Speaker 1: Did the Minnesota Timberwolves ruin which what was one of
Speaker 1: the most exciting young teams in the NBA. It feels
Speaker 1: like they have HM. It's time for some real talk
Speaker 1: in Minnesota. This team was fun last year. They were
Speaker 1: one of the top scoring teams in the NBA. They
Speaker 1: were long, they were athletic, they were monsters, and they
Speaker 1: were exciting. They had the best like, best athletes, best offense.
Speaker 1: And now what do we got.
Speaker 2: Have you seen any games?
Speaker 1: If you're a casual fan, have you watched It's like
Speaker 1: watching paint dry out there. It's like watching the It's
Speaker 1: like watching the Utah Jazz from last year.
Speaker 2: Honestly, it's like watching.
Speaker 1: The Blazers with Terry Stotts as the coach and CJ
Speaker 1: McCollum and Evan Turner. That's what we're talking about there.
Speaker 1: It's ugly out here on these streets right now.
Speaker 2: And I've been curious. I asked Nick Nurse about it.
Speaker 2: How's it gonna work? How are they gonna play them together?
Speaker 2: How are teams going to defend them?
Speaker 1: They went all in on Rudy. We all know this
Speaker 1: is probably a deal that will never see again. They
Speaker 1: paid more overpaid. They thought it was gonna work. The
Speaker 1: rationale was that it would strengthen what was a very
Speaker 1: pay per thin defense, right, very terrible, terrible defense. It
Speaker 1: allows Karl Anthony Towns to not get in the foul trouble,
Speaker 1: allows him to function on the perimeter and be a
Speaker 1: monster on the boards on the weak side, be a
Speaker 1: monster on offense. And in theory that works because in
Speaker 1: my mind, my brain when it was explained to me,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that makes sense, But that is
Speaker 1: only in theory theories. When you put them out into
Speaker 1: the real world, you got to see whether they hold muster.
Speaker 1: And it really didn't take into account that this Wolve's
Speaker 1: team is largely built for a very very different offense
Speaker 1: than I don't know, two seven footers drible handoff, drible handoff,
Speaker 1: drible handoff that they're currently running in Minnesota with a
Speaker 1: guy who isn't really a point guard. He's a two
Speaker 1: guard mass grading as a one akad loo. And again,
Speaker 1: that was Karl Anthony Towns's best friend, so that's why
Speaker 1: he's around.
Speaker 2: Let's say things.
Speaker 1: Aren't going according to plan from what Tim Connolly wanted
Speaker 1: to do. We're closing in on ten games into the season,
Speaker 1: and the sample size is producing some concerning results. Let's
Speaker 1: just say that the Wolves played the San Antonio Spurs,
Speaker 1: which is a team that we know and we've talked
Speaker 1: about is actively tanking for Victor Wambanyama.
Speaker 2: Right, this team is not going.
Speaker 1: No fucking place, and somehow they have lost twice of
Speaker 1: three times. How the hell are they played three times?
Speaker 1: And they are losing in a variety of very ugly ways.
Speaker 1: I saw them looking very horrible against the Utah Jazz,
Speaker 1: who Rudy Gobert was traded from a team that looks
Speaker 1: very spicy and exciting now that he is no longer
Speaker 1: on set team. But it was really a couple of
Speaker 1: nights ago that this caught my full attention, got home,
Speaker 1: sat at the crib, watched the disgusting offense and defense
Speaker 1: that is the Minnesota Timberwolves against the Phoenix Suns. The
Speaker 1: easiest bet I've ever made in my life was Sons
Speaker 1: money line against the Wolves. They rolled into the into
Speaker 1: Phoenix and they were three and a half point dogs
Speaker 1: because there was what no DeAndre Ayton.
Speaker 2: And on paper, you.
Speaker 1: Gotta like your odds. You got two seven footers and
Speaker 1: who do they got? Jock Landell, Jock Landell. I would
Speaker 1: hit up my coworker to ask where Jock Landell went
Speaker 1: to school, because I can already hear him thinking about
Speaker 1: it and telling me about where he went to school
Speaker 1: and Bismack Biambo. Instead, the Phoenix Suns ran the Wolves
Speaker 1: off the court. It was so gross on offense. The
Speaker 1: Wolves starting five ran one dribble handoff after another, then
Speaker 1: one on one basketball around the perimeter. Just you get
Speaker 1: the ball, you get the ball, just no cutting, no weaving,
Speaker 1: and then a turnover or a chuck or a shot
Speaker 1: clock violation. It was one of the nastiest offenses I've
Speaker 1: ever seen in my life, and of course it didn't work.
Speaker 2: I think that that shitty offense is gonna work.
Speaker 1: No, and Phoenix is one of the best defensive perimeter
Speaker 1: teams in the league. They sussed that out, snuffed it
Speaker 1: out so fast, and it was so gross. No creativity,
Speaker 1: no flow until what happened. You already know what happened.
Speaker 1: Until Rudy Gobert went off the floor. Rudy was off
Speaker 1: the floor, things started to move better. Suns, though, then
Speaker 1: attacked Carl Anthony Towns for the defense of SIV that
Speaker 1: he is in the middle baked him and the Timberwolves
Speaker 1: like their.
Speaker 2: Name was rotisserie chicken. I don't really know if that's
Speaker 2: quite baking.
Speaker 1: It's more rotisseriy ing. They rotisseriid them like rotisserie chicken.
Speaker 1: Only their bench had success. When the second team was
Speaker 1: in against Phoenix, they actually cut the lead to two
Speaker 1: shocking starters returned night Night sleep mask for y'all.
Speaker 2: Lead explodes in balloons again.
Speaker 1: Earlier against the Spurs, the bench again cuts a massive
Speaker 1: lead against San Antonio down to a few points.
Speaker 2: Then Rudy could and the starters come in murdered. It's murder,
Speaker 2: and that is the issue. Rudy.
Speaker 1: Rudy is the issue. Carl is the issue, and Rudy
Speaker 1: is the issue. Put them together horrible, horrible, And I
Speaker 1: think Rudy could bring something to some team like I
Speaker 1: don't think he's like completely unusable. But is he usable
Speaker 1: for the Timberwolves. I don't know yet. I am not sure.
Speaker 1: I am reserving judgment. I am saying, though, let's keep
Speaker 1: our eye on it very closely.
Speaker 2: I don't think my Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Has any idea how to use him at the same
Speaker 1: time that they're using Karl Anthony Towns to balance two
Speaker 1: seven footers with different games, different styles, and they're trying
Speaker 1: to make it mesh with. I don't know a six
Speaker 1: foot six guard who wants to operate like Michael Jordan
Speaker 1: and he has no fucking space. That's where we're going
Speaker 1: from here. Anthony Edwards, who took a massive leap forward
Speaker 1: to MVP type stardom last year, how do we know
Speaker 1: that there's an issue with him? How do we know
Speaker 1: there's an issue with this team? He has zero dunks
Speaker 1: on the year, folks, None Almost ten games in he
Speaker 1: has not one zilch of a dunk. He was asked
Speaker 1: about it. What do you think he did give us
Speaker 1: the give us a pr answer. No, he's a treasure.
Speaker 1: Of course, he told us the truth.
Speaker 2: He says.
Speaker 1: Everybody's in the paint. I'm only six four six'. Five
Speaker 1: by the, Way, aunt you're six to. Six you know
Speaker 1: THAT i can't jump over. Everybody, MAN i ain't as
Speaker 1: tall As. Giannis everybody be asking me to dunk the
Speaker 1: ball like it's all peaches and. Cream i've gotta get
Speaker 1: a good lane to dunk the. Ball, Yes, aka according To,
Speaker 1: Ant according to anybody with two, eyes the Spacing's aunt
Speaker 1: can't get his rudy clogs up the.
Speaker 2: Middle aunt can't. Cook he has to take mid range.
Speaker 1: Shots mid range shots one of the least, efficient one
Speaker 1: of the most difficult shots to make in this, league
Speaker 1: one of the least. Valuable he doesn't heat up because
Speaker 1: he's not getting easy, buckets not going to the. Line
Speaker 1: in the playoff series Against, Memphis Aunt edwards went through
Speaker 1: the line on average six times this, year four. Times
Speaker 1: he's only had six free throws once this. Year if
Speaker 1: you want to know how confused it is about, this
Speaker 1: he's pretty. Confused let's let's show you his post game
Speaker 1: presser after The wolves got just absolutely demolished by The.
Speaker 2: Suns he's telling me that when we're in the, game we're,
Speaker 2: losing and when they're in the, game we got a
Speaker 2: better chance of. Winning SO i don't like the sound of.
Speaker 2: That so we're gonna figure it.
Speaker 1: Out, yeah that's that's. Crazy we'll go Last. Washington that's, crazy.
Speaker 1: Bro we all in the minus and y'all, all, yeah
Speaker 1: all the starters are negative for the, game all of
Speaker 1: the bench players are. Positive, yeah that is fucking. Crazy
Speaker 1: it is because everybody was not expecting, that.
Speaker 2: So there's a.
Speaker 1: Problem there's a little, problem a little baby to baby
Speaker 1: seven footer, problems and they have become big issues because
Speaker 1: If Aunt, edwards one of the most, happy go lucky,
Speaker 1: players isn't, happy the team's future is murky and there
Speaker 1: is no Way aunt wants four years of nothing but fifteen,
Speaker 1: footers no, shot just three point chucks and fifteen.
Speaker 2: Footers how do you fix? IT i mean number, one
Speaker 2: either De anthony or De.
Speaker 1: Anthony either D'Angelo russell needs to turn into a real
Speaker 1: point guard or he needs to.
Speaker 2: Go pretty.
Speaker 1: Much he either needs to turn Into Tyas jones or
Speaker 1: they need to Get Tias.
Speaker 2: Jones pretty.
Speaker 1: Much there's just not enough thought giving to Putting Anthony
Speaker 1: edwards in the place where he, succeeds and he should
Speaker 1: be put in the positions to succeed at all.
Speaker 2: Times and that falls on not just De, low but
Speaker 2: Also Chris.
Speaker 1: Finch let's be hon. It do we feel like maybe
Speaker 1: a more creative coach could make this thing? Work do
Speaker 1: we feel like Maybe Nick nurse could make this? Work
Speaker 1: and that's no shade Because Chris finch And Nick nurse
Speaker 1: are friends and they've coached together and they have worked
Speaker 1: together as. Pros but this offense is. Stagnant you should
Speaker 1: probably pass the. Ballmore you should probably cut without the.
Speaker 1: Ballmore you should, PROBABLY i don't, know put some more
Speaker 1: fast athletic players out there and that want to. Try
Speaker 1: this could be also a huge. Mistake, honestly we could
Speaker 1: look back and say this was maybe the greatest trade
Speaker 1: bunder of all, time given how much they gave, up
Speaker 1: how much they're probably never gonna give up again for
Speaker 1: a player of his. Caliber and the bummer is that
Speaker 1: one of the most exciting teams in THE nba last
Speaker 1: year is going to have to be boring to. SUCCEED
Speaker 1: i don't want.
Speaker 2: That do you want?
Speaker 1: That rudy Go beer fucking, Sucks, honestly like he ruins.
Speaker 2: Everything he Ruined Donovan.
Speaker 1: Mitchell he ruined basketball when he shut the league down
Speaker 1: due TO covid and his mouth all over the, microphone
Speaker 1: and now he's Ruining Minnesota. Timberwolves being the darling of THE,
Speaker 1: nba the upstart, TEAM a rod must be. Pissed fuck that,
Speaker 1: guy he's probably saying.
Speaker 2: Next to The, grizzlies this was probably the most fun
Speaker 2: team in the.
Speaker 1: League now boring half court offense that might get you
Speaker 1: fifty wins and OF i don't, know first first round
Speaker 1: exit at. Best at, worst this team is a lottery.
Speaker 1: TEAM i hate to say. It the last two, days
Speaker 1: everybody's seeing, it everybody's talking about.
Speaker 2: It people are starting to come.
Speaker 1: Around Charles barkley said that starting two seven footers can't
Speaker 1: work in the MODERN. Nba it makes it too hard
Speaker 1: to guard the. Three and you know it's a three
Speaker 1: point driven. League teams who The wolves have to beat
Speaker 1: out they all shoot a lot of. Threes, MAVs, Suns,
Speaker 1: Warriors clippers shoot a million million a, game sixty sixty
Speaker 1: five a. Game, finally Even chrispinch knows. Who but's starting
Speaker 1: to get a little. Warm, huh he, said uh kfan
Speaker 1: the local sports.
Speaker 2: Station there really hasn't been a whole lot of growth
Speaker 2: with our unit.
Speaker 1: Yet we haven't been able to find or sustain when
Speaker 1: we do find a consistent rhythm on our. Offense, offensively
Speaker 1: we're behind WHERE i thought we would. BE i thought
Speaker 1: we'd be a little further, Ahead and WHEN i start
Speaker 1: looking at, it we dropped the big stone in a
Speaker 1: puddle and we've got some big ripples right.
Speaker 2: Now the big stone Is Rudy gobert's and he he.
Speaker 1: Is we need to keep working on it and figuring
Speaker 1: out some new concepts that are probably gonna put our
Speaker 1: players in slightly better positions than we have been putting them.
Speaker 1: IN i have a, thought why not Bring Rudy gobert
Speaker 1: off the? BENCH i don't, know bring him in for.
Speaker 1: Defense sounds like a guy who traded in a Vintage
Speaker 1: porsche for this new model only to find out that
Speaker 1: it's A honda and a.
Speaker 2: Bodykit it's not A porsche at, All it's actually just a.
Speaker 1: Bodykit The wolves now are playing, awful gross, basketball tough to,
Speaker 1: watch but from a betting, perspective automatic. Money just fade,
Speaker 1: them just fade them all a year. Long how long
Speaker 1: is it going to take to figure it? OUT i
Speaker 1: hope sixty.
Speaker 2: GAMES i hope eighty two games BECAUSE i want to
Speaker 2: make money this.
Speaker 1: Season but if you're A timberwolf, fan you've got to, say,
Speaker 1: man things unravel before they even got. Going at what
Speaker 1: point do you, say maybe someone's gotta? Go what point
Speaker 1: do you Say harden went.
Speaker 2: A year into his tenure In.
Speaker 1: Brooklyn maybe we should probably Let rudy, go or maybe
Speaker 1: we should Let kat. Go someone's gotta Go at that,
Speaker 1: point who? Goes, remember LIKE i, said The nets gave
Speaker 1: up a ton For, harden and he too was gone
Speaker 1: in a little over a. Year