Minnesota’s Big Man Duo Is Getting Scary …

Minnesota’s Big Man Duo Is Getting Scary …

Welcome to another hows and grows breakdown today we’re talking about Minnesota’s big men and the Synergy that we see from both kyl Anthony towns and Rudy Gober every single night now there can still be some spacing issues and occasionally they’re just going to run into a matchup that’s not overly

Conducive to a twin tower setup but when towns and go are working together in offensive actions it’s a thing of beauty the have now played 45 times together this season and even with Mike Conley’s well-known chemistry with go towns has actually registered the most assists to

Go by a pretty wide margin they’re up to 55 Connections in those 45 games their most recent win over the Dallas Mavericks came without Luca and Kyrie and there were a host of other Mavericks on the sidelines as well so it wasn’t anything to get too excited over but

Watching town and go dovetail again made me want to break it down a little further so there’s a couple of key ways that towns gets goar the ball in Rhythm and it’s worth pointing them out we did see a lot of it in this latest win over

Dallas and it’s pretty simple it’s all about cat drawing Go’s man toward W him on double teams inside the ark so when towns curls into the post of this little cross screen his gravity as a scorer is going to immediately pull goar’s man toward him to double and you notice how

Space goar is from the rim that means he can curl through here and finish off that pass which is a lot easier than trying to dump it down to him standing underneath the rim we often think of towns as the floor spacer in this partnership but as long as go is in the

Right positions he can warp the defense with his spacing as well you see it again here so go is out there setting this flare screen and spacing the floor with towns in the post and as soon as goar’s man digs down here with that double goar Dives straight to the front

Of the rim and Cat’s timing on this pass is inch perfect and that spacing can work in other areas of the floor as well we see it here go is down there spacing on the Baseline instead but it’s the same result goar’s man rotates over to

Help on cat goar rotates in behind him and towns Nails him with a perfectly timed lob pass this time this same logic applies when towns is also spacing in different areas we go back to tonight’s win over Dallas and now it’s towns in the corner instead of the post catsman

Has to step in here because of goar’s rolling gravity so Conley skips it over to towns who is such a weapon in those Corner Pockets he draws goar’s man to him on the Baseline Drive go is perfectly spaced again and towns can whip that fancy over the head past to

His fellow big man so that’s how they do it with both players operating inside the ark as long as they can marry up their spacing and their positioning it’s going to lead to really easy looks at the rim for goar they’ve become much more Adept at this as the season has

Wore on but it’s not always simple to jam two enormous humans inside the ark and have everything run smoothly so one of the other ways they do it is just straight up run pick and roll with the two big men while the previous possessions we saw were like

Something out of the ’90s this is more like something out of the future we see here what towns did last night when the screening defender in pick and roll is deep in drop coverage he’s just going to walk into a three-point jumper and that’s the immediate concern for

Defenses when the two big men start running this action that means towns can manipulate the defense and start creating assists for go so as soon as the big steps up to take away the three go is going to Pivot out of the screen and dive straight to the rim to get an

Easy bucket so even the teams that deploy drop coverage as their preferred scheme have to shift their principles when the wolves go to that four or five pick and roll and then they still get punished for that change up jiren Jackson Jr wants to sit back in here and

Anchor the defense from The Middle but when he sees towns coming off a ball screen he gets up here quickly Conley’s in the corner distracting the low man and goar rolling out of the screen into all of this open space here with no help coming over to stop him when towns hits

Him with that pass so when they can’t get the spacing right to hammer those inside the arc actions where towns draws go Bear’s man to him in a double team flowing their offense into these big man screen and roll actions is a great way to get the same desired result in a

Different way it’s also just one of the coolest ways to lean into their jumbo sized identity there just isn’t teams around running those pick and rolls and that’s why it works so often it’s confusing for defenses who are so used to guarding the same things night after

Night and the last thing worth noting here is something we’ve talked about a ton on this channel and it’s Minnesota’s flare actions again as a reminder it’s two ball screens waiting here Conley comes around this town screen and then go sets that flare screen while towns

Drifts off it into space in this example he makes the three and as was the case before that’s what opens up his ability to playmate for goar in those horns flare actions so if goar’s man switches and steps out to check cat goar just slips in behind the action and he’s

Rolling to the rim again it’s the same Principle as the pick and roll but it’s that little bit of extra source to get the whole thing set up and with these towns likes to get downhill to really put the defender in a bind you see him here he drives until Gafford is

Stuck here in no man’s land and go back and drift in behind again and that’s what can really open up that lob dunk so this is just really different in today’s NBA and it’s really effective for this Timberwolves team again there’s going to be some issues sometimes with two legit

Centers in the lineup and we’ve spoken about that previously but there’s no doubting the Synergy between towns and go is really peaking right now and it makes Minnesota such an interesting watch when they have it going thanks again for watching another how and GRS breakdown Please Subscribe for more

This is the league’s strangest team. In the good way.