Dante DiVincenzo fit. That to me is
Speaker 1: like if you remember last year how spotty the Nakille
Speaker 1: Alexander Walker minutes were. If Dante DiVincenzo slots into the
Speaker 1: starting lineup and then you put Mike Conley at the
Speaker 1: two or whatever you decide to or Mike Conley, I
Speaker 1: should say, off the bench, whatever you decide to do.
Speaker 1: I just like that core better, like if I like
Speaker 1: a three guard core of Anthony Edwards, Mike Conley and
Speaker 1: Dante DiVincenzo more than I like it Anthony Edwards, Mike
Speaker 1: Conley and the kil Alexander Walker right, Like, Dante's just
Speaker 1: a way more reliable and is a way more reliable
Speaker 1: shooter than Nikil Alexander Walker. But he also has a
Speaker 1: lightning quick release and he can shoot it from deep
Speaker 1: and like you guys saw in the playoff run like
Speaker 1: he had some stretches where he shot the seams off
Speaker 1: the basketball, and like I even like it because you
Speaker 1: guys know, I've been critical of Anthony Edwards navigating ball
Speaker 1: screens and just as it just has a tendency to
Speaker 1: run into him and die unless he's trying really hard,
Speaker 1: which he just doesn't do all the time. On defense, right, well,
Speaker 1: you can imagine a scenario where Dante DiVincenzo is next
Speaker 1: to Aunt. He is an excellent ball pressure guard. Dante
Speaker 1: Devincenzo is like a scrappy pain in the ass point
Speaker 1: of attack defender, and so like him next to Aunt
Speaker 1: can slot him into an easier defensive role as well.
Speaker 1: That I like, here's the problem. What has been my
Speaker 1: issue with Minnesota over the last couple of years. It's
Speaker 1: been about their ability to create space for Ant, who
Speaker 1: is one of the best drivers of the basketball in
Speaker 1: the league right now, arguably the best driver of the
Speaker 1: basketball in the league right now, right and so if
Speaker 1: Ant needs space to work, and it was already clunky
Speaker 1: with Jaden McDaniels, Karl Anthony Towns is one of the
Speaker 1: best shooting bigs in the league, and Rudy Gobert. If
Speaker 1: you shoot in Julius Randall there, it's going to be
Speaker 1: really weird when Ant has the ball that's a three
Speaker 1: four five, that there's not a single guy in there
Speaker 1: that you're really scared about burning you from the perimeter consistently. Now,
Speaker 1: Julius Randall, when he's healthy and in rhythm, has had
Speaker 1: stretches where he shot the basketball well, but it's been inconsistent.
Speaker 1: And he's very much a rhythm player. So when he
Speaker 1: gets out of the lineup and then comes back in,
Speaker 1: he usually doesn't shoot the ball well for a little while.
Speaker 1: And so again it's it's a bet on Julius Randall
Speaker 1: shooting the ball well when he gets over there. But
Speaker 1: even as we've talked about, it doesn't really matter how
Speaker 1: well you shoot the ball. They don't guard you, okay.
Speaker 1: So I like the Julius Randall fit when he has
Speaker 1: the ball. I think Julius Randall, when he's healthy and
Speaker 1: in rhythm, is better at creating his own shot and
Speaker 1: creating shots for others than Karl Anthony Towns. He's nowhere
Speaker 1: near the off ball threat that cat is, But on
Speaker 1: the ball, I think when healthy, that's how Julius Randall
Speaker 1: made all NBA teams. He's a big, bullying forward that
Speaker 1: can pick on matchups, has a good mid range game.
Speaker 1: When he's in shape and in rhythm, can be a
Speaker 1: scary player there, But whenever Ant has the ball, the
Speaker 1: fit makes absolutely no sense to me, and so, like,
Speaker 1: I don't really know what Minnesota's ultimate goal is here.
Speaker 1: We want to try to kind of wait and see
Speaker 1: if they end up making another deal or if there's
Speaker 1: a larger plan here in place, Like where does nas
Speaker 1: Reed fit in all of this? Is he still just
Speaker 1: the bench big? Like, I'm curious to see where Minnesota
Speaker 1: goes from here. It's in a very simple sense, you
Speaker 1: turned one player Carl Anthony Towns into two players and
Speaker 1: Dante DiVincenzo and Julius Randalls. So you could argue it's
Speaker 1: an increase in depth, but I just worry about Ant
Speaker 1: on the ball, not having the space to get to
Speaker 1: the rim. This to me, I think Ant is the
Speaker 1: next truly great superstar in this league, and he is
Speaker 1: a downhill for so space to work. And even though
Speaker 1: Julius Randa will help him to be able to take
Speaker 1: over the offense at times, I'm not sure that fit
Speaker 1: makes much sense when Ant has when Ant has the ball.
Speaker 1: So again, that's just kind of my initial impression on it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sit on this, sleep on this, get into
Speaker 1: it in way more detail. I want to say, I'm hitting.
Speaker 1: I can't remember how I have my rankings, but I'm
Speaker 1: hitting at least one of these two teams. Next week
Speaker 1: in the season preview segment, we're going to get into
Speaker 1: much more detail. But that's my initial thoughts. Knicks fans,
Speaker 1: Timberwolves fans, drop your comments in the YouTube comments underneath
Speaker 1: this video. If you have any questions or thoughts Basketball
Speaker 1: takes about this particular move, let me know. We might
Speaker 1: shout out in our mail bag later next week. All right,
Speaker 1: As always, I appreciate you, guys. I hope you have
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