What Is Going On With The Timberwolves’ Coaching?

What Is Going On With The Timberwolves’ Coaching?

Welcome to another how and grows breakdown today we’re talking about another Timberwolves fourth quarter collapse and another really heads scratching coaching performance from Chris Finch now the offensive structure has been up and mostly down this season and we’ve touched on that a ton on this channel but in this game it was the

Bizarre lineups that killed Minnesota you obviously expect Minnesota to beat the San Antonio Spurs in almost any situation but this was a lesson in how a few terrible lineups can derail a game completely for a total of 6 minutes and 28 seconds across two different stints

One in the second quarter and one to begin the fourth quarter Chris Finch rolled out lineups that featured Jordan mclin Shake Milton Kyle Anderson and Rudy go all four of those players can be impactful players to varying degrees individually but together they’re four non-shooters in a league built upon three-point shooting and spacing

Unsurprisingly it didn’t go well they scored just six points on three of nine shooting with five total turnovers in those 6 minutes the Spurs scored 21 points so they outscored Minnesota by 15 points and they did it on 9 of 13 shooting that’s the only time they’ve

Played together this season and it’s a huge blunder in a game that ended in a onepoint loss so let’s take a look at how those minutes crushed the wolves and empowered the Spurs we start in the second quarter and look how much room wemi is giving Kyle Anderson here he has

Time to physically point to Osman to come and switch here so he can drop down and cover goar while Anderson stands here unwilling to shoot eventually Anderson drives and Osman easily cuts it off he gets it to hatat and look at this spacing Anderson inside the AR with his

Man Gober under the rim with his man and Milton spacing the floor but not actually spacing because his man won’t guard him on the ark so cat drives Osman stunts all the way over in off Anderson wemi rotates over off doar and it ends up in a predictable turnover that’s how

Bad spacing and bad lineups can kill an offense and a star scorer like towns so they run their horns flare action here and it’s such an Easy Action to guard if you’re not deploying Corner Shooters wemi switches onto towns off the catch because he knows that McDermot can come

All the way off Milton in the corner to stifle goar’s role that’s exactly what happens look at all these bodies crowding inside the ark again and there’s just no chance that pass is getting through all of it it’s another empty possession hey guys just interrupting this video quickly to tell you about

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Flyers.com get your teas and use the code hows and grows for a free tea with your order so this next possession is a baseline out of B play and they simply want to get the ball to cat here under the free throw line and this is ridiculous mcder is going to come all

The way off Anderson and leave him wide open with no consequences wemi is going to come off go here as well Jones is doing the same thing leaving mclin on the perimeter so it’s almost impressive that towns worms his way through all of it but it’s not surprising that he isn’t

Able to complete the play and make this shot if it’s serious coaching malpractice for this to happen because it was very obvious that this was going to happen okay it’s the fourth quarter now and it’s the same thing again Osman is happy to duck under the screen on the

Perimeter here Anderson won’t take the three but he also can’t drive because mcder is so far over in gap help off Milton so he’s at the free throw line and Osman is still here ducking under the screen without fear and Anderson’s robotic jumper allows Osman to get under

Both of those screens and still get a great contest up on the shot this is just making life so much harder than it needs to be so here’s a minor success story but it’s still the same issues we’re dealing with when Nas Reed gets the ball here Johnson doesn’t even go

With Anderson he just slips in front of Reed and again it’s McDermot doing the roaming off Milton to crowd read out again I’m just going to circle this whole thing because look at the amount of bodies ignoring everything but the one scorer on the court and nased is

Awesome so Nas Reed still manages to score the ball and again Anderson is driving the circle is back because everybody is packing the paint still there’s an obvious pass here that he doesn’t make out to read that’s a bad idea and this time wemi Skies over to

Bat that ball away now there’s some credit due to the Spurs who were flame-throwing in the fourth quarter of this game even when Minnesota did get some shooting back out on the floor and started making shots themselves but again this was a onepoint game in the

End and Chris Finch decided to let these possessions unfold for an ungodly amount of time and that’s how you lose to the nine win San Antonio Spurs Minnesota have major issues right now it starts with the coaching and it trickles down to the roster construction the

Confidence at the end of the games and the inability to just play normal basketball against Bad teams it’ll be interesting to see how they respond to this rough patch in their season thanks again for watching hows and GRS Please Subscribe for more

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