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🐺 Minnesota Timberwolves vs Los Angeles Clippers | POSTGAME | 3/3/24



🐺 Minnesota Timberwolves vs Los Angeles Clippers | POSTGAME | 3/3/24

Edward hold on and frees himself fires on the right three [Applause] Hits got up into Violence my Good welcome everybody to wolves after dark Timberwolves lose an afternoon game Sorry I’m adjusting my camera and stuff um pain pain pain pain um but afternoon game playing a good team the Clippers are a good team so this isn’t like um the the Trailblazers that we’re

Going to play tomorrow but if you’re new here subscribe if you’re not new here or if you’re new here like the stream um no Tech issues I think and I think I’ve got I didn’t change I think I’ve got the right voice on I don’t have the girl

Voice on today um so that’s good mark thank you for becoming a member once again um I wonder if blindness is all that bad Mark said the line Mark said the line all right well welcomeing everybody Finch played the lineup that lost us twice why yeah Finch’s lineup decisions man I’m just

Like I just hate them I just hate them um bad um also there was almost a point where he accidentally took out na um instead of instead of Kyle but then they had to like switch it it was just awkward and gross um but yeah um zero offense lineup has only been trouble

Every single yeah and that’s the thing why are we starting the fourth with a zero offense lineup cuz like I get that our defense is great and our defense did play pretty good tonight um I mean like sure there was lapses here and there but like overall it was pretty good

Um I don’t know it it’s just it’s mind-boggling to me that we continue to try it um but I guess that’s just what we’re going to do here from here on out I don’t know so refs are a joke Simon says you know honestly Simon in the beginning totally

Agree totally agree with you um I do think we kind of got to a place late where it was kind of in between for everything like it wasn’t like that crazy um so I’m not going to blame the rest for this one but there was a time where

That one ball draft was really going after us but I don’t know if I’m going to say that um I will say generally I’m pretty calm for how disappointing of a loss that was uh I mean we were up what like 15 points in the first quarter like

That’s pain um that’s bad but it’s also not something we’re used to doing almost every game I feel like lately we go down early our second unit comes in gets us back to tide and then boom it’s a game and then we make it obviously we win

Most of our games so like we win at the end but um tonight was the opposite our our starters were really into it which is weird for an afternoon game um and then the second unit came in and it was like nothing nothing was happening um super weird super super weird um let’s

See catching up on some chats this is why no playoff matchup is looking favorable for this team JJ I I might be delusional but I still think that the Timberwolves match up well in the playoffs against a lot of teams I just I don’t know I this is this

Is probably the foolish part of me and you guys can do your best to try to fix me but I really do think that the Timberwolves are just not taking these games very seriously the regular season that is especially after the All-Star break and even leading up to the

All-star break I just think that we haven’t we took games very seriously in the beginning of the season and I feel like now it’s just not been it’s just been meh I mean how many times tonight like there was that play what play was that was that the I don’t

Know there was some play where yeah Norman Powell was just wide open it’s like ants just not paying attention you know Carl just lazy plays other than the first quarter lazy all night um ant was lazy Rudy and Kyle having some weird like missteps together um but also just

Like not guarding Norman pow is an issue um that’s something that does worry me because that’s something happen something like that happens every night even with our defense so I don’t know um let’s see cat floating around the three point yeah see Johnny that’s exactly what I’m saying floating around

3point line the entire game get your ass on the elbow or low post sometimes I honestly wonder if Chris Finch is doing all these weird like forces to Rudy in the paint moves just to make cat like post-ups more palatable late in the season I don’t maybe I’m off that could

Be crazy um but that’s that’s kind of what I’m feeling right now um I don’t know um Clippers gave us chances JJ I will say this a lot of our games recently have been like hey we had chances to win not because we gave ourselves chances but because the

Opponent gave us chances what was the game just recently that we played where the team like scored or shot 50% from their free throws was that just the the last game I don’t remember but like we have many games where we are given opportunities to win and we do win

Obviously a lot but man I don’t know a little tough con Conley and Nas gave us little to nothing tonight Crone 100% we have had really really disappointing games um from from nas especially Conley also I mean both of them if we have offense from them obviously

This is an easy win I mean um Nas tonight what did he shoot o of seven I mean the other fact that you can look at is that Harden was like 0 of nine what was he 0 of 10 he didn’t make a shot tonight so like you know you kind of

Have these balances on each side which is why it was such a close game but um but yeah Nas we talked about it last stream just not good um he’s just been bad I I trust that it’ll come back I’m sure he’s in a funk Conley’s stuff I don’t know if that’s a

Funk or if that’s um something else but you might be right cam but that doesn’t make me feel any better about the immaturity uh let me see I lost it sorry when immaturity was the fear coming into the season yeah Mark you’re right I mean

Yeah I’m not saying that it’s not a red flag um but I just think that you know ant in particular that’s more of who I’m thinking of ant in particular takes these playoff games so seriously that I just have such a hard time believing that he wouldn’t be

100% locked in which is a bad mindset you can’t just I mean like obviously we’re 42 and 19 now so we’re really good shape we’re T we’re three-way tie for first place I think right now um and almost I don’t want to say guaranteed top four but man it’s looking that’s

What I meant to look up it’s looking really unlikely that there’s any kind kind of um possibility of a comeback for these teams that are under five um I was going to look up playoff magic numbers um to get to certain places I think our magic number is 21 I mean

That’s so high but um that’s for first I don’t know it’s just these teams that are really low tonight winning would have been huge because if we would have won tonight we would have been up on I mean we would been really up let me go to the standings

Um standings we would have been up like eight and a half cuz the Mavs lost today so we would have been up eight and a half and they’re the eighth seed um we would have been up seven and a half on the Kings we would have been up seven on

The where the kings are seventh so that’s like the main kind of cut off really you don’t want to be you don’t want to be lower than that um because you don’t want to be in the play which we’re not falling to the plan that’s not

Going to happen um but like you know just thinking like that you know you don’t want to worry about it um and we’re so close to not worrying but if we could have won tonight then we play the Blazers tomorrow hypothetically an easy win um that feels really good but I mean

Now it’s like whatever but um Eric heler says beating they are up 23 games over 500 I think that’s why Finch is trying these other lineups yeah I I do think that Finch is trying some things but I just think that like Gerald was saying or whoever was saying that like no offense

Lineup is fine to throw out there at times but I I just think starting the fourth quarter is such a crucial moment for this team but it’s like man we have to we have to like that’s the time where you do lock in if you if if my theory of

Them not taking regular season games are correct then um then they absolutely need to take the fourth quarter seriously they if they’re going to take up the first three quarters they have to take the fourth quarter seriously and we can’t take the fourth quarter seriously when we’re starting with

Goar con Conley Anderson Na and Nas when when Nas is not playing well I mean n has been hitting some Shots tonight he played really well I thought but um but n not nas Nas did not play well but uh um JJ says hello fourth seed hey I’ll

Take a fourth seed worst case that’s I love that as a worst case scenario um but I also don’t love going up against the Pelicans so cuz also I think that we can go deeper than one I don’t think we’re a first round exit I’m going to really try to not be that

Down um but trust me it’s definitely in my mind it’s definitely in my mind um Noah didn’t watch but based off the box score here are my thoughts thoughts Noel going off uh Reed not going off was a huge difference maker that’s a great observation Noah cat ant not really

Great in crunch time no surprise yeah Noah good to see you again by the way Noah um this was a this was a weird game to watch honestly I maybe I’m just like a sicko but like I kind of enjoy these games against the Clippers because I

Feel like both teams kind of have you know it’s not the same like the Kings the other day where the Kings have like Malik Monk and I know that Powell was going off but like they have these just like explosive players that if they start get getting going there’s just no

Stopping and they could go out to like a 15 20 point lead the Clippers are like an older slower team so like even though they beat us in Fast Break points again um it’s like they never go on these insane runs against us anyways where we

Can’t come back so it’s always kind of close so which makes it feel better but I don’t know if that’s I mean that might be kind of a BS answer Godfrey no idea why they didn’t shoot a three at the end uh would have liked to seen a replay but

Bal does a bad job of showing replays well we were kind of talking about in the Discord and Jim Pete was talking out on the broadcast if you’re going to take a two you got to take a two fast like why are we waiting till three seconds to

Take a two um and then we give them the opportunity to do what they did at the end of the game which was also like the weirdest end of a game um I don’t know I just um I think cat’s not feeling his threes right now after

The All-Star Break um which is terrible we need him we need him to be a scorer and a shooter and right now he really prefers being a driver um which in the beginning of the game cat amazing I’m so happy with cat to start the game he

Almost had a triple double by the way tonight um but then he just like did nothing he did nothing I wish I had stats break if somebody can break down Carl Anthony Town’s shots second quarter and on I’d love to know because I think

He was five for five in the first so if he was five for five in the first then he went two of what like 13 to end the game that’s not okay that’s what Curry shot tonight I think um but 7xxx welcome to the stream this

Team has the lowest basketball IQ in the entire league you you know seven you fit right in here this is what we’ve been talking about forever this is the lowest IQ basketball team we just get hot sometimes and sometimes it works we play with emotion we do not play with smarts

That’s what I’ll tell you um but yeah it’s either that or we need to be blowing teams out by 40 at halftime and cron you’re right because then we’d only win by like five um reny oh I missed a comment that I was going to read is it

Still a good idea to keep cat reny cat another renzy comment cat not doing anything during crunch time is such a cat mentality this is why we need to get rid of him for somebody who actually knows how to attack the paint and can defend yeah it’s kind of weird cat

Embodies that player that I just said like playing with emotion that is what cat does he plays by emotion shout out to Gerald by the way Gerald has called this for like the better part of a decade now um but Gerald is like Gerald has said you need to give cat the ball

With opportunities where he does not have to think about what he’s doing because if he’s just a catch and shoot guy I mean lately his shot has not been on but if he’s just a cat and or a cat catch and shoot guy um or just like

Quick op like quick plays where he doesn’t have time to think he is fantastic he can be great um but he is given too much time to think now and that leads to just a lot of things I’m not I I really don’t want to dive into

Trade talks after like a bad game from a player um and I know you’re not asking me to do that renzy but like I you know it’s going to be interesting this off season we’re just going to have to talk um if if we really are a oneandone

Playoff team like we are out after the first round of course we’re going to be talking about trading players um you I I really don’t think they’re running it back with the same Squad given the tax implications that there are if you can’t make it past the first round multiple

Years like that’s a problem um pass the first round gets a little tricky because if you only make it to the second round it’s like is that Val valued is that not I don’t know um and obviously if you make it to the finals you are running it back but um which I

Still think we have a chance by chance I don’t mean good chance but I think we have a chance um Eric could the Clippers be a second round matchup for us if we make it past the first I would love that I think that’s a great matchup for us I like the

Matchup for us um I think we do kind of match up well with them which is why it was frustrating to lose tonight because we obviously could have won this game too so just like we could have won the game against the Kings it’s really dumb

Um I thought I missed a comment that I was going to try to read AJ bball welcome to the stream um Anthony Edwards took a two where we were down three with five seconds why am I the only one that is upset about that see AJ bball we’re

Okay with that if does that like 10 seconds earlier maybe not with 3 seconds left because if you can’t get a three off I don’t want them just heaving a three because we had a timeout still we could have played the foul game and come

Back down and hope for a miss and then get a two again but um but with three seconds left like that’s like some Martell Webster type [ __ ] like we don’t we don’t want that um yeah bad bad bad Dayton or dayon Deon Davis another game where the Wolves had

No answer for the Sixth Man on the opposing team well I think we don’t have a defensive answer for them for some reason if we could have our sixth man in NS score a little bit that would be fantastic um but Jorge Johnston please tell me if I’m saying your name wrong I

Feel like I always say it wrong or different every single night LOL Edwards had no points in the fourth quarter talk about doing nothing at the end of the game yes that too ant also well he did score he did score that two the two

Points at the end of the game um but other than that no he did not score so um it was a bad game I mean honestly it was a pretty bad game for a lot of people um if we’re grading it off the first quarter everyone gets an a tonight

If we’re grading it off of the rest of the game like a DLo or less like it’s bad I don’t know JJ’s ready to get downvoted oh boy you’re going to say crazy stuff about ant um that’s exactly what I brought up on hows and growls shout out how hows and grows

Um need more from max players for sure oh yeah big time honestly weirdly over the last couple Dame games it’s been Jaden that’s showing up the most out of everybody he almost had the craziest Hammer dunk like when we were down four in the fourth he had that one dunk

Attempt I think it was a lefty dunk um that he didn’t get a f he didn’t get fouled um or didn’t get called um a foul against him but that that was a fun one wow did Jaden really only score six points tonight I felt like he played

Pretty well tonight he really only scored six H I don’t know maybe I’m combining games trade cat for kaminga call me a casual says never really really thought about that I think I mean obviously we would need more than just kaminga but um don’t trade for DLo and draft kaminga yeah I

Mean yeah that trade actually I mean the players that we got out of it ended up being okay and in the end like multiple times after the trade but I don’t know um yeah the pity two-point plate make it wish two points um nine for 33 from

Threes turnovers at bad times fast break points will not cut it true dayon jogging giving up yeah the jogging is the thing that bothers me the most about this and it’s like I I don’t want to give ant any excuses because like if he’s injured he needs to be out you know

And I think he is like his knees hurt his hip hurts all the stuff um but it’s like okay well then don’t play like we shouldn’t be playing so I don’t know um did I miss this I’m going to try something if this works I’m sorry if

It’s super loud too but I’m going to try to play yeah it didn’t work I wonder do I not have that up I must not I was going to try to play the alert looks like there’s no alerts for some reason but oh well we get that on here

Though we should get alerts yeah add alerts boom there we go now hey that works I don’t know if any noise played though so cool there we go thanks for subscribing if you subscribe your name should show up on screen um okay well I think we should maybe

Jump into the tier list oh a couple more comments actually in the clutch ant cat this is Disco Wolf by the way welcome back disco wolf good to see you um in the clutch ant cat Rudy connley all drop to a negative – 20 yeah that is that’s rough I do not love

That as a big cat Defender I am definitely worried about the playoff cat but to pretend like ant will be game planned in the same way year in this year playoffs is absurd yeah I mean he that’s the I do worry about that but I also worried about that a little bit

Last year and he was still able to kind of um I I know we were beaten four to one by the Nuggets but like he was capable of going off in games you know he he hit that gamewinner in game four he almost hit the game Tire

In game five and he had like big games too so I don’t know like he was game planned against and he is getting double teamed um but he will continue to get more double teams and get more pressure and they’ll find more ways to adjust to him so you

Know you have to be better um and that’s where cat’s going to have to shine cat is going to have to hit shots when it comes playoff time so maybe this is a blessing in disguise that he is off right now and that April is his month

Except the playoffs are like two months long which is insane but um yeah cool well I think we will go to the tier list tier list time o welcome Zach haven’t seen your name either in a while or ever um actually hilarious how you guys blame ant but every time he gets to

The ball or gets off the ball no one can do anything because we have no offensive Talent yeah I mean and our IQ is just like disgustingly low we kind of were talking about that um and I I mean yeah I mean there are a lot of ant

Haters it seems um by the way I am not an ant hater um just to be clear um but there are high expectations for ant or yeah for ant but Mike’s first steps is no non-existent and Cat and Jaden have been low IQ Rudy is Rudy on

Offense yeah and we keep forcing it to Rudy which is driving me nuts um okay let’s go to the tier list tier list time I tried to make it bigger I don’t know if it did did anything it feels like it’s still gross so okay and I don’t know if we’re going

To care about order today we’re going to kind of go in a random order um oh yeah let’s get the alert box here so that in case anybody subscribes or does anything we still have that by the way if anything happens if next time we have a subscriber or something happen

Let me know if there’s like cuz I tried to have ant Sensational play for these alerts and I don’t think it’s working which is annoying but whatever I I guess um cool also I’m testing something does this double the audio double double double no it does not double the audio

Okay I don’t think anyways okay if you’re new here like the stream subscribe to the stream so you can see your name pop up also I’m just very curious to see something show up um and uh we’re going to do a tier list if you

Are new here though um let me tell you how this works A1 unforgettably good game spoiler nobody had A1 tonight uh wancho is like pretty much the lowest you can go on a nightly basis but Shake is where if you’ve had many bad games in a row you’re Shake melon Shake think of

Shake is like very very low we may be adding a tier here called bottoms just FYI which is in between shake and uh wancho because wancho has lost a little bit of its luster here um or whatever the opposite of luster is um and then me

Is meh and then everything else is in between this is based off tonight not the whole season so obviously there’s players that have done well this season that are going to have bad grades tonight because we didn’t have a great game um and remember this is not based

Off the four first quarter and it’s also not based off of the second through fourth quarter this is off of every single quarter so it’s going to be there’s some people that had bad nights that had maybe good starts that might not get as low as you’re expecting

So I think bottoms tier is good honestly we might have to add it now we might just have to oops I just did some something crazy um let’s add a row below and it’s going to be bottoms it should be I don’t even know what color it should be oops not that um Bottoms there it is we got bottoms maybe let’s do like think or something I don’t know I have no idea bottoms okay we got Bottoms in there okay let’s go um tonight we can see all the teers on here right yeah okay um let’s start oh I don’t see the

Players I got to get the players in here one moment I think that’s okay might be kind of hard to see but hopefully it’s not too crazy for you guys so let’s get it let’s start let’s actually start with nas so Nas had kind of a weird game he did have a great

Rebounding game and I actually loved a lot of Nas’s rebounds tonight so get your grades in tier flation Clapp um a little true but also we need more tiers we’ve run into too many situations where we need more okay NZ Reed gets your grades in for NZ Reed he had three points 11

Rebounds two assists he was a team low 8 though um 07 03 from uh three um three offensive rebounds eight defensive rebounds um I mean the rebounding there really were some good rebounds tonight um I think especially in the third quarter I could be wrong I don’t remember exactly

But um but we need more we just need scoring from nas we just need more scoring from nas it has to be um I mean it certainly can’t be three points we at least need 13 from nas like realistically On Any Given night we need

13 from nas um and that might be like minimum um unless somebody else is going nuts so really we’re probably hoping for like 15 points from nas if not more but three is just not going to cut it in 21 minutes especially with seven shots like

You got to make some some some of these were wide open shots too so I don’t know if I want to go full wancho I think I want to go DLo I think I’m going DLo see some me I don’t know I I I think it’s D I

Think we need more points from him me would have been like oh he scored 10 points well if he had 10 points and 11 rebounds that that feels okay but I don’t know maybe maybe I’m off I just feel like he we need offense from Nas and we had literally none from him

Tonight so um players tried to salvage broken play at the end it’s a scramble mode yeah I mean that last play was crazy I don’t even understand that last last play um yeah Zach mccre you guys are delusional to think ant is going to be a top five

Player over overnight his whole career has improved on linear in a linear fashion I agree with you Zach I am not as harsh as some may be here not naming names um I do think there’s some concerns um but that’s um he’s 22 you know that that’s the thing did I go back

To with towns we’re pretty critical of towns but that’s because he’s been in the league like N9 years um like more than double the amount of time that ant has and ant has already ascended to being like a playoff leading like he is leading this team to the playoffs are we

Making the playoffs without towns or without without without towns maybe um without ant I don’t think so I don’t think so even with Rudy I don’t think so so I think ant deserves credit um he does he still make boneheaded plays a lot yes does he still play Lazy tonight

And many nights yes um and those are the things that are concerning going forward um at least in the realm of thinking about top five anyways I’m going off on a tangent now it’s DLo for w for wancho what the heck am I saying it’s DLo for

Nas um oh we got to do another bad one let’s do Mike connley wow the combination of Mike and Nas tonight scored three points that’s insane um and Mike played 27 minutes uh Mike zero points seven rebounds what five assists he was a plus eight apparently um zero zero for four

Um two turn yeah three turnovers by the way and two of which were like bad passes like almost identically bad passes where they went through our players legs um would love to have those back but at the same time con’s one of these guys that does not turn the ball

Over much so it’s hard to really like be too mad at him for it but on a nightly basis since we’re grading just off tonight it was a pretty stinky game for Conley and I agree with cron cron says Conley is a wancho I kind of think it’s a wancho the

Seven rebounds has kind of been a wild stat um but I like that’s just the ball bouncing to him I don’t think that’s necess necessarily like some immense amount of like rebounding skill cuz we we know that’s not going to happen um yeah I think it’s wano especially with

The tier flation that’s happening he’s not bottoms he like I mean he’s a plus player I don’t want to be like putting him in Bottoms or Shake Milton but uh yeah it was not it was not good um yeah Conley dowlo in your opinion more Monte I agree Godfrey yes Monte

Even had like great shots tonight I don’t know we should do Monte next by the way let’s do Monte Monte played 11 minutes and doubled the amount of points that Nas Reed and Mike Conley scored combined which isn’t saying much but he scored six points he hit on two threes

Um in crucial Moments by the way like these were not like insignificant buckets like these were good um but that’s about all he did there wasn’t a lot else I mean you only played 11 minutes um so I think I don’t know this is like such

Small minutes I almost want to give him a b but I feel like I can’t give him more than a me yeah I I’m loving Monte though Johnny you’re right I am loving him but June 26 Point high career high to six points for Jaden yeah I mean

We’ll get to Jaden in a second B for Monte Eric says Monte B JJ did make two key 3s yeah I think um I’m down to give him a b cuz I want to see more and I know Finch watches our tier list so got to make sure got to

Make sure that uh that we get our boy Monte in that game clapping B is totally appropriate yeah I mean really if he doesn’t make those shots in the beginning of the fourth um where are we like honestly where are we um but okay next up let’s do somebody oh let’s

Do Jaden we were just talking about Jaden actually June brought it up 26 points to six that’s rough I still felt like Jaden had a good game though am I crazy like I don’t feel like this was like such a bad game from Jaden I loved his aggressiveness when he’s it’s kind

Of weird you know you guys know I have not been like a huge fan of Jaden not like everybody else’s uh I mean I’m a fan of Jaden but like I I just find flaws with like I I don’t see him being this offensive star for

Us but lately the way we’re running the offense through him at times um his hammer dunk attempt tonight that was a miss and didn’t get a foul call unfortunately I Lov that his cutting I don’t know like if he can shoot better which he has done a little

Bit better recently um I kind of like involving him in the offense more could be crazy but I liked it anyways Jaden get your grades in for Jaden 33 minutes six points two rebounds I mean this is like such a Jaden statline 33 minutes and he didn’t even accumulate like 10 total

Stats um but six points two rebounds an assist a steal um he was three of nine 0 of four from three which is the probably the biggest problem for me um if he hits two threes that’s a 12-point game for him and I feel way better about him and

I’m like honestly I’d be looking at this and thinking man am I really going to give Jaden a 12-point performance in a um I thought he played pretty good defensively too I mean he only had he had no fouls I thought he had two fouls he had no

Fouls I thought he played pretty well um there was only one play defensively where I can really think like he went like over a screen got behind Kawai and then he had to catch up and then Kawai just did like a floater but like that’s one play I’m not going to Great him

Harsh for like one play um I do think we need more offense but I like this game tonight yeah fjd I think I’m probably me Mark me fjd Me Def no yeah sorry not an a only if he was making a few threes is what I meant sorry I don’t know if I

Said that right I think it’s me I see a couple of you saying D I think if he hits some threes it’s closer to at least a b if not an A but he didn’t he went four from three so I think I think me probably me it’s probably a ma I

Don’t want to go DLo though I think he played okay maybe I’m just off the high of last game but I thought he played pretty well um J says D um we need 10 points minimum a game every night there’s a lot of play June you’re right there’s a lot of players

Though that we need 10 points minimum a night like we need NS to have 10 points we need Conley to have 10 points uh we need Jaden to have 10 points and if we do that I feel like there’s like no games we’re losing right but it’s also it’s just like and J

Like here’s the thing other teams do this like other teams have bench players and role players that do this on a pretty consistent basis I’m not saying that we don’t like I mean you know like we have na who has been pretty consistent for us in getting us a decent

Amount of points he only scored eight but like you know he hit some Shots tonight that were big so put Finch on whatever the lowest grade is do we have VCH on here I don’t remember we don’t yeah I’m with you though I’m just really I don’t know how

To describe this I don’t know if I’m necessarily asking for Finch to be fired like I I I’m not in that because one we’re the number one seat um and two the players like him which I don’t know if that’s even like a good thing to say like you want your

Players to like your coach but it’s almost like they like him too much it’s kind of like the Ryan Saunders thing I know he keeps them more accountable than Ryan but it’s the the play calling it’s the lineup it’s the luckily tonight Finch made a good choice in not um

Challenging that one play but his challenges are bad um I don’t know just there’s a lot of Finch things that are not good by the way I want to clarify I said this weird I I’m not in the camp of fire Finch but he is it’s just it’s more

Of like he’s not coach of the year and I’ve said that a million times and if he gets coach of the year then like no no voting matters anymore it doesn’t matter matter already but oh cool the timber BS put highlights out of Carl Anthony Town’s game sick

Um yeah just a yeah a lot of Kyle a lot of no offense just like weird um I like n better he just brings more energy to the game than Jaden okay Jorge I totally agree until like literally three games ago and then like suddenly Jaden like

Started turning it on um but I’m with you no I I love and I kind of made the joke early in the season I was always saying n greater than um Jaden um which I still kind of believe I mean he still brings that defensive intensity Jaden’s just so long that like

Defensively he can really lock down a lot of people where um with Le less effort than na can um but I don’t know but I think n’s up next let’s do N I prefer n too more consistent less minutes yeah I mean that is true let’s

Do n 20% points or not 20 points eight points in 20 minutes um two blocks from n tonight apparently he was a ne4 it did not feel like that tonight um he was three of six shooting two of three from three and honestly what a luxury it is

To have n i mean he is shooting so well um he he had a couple games recently where he wasn’t shooting well but like it seems like it’s back now I um we’re so lucky I mean n only makes like 4 million a year too like that contract is

Absurd um insane value I really hope that we have na for a long time because I love I love everything that he brings to the team um wish we could have seen maybe a little bit more of him tonight u i mean 20 20 minutes isn’t crazy low for him but

Um but I don’t know he just makes he just makes shots he just makes some shots Johnny says N B Anthony says C or me um let’s see yeah keep not at all cost is Right Jorge June says B I don’t know where I

Am honestly I I I know I just hyped it up but like is it is it a be I’m in between B and me and I feel like typically I go down for losses I don’t know I think we can go with a B I mean I liked him him and

Monte tonight I liked and they didn’t get enough minutes I think they only had 31 minutes combined and they scored 14 points off the bench for us so that’s kind that’s sort of nice but okay let’s do B um fire Finch it’s his fault that cat is missing these wide open

Threes uh yeah no I am not I just want to make it clear the way I said it earlier was very dumb and I made it sound like I was on the fence about firing Finch I’m not just to be clear nobody clip that please um but

Let’s see keep no at all cost you’re a clown if you think that’s what I said oh oh intense intense chatting um Let’s do let’s talk about ant let’s just jump straight to Anthony Edwards uh 27 points in 36 minutes five rebounds two assists three steals um over under 15 arguing for

Calls mid play um over by the way um he was 9 of 12 shooting three of 10 from three which is not great but also not the worst I mean that’s 30% um did get to the line a little bit tonight six of six that’s good but um one person will foul three

Turnovers had three steals to make up for it I guess but I don’t know I know right I I have to remember that sometimes um I don’t know what to do for him maybe DLo like I it’s crazy I like is DLo crazy I more actually no it’s not dowlo

I think it’s maybe me I think it’s meh I’m not looking at the chat I know there’s going to be people to disagree with meh but I feel like it’s a me for ant cuz like he didn’t take over in the fourth like he had the two points in the

Fourth that’s bad like that alone is D worthy or wano level um um but like he was scoring in the game he played some good defense at times and he did get some steals um now I’m talking about it I still haven’t looked at chat I still

Haven’t looked I like to wait a little bit before I look at chat I’m a little bit in between man and DOW just because the fourth is so egregiously bad we need some shots in the fourth from our from our number one player even though we probably don’t

Call him the number one player because we still announced cat as the last player um okay let’s catch up ant meh just because he didn’t really show up in the fourth okay yep meh for ant D at best I knew JJ would say that um that pass to

Center Court where no one was there was the worst play I’ve ever seen yeah but that’s just like a miscommunication I don’t really know what he was doing um but that was weird and I I guess I don’t know I don’t know he should have had

Nearly 10 assists though no one can make a shot off of his passes that is also true and had some nice passes it’s me it’s me he had some nice passes tonight especially early um but even throughout the entire game he really did we should look up there’s got there’s a stat out

There I can’t remember what it’s called but like potential assists or something like that um ant had a lot of great passes tonight I think Johnny says me cron says me Deon says me me is fine we should expect greatness yeah I think that’s that’s where I am

And I don’t want to go lower than that because like 27 points you know he wasn’t shooting that bad um had some good defense at times so like he did have some laziness at times too I just don’t feel super strongly one way or the other I don’t like the laziness but like

Other than that it was like it was me so I think me makes sense um that fourth quarter was too horrific for me for me I don’t know thank you Johnny thank you for the encouragement you guys should encourage me more um uh let’s do Rudy next Rudy’s kind of

A boring one 12 points 16 rebounds in 40 minutes we are playing him 40 minutes every night like who is our coach again is it Finch or is it tibs um 40 minutes for like the third game in a row for Rudy 12 points 16 rebounds three blocks

Um you know I think if I had to rate his hands specifically tonight probably like a wancho if not bottoms um but his game in general is it crazy crazy to say Matt is Matt too low I mean that’s like he had a decent game he also had a no look

Pass which by the way please Timberwolves stop doing no look passes in close games I guess it’s the regular season but like I don’t want to see a no look pass in a game unless we win that game um so the fact that he did it and

We lost I’m just like very not okay with um but yeah uh um he was the only offense through three quarters it’s not wrong why the hell is Rudy playing 40 minutes I don’t know late in the season we need to be resting Rudy for real um

Oh what was the over under tonight I forgot what the over under was um in the Discord let me look um it was it Rudy three and a half made free throws what did he have he had two free throws oh I really thought he was going to get hacked more

Tonight but they weren’t calling many fouls it was I mean you know I didn’t like the calls in the beginning of the game that bald ref really did not like us and I don’t mean to call him bald but like he that’s his identifying Factor

He’s bald um and he really did hate us I felt like but then I was realizing that throughout the game like just like weird calls were not happening yeah it was weird um how did I do I want wonder how I did I can’t think and stream at the same time um Rudy

Never do that pass again but I’ll cherish it in its own right yeah that’s fun play to pull out in the Highlight Reel at the end of the season when you don’t remember whether you won or lost that game but we might remember that um yeah think you could possibly Eric

Says you could go math for Rudy I kind of Agree that no l pass was nice I’m just over it I don’t I I criticize towns when he does it I criticize Rudy when he does it a I mean I don’t know do ant do no look passes I don’t know um Rudy H Rudy is definitely there’s too

Many things that people are picking up from cat and I hate it they’re all our team again this is just basketball IQ we pick up all the worst habits from every player it’s like nobody gets these like great habits from people it’s like we pick up the worst drives me nuts um I

Think we’ll go man I don’t have any strong feelings I mean like this was a decent game for Rudy like it’s it’s not like I’m saying that he had a bad game it’s just that like I don’t know his hands were bad tonight and his stat line

Is exactly what we’d expect for Rudy probably on our team so like sure maybe I because I think he was 16 and 16 last game so what he was 12 and 16 this time like that’s pretty close I do hate that we run the offense through him so much

But that’s a finch decision like that’s Finch’s decision to have him and I think it’s I I think I’m starting to see the the vision and it was clear I don’t remember if it was the Kings or the game before the Kings where it’s like if Rudy

Gets the ball in a spot under the basket and dunks it like there’s almost no stopping him unless you just foul him repeatedly which I can’t remember if it was the Kings or the team before that did that and it was like okay I kind of

See the vision but we just do it so much I just can’t I just can’t do it um so I don’t know uh you say that as Boston put up 150 points on Golden State an hour ago that was wild um Anthony gamat how is a no look

Pass how is it a no look pass and he looked away after he passed it Anthony you know just these players this is what they do now they just do it for the likes and apparently none of the Highlight package people care they’re just like wow look at amazing even the I

Think casual fans start to like this more than like the actual no look passes it drives me nuts because that is a look and then no look pass but I agree VI Tyrese Alberton had zero points the other day Curry had four today so put that in your memory banks because I

I always like to think that these players never have bad games like this and they do so they can still be Legends okay let’s do oh I guess I I never graded Kyle I’m going to give K I’m just going to do a quick grade for Kyle he played 14

Minutes at eight points three rebounds three assists one block I thought it was an okay game for Kyle I I kind of want to put him in meh though me I could maybe see be honestly he played okay um I didn’t hate it he bled all over the court by the way which

Was disgusting and I never want to see that happen again um but that was the most remarkable thing he did tonight he he did have that nice block on Kawai and he he scored like immediately after coming into the game but yeah well last up everybody get your grades Kyle got

Too many minutes the only play 14 um but you’re right but you’re right Clapp um somehow you’re still right because the beginning of the fourth when he was in I was like no please um and just like that we lost the one spot yep I think we needed to be ready

For that though CU that was going to happen but okay Carl Anthony towns get your in for K I see some of you already are um 34 minutes 18 points nine rebounds eight assists almost a triple double um 39% shooting it was seven of

18 and I think he shot five of five in the first so you do the math on the rest of that um two of seven from three I like that we’re getting more attempts I just think that the three-point Champion former should be able to make more than two out of seven

Um I will say this and I’m going to keep saying this in towns’ favor every night he gets mauled every time he drives to the basket and barely gets calls he only had two free throws tonight um I will give him that three turnovers five fouls some dumb dumb dumb fouls tonight just

Slapping at the ball I mean it’s just like play regular defense please um yeah I don’t know this was I thought this was a pretty bad game from cat and it’s disappointing because this beginning was so good it was so so good in the beginning like I the first quarter I let myself

Smile when I watched the game and you always know that that’s a mistake when you’re watching Tim rolls basketball I was like wow look at us we were ready we didn’t have to take our naps today apparently we did um cuz that for first quarter was

Uh that was amazing I loved that first quarter but that was about it uh he missed 10 shots in a row yeah that’s that’s bad uh I see some DLo I see some C I see um Dow I think it’s a dow I’m I’m thinking

It’s a dow I don’t want to go all the way to wancho I think that’s kind of unfair but expect a little bit more shot making especially after that hot start I thought this was going to be like a crazy cat game Crazy ant game

Um I’m this is one of those games where I I didn’t know what to expect when loss wise but I was like kind of leaning maybe like 55 to 60% win for us um so the fact that we started so well and then we still lost is like oh like I get

It they’re a good team with full of good players John Kinski tweeted the night by the way he said something the effect of like the Wolves could really use Russell Westbrook to play right now I’m like whoa John that’s crazy um you can’t give that man a me dud no I

Didn’t give him me he’s not getting a me I think DLo it was a bad night um but I don’t know um the foul [ __ ] is why he can he can’t be the better player that he should be yeah and just like I mean his shot making lately has not been good I

Assume it’s difficult for him to not be playing the number one role but he still gets the ball a lot like it’s not like he’s not getting the ball so I don’t know yeah it’s D um I agree about cat getting filed a lot but until he stops complaining every

Time it will not change yep true cat needs to start showing up in the fourth quarter he’s making supermax he needs to play I mean yeah he’s making super Max and like we could talk about the dollar amount like he’s like 60 plus million you know that’s tough that is tough

But I don’t know I do not know so um cat needs to start oh I read that Westbrook about to confront John seriously he will hey Caleb shout out thank you Caleb for the subscription um I can imagine the star down right now yeah he needs to and also

John’s there with his daughter tonight so he needs to evacuate the building um cool well there’s the tier list disappointing night we play tomorrow let me pull up the schedule here um we play tomorrow and we play I believe the Blazers it’s a bad game bad game let’s get chat back up here

Um at home last of our seven games at home so that’s sad um but we can make it s is just too chaotic yeah need a rating for Finch I mean it’s almost always deal wancho like maybe that’s crazy to say but I feel like that’s true through why is chat not working

Weird um anyways um and then we have two days off Thursday Friday we play the Pacers and then the Cavs those are that’s two games away we need to win those one of those two games at least I think we play the Lakers at or at at Lakers on Sunday

At Clippers next Tuesday oh boy got some tricky games coming up here chat what is going on why isn’t chat working me do this and bring it back see if that works there we go what the heck um but we’ve got 1 2 3 four five six away games in a row

Now but two of those two of those are at the end are against the Jazz so that’s hypothetically two wins what do we need need to do so we play at home we should win tomorrow if we do not win tomorrow that’s a yikes I will not be

Streaming tomorrow by the way sorry I will not be I have too many things going on today I barely stream today so I push that to tomorrow so tomorrow’s not going to be the day um also if we lose I mean maybe if we lose I’ll do some emergency stream or

Something but um we’ll see um where do we need to go in those six away games so Pacers Cavs Lakers Clippers jazz jazz I think if you go four and two that’s acceptable four and two is okay three and three maybe um if you’re less than

500 it’s not good because it doesn’t get any easier after that it’s the Nuggets twice the Cavs the Warriors I mean guys it’s not good I want Marcus Morris oh yeah we signed somebody didn’t we we signed TJ warrant for a 10-day contract which is like what

Hey I mean he played great in the bubble pry Quinn Snider away from the Hawks he’s a lawyer is he I’d like Quin Snider though I mean obviously we have his entire team so I want Marcus Morris he could play for us but I really want his locker room

Presence for toughness yeah we do need a toughness kind of guy player like we have Kyle but Kyle’s not I don’t know Kyle’s okay yeah we need we need some dog maybe it’ll happen I mean he was bought out I think but if we get bubble Warren I’m back to

Being full-blown Optimist oh yeah if we get bubble waren holy yeah that’s crazy second round bound if we get him yeah I agree okay well I think that might might be it for today it’s been an hour I’m hungry um it was great to see you all again

Yeah you only sent a 10day so we could still get Morris I think um but um but yeah like the stream if you haven’t already I’d appreciate it we had no Tech issues today no Tech issues oh maybe I should be a fun voice to end the

Stream should I be Kawai again I think Kawai was a there you okay we’re kaai right now I appreciate you all thank you what what should I say what’s something with a streamer person would saying I don’t know if you two wins is still possible that’s all if they say but 52 that’s

Still possible um intro as the outro I will see you I’m a fun guy I will see you I what else see you not tomorrow some other game Thursday or Friday I’m not sure anyways good to see you all have a good night and the 52m See oh and frees himself fires on the right three hits anony [Applause] Off got up into Violence my goodness

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3 Comments

  1. That 4th quarter lineup has won us a ton of games this year. We go all defense and it usually works.

    Naz had an off game. KAT has them all the time too it’s okay we will play better next time.

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