Minnesota Timberwolves waste Karl-Anthony Towns’ 62-point performance, lose to Hornets

Minnesota Timberwolves waste Karl-Anthony Towns’ 62-point performance, lose to Hornets

Hello and welcome into another episode of lock on wolves this is the postgame podcast from a horrendous Timberwolves loss despite a 62-point performance a franchise record single game scoring net for Carlon towns the Timberwolves still lost to the lowly Charlotte Hornets on Monday night at Target Center we’ll

Break down what happened it was a debacle on both ends of the floor really for the entire game we’ll break the whole thing down here on the show Welcome in you are locked on wolves you are locked on Timber wolves your daily Minnesota Timberwolves podcast part of the locked on podcast

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Place a $5 bet visit fel.com lockon to get started happy Tuesday everybody it’s a not so happy Tuesday in Timber roles land after a uh embarrassing loss an embarrassing collapse on Monday night at Target Center this is the postgame podcast we’re going to break down the

Wolves lost of the Hornets lots to get to in this one and uh plenty of online discourse there always is right but um there’s a lot to be said after this one I want to respond to some of that kind of give my My overall thoughts on on

This game and and where you know who’s taking the blame for this one right that’s what everybody wants to do they want to assign the blame so I’m gonna do my best to to to kind of parse that a little bit here off the top a big thank

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Need to go blowby blow here but let me let me kind of set it up so Charlotte comes into this game 9 and 31 and as we detailed in the previous show on Monday or or at the end of Monday show when I preview the matchup they’re a bottom five offense they’re

Bottom two defense and are almost historically bad defensively if not for the truly historically bad Indiana Pacers defensive team um there like yes Lamela ball is back healthy this is the 20th game out of 41 he’s played in so he’s played a little less than half just

Under half the Hornets game so he’s going to make a big difference to their offense true no Gordon Hayward no Nick Richards couple of guys missing the Wolves had Mike Conley sitting out Anthony Edwards was questionable apparently truly questionable for this game with an illness so uh you know some

Excuses on or not excuses some notable absences influences on both sides this is still not a game the timber should have ever like let’s just say it this way the Charlotte Hornet should not have scored 128 points on the League’s best defense that was only missing Mike

Conley that’s the number one thing of course the headline here is Haha carony Town scores 62 and the Timberwolves lose the game it’s all cat’s fault that’s what NBA Twitter wants that’s what it feels like a a segment of wolves Twitter wants it is and yeah there’s a lot of

Ammo there it doesn’t look good right you score 62 you get hacked legitimately on the second to last offensive possession and then air ball of the three on the final offensive possession you spend all the time in between complaining to the officials there’s lots of ammo for that and I get

It I’ve watched you know virtually every minute the car tal has played in the NBA and and I get it I understand it it’s too much the complaining the flopping uh at times the empty statistics there is something to that I do believe however there is so much blame to go around when

You give up 128 points to the like 26th ranked offense and you allow 57% shooting to the 26th ranked offense and you allow 38% three-point shooting you turn it over 13 times granted half of those were cat uh but like hey where do we want to assign

The blame here do we want to blame the guy who scored 62 points is is it his fault that this team lost uh I I think that that and I don’t know I like I’m I’m admittedly building a bit of a straw man here like but not

Really I mean like there are people that are arguing that right like it’s it’s I mean you could find you can find that um and I also get that it it’s conveniently fits the national or you know uh non Wolves NBA Twitter uh LOL sphere right like it’s funny sure yes it’s

Hilarious I I don’t know I mean Anthony Edwards was sick yes he had 11 assists but he had nine points on 11 shots and didn’t look like he wanted to shoot the basketball until the fourth quarter and hit a couple of tough shots and then you know mysteriously decides to take a you

Know have a you know a double hesy move with a couple of Crossovers and a step back mid-range jumper when he had a clear Lane to the basket that was a possession I you know it was a couple possession game you know towards the end of the

Game um I don’t know we could assign some blame there what about the perimeter defense jadeen McDaniels was not good defensively in this game I’m sorry and he’s looked a little bit iffy here lately and and he’s play a lot of minutes and this is maybe where we start

To have that conversation actually brought this up on Monday show this is the stretch in the schedule and of course now I say this after they lose to a bad team at home where you got to steal some games for rest you gotta a few minutes here and there and and maybe

Part of the reason they lost this game and like Shake Milton didn’t play well he plays in the rotation for the first time in forever had 15 minutes and wasn’t very good Jordan McGloin was pretty met in this game too in his 10 minutes

Um so that’s a you know that’s a bit of a you got to give some guys some rest but is the depth as good as we thought it was I still think this is a deep team I still think they’ve got good players uh you know beyond the the top eight in the

Rotation but MCD all that to say McDaniels was not great tonight at all on the perimeter nikel Alexander Walker had some moments he wasn’t great in the perimeter either he also had zero rebounds in 30 minutes he shot the ball really well he’s actually probably the the only

Player I would say had basically carries uh I would say Nik Alexander Walker and Carlon tals were the only Timber rols players You could argue R go bear that played how you would need them to play in a game that you win Anthony Edwards was nowhere near himself Jaden McDaniels

Was not near himself there was no Mike connley Kyle Anderson um like the line looks fine eight assist one turnover that one turn turnover is Big it was down the stretch when he was in the game and Carl 30 towns was on the bench and he had just a terrible pass Nas should

Have played more in this game he only played 15 minutes had zero rebounds himself there is blame to go around and I want to spend a little bit more time you know on the actual basketball side instead of the um the pontificating I’m doing here off the top like the five out

Offense Charlotte ran against the Wolves this is this is the maybe the first time this year we’ve truly seen an opponent um do that and have real success against the wolves and at least cause a timber wolves loss right this is kind of that recipe that you

Worry about teams in the playoffs doing and I want to talk a little bit about why like why it works and then also why you know the Wolves know that this could be an issue but ultimately um I don’t know if it’s nine times out of 10 seven times out of 10

This sort of strategy shouldn’t work against the wolves and I want to talk about that too so we’ll get to that here next but to kind of put a bow on on the open here Carlon towns deserves some blame at absolutely he wasn’t good defensively either in fact containing in in pick and

Roll getting on an island and some switches like he he struggled in this game defensively there’s no doubt and he had seven turnovers other than a couple of possessions I want to go I want to talk about a few specific possessions in the fourth quarter other than a couple of

Possessions early mid fourth quarter I don’t feel like carony towns was that out of line in terms of his shot selection I mean 62 on 35 shots is a pretty good night right um I think it had every bit as much to do with the rest of the team

Being so bad offensively and so stagnant offensively that Carlon tals was still your best option I mean obviously the man scored 62 points but he was still your best option to try and find offense um you know late in the game a couple things I want to do next I want to talk

About the final possession and why I think carony towns did the right thing and I agree with Chris Finch’s play call I know that that’s another controversial thing I’ll I’ll explain that and then I want to talk about early fourth quarter and like hey this when things started to

Go bad it wasn’t cat’s fault there was a lot of other stuff going on um so I want to do all that and I want to get into individual studs and Duds although this game’s a little bit weird for that um oh one more thing though I also I’m not completely

Absolving cat right like this is this I want to be clear about that I I think I’m I’m taking this stand more because uh I think we’re a bit off the rails here with some of this this discourse surrounding him like this was a team issue and Chris Finch said as

Much if you watch Chris Finch’s full postgame availability I actually thought he he kind of parsed the situation really well in fact he didn’t bring up cat until he was asked like hey was cat forcing things was he trying to get the record and Fitch goes yeah of course he

Was yes basically like yes that was part of the problem it was not the problem the offensive flow is bad the perer defense was awful uh the rebounding was spotty um you know all of the above the Charlotte got far too many open threes

In this game um for a team that like I I talked about this on Monday like that’s what you can’t do you can’t let them have free open three-point shots because otherwise they’re not that good offensively and and you know hats off to Brandon Miller was great for them by the

Way he was awesome in this game um other than that like it wasn’t a super efficient night for any other individual players like Mel Bridges was fine or excuse me miles Bridges was fine um lamelo ball was not great I mean he had 13 assists to one turnover but I was

Not impressed with lamelo Ball’s game necessarily so like this was a team issue and that’s kind of going back to the point I tried to make right at the beginning was um and please hear this Caron towns was part of the problem which is weird to say about a guy that scored 62

Points but the headline here isn’t cat scored 62 and the Wolves lost cat’s you know classic cat this is cat career in a nutshell I get it haha fine we can laugh about it it’s a fun Twitter X U you know post whatever but uh cat wasn’t the only

Perimeter Defender out there he didn’t give up 128 points by himself to the Charlotte Hornets and he didn’t shoot three of 11 from the field like ant right and he didn’t um you know the bench scored a combined 14 points for the wolves in this game that’s not on

Cat there I like like there there’s plenty of blame to go around here uh and I I don’t want that to get lost all right I want to talk like I said about the last possession I want to talk about the first few possessions of the

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Channel all right uh let’s go let’s talk about the first couple position possessions of the fourth quarter and then we’ll get to the final possession uh with well second to last offensive possession so the third quarter the Tim roles actually did I know I opened by

Saying you know the Wolves this was a debacco on both ends of the four I mean the Wolves had a 15-point lead going into the fourth quarter which you’d think would be a lot greater considering had 44 at halftime you know most points in the first half since that stuff has

Been was being tracked you know in the last 20 years or whatever he had decent third quarter but the Wolves built this 15-point lead and it was a combination of things like ant kind of came alive at the end of the third and when I say that

I mean he scored on a couple consecutive possessions he had a couple nice passes Nas hits a three uh n Alexander Walker was really good in this game and they close the third quarter with uh a Carl Anthony towns bucket a shake bucket they’re actually up 18

Before they give up um a three-pointer to JT Thor with seven seconds left and they end up uh and then they still have a chance for a shot at the end but an Tribbles the ball off his foot which seems like it’s happening a lot more

Lately and now the wolves are up 15 going to the fourth quarter the first few possessions of the fourth is where this game really started to get derailed and it wasn’t like it’s not on Cat and I know that like the narrative is quickly oh he was shot hunting check this out

First possession the wolves run a set play to get cat a corner three three-point look which he doesn’t shoot a ton of quarter threes this year but he’s obviously been good overall from the quarters in his career had a couple crazy over 50% from the corner three-point Seasons a few years back or

Not not a few years back not long ago so anyway a set play to get cat an open three-point shot in the corner fine right he just misses it it rims out okay uh go down on the other end Charlotte makes a three come back down Jordan MC goin’s

Wide open looks like he doesn’t even want to shoot the three double clutches but nobody comes out to contest him so he shoots a wide open three a good shot he just misses it PJ Washington hits a three like this is literally the first four possessions so open cat three set

Play not a four shot Miss Charlotte three open m glofin three Miss Charlotte three cat makes a tough driving shot uh which I don’t think was forced I mean it was it was um essentially what they kept doing which was putting him at the nail I actually I can’t remember if that was

Um a post up at the nail or if it was uh or if it was you know the flare screen that they did for a bunch of to three-point shots especially in the first half but cat scores uh on a tough shot Lamela ball comes right back and

Scores they don’t have contain on the perimeter that’s perimeter defense just collapsing the next time down cat did force a three-pointer they ran a flare screen for him he forced a three but Rudy goar rebounds it and makes you converts the offensive rebounder tips it in so now they’re still up 11 next

Possession Charlotte hits another three so at this point they’ve scored on their first four offensive possessions of the fourth quarter three of them three-pointers okay back to an eight-point game the next one cat does force but Rudy cleans it up and scores so they’re still up 10 on back-to-back

Rudy goar offensive rebounds and this is an example of um one of the other things that cat driving does in both of these scen well I guess one of them was a Miss three but part of cat’s gravity draws attention away from Rudy which frees him up for offensive

Rebounding and so now they’re up 10 um Brandon Miller scores on the other end of the floor and uh and now it’s it’s an eight-point game again then next time down cat does force a shot they’re still up eight and then that’s where things start to

Unravel a little but it was the defense that allowed Charlotte to score on literally the first five possessions of the fourth quarter with uh three of them being three-pointers and the Wolves scored on uh on consecutive three consecutive possessions there one was a cat shot two were offensive rebounds off of cat misses

So at this point you’re still up 10 and then it wasn’t that it wasn’t strictly cat after that right Shake misses an open three um goar gets fouled splits a pair of free throws ant misses an ill-advised shot uh like things just kind of spiraled there and that was part

Of the larger issue so yeah there were a couple of force cap possessions in there but they also just missed some open shots at an inopportune time and for the game they actually shot the ball really well overall they were 45% from three now cat was 10 to 15 you take those out

And it’s it’s still a good number um but it’s it’s not nearly as impressive so uh all that to say the snowballing started at the first part of the fourth quarter but it’s not like it was cat forcing a jumper every time down like you know D’s hyday in a timol’s

Uniform I use hyday factiously um like it wasn’t exactly that now the last possession the Tim rules the Tim rules I agree with Chris Finch calling the timeout by the way he had two timeouts left with 12 seconds left I get that they had the ball in an open floor

Situation but they’re exactly hadn’t exactly been making the right decisions in the half court all year or all game um or the open floor for that matter and ant wasn’t having a great game either so I get and also cat wasn’t on the floor so I understand why Chris Finch calls

The time out and they call for uh cat sets a screen for ant and then peels off to the nail gets the ball at the free throw line with I don’t know seven seconds left and um cat drives in and is obviously foued by the time he

Shoots the ball there are four Hornets around him and I I saw everybody talking about that too this was first of all the right play call by Finch it’s very hard to double team at the nail and Cat wasn’t double teamed as soon as he turned to go to the basket everybody

Converged at that moment cat could have kicked it back to um ant or no it wasn’t ant um nander Walker was in the left corner I’m forgetting who was in the right corner I think it was McDaniels was in the right corner and he was open the pass to left corner Alexander Walker

Would have been really tough given where Rudy was and where the Defenders were but cat had an open Lane to the basket everybody converged at once and cat was fouled I don’t need to spend too much time on that he obviously was filed it was a Miss call there’s no question

About it um like they they missed the call it should have been a foul call and Cat should have been going to the line down one with you know 5 seconds left but I don’t fault cap for doing what he did there the play call was for

Him to go to the basket and try and score possibly get fouled and if if he has a lane to pass it but what happens if he throws it to the opposite corner and it gets stolen or tipped away like then everybody’s mad that he tried to

Pass it when he had 62 points with a chance to win the game right it wasn’t the wrong read he was fouled um and it would have been a tough pass because of where the Defenders were coming from and the way that Charlotte defended it and this goes back to the

Point I made at the beginning and I want to spend a minute on that here in just a moment but how teams a couple things one how cat was defended in this game and then two on the offens or excuse me on the defensive end of the floor how

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Prize picks daily fantasy sports Made Easy all right um so I guess let’s let’s start with how Charlotte defended cat and then we’ll we’ll flip it and we’ll go how the timber roles tried to defend Charlotte so um early in the game carony towns was actually creating plenty of opportunities for teammates

Simply because the Hornets were so worried about cat shooting after he made those first couple threes he had what 22 in the first quarter I believe and so cat’s gravity which Chris Finch talks about all the time um is is huge because they couldn’t sag off of him they had to

Commit somebody to him and pick and roll and pick well pick and pop really um and so he was setting screens and flaring out to the perimeter and it was creating space for other guys and opened up some Corner three-point up opportunities for Nel Alexander Walker it’s part of the

Reason I was frustrated they didn’t get the ball to Rudy go bear Mo and I know on Monday’s show I complained about the TS trying to force too many lobs to Rudy because they have been lately this was the perfect example where it probably went to been all to force I mean

Charlotte had what a couple of guys taller than 68 maybe that played in this game um and oftentimes they didn’t have any size on the floor and Rudy only had six shot attempts uh two of them were off of offensive rebounds so I think he only had four shot attempts that weren’t

Off of his own offensive rebounds he only had six shot attempts made all six of them in this game so I think a little bit more in terms of lobster Rudy cats gravity I think opened up some opportunities for that the Wolves didn’t take advantage of it and towards the end

Of the game Charlotte knew what cat was doing so they were just simply collapsing on him and they were clogging up some passing Lanes I mean cat did end up with seven turnovers in this game and so you know credit Charlotte for how they were defending that and Cat’s got

To recognize some of that stuff earlier um but like that last possession is a perfect example of that is they were just loading up and saying okay which is usually What teams do to Ant and in this case it was kind of flipped now ant clearly wasn’t himself in this game

Either but uh the way that Charlotte was defending this there should have been more lob opportunities either from cat or from someone else to Rudy or it was a pass you know a pass to a pass to a three right just swinging the ball around the perimeter cat driving and

Kicking and then swinging the ball to an open shooter and we saw that a little bit uh Jaden missed the three late I think Alexander Walker did miss one late they had some opportunities um off of those passes from cat but uh there should have been more

There on the other side of the floor real quick uh Charlotte played and I meant to get to this earlier in the show but Charlotte was basically playing Five out on offense and because their lack of size and also trying to draw Rudy away from the rim which of course is famously

What um the Clippers did a couple years ago against the Jazz and in the second round knocked the Jazz out I think in five games that year and I’ve talked before in the show how so much of that was because the likes of uh bug donovich and Donovan Mitchell and Jordan Clarkson

Um you know were not exactly World beaters on the perimeter and they couldn’t stay in front of guys so Rudy was trying to guard the paint and guard the perimeter well this was kind of that because McDaniels didn’t have a good night guarding and uh Alexander Walker

Didn’t have a great night guarding and Conley wasn’t playing and uh the point of attack defense was miserable for the wolves in this game and Chris Finch actually talked about this postgame too it’s really the first time this year we’ve seen this work well against the wolves and Minnesota’s mostly I don’t

Say punished like they struggled against Dallas a little bit an undersized Dallas team and they did lose that game a couple weeks ago but I didn’t feel like that was quite the same animal the way that that happened they struggled to score against Dallas that night um and

The Wolves didn’t struggle to score against Charlotte in this game but that was more just because uh of a lot of what cat did early obviously they struggled in the fourth quarter but allowing these Free Runs to the basket you know of course then puts you in recovery and then and then you

Know they’re getting kickouts to open threes and you’re not closing out on time uh Etc and it just it puts you a full rotation behind the whole possession right that’s how you that’s how good offenses get going and Charlotte’s not a good offense but that’s how offenses try to get going in

General right like you get dribble penetration and the whole thing can break down and the Wolves allow that tonight they usually don’t and typically it’s hey if you want to play five out we’re going to stay in front of you regardless and if you do get past us

It’s going to be by the time you do that Rudy’s going to be waiting for you at the rim and the rest of our perimeter is going to rotate to cover Rudy’s guy we’re gonna X out we’re going to close out to the corner like the whole thing

Normally works for Minnesota but it breaks down when you can’t stop the ball and that’s what happened in this game and like I don’t I’m not long-term concerned about this because obviously the wolves have done it for 41 games coming into to this one and uh by and

Large been really good in terms of perimeter defense so I don’t think suddenly they don’t know how or aren’t going to be able to do it the rest of the year and not having Conley certainly hurts uh but it can’t become a habit and that’s where I go back to one of the

Points I made early in the first segment which is can we still some more some rest here and there for guys like McDaniels or at least less minutes instead of 35 38 minutes let’s go 30 32 minutes give some run to Troy Brown Jr who’s a capable perimeter Defender I

Know he’s not McDaniels but with 10 minutes of Troy Brown Jr now and 10 less minutes of Jaden McDaniels now allow Jaden to play better and at a higher level or more fre more minutes at a higher level late in the regular season and into the playoffs if that’s the case

It’s an easy answer right the drop off from McDaniels to Troy Brown in the regular season against a team like a Charlotte or a Washington or a Brooklyn who are upcoming this week on the schedule is not great enough to that would deter me from doing that if I were Chris

Fitch uh so all that to say that was kind of what what happened here um you know what I’m not going to do individual studs and Duds this is a pretty easy one like I I mean I’ll rattle them off real quick cat obviously is a stud I I know

That there were issues I’ve spent a lot of the show kind of digging through that give Rudy a stud for this game 13 and 11 no turnover six of six field goals nikil Alexander Walker was the only other player deserving of a stud 18 points on

Six of nine shooting four of six outside the arc uh you know I mentioned no rebounds not great defensively but what do you want me to like nobody else played all that well in this game it was basically cat and NW nobody else was impressive to me in this game Jaden nine

Points on nine shots poor defense by his standards and nine points and 11 shots yeah 11 assists are great and important when Conley doesn’t play but he looked disinterested offensively we really on both ends until late and then I mentioned that terrible shot he took like not a great ant game

It just wasn’t um I don’t really have Duds I only have those three studs nobody else played well for Minnesota I did want to touch on um the box score from this game um and a couple of box score stats I’ll throw those up on YouTube uh Minnesota allowed 57% field

Goal shooting to the Charlotte Hornets who are I believe 26 in offensive rating coming in they allowed 14 37 three-pointers which is uh 38% to Charlotte in this game um not uh not acceptable um turnovers Minnesota was a minus three in that category they were only a plus one against the

Diminutive Hornets team and uh they did get to the line a little bit more that was fine uh and overall in the paint they were okay but you needed to be better that margin needed to be greater in this game and really I I just want to close with the finch

Quote Chris Finch said this after the game this is a direct quote he said quote it was an absolutely disgusting performance of defense and immature basketball all the way through the game we can close with how I started you can’t give up 128 points to the Charlotte Hornets you just

Can’t and uh we’ll spend a little more time on this Wednesday because I feel like you know this was a downer a downer of a postgame pod for sure so you know I’ll talk about this more Wednesday and I mentioned it last week after they lost a game

But does this team have issues sure every team does still the best team in the west record-wise and still only the second time this year this team has lost two games in a row uh and we’ll spend more time on this Wednesday but Denver lost uh like six of

Eight at one point in March last year there’s a lot of time to figure some of this stuff out no they don’t have a cushy place you know at top the Western Conference they might slide a spot or two it’s not the end of the world as long as there’s some progress

Made and perhaps the road trip you know like I don’t know it’ be good maybe it would be good maybe some more guys will get some run in this back toback this week they’re obviously winnable games which wasn’t a scary thing until literally now like tonight otherwise

They were basically only losing to good teams for most of the season so uh you know I don’t feel like this guy is falling I really don’t like go back and look by the way like look at all the Wolves losses this year they haven’t lost to another bad team they

They haven’t all of these losses I know they’ve lost more recently but it’s because of the gauntlet right their most recent losses OKC Boston two of the best four teams in the entire league Dallas with both Kyrie and Luca pel with Zion and Ingram and McCollum the Knicks loss was a bad one

But the Knicks are a good team another Thunder loss Sixers with embiid Pelicans with Zion and uh Ingram like they this is the first bad loss since the Hawks loss like bad in terms of the team the the opponent they’re losing to so uh yeah they’ve been asking

For it for a while they didn’t play well against the Pistons they didn’t play well for chunks of the game against the Grizzlies I get it but we’re not to Sky fing territory we’re just not um so hopefully Wednesday’s show not hopefully I’ll bring a bit more positivity to

Wednesday’s show and uh we’ll also preview the the match up with the Wizards we haven’t seen Washington the Washington Wizards and old friend tus Jones yet this year so we’ll talk about that on Wednesday show um and I’ll give a bit more context to why there’s you

Know I don’t want to say no reason to be worried but like we’re not in like truly be worried territory for this wolves team we’re talking about you know two two consecutive losses for the second time this year and we’re nearly done with January so um again the sky is not

Falling all right that’s all I have for you today here on the show big thank you for listening and for making lockdown wolves your first listen every day of course this show is free and available everywhere including YouTube as well as all of your favorite audio platforms

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The Minnesota Timberwolves collapsed on both ends of the floor and found a way to lose to the lowly Charlotte Hornets, despite Karl-Anthony Towns’ 62 points. Ben Beecken (@bbeecken) defends Towns while also assigning equal blame across the Wolves’ roster for shoddy perimeter defense, stagnant, record-hunting offense, and poor fourth-quarter play. Also, is the way the Hornets attacked the Wolves defense en route to 128 points something to be concerned about moving forward?

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