Locked On Wolves POSTCAST: T-Wolves Get REVENGE vs. OKC 107-101

Locked On Wolves POSTCAST: T-Wolves Get REVENGE vs. OKC 107-101

T-wolves get their Revenge vers OKC and move back into first place in the west I got expert Jack Borman he’s going to help us break it all down it’s all coming up next on the lockdown wolves Postcast you are locked on wolves postcast part of lockon Minnesota on the locked on podcast Network your team every day what’s up what’s up back in the lab back at it another t-wolves postcast episode right here on the lockdown Sports Minnesota Network you got myself Luke Inman lukor spin that’s the man Jack

Borman he’s on Twitter Jr Borman 13 and before we get into all the action Jack quick reminder tonight’s episode brought to you by FanDuel make every moment more with America’s number one sports book and official Sportsbook partner of the NBA right now new customers you’re getting $200 in bonus Bets with any $5

Bet bet $200 when you bet just five check it all out visit fanduel.com lockon NBA all right man uh you know the last time these two teams played in the same building it it turned into a laugher 129 106 OKC but tonight wolves flipped the script they got their Revenge they held

One of the best offenses in the entire NBA to just 101 points what a fun game start to finish it really felt like an absolute War for four straight quarters man you could tell just how badly both teams wanted it and and you know it’s funny you go into halftime with about as

Even of a box score in team stats a as maybe you’ll ever see nonetheless Wolves win it 107 101 they get their swag back a little bit find their Mojo again Take the Lead back more importantly in the Western Conference huge night huge game give us your biggest takeaways and and

For a struggling wolves team coming into this one what’s a win like this do do for this team’s confidence in psyche man yeah I think it’s got to do a lot considering that had they lost this game they could have ended up in the four spot in the west but instead they’re

Back they’re back at top the West now um you know which I think you know may not seem like a lot you know or or may not seem like it matters all that much on on just one night in in January here at the end of January but I’m sure that that

Has to matter for the psyche and the confidence of this team and we talked about it uh the other night that confidence was just a huge thing and we saw much more confident wolves team in the fourth quarter and um you know I think Chris Finch deserves some credit

For some of the lineups that he trotted out there tonight um in especially right away in the fourth quarter um you know Jaden McDaniels we haven’t seen Jaden McDaniels um play at the start of the second or fourth quarters uh at all really this season he’s pretty much been

A guy that’s played the entire first quarter uh the entire third quarter uh and then kind of come back in with Anthony Edwards in the second half of the second and fourth quarters but tonight he started um both the second and the fourth quarter which was

Something new and I think adding that to to having Jordan mclin in there is another um you know it’s kind of another Pace Setter table setter at the start of the fourth quarter along with Carl Anthony towns and Rudy goar it’s pretty rare that both of those guys start the

Fourth quarter together uh they did that tonight alongside nikil Alexander Walker so that fiveman unit in the fourth quarter um was just excellent right away off the rip and for those guys uh to go plus nine in the first two minutes 50 seconds the fourth quarter um after I

Think going minus nine in the first two minutes of the fourth quarter uh the other night obviously a little bit of a different lineup but that was huge um Jordan mcclaflin hit a hit a monster three wideopen three uh Nel Alex Alexander Walker excuse me hit a big

Corner three and then Carl Anthony towns hit a big three so right after Oklahoma City makes three huge threes at the end of the third quarter the Timberwolves turn right around hit three big ones at the start of the fourth quarter uh to kind of even that out a little bit

And retake a lead and uh and with Jordan mlof in there at the start of the fourth quarter the ball was just moving right like the offense was being initiated in different ways which is something we talked about the other night um different guys were handling the ball

Guys were moving without the basketball we were seeing some off ball screens being Set uh by rudby goar to get Carl Anthony towns and Jaden McDaniels the ball uh in that fourth quarter which was huge uh and then what I really appreciated about this fourth quarter

Was if you look at a box score the fourth quarter or or even this if I would have told you that Carl Anthony towns and Anthony Edwards scored a combined 12 points in the fourth quarter and the timber roles were down going in the fourth quarter what would you say

You’d probably say that the Timberwolves would lose that fourth quarter right right but but that was the exact opposite tonight right they scored 34 points in the fourth quarter only 12 of them came from their two stars uh Jane McDaniels Five Points had that huge

Three to go up two uh with 232 to go and then a tip in to go up six with 45 seconds left uh Nel Alexander Walker had to seven uh tied the I believe tied Anthony Edwards for the the lead in the fourth quarter scoring um had a huge

Go-ahead mid-range shot uh which was which was big time and then Jordan mclin had another awesome you know kind of rainbow floater over Chad that was at a pretty Monster point in the game and then you you had that Nas read three that was that was pretty huge off of an

Anthony Edwards assist where he drew the defense in at the middle of floor and kicked out to n so I think you know the way that so many different guys were involved in the offense in that fourth quarter touching the ball moving without the ball um and the fact that both a and

Carl got off of the ball early in the fourth quarter really allowed um really allowed the ball to just flow everybody to kind of find a rhythm feel like they were a part of the action uh which which I thought was really important and then

On the other side of the ball in that fourth quarter um Jaylen Williams uh has been the leading scorer for the thunder so far this season uh in the fourth quarter and the Wolves did an excellent job on him he was just one of five for

Three points in that quarter um and the defense overall as a whole was was excellent in that fourth quarter holding Oklahoma City to just 24 points on eight of 19 shooting uh which was which was pretty huge for for you know half court offense that’s been among the League’s

Best um so far this season so for them to be able to do that um with some with some pretty interesting defensive adjustments that that we’ll talk about that Chris Finch and his staff deserve U an overwhelming amount of credit for um but just to see these Timberwolves

You know come from behind I think that was only the third loss All Season that Oklahoma City’s had when they’re leading going into the fourth quarter so for that to be the case um you know just you have to be really excited about what you saw from the Timberwolves and hope that

They’ve you know at least been able to exercise some of these demons now that um you know they were able to find a win on the road big fourth quarter without without their starting point guard who they may not have now for um you know for a little bit especially if they’re

They’re waiting for Conley to get back to 100% with that with that bum hammy yeah so many layers I’d love to get into from this one such an incredible game but you called it an absolute War it certainly felt like it what more can you say about this defense man specifically

And what they just did to one of the best offenses in the league what’s stuck out the most and I guess where I’m going with this is can you go a little bit more in depth as far as Finch’s defensive game plan because putting Jaden on chat turned out to be a really

Great move in paid huge dividends in the end didn’t it 100% and those two guys are pretty similar build right like I actually think Jade McDaniels might weigh more than Chad hren and Chad hren is maybe an inch taller than than jadeen McDaniels um so as as much as people

Think that that might be like a super out of left field idea it may seem that way on the surface but those guys are actually pretty similarly built um but but yeah so it started out there right where Chris Finch um it started last year in the playoffs uh where they had

Rudy goar uh instead of taking an opposing Center kind of took um you know another player in the starting lineup that wasn’t a very good three-point shooter for the nuggets and Aaron Gordon to kind of keep Rudy goar around the rim and and deter a lot of uh you know

Nuggets drivers from the rim and and make just kind of clog the paint and ruin the spacing that the that the Nuggets had and it worked out pretty well um putting Carl Anthony towns on a on a burlier bigger yic at the five and they they kind of carried the same idea

Year right so Josh giddy coming into this game 0 13 from three over the last six I know the thank you Jeff for that I know that Michael Grady belabored that that point on the broadcast but um but it worked out really well right Josh

Giddy I I think was three of three uh to start out in the in the first quarter shooting threes and I think he was two of eight for the rest of the game or two of seven for the rest of the game and one of those threes how lucky was that

Man just barely got over the rim looked like it was going to be short but so yeah I I was glad that the Timberwolves didn’t abandon that game plan right and so uh given that Oklahoma City right Chad holgren is their five they don’t really have a bigger Burly or four right

So they put Carl Anthony towns on Lou Dort another guy who I mean to Lou dart’s credit he’s been shooting the three pretty well in the high 30s this year but that’s not what he’s been his whole career and his shot mechanics haven’t changed this year so um they

Again dared Lou Dort to shoot it and Carl Anthony towns didn’t really try to run him off the line um and that just totally Tanked the spacing for the Thunder the Thunder just weren’t able to get to the rim as cleanly tonight as they had been in in some of the previous

Meetings um and someone like someone said right Chad holgren in this game um you know only four points on two of nine field goals he had as many assists as he had turnovers uh Dort was 0 of seven so Carl Anthony towns deserves deserves his credit there and then you know I I

Really like the fact that they mixed up who they put on sheay gilis Alexander um Jan McDaniels uh saw some time on him but for the majority of the game it was it was nikil Alexander Walker his cousin uh Shay Alexander excuse me sheay gild Alexander Walker oh my goodness Shay

Guilis Alexander’s cousin uh nil Alexander Walker that was guarding him for the majority of this game and then when n was off the floor it was Anthony Edwards who was taking that challenge and and we saw ant you know you never see ant asked to come out of the game

Because he’s Gass but he has to come out of the game because he was gassed at that I think it was you know right near the end of that third quarter um because he was doing such an excellent job of you know at least making Shay work right and you want to

Make these guys work for everything uh especially on the second night of a back-to-back for them um and that really showed up I thought in the fourth quarter I thought that the Thunder had a really tough time staying with the Wolves off the dribble in the fourth

Quarter and they had an extra difficult time trying to beat guys off the dribble in the half court offensively um you know just with having played yesterday in the road in Detroit um and then having to to come back tonight but again for the Timberwolves to hold the Thunder

To shoot 17 of 34 uh in the paint by clogging all that spacing and just having a lot of bodies around to contest shots at The Rim especially with goar just being parked there in the paint was was incredible and all of that resulted in the timber rules allowing just 81

Points in the final 41 minutes and 29 seconds of this game or 4131 of this game I mean to think that the the Thunder scored 20 points in the first six and a half minutes of this game you you and the wolves are right there with

Him I think at 17 or 18 you were thinking this game might be a shootout right and then for the Timberwolves to just clamp down the way they did allowing 81 points the final 41 and a half minutes that’s Championship level defense right against one of the team’s

Best half court offenses and and obviously you know you can say what you want about the thunder how young they are you know they’re inexperienced yada y whatever um but I mean the the numbers at this point don’t lie like I feel pretty good that Oklahoma City’s got a

Good halfcourt offense for the most part um they have really good spacing uh you know even with their non-shooters do a good job of of kind of activating those guys out of the corners to help the spacing for everyone else and they’re extremely well coached so for the

Timberwolves to have a stretch like that of of prolonged defensive Excellence on the road um in a game with you know pretty big Stakes considering what was on the line here for the you know SE to tie the season series at two get revenge for that last game of Minnesota that

They pissed away um was was pretty huge so uh you just got to clap it up and uh and give some give some snaps for the Timberwolves defense and and Chris Finch and his staff for for kind of going outside the box on on some of the

Matchups to to help gain an advantage here yeah well said and I know you text me at halftime about just how impressed you were with ant and Cat early on first half kind of thing and as good as they were ant especially I gotta tell you man

You you already mentioned a few of them Jaden McDaniels n mlin Nas Reed even tbj in the mix for shake tonight a little bit they all earned some flowers too so I know ant’s going to be you know the game MVP so to speak the biggest xfactor but what was your favorite performance

From all the rooll guys who stepped up huge tonight because there was a lot of great options tonight total team effort and team performance that got them to DB I don’t I don’t necessarily know if you can if you can call Rudy goar a roll

I get it I get but for him to have 17 rebounds and make all six of his shots um and just make life really really difficult for every single Oklahoma City player that got into the paint um you know is is special man and and for him

To be so willing to not touch the ball as much as he does and do all the Dirty Work night in and night out for a number one defense uh is just a joy to watch man and then you see a guy like Nik Alexander Walker step into the starting

Lineup and leave everything out there on the floor in the fourth quarter I don’t know what it is about Nel but in the fourth quarter he just makes every single little play that you’d add if a that a coach would want any of his players to make uh whether it’s you know

Making the right defensive rotation uh you know helping get a def you know a long defensive rebound that’s a 50-50 ball uh poking the ball away diving on the ground taking a charge making a corner three you know making the extra pass all these little things he does

Perfectly but I think if I had to give kind of a a runner up um for for role performance you know we’ve already talked about Jordan mlin which was obviously huge but I thought Jaden McDaniels man um he’s really had some some struggles at different points especially in the second half of games

We we’ve talked a lot about how he’s had some really good starts and really good first halves of games um but he hasn’t really been a whole much of a or a whole lot of a factor for the Timberwolves in this fourth in the fourth quarter this

Season but for him to make that ginormous Corner three that I think totally turned the tide of the game I think put them up to and I don’t think they uh surrendered the lead after that with 2 minutes and 32 seconds left and then for him to to get active on the

Offensive glass which is not something we’ve seen much from from him this season but for him to to find a great opportunity to Corner crash and and somehow by the grace of God get that ball in the basket with 45 seconds left to give them a six-point lead I think

When you just think about the magnitude of those two plays on the you know it’s bearing on the final score I I think that you have to really tip your cap to Jaden uh especially after sitting for four or five minutes in that fourth quarter after picking up his fifth foul

The way that he was able to come right back in the game stay engaged Val’s on the bench and and really be aggressive in the right ways and being ready when his number was called offensively was was really really cool to see tonight and something that that hopefully we’ll

Be able to to continue because there’ll be more opportunities for him if the Timberwolves continue to move the ball uh move without the basketball like they did tonight and make the extra pass because he’s going to be waiting there in the corner whether it’s to to take a

Corner three or to pump and drive and and finish at The Rim I I think that he’s going to have some opportunity here so long as the Timberwolves can can make this type of play offensively in the fourth quarter become more of the norm than what we’ve seen in the past with a

Lot of ball watching off the ball and just dancing and and not really getting off the ball early and and making the Timberwolves really easy to guard so now they kind of have a fork in the road and it’ll be interesting to see uh which direction the Timberwolves go here after

You know what what may very well may be their their best win of the season so far well said all right plenty more Deep dive from this one including more on Anthony edwards’s huge impact tonight that’s all coming up right after this quick reminder tonight’s episode brought to you by FanDuel make every

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Partner of the NBA can I just share can I just share two two quick things that I saw on Twitter during the break absolutely from my from my guy Andrew Carlson over at canis tonight the wolves are 20 and five when Jaden McDaniel shoots 50% or better

From the floor and and this one was from John krinski via uh you know every everybody’s favorite Marne gelner Oklahoma City was 28-1 coming into the game when leading going into the fourth quarter they are now 28 and2 the other loss was at Minnesota on November 28th

Stop it stop it come on so that is the that those are those are the two two stats of the night right there I’ll tell you what you know for all the recent struggles last week or two specifically man it just feels like you know wolves

Fans in the state of Minnesota can sleep easy tonight and just kind of I don’t know get that monkey off their back man such a huge relief knowing that we can still step up and show up during the biggest games when they need it so absolutely just an outstanding night for

Wolves Fan Nation uh can you explain to me I don’t want to spend a lot of time on this but can you explain to me like like I’m five why Anthony Edwards doesn’t get the most normal basic obvious vanilla foul calls like I just

Don’t get it man I mean you know a lot more about the NBA you’ve been watching a lot more than I have Monster dunk with two minutes left SGA all over him holding on to his arm guy swallows the whistle and and you know if that’s how

You’re calling it that night that’s fine but when sgaa gets the same exact call night in night out you can’t blame ant for being so frustrated out there is it is it a ref thing is it a league thing is it like just personal to Anthony Edwards for some reason even though I

Don’t know why that would even make any sense I’m just flinging things out because it just doesn’t make a lot of sense and I’m having a tough time wrapping my head around it and I know a lot of fans are too yeah I I think my only real explanation there is that Anthony

Edwards is so strong and never flops ant does not flop if he’s falling on the ground or he’s having to totally contort his body or change what’s happening chances are it’s because he’s being contacted right and and with a player like SGA I’m not going to sit here and

Say that He Flops all the time but he just doesn’t use his strength all the time in the same way that ant does where I think when he gets hit it even marginal stuff he just Falls over uh and he has he has a Harden esque ability to

I don’t want to necessarily necessarily say trick the refs uh but a little there though but to embellish the contact in such a way that makes everything thing look like an obvious foul um and it’s and it’s truly it’s truly a skill and I think that rather than dogging on SGA

For for something like that I mean it’s more just on the NBA to try to eradicate some of this stuff um you know I’m not going to take anything away from SGA I think he’s he’s an awesome player and is generally about the right things he he

Doesn’t really complain to the refs like embiid does after He Flops all over the place constantly I just think for ant it’s most mostly about how strong he is and that he doesn’t flop he doesn’t embellish contact and and yeah so I I saw apparently on Twitter apparently

Anthony Edwards willingly Aid a fine uh in his postgame press conference or postgame uh you know hit there with Leo be Olsson on B I didn’t I didn’t listen to any of the audio but but apparently he he went in on the referees and he’s got every right to be frustrated man I

Mean SGA 16 free throws uh obviously you got fouled on you know half those a little more half those but if Anthony Edwards instead of having four free throws tonight had probably the 10 11 12 that he should have had you’re looking at a having 33 or 34 points and and an

Had 27 instead tonight SGA had 37 that’s really the difference between SGA being you know one of the two or three leading scorers in the NBA and Anthony Edwards being in this kind of uh second tier second class scorers of guys are in that 25 26 27 points per game uh scoring

Range so you know we’ll see if that continues to change I don’t think it has anything to do with the way that ant reacts to foul calls because if you look at the way Luca donic and Joel embiid and Jason Tatum just constantly whine and complain and scream and cry at all

These refs every single time up the floor that they don’t get a foul pretty much every single time they miss a shot um or turn it over they’re begging for a foul call and ant’s just not like that I mean obviously he he’ll clap at RAV so

He’ll get mad but I think more often than not a get an has a point when he’s frustrated um so I think all that is is kind of what it is at this point I think it’s mainly just that he’s so strong um is the best answer I can give you what’s

Your impression I know we kind of cherry-picked some of these other role guys but what’s your impression and evaluation of NS since he’s been here and and how much has he grown from last year to now in this role because his off ball defense continues to stick out for

Me in a good way and I think more and more he gets real playing time with Conley out now the the more he’s just going to be able to develop and grow into just an even better overall player and and be that next lead guard in the lineup consistently for long stretches

If needed but give me your snapshot just kind of scouting report on him because if he can develop these raw skills that he’s got that’s a huge Plus for this team isn’t it it totally is I mean and the thing for Nel is you know he was kind of in that

Awkward stage where by the time it was you know he developed his game as a rookie and as a second-year player and that he was getting ready to kind of try to make his Mark uh play more minutes he got traded to Utah and then even in Utah

In a rebuilding situation he didn’t play a whole lot and so for him to be able to really kind of grow into this role and just play extremely hard in a smaller role last season after he was acquired and and I don’t necessarily want to call it garbage time because that’s not

Necessarily what it was with different guys in and out of the lineup he just made it really hard for coaches not to play him and then as the Timberwolves started to have injuries um he was just really ready and capitalized his Opportunity by just playing really hard

And doing all the little things the right way and then obviously in the playoffs had had you know a much more uh elevated role and was asked to do more offensively and still played within himself really well and was a double digit score run really good efficiency in addition to incredible on ball

Defense on Jamal Murray and so for him this season and I think it was all about just carrying over that confidence right he it was the same coaching staff pretty much the same rotation for the most part he knew all these guys you knew exactly how he fitted around all those guys what

Was going to be asked of him and and he hadn’t really had that for the last you know two three years of his career which are pretty foundational you know seasons in your NBA career when you’re still on your rookie contract and so uh for him

To to really hit the ground running in a new situation where he’s asked to do more it’s more High leverage right with the Timberwolves being a playoff caliber team and then playing in the playoffs I think this season was probably just easy for him right you know I think it’s a s

Similar situation for any of us right if we’ve kind of bounced around a few jobs and and we don’t really know how we feel about ourselves as as professionals what’s going to be asked of us every day what our jobs going to look like day in

Day out then you kind of find a job that you really like you really enjoy people around you make sense you feel like you’re valued you feel like the work that you’re doing matters and that it it fits in well with the mission and and what’s going on with the company

Uh and then you can do that for two months four months six months eight months 10 months 12 months like you’re just going to feel better and more confident about what you’re doing and make more of an impact and I think for nille that’s exactly what it is right

And and whether he’s playing on the ball off the ball uh he’s just got such good communication such good instincts timing uses his length really effectively uh his agility and the way he fights over screens is incredible I mean Jaden McDaniels and nil Alexander Walker might

Be two of the be best five guys in the entire league at navigating screens and for the Timberwolves to have you know both of them and be able to kind of interchange how they want to play those to um and the fact that those two guys

Are equally good off the ball as they are on the ball it’s it’s an incredible luxury to have and um you know and the fact that the Timberwolves have other good Defenders around them I think allows those two to be more opportunistic and pick their spots about

When they want to be aggressive and try to jump a passing lane or or make a play uh you know away from the ball that uh I I think can really jump start this team get them out in transition help get some easy buckets which you know with the

Timber holls offense being what it is this year that that’s certainly always going to be welcome so it’s been been really fun to see him kind of hit his stride and and find his uh you know kind of find his Niche here and being the being the man in the fourth quarter

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Some game previews and this is the fourth matchup now but how different is this OKC team versus the OKC team we saw in the first three matchup earlier this year in your opinion and I guess like what have you just learned the most in these four games now like a little bit

Bigger sample size to chew on where are the Wolves biggest mismatches and and you know what are OKC’s biggest weaknesses they need to try and expose more because there’s definitely a world now where these two teams meet again in the playoffs and that might be man just

On paper as of now you know after watching what we just watched that might be one of the best matchups come May and June yeah I think I mean if you want to if you want to look at mismatches uh the first the first one is pretty obvious

Pretty glaring Oklahoma City is is 29th in both in both offensive rebounding percentage and defensive rebounding percentage and so that that’s why it was so frustrating in the second and third quarter when Oklahoma City was getting all these offensive rebounds Oklahoma City had eight offensive rebounds for 11

Uh Second Chance points and all 11 of those Second Chance points kind of came at Big points when Oklahoma City was going on a run and so for the Wolves to come back and have nine offensive rebounds for for 15 second chance points by themselves uh and then and then

Ultimately win on the glass 45 to 38 uh was really important and the Timberwolves have to do a much better job I think in my opinion moving forward if they were to play him in a playoff series of capitalizing on how big they are I mean Chad Holmgren obviously is is

A is an excellent rim protector but he is rail thin and the fact that Rudy goar Rudy goar is not really posting up many guys and really having his way on the block with guys but he does with Chad holgren like you saw in that dunk in the

Fourth quarter um they don’t really have a backup center either that provides any type of a presence so um the Timberwolves have to do a better job of taking advantage there um and then I think another place that they they really have an advantage is offensively they have a bunch or defensively they

Have a bunch of different guys that you can throw uh at SGA to try to make his life different difficult right and I think that uh that the Thunder have two guys in their starting lineups that I think most uh defenses do not really respect uh in terms of their jump

Shooting ability and Lou Dort and and Josh Giddy and so if the Timberwolves were able to play off those guys kind of play make SGA and Jaylen Williams playing a crowd and force force those guys to make tough three-point shots um you know they shot six of 10 tonight

Collectively from from three those two players but I think they do much more of their damage on the drive especially getting into the pain I think they did a great job of for the most part keeping those guys out of the paint and forcing them to make tough shots and so that’s

Going to be an area where uh the Timberwolves need to do better if they play him again in the playoffs and then on the other side of things for Oklahoma City Oklahoma City is a phenomenal team in ter in terms of turning opponents over in the half court and then turning

Those turnovers into points on the other end of the floor they do a great job of of running in transition and so that’s an area that the Timberwolves have actually been pretty good in this season in terms of their transition defense that’s arguably been you know the thing

They’ve turned around the most this season compared to last season um you know if if you want to nitpick at a specific area of defense um and so uh the fact that Oklahoma City tonight you know seven fast break points the Wolves also had seven fast break points

Minnesota did a great job of kind of mitigating that um and again I mean Oklahoma City had 14 points off of 13 wolves turnovers but you know the fact that the Wolves were able to take 11 off of 12 Oklahoma City turnovers you got to feel pretty good about you know just

Being minus three in that matchup so I think that it’s it’s it’s really kind of an interesting game of of strength on weakness right where these two teams um you know really are are kind of opposites in some capacities but then again think if you think about it this

Way right like Minnesota is a correctable problem in terms of turnovers right you’d think that with the Personnel they have they’d be able to figure some of that out but Oklahoma City I mean they don’t have the infrastructure to to to just be bigger right they have to go make a trade and

Give something up and and start to to dip into this massive war chest that they have of assets to go improve their team and so I don’t know that Sam presty will I think he’s constantly you know has the longest view in the room um from

You know from some people I’ve talked to that that cover the thunder so we’ll see if they end up doing that or not but um yeah I really like the Wolves chances in a playoff series just because I think they have a lot more offensive talent and you know the Wolves did lose

25-21 uh on on in terms of bench scoring tonight but but the Thunder don’t really have have any bench players that offer them really consistent scoring Off the Bench and so uh it’ll be really interesting to see how these two teams try to you know address some of their

Weaknesses at the trade deadline because there are clear opportunities for them to do so it’s just going to be a matter of whether that you know both sides feel that um you know it’s going to be worth whatever they have to give up to go and

Do it all right last one real quick we got to get out of here 60c schedule coming up finally back at home for three straight Mavs magic Rockets then Bulls bucks Clippers all on the road obviously this OKC game was the one everyone had circled on the schedule for quite a

While now but when you see the next week or so coming up what’s something that sticks out the most or you know which matchup or game are you most intrigued or excited about I I think for me it’s got to be Luca right um you know just with the way he’s playing obviously

Scored 73 points the other night uh he’s just been on a historic tear uh they have Kyrie Irving back in the lineup now Kyrie got hurt right after I think the Timberwolves played them um down in Dallas and so he he’s back and and that’ll be really fun just as another

Test of this wolves perimeter defense versus you know two of the two of the best perimeter scorers in the history of basketball uh is always a super fun treat another team that that the wolves are going to be able to try to punish inside and and make up for you know for

What I thought was a a rather disappointing loss last time they played in Dallas so that’ll be that’ll be a fun matchup On Target Center off the heels of of this one kind of Riding High on Wednesday night well said well done tonight as always wolves maybe lose the battle they win

The war though they take down the thunder on the road Ste first place back in the Western Conference led by ants 27 points tonight back at home Wednesday vers the Mavs tip off for that one 7 p.m. Central Standard Time as always huge shout out to everyone that joined

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The Minnesota Timberwolves snapped out of their funk tonight taking out the top team in the western conference. Join Luke Inman and Jack Borman for the instant reaction and analysis.