🐺 Minnesota Timberwolves vs Portland Trailblazers | POSTGAME | 2/15/24

🐺 Minnesota Timberwolves vs Portland Trailblazers | POSTGAME | 2/15/24

[Applause] Edward and fre himself Fires at the right three hits anthonyp it off the oh got up into violence my Goodness welcome welcome to wolves after dark I’m your host there it is I’m your host Ashwin Cameron’s not with us because he was at the game at the motor Center himself uh Dawning uh hopefully Dawning Minnesota blue as the Minnesota Timberwolves take care of business in Minnesota

Timberwolves fashion uh 128 to 91 on the back end uh of a home in home in Portland where Anthony Edwards plays with his food and gets another 34 points uh that would be what 75 points in two games that’s Anthony Edwards for you I think he’s coming into his Zone I think

He’s feeling himself right now at the perfect time heading into All-Star Weekend pretty excited for him uh just to get that kind of you know accolades and recognition he’s been balling out the best team in the west it’s hard to stay up on top and as you saw in the second

Quarter and early onsets of the third quarter it’s hard to keep going uh when you’re on top and uh insert a little AE injection and you can bump that lead up from 8 to 20 in a matter of minutes and that’s what happened kind of the the story of the game

Is we came prepared we we kind of prepared as if this was like a playoff series I guess that’s what m nor said in the pregame presser pregame you know kind of uh um content piece and anything that they were trying to do we completely Stripped Away

DeAndre Inon was a non-factor in fact he took himself out of the game that’s so sad um and they weren’t doing anything in the point in the the post in the post in the paint in the first quarter we did everything Jaden McDaniels pops off for

Three dunks you know we were just super aggressive aggro to a point where we were playing some of our best basketball on both ends um I think we were 68% in the first quarter from the field to their like 22 23% so and you know when you’re down 2

When you’re down 25 you start to uh lose interest and when you’re up 25 up 30 at the end of the first quarter how do you how do you keep that energy right but we found um that we are still uh learning how to do that it’s okay uh honestly

It’s fine games like this prove that we are hungry we’re ready but we’re not there yet you know and it can be frustrating as a timoll fan F based to kind of like all right it’s it’s a 30-point game let’s let’s kick off our shoes a little bit but when it became an

Eight-point Game Boy we’re our butts clenched because yeah it’s cool to be historically great in the first quarter but it’s also we saw before when you play with your food and you get 62 points in a loss boy does it feel worse right guys everyone 60 of you plus thank you

So much for for joining us uh at wolves after dark we are going to also be hanging out uh during Allstar we might do a stream or two and so it would be great to have you guys getting to the commentary um just shortly before we went live JJ

Says uh going up by 30 points only go down to a single digit lead and now back up to 30 points is pretty pretty much just wolves things like the stream even before it starts you know what Cameron says get to 100 likes I don’t know hot tub

Stream Kieran coie welcome to the show My Friend wolves was like let’s make it respectable to just disrespect them more by beating them by almost 40 wow yeah maybe maybe this game kind of feels like a microcosm of the Season don’t you think like um start hot stay

Hot have a bit of a cooldown period in in the beginning of the new year only to really kind of come back to where we were uh to kind of close this first half of the Season pretty cool we are now I’m just trying to refresh stuff to get my box scores

Correct um I think we’re almost at the the sorry guys I feel I feel terrible where are we now we are still at top standings I’m trying to get our record I feel terrible um 396 ain’t so bad winners of four straight that would be the Bucks Clippers and Portland Portland that’s

Sweet we’re a game and a half in front of OKC we’re two games in front of the Clippers going in allar feeling great call me casual says we’re getting those 52 wins I got to look at the schedule but I think we’re getting 50 55

Wins whoa 52 wins is in play I think it’s kind of been our motto uh since we started this nonsense it was 60 wins and then we kind of lowered the bar a little bit oh man we’re going to get into the tier list shortly my friends another

Thing that was interesting is um the others the others stepped up but it was the it was other others it wasn’t the n and Nas it was um a lot of Jaden tonight and I thought Jaden was hungry and assertive and I thought the way that he looked on

The perimeter was fantas fantastic basically shutting out Simons to the point where where was Simons all game where was he it was crazy I thought that um um after that first quarter we weren’t going to see much of Simons and Scoot Henderson kind of came out and took over I thought that

Was really sick to see and you know Simons kind of appeared a little bit in the second quarter and I don’t know what happened I don’t know where he was but he wasn’t anywhere on that court in the rest of the game um all right now that my box score

Is final I can talk talk about what we did here um 34 from Ant 23 from cat 17 from jayen McDaniels and if we look at the box score a little bit now Monte Morris I think a little bit that was garbage time with 12 and nazri got a little bit also

In kind of the last few minutes in the fourth quarter to get it to double digits and uh it’s nice to see right because we don’t have to necessarily rely on na n has been Mr consistent for the entire season for the first time in like 17 games he didn’t get a

Three that’s okay we uh relied on our Top Gun to get the job done JJ uh they really gave the Blazers fans a sense of hope and pummeled them in general in in the guard yeah ground there it is uh talashi hey hope I said your name correctly welcome back my friend

Very recognizable Avatar I love it they got that dog in them tonight I thought so too Matthew Hensen hello hello I hope I’m coming in clear I’m trying to get my mic it’s a new it’s not a new mic but it’s like uh I’m not using my uh camera

Mic anymore so trying to hopefully I don’t come in and out if I if I am I’ll try to fix it for next show um it was so fun to have some of you guys along the ride on in the Discord shout out to Discord if you guys aren’t there it’d be

Awesome to have you guys there um we do this after we do this in every game but and we go live after most games and uh it means so much to have your support throughout this whole thing as we are on a historical tear 39 wins before the All-Star break Minnesota Tim wolves

Gotta feel pretty good despite some of the criticisms despite some probably warranted healthy conversations that are going to be had uh from not just us but from other you know shows out there we’re we’re one we’re the one seed we’re the top seed we got we got problems we got holes

To fix we got holes to plug you know I thought it was fantastic there’s been a lot of conversation about uh Rudy goar and his like um need to as long as we’re the away team have our uh offense you know in the second half alongside

Our bench so then we can have maybe better offensive sets Maybe to have like better Closeouts uh close out atos and just like coaches in our ears right also like when you have nice leads like this it’s kind of fun to get a little creative and

Then have the bench kind of ride with you right um hello Matthew Hansen uh Kieran coie wonder if Chanty gets fired getting beat like that oh I think he got he got hired to be a tank commander uh I thought that was a very very questionable higher never coached anything before

What was he what are they doing you’re not you’re not going to get a player empowerment to coach to coach Damen Lillard and you know like get them to be motivated now this this was a let’s let’s let’s slowly offload everyone higher I in my

Opinion but uh it would suck to see him go but also I don’t know maybe they need a whole shift whole culture shift in in Portland salute oh that took me way to way too long to understand what that was Charlie hey my friend thank you so much for

Joining F I like the first to the fourth hey man so did I said we should do that more often I think so too ah we were up by 30 man I was so ready to get like 12 to 15 minutes of our bench mob had to

Keep it interesting they had to make it interesting huh tell them to call in yeah you know Cameron telling you to call in let’s see what happens I don’t think most of these people like you know they like to hear your voice you know and I guess Cameron with the $10 Dono

To yourself nice job dude looking fresh yeah I don’t know I decided to shave I think I may have missed a spot or two or three don’t look look away look away but thank you yeah um I think this is the quickest Edward’s first step has

Looked in a while hey you noticed that too I thought that was so refreshing to see um him kind of I wouldn’t say he was uh isoing but he was kind of trying to penetrate the the paint and trying to get to the rim but also kind of actively look for the right

Play and his handle looked great and I also thought that step to get into the paint paint was as you said the fastest he’s been I thought it was he was great he looked it’s another thing about I I don’t think I I don’t think I have like

Stats or facts or anything but the very fact that you played a team and you play a team again you’re not moving cities you’re not changing your Arrangement you are literally going home bed wake up gym like that is your life for the next 48 hours right maybe there’s some small

Little thing that you have to do outside of that so like why he’s like comfortable he’s not moving anywhere he’s not did I forget this that or the other so as silly as that says sounds he’s probably like just very comfortable getting on the court tonight you know and so like

It looked like he was probably well rested and everything right that’s my opinion I’m just saying some nonsense to further dissect What Might Have Been re the reason why he was so quick to was awesome also I thought he he was ready everyone’s ready for the All-Star break

But I think it felt like he wanted to be done in like a he wanted no part of that second half but we called on we called him in and he he answered our prayers honestly because I didn’t want to lose this one I wanted to go into the All-Star break on

A high on a positive note and celebrate you know celebrate our successes rather than really kind of question and be fuzzy about it because yeah this is like um bottom seated team this year in Portland and they’re looking for the future they’re not looking necessarily to really push um the envelope or play

Spoilers in my opinion they’re trying to see what’s next and it might not be Anthony Simons and Scoot Henderson and boy a Aon he wasn’t doing anything and he’s never gonna do anything um I Jim Pete said on the broadcast I wonder if he regrets you know pushing

For you know not being in Phoenix he doesn’t care he just has his his paycheck man he doesn’t care whatsoever doesn’t look like it man really doesn’t especially the way that he filed out of that of this game tonight he had no interest being in it and it’s kind of

Embarrassing kind of sad I hope Portland can do better I hope Portland can move him they probably won’t get much for him though huh the wolf got to play in the second fourth quarter all game and we are unbeatable that’s right that’s right fantastic way Brian s hello hello

And Petty machete I freaking love that name great win before allar weekend I love that Brian s hello hello fantastic way go to all break I’m so happy I’m so happy I’m I’m I’m pumped Wade Baron going down to a single digit lead made me

Sick uh you know you don’t need to Tim stamp or snap screenshot the Discord but boy it was starting to get a little ugly in there I was and we were I guess as a collective a little uh too loose with our words as it started to get close

Um and polite demons hourglass game yeah man I like that it’s a fun like visual um Ken McDaniels saw his dud last game and said that ain’t happening tonight I yeah man what do you have to do for 48 hours you watch your film you watch

Yourself man I could have done so much more that last game right so he probably was all right I see these openings I see these these gaps they’re small they’re DeAndre eaten in the paint and DeAndre eting in the paint isn’t anything in the paint so he was like I’m just gonna dunk

It and he dunked and he had some ferocious dunks tonight was so cool so kind of like the way I said ferocious uh tier list time tier list time it’s it’s time to tier list the time um is That’s a g it’s not an s or it’s

Not a b oh this whole time I thought you were like your name was like Benny generic user uh the first Subs are cat and Mike out for Kyle and Nas do you think these are uh matchups where the first Subs are Monte and Nas um I don’t

I don’t think so I I also I thought na was the first one out in but uh I sorry it took so long I was just trying to think about teams and matchups like the only ones I think are like Dallas and the Kings where maybe Monte could like

Kind of hang out with like Malik Monk and you know this Hardy boy that they got in Dallas but um you know like n does everything that we need from our backup and then Mont is there to just be even extra right but uh yeah I I will say that is a very

Generic answer way of answering your question probably but um I was I was trying to think deeper into what it would probably be oh it was confirmed it’s not for the main game I don’t know what this exactly is uh describing oh JJ I think it’s cool

But it’s not going to be for the actual game I don’t care uh oh uh oh what are we trying to say oh yes yes cool idea I worry and I hope it doesn’t really affect any of the performances from like the G Leaguers to the Celebrity Game everything is

Happening on the LED court with the exception with the exception of the All-Star game um it’s gonna be fun I think it’s G be kind of uh bringing a lot of new like visual Intrigue um I think it’s be a step up but I hope it the ball bounces correctly

I hope that they can feel like it’s a normal court because if it’s if it’s distracting you know like if they get crazy like whoa there’s like reflection as I’m like driving or dunking or shooting a three that would suck right don’t you think um okay guys cron 151 welcome

Welcome worly squirly 100% they almost choked it away against the Jazz what did whle squirly say the only thing that would make this better if the Warriors lost tonight too yes I think they had a pretty um return deform performance from Klay Thompson but I don’t know I just

Saw headlines I don’t read articles I just see the headlines um hey Ash ever been mistaken for Action Bronson no I have no idea who that is I should probably look that up uh CJ Frisby I don’t think I recognize your name before my friend

Welcome to the show uh usually I have a co-host with me Cameron but he’s at the game right now or he was at the game now he’s in the parking lot trying to get out of the the arena um CJ frisbee just realized the wvs haven’t lost three

Games in a row yet this season really that’s pretty sweet and as you said that’s pretty hype that’s pretty cool I didn’t know that the M Morris is already more effective than Shake’s best game but the preseason got me pretty giddy pretty excited for shake Milton I

Guess maybe that’s what he was good for I I guess he’s doing pretty well in Detroit and that’s fine I don’t know he’s he’s still a young player he needs to find his way but also I feel like he needed a system where like it encouraged him uh and not necessarily facilitate

For others I think he’s more of a Jamal Crawford type than a like functioning point guard type oh cool well you guys just watch me drink there for 5 seconds let’s get to the two list um and I’ll also have a couple extra uh screens to share with you all

Tonight um let’s see if I can whoa yeah I like that I like that setup o what what do I do here all right I’ll do that I’ll do that uh this is a game only tier list not a season kind of uh overall because ant is an A1 in our

Hearts n has been a constant a you know goar has been a constant a so on a tonight only basis so for all of you people watching after the fact and even right now it’s it’s it’s fun to play along but also just know that it’s

Just on tonight’s basis and we grade all the players uh fairly or based off of whatever the [ __ ] I want to talk about um let’s get into into it uh I have one monitor for some reason I’ll get another monitor shortly so if I miss some commentary while we uh go through

The tier list as I read off stats and kind of talk about my thoughts I’m sorry about that but we’ll try to catch up as best as I can uh I love this comment massive Olo Candi vibes from Eon it’s like there’s so much potential there but

He just doesn’t get it there’s nothing in here and he also probably just cares about a paycheck um man I still I thought we got some I thought we got steal from the Clippers when we traded for him it got dark uh they hired bips instead and

Didn’t consider vpol after all of that yeah totally man yeah the vanterpool hire could have been pretty good for him where is vanterpool Brooklyn last I remember he was like Brooklyn in with the The Big Three that didn’t really do anything together big three and Simmons but uh whatever we’ll see all

Right I wonder what Lillard is thinking about being on the bucks now that they got some issues well I think it beats being on the Blazers I think he needed a breath of fresh air and he was being rumored to Miami this that whole offseason and then kind of completely jaunted to Mami

Milwaukee completely like we no one was expecting that um Doc Rivers right yeah this is a Minnesota timber show we can talk about the Bucs anytime we want maybe right now uh I think Lillard is fine but uh that team is going to be fine in the playoffs but

I don’t know the Knicks the Cavs and the Celtics going to be Juiced and ready to take him down and I think uh half court team that’s where Lillard’s going to really shine but the other end other end of the floor I think Giannis and Milton have

To pick it up for them to be anything in the postseason we’ll see we’ll see what Doc Rivers can do with that team I think Beverly will help as well um okay almost there almost there CR veteran tip if you decide to go to a Blazer game park at the Liberty Center Parking

Garage alrighty that’s awesome vpol is the with the Wizards whoa why oh man uh and welcome again my friend Damon uh Kieran just wish we could had Lillard I don’t think I ever considered Lillard and I don’t think Portland would ever consider training to a division

Rivalry but you know Utah did so I don’t know maybe uh don’t say no but um and if they did they would really probably consider OKC over anything not that OKC needed uh lither and or they were ever rumored but like just OKC here have seven picks you know so all righty

Let’s go to tier list as we have it up and I haven’t started yet with it um points of the paint timal 66 Blazers 42 last game the Blazers scored 50 to our 44 it’s crazy to see just a difference in mentality insurge and offensive offensive like efficiency from those

That were not named last last game the Jaden McDaniels on the cats right they were nowhere to be found in the game last time it was so fun to have them just like show up but also show out in the paint not just be uh shooting uh bricks um

We live by 38 at one point in this game isn’t that c isn’t that insane um so cool guys 12 points from Monte Morris in 15 minutes um three assists hit a three five for a from the floor Monte Morris in his big head that is probably above expectation but in a

Blowout I’m going to kind of tip it down a little not little notch I’m excited let me just say I’m excited that that um mid-range shot near the end of the game not like when it was um kind of already over but like right before was was sweet and we’re

Going to need some of that we’re going to need some of that and the fact that he’s willing and able to take shots and it doesn’t look like you know doesn’t look like slow-mo taking threes anytime soon and like Shake Milton was like allergic to shooting threes it’s great

To have someone else on the bench just take them like I don’t care if you’re one for four like you were tonight it’s awesome to see that it’s cool to see Jordan mclin Josh V not desan Nicks lendon Miller all those players are so

Fun W Mo I don’t know you were in Street clo as were you Luca Garza I don’t know I don’t care uh tonight it’s fun to see you guys out there when the games don’t matter I kind of wish I had saw more as all Nas Reed 22 minutes 10 points four

Fouls he kind of had a bit of a dud uh performance especially in the first half half I believe um only five points in the first half um so I didn’t really show up to the party but he was there to help close it out um this is not really what I want

To see regularly from our boy give it a me nille Alexander Walker gets a pass tonight because I thought he was just fine over four from three couldn’t care I don’t care I don’t care he at one assist and one turnover kind of don’t care two points I don’t care this

Would this would be probably a recipe for a DLo type like performance he’s getting an absolute pass for that he’s a met not swapping bite bite for any point guard right now trading L to OKC after you ended the Westbrook era G winner would have been hilarious yeah maybe that was maybe why

They didn’t pick up the phone whoops sorry my head’s going in and out of the the camera um you would for Booker oh I’m enjoying him when he’s producing though I love Mike Conley I think it’s so fun and fascinating that I kind of like cared and respected for him in

Memphis and when he went to Utah I didn’t really know his game was going to translate into and it was like more of like a Whisperer for and like just like a vet Laden team surrounding donam and Mitchell were they going to be just fine I wasn’t sure what Conley’s role was

Going to be there and it was amazing like and I’m so happy he was there because it brought him over to us right um Memphis was so fun back in the day it’s great to have a leader like this on our team and honestly there’s so much

Respect given to him and there’s almost like a oh if he was just like a young dude we wouldn’t fall in line faster we wouldn’t fall in line with like discipline or like oh because it’s Conley we kind of we’re playing for Conley right don’t you in a weird way it

Feels like some of us are playing for you because you haven’t got you haven’t gone all the way and like Rudy the same thing feel like we’re playing for these players maybe I’m you know filling in thoughts in their head but like maybe I’m not all the way correct but I think

Partially is like this team camaraderie is there because of like the Vets surrounding the allars I think it’s pretty cool in a way that they’re also valuable and uh um sought after like we need them you know the Andre Miller in his Twilight years we didn’t really need him

Right Theo Ratliff like you’re just a contract filler you’re not going to help us get anywhere you know what I mean uh moving on yeah so that’s the bench for the most part uh and hey guys all all of you all 50 plus 60 plus of you it mean us mean a

Ton if you could you know like share subscribe do all the things that Cameron is so good at talking about I’m kind of just here reading stats right now but that’d be awesome if you could do that um we were just talking about mik Conley mik Conley in 22 minutes 12 points three

Assists now that’s a mik Conley I I enjoy I like I don’t need anything more than that from him unless it’s a close game then he pops off you know for those those like sliding threes [ __ ] awesome right he went two for four from three that’s all we need really he

Wasn’t needed tonight and it’s nice to know and games like this we can kind of give him a bit of a break 22 minutes right like we don’t need him for 30 it would be crazy if we did and it’s it’s almost like respect shown to Mike Conley

To like play to the point where we don’t need him this is a be like performance from him and it’s going to matter in the postseason Conley’s going to have this remarkable game and it’s going to make the deal look like a absolute it was already fleecing but it was goingon to

Be it’s going to look like a masterpiece like that trade is going to look like everyone’s G to talk about what how did Conley get traded for for what and you gave up now like it’s so funny right I’m I’m it’s going to come down to how how

Well we are like executing down the stretch we’ve struggled with that last last couple years Conley is going to be like NOP no no wait a second hold my beer he’ll take care of business for us games like tonight maybe we didn’t need him but there’s gonna be a game

Just like tonight in the post season where we’re gonna freaking need him they’re gon to double they’re going to Triple they’re not going to have defenses that are just like completely porous and open like Portland and Conley’s goingon to have to save us or Conley’s going to have to slow us down

And get into a set that’s why he’s here and I don’t think he’s here just to waste time and I think that’s also fun so like root for a dude but also like long story short like know that we’re all here trying to win and not just

Like get by right we’re not gonna settle for a first round exit we’re gonna get [ __ ] mad at each other we’re going to come back even stronger I hope as we did last year and it was kind of cool to see like it would be I I did question like Mike

Conley trade like the timing of it like why didn’t we just do it right away uh was it to appease cat was oh Cat’s friend you know oh DLo sucked and uh we could have had Conley earlier maybe I wonder if like Conley was still kind of wanting to stick around in in

Utah even as they were blowing things up by the minute there goes Donovan mitcher there goes go bear but Conley maybe want to stay I don’t know but the move was great for the timing of what it did for us because it refocused us I thought we

Had a hell of a ride that February March April into that first round series was a hell of a ride with Conley it was so fun um and I think that’s it was like almost like an like a treatment to our offseason and preparation to like how

Well we’re doing now is a it’s a byproduct of like getting the pieces ahead of time I hope that made sense and I feel weird doing a little diet Tri on Mike Conley when he was kind of an IR relevant player tonight but uh I just it

Just happened I guess H goar the other part of the Utah Jazz East uh we almost got you know Royce O’Neal and bojan donovich I don’t know that been hilarious right so uh 11 points 12 rebounds two block shots couple turnovers but a lot of those turn because we were forcing the

[ __ ] out of it we were throwing him so many passes when it felt like we were just trying to get him as double double or something it was really obnoxious and not needed four fouls now that was something I wasn’t expecting and also he had some

Random dude uh named iau baji uh who like was trash talking goar as he was getting subbed out ah goar goar go I love him he’s a walking a to me uh he’s getting a b tonight let me catch up with a couple comments that may or may not have

Happened while I was talking um Morris stats Reed is someone who’s a good addition and I still think he would be a good he would be as a buyout option are we talking about we’re talking about Marcus Morris yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah didn’t um ginari get picked up

Uh recently I forgot who he went to maybe the buck that’d be interesting because they need they need something they need another jolt of energy so maybe Gan Ario will be that we’ll see um but it’s weird to see fans of the team he’s been on just universally

Trashing uh I don’t know if he’s been like loved he’s been like a hard you know kind of like blue collar type player like the energy player shoot threes but I don’t know if he’s like loved I don’t know not a good not a good

Shout out if all the fans of your team were recently playing calling you trash who well we’ll see we’ll see uh I don’t know if it’s actually happening but I kind of want it to happen because that’s a player that I never thought we would like speak you know or

A player that would never seek a team like us but that’s also probably just because now we’re the one seed now we’re taking now we’re getting noticed maybe it doesn’t matter at this point get on a winning winning cultural shifting team and be a part of it that sounds fun that

Sounds like a nice like next three months for a player and yeah uh he’s another guy who’s good for six, I think it’s G be great when like a cat inevitably gets a foul trouble slow-mo does not have it going it’s nice to have another option

But also a big dude hey at that those uh breaking or those like closing moments in the fourth quarter we had Nas Reed out there right like where’s that other big oh Luca is in Street clo and and I guess we subbed in London Miller ultimately um that could be Marcus

Morris all right cool um oh God okay cool I love goar just not his hands during that one stretch that end secret when he wanted to get back it was pretty funny it was pretty funny yeah okay cool all right and then bio guards are going to see a possible ring

Signing with the Wolves oo hang those banners we’re getting buyouts all right guys moving on to the next few players only a couple players left let’s go jayen McDaniels 28 minutes even 17.5 rebounds two steals pretty much just pounded uh Simons all day I thought um

Jeremy Grant had quite a good game and I thought scoot ederson looked the part like I could see the the future in scoot um but I don’t really see defensively the impact that I would normally see from Jaden how however in the first quarter it felt like we just clamped him

Down a lot of it was go bear just in the paint affecting everything had even with the block shot here or there that the refs it f almost felt like the refs were like let’s just get out let’s just get this game done with so they weren’t calling fouls um in

Favor of the Blazers and I thought Jaden was had a hell of a game and I think the whistle was kind to him as well and uh those dunks just probably get him going in ways that we haven’t seen so like it just felt awesome and then like that

Steel into into know it’s incredible and uh I don’t know is this a be is this a b is this an a I don’t know I’m not confused and a thrunk finish that thrunk was unbelievable drunk in the trunk thighs like what maybe yeah he’s an a he’s an a

Tonight I don’t know what I was thinking you said you you said quot Cisco oh generic user says b guys you guys influenc me so maybe I was right on on first pass after an absolute stinker though I think I’m so happy that he responded right I

Think we should all be just super happy and elated and praise these types of efforts from jayen because it’s found gold when he gets into double digits it’s literally like just the support that we need from Ant for ant and and Cat we need that third option and it can’t always be

Let’s lob it to go be or we can’t rely on Conley day in and day out to get like double digits right he’s going to be planned against and like the Kings and the Pelicans are going to be just faster than Conley so we’re going to need someone else to

Really put the pressure down and get to the paint and I think he can be that player and you know games like the first game against the Blazers you kind of putting questions like can he actually be part of that that next you know uh level for

Us well lights like that’ss like this show us that he can and I think it’s cool that uh I still call I still think about that Memphis game where game six he pops off for 29 Points right there is something in him where he could be so much more lethal off on offense

But his role on this team right and I think you got to have to you have to suck it up and you know be prideful out there I guess cat’s doing that you can’t do it all and so he’s not asked to take over games he’s asked to mostly be a

Spacer but it’s so sick when he can pop off for 17 where he can get his in the flow of the offense and it not feel like we’re pushing and pushing a narrative or forcing it down to have him get going like the flow feels like oh it’s Jaden’s

Time to get that shot off or in transition oh get it to Jaden it sounds great because the more he gets going the more the defenses have to rotate to him and Le they can’t take off of him which makes ants and cats gam so much better so and easier first first

Foremost all right cron says an a Karen coie says an a fjd oh everyone’s saying a generic user not this time okay um I keep hearing people say online scoot was overrated as an athlete he’s not the elite elite athlete uh but he wasy up to be during draft but I don’t

Know he looks crazy fast explosive in both games I agree I agree JJ I think he’s going to be great I think he’s be one of those drose like players where he’s gonna have or like Westbrook like players he’s gonna have a quick first step and he’s gonna have this like body

That’s gonna push people going and yeah it’s all gonna be down to if he can shoot Threes And if he can defend on the other end we’ll see I’m kind of rooting for him as I said in the other show and as you said Kieran scooter will develop that’s that’s cool all righty

Moving on as we do uh what do we have left I miss slowmo don’t really need to talk to him talk about him is B Carl Anthony towns what a rebound performance uh 23 points eight rebounds two block shots one steal hit a three hit his free throws his girl was in the

Stands um this is a be like performance he shot only two threes and when the game was getting close I didn’t feel like I felt his impact in fact I was a little worried when goar went to the bench and cat was the five I don’t know right he did

Didn’t feel great but that necessarily isn’t his problem it’s our like philosophy and I think we lose a bit because he goes from the four to the five right so he has to change his mindset immediately and go into different types of coverages and box out different types of players but I don’t

Know I think I think this is a great uh great game from cat but not with a whole lot of like impact if you can understand that uh I might be wrong on playback I might like see something different that I did live but um eight for 13 is an

Incredible efficiency can’t get wrong can’t be wrong with like how he played and he was playing downhill which is cool and sometimes it’s great sometimes it’s awful and tonight tonight I was actually really happy that he was allowed to like kind of play a little

Bit Freer but also he was quick in his decisions and I didn’t think um also I do feel strong like both games had very similar levels of energy the first Portland game he was called for fouls that first quarter he like drove through Kamar and they called

It a defensive foul and it was an and one that probably got him going you know as opposed to oh I want to start moaning and crying to the refs I’m in this game now and so he was he did pretty well in the first quarter in fact I thought he

Got double digits uh all right so he had five points in the first quarter and nine in the second all right so his his most of his money came in the second quarter that’s awesome but I felt like the first quarter I felt like I felt like his impact more than

When he was actually producing anyways good to see good to see from our boy cat because I am not the biggest fan of him you guys might know this neither of us are but but we’re rooting for him as long as he’s on a timberwolf as long as we are building

Around him boy I can’t wait for continued success for our for our friend carony towns it’s hard to stay consistent in this league it’s hard to build off of wins and keep that same energy going especially when you’re told to sacrifice your game and be a different type of player than you want

To be but the player he wants to be is not necessarily the player that we need him to be and the player that he needs to be is the best version of him where he is assertive he’s not necessarily pass first but he’s Trigger Happy from three and he plays Incredible defense

When he’s in positions to succeed um and that’s usually alongside one or two other bigs so that role is phenomenal for him he can also be a passer a distributor but we saw tonight maybe not so much he was playing he’s playing he’s playing a little too

Friendly with the ball and uh I just need quick decisions I don’t need anything taking too long and he’s gonna most often if he’s thinking he’s gonna make the wrong play it’s weird and it’s kind of weird to say and especially in a game like this where

We blew them out you know being I’m being too critical I think it’s okay and I think it’s fair and I think it’s um understandable I hopefully you guys understand when I when I say small criticisms for Cats game um it’s just because I I want the best for him but I

Also kind of feel like we oh we are owed the best version of him on a nightly basis right like you can have a bad night I am not saying he needs to go eight for 30 for me to be disgusted with him it’s just like all of the other

Things that need to happen is not all about scoring the basketball it’s about being like there was a possession where I think cat was playing or like aunt was playing too much with the ball and wasn’t looking for on anyone else but cat was just idle on the

Perimeter he could have been shifting trying to get the ball and help out ant in a moment where ant probably needed to get the ball get off the ball cat was just watching you know little things you build habits you build momentum into the playoffs and you will reap the benefits

And uh I feel like I can say that on every game and uh that’s what kind of always worries me about cat um is that we just see different sides every every game it’s so awesome to have a game like this it’s a good effing game I want it

To be every game I I I really want that Clippers version of cat to come out every game this was a part of it this is partially that yeah way better way better than the last game so bounce back higher grade yeah um let’s do it I’ll give him an a that’s

Fine it could be a b because defensively when goar wasn’t out there he was a little lost I’m gonna give him a I’m gonna give him an hit there’s no way in hell I’m gonna give him A1 uh but Anthony Edwards the story of the last two games outside of Na

Honestly Anthony Edwards came to play 34 points six rebounds seven assists one turnover what earlier in the season we were really hounding him for you know kind of ball handling skills and kind of being not pass happy or pass aware he would force his passes he would

Have a lot of air in his his passes it’s there’s there’s some crispiness now to his passes seven assists one turnover we would never have thought of that year four ant heading into his second All-Star Game this is an a performance no doubt in my mind also he had a steal almost

Dunk but uh I forgot who it was that stopped that Banton I think Banton stopped the dunk and uh he’s also in a weird way kind of trying things out even in like a blowout he’s there’s relevance to him coming back in and playing a couple of minutes with goar he lobbed it

For goar’s dunk to get him his double double because Conley couldn’t do it because uh what’s his face sorry uh Monte Morris couldn’t do it we had to get ant going to get that going and I think it’s also great to just build that you know that just chemistry with with

Goar moving forward I think ant is going to be such a weapon like a four Factor weapon Outside Inside mid-range and passing Peak an is going to be even better but like the postseason right now it feels like his passing is going to be an underrated underutilized like skill set that

Teams are going to try to get him off the ball it’s how he’s GNA how he’s going to get off the ball is going to be it’s GNA be incredible we get to learn we get to watch we get to see him maybe potentially struggle with it I think

There’s G to be moments of absolute Brilliance we’re seeing some of it right now he could have actually not played tonight he has right knee sness this tendon oopy or whatever and and it was really kind of funny because he was questionable on Tuesday and he pops off

For 41 questionable tonight he pops off for 34 you know and we needed his points like in both games honestly to create the separation and build um the momentum so we could basically say hey phone it in now and he’s doing that like slightly impaired like he could have not played

And he played you know it’s like kind of awesome as JJ’s saying I’m glad Edwards hasn’t been like coasting against Bad teams recently um yeah because that has been the timber woles DNA hasn’t it been play down to the level of competition play with your food score 62 points in an

L the five Factor not just four Factor he’s got left-handed jump shots now yeah he’s been working against on his floater game now too there’s like some uh some floaters that I’ve been seeing him work on and that’s sweet even more even more lethal uh injections from Antman like how do you defend

Him his spin move is insane now guys that was a tier list but I’m not done sharing my screen we’re going to move quickly into you know it you know it whoa did I do this correctly yeah the skills competition who’s doing it team top picks team Pacers or team

Allstars why was ant picked for the skills competition a that’s so funny I don’t I don’t know about the the top the po top picks taking this one I think it has a good chance of being the team team Pacers I don’t know if any of us care but I’m

Going to continue on as if we do uh I don’t know why I can’t just switch screens but the DK contest um what who is this guy Jacob toppen uh I have no idea who’s going to win it’s probably going to be M mclung again if I were a betting man these three

People oh well he’s probably g- leager he’s probably some sort of g-league he’s probably gonna want to show up for a contract and he’s probably invited because he has a nasty Dunk game this is the Jaylen Brown is confusing the [ __ ] out of me mad props to him honestly for doing this

It’s as if like you know year eight year nine ant hey do the dunk contest right or like Zack goine four years from now hey remember when you were awesome and we remembered you for all the dunking you did you do that again for us because the dunk contest

Sucks well it’s awesome to have some sort of star power in it now so we’re gonna have to cheer him on cheer on Jaylen brown but honestly he’s probably GNA suck oh man I guess does this matter is this fun to be talking about this I’m not

Sure um the one that we want to probably talk about boy am I like failing at this right now is uh where are you where are you where are you ah here you are the Three-Point Contest with our baby boy in blue Carl Anthony towns this is going to be a pretty spicy

One I think they’re going to do a Steph Curry Sabrina yansu Reggie Miller uh shootout but the Reggie Miller isn’t rumored or isn’t at all but I’m just I’m just like predicting it because it’s in that it’s in Indiana there’s gonna be something Reggie Miller is you know don’t you think um Malik

Beasley I don’t know who’s going to pull out but apparently Carl Anthony towns is defending his crown because he wasn’t able to participate last year because he was injured kind of actually forgot what happened last year I think it’s cool that Lorie Marin’s in I think look at the shot form of Tyrese

Salver and this is such a funny shot form I think cats had a good chance I think Beasley is going to be probably very I think this is also also in Beasley’s element I don’t know why brunson’s in it I think it’s between Beasley Mitchell and town I think towns is gonna have

A I think towns will be a finalist we’ll see what happens I should actually be looking at what you guys are saying what are you guys saying three-point conscious is gonna cook I love that I think it’s G be super fun oh that’s right yeah Lillard

Oh oh moving on moving up I’m sorry I’m missing uh missing some of these com it’s Obie toppin brother Obby to’s brother and Obie toppen plays for the Indiana faers they are just home cooking this crap it’s Obie brother got it got it got

It who is the pr Jim time Dunk champ on the team Leonard Miller he’s got springy legs he’s got hops ant’s got the power Jane’s got the height and the springiness but I bet you Miller’s got a bit of both might be wrong I Know Jack or H man it’s a hard

Last name to say hakz Jr was a nice dunker in high school but like so was Chase buinger right we’ll see uh yeah cool you see you see Trey being good too he was a uh replacement for like embiid or something right he so Tre is playing tre’s uh invited to the allstar

Game I hope so at least because it would makes sense um look at this look at this look at what we’re doing right here see does the zoom in work oh it does oh look how pretty that is folks did you think this was GNA happen

Oh 55 games into the season we are 39 to 16 it is kind kind of incredible that took me a bit too long to do the math there uh ahead of the Nuggets ahead of the Suns ahead of the Mavs head of those Lakers who were like whoa what an off

Seon couple games back as you remember we were here last year just fighting to stay in yeah we aren’t sniffing that we ar we aren’t going to just crater eight nine games in the standings so it we’re expecting I think we can safely say a top four finish in

The west is all but expected it’s pretty cool our season strength of schedule the remaining strength of schedule is going to be favoring us I think we have a home favored schedule as well so if you guys are in Minnesota you should show up show out go to these

Games I think it’s incredible this is historical team sometimes I may not look on it and like it every day in day out you know but this is historical team and I think it’s gonna be so fun to be part of this ride and you thank you guys so much for

Being part of this ride we’re an hour into of the show we’re going to close out here in a minute but just yeah from the bottom of our hearts over a thousand of you guys have chosen us to be part of your diet your Timber woles diet uh you

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