Russillo is joined by Chris Mannix to discuss the tantalizing start to the season from the Minnesota Timberwolves, who look a lot better than expected after some strong wins against Denver and Boston, along with elevated play from star players like Rudy Gobert and Anthony Edwards.
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One of the biggest points in Ant’s favor is his age: both Tatum and SGA are roughly 3 years older, and Luka about 2 1/2 years older. He’s only 22 and he has rare physical tools, I can only imagine what his prime will look like.
Jayson Tatum is a better defender than Ant. Come on
People love to hate KAT and Rudy. Can't say a single good thing about either of them and they are crushing it.
My only thing is they NEED to trade Towns for something that fits better because it just doesnt seem like its gonna wirk and Towns makes me think of guys like Harden. No heart, he'll probably hurt Minnesota chances in the playoffs more than help.
A5= antman
STOOOOOOOP WE'RE NOT USED TO WINNING AND POSITIVE PRESS.
Still can’t admit you were wrong about Gobert huh.
5:25 “Mike Conley’s never gonna be a great defensive player” he’s made the all defensive team and gave the Warriors hell in 2015. He has been a great defensive player
Like all boston guys they don't even consider Book lol Ya'll know Book is better than tatum..ant can't stack up with book. Ya'll know this but ya'll gas whoever you like. Ya'll keep lying. Book's game will flourish longer than all these brick layers.
didnt they get blown out last night? McDaniels trying to guard KD was quite funny to watch.
SGA >>> Ant
Ant's fierce: it's like watching Wade but with a three point shot. As a Spurs fan JFC having to go through Jokic's Nuggets, SGA+Holmgren's Thunder, and Ant's Wolves every year in the West once Wemby starts hitting his prime. Great year to have league pass to catch Denver, OKC, and Minnesota. Man I hope we get a Wolves-Nuggets WCF this year.
Gobert, Towns, McDaniels, Edwards, Conley
With
Naz Reid, Kyle Anderson and Shake Milton off the bench it’s been nice
why would you forget booker?
3rd youngest team in the nba stuggling in a back to back. sounds good to me
Its like the Gobert trade was a smokescreen and that the real payoff was that Ant would turn into a bonafide All-NBA player that could do big damage in the playoffs. Also give them another full year to work together since KAT was injured for half the season and came back much later all for McDaniel to get injured and miss the playoffs.
Naz Reid.
They’d Rather have ant than wemby?
lol no its not and Ant looks does not look better than last year – not one bit – yeah and the first setence from the clown mannix i boston – full clown mode -thats why he works for yahoo and nothing serious
Their offense isn’t good enough. Only chance is if Ant quickly develops into a hyper efficient scorer.
"Price none of us will get over for Gobert trade" == We, the pundits, were wrong about it and we cant admit it.
If keeping Naz Reid and Jaden McDaniels was what caused giving up those extra picks to Utah for Gobert it’s actually kinda worth it
You ever think about getting a different guest on who likes basketball? Why continue to platform this bum?