🐺 Minnesota Timberwolves vs Portland Trailblazers | POSTGAME | 2/13/24
[Applause] and and frees himself Fires at the right three hits Anthony Edward it [Applause] off got up in violence my Goodness good evening welcome to wolves after dark on your host Ashwin with the wrong um there it is screen open uh guys thank you guys so much for showing up it’s 11:30 CST uh wolves brought down the house in Portland at the motor Center 121 to
109 thanks in large part to 41 from Anthony Edwards 15 rebounds and a healthy dose of Rudy go and will we say will we see an A1 tier tonight from uh a certain player off the bench because holy hell heroic Galore from nikila Alexander Walker I
Don’t think we really pull out this win and pull ahead to close out this game without someone like him um in this game back to back after beating like stomping on the Bucks and taking care of business in the second half against the Clippers oh how are we how would we
Respond to back toback right there was um some questions about if Cony was going to start tonight if ant was going to start if even he was going to play and Mr questionable popped off for 41 and yesterday he didn’t really have his three going right and he was really
Getting to the rim uh with like almost like Reckless abandonment and basically handled handled the Clippers um playing Team style Ball but tonight was kind of a different game maybe slower legs you know the legs were heavy and uh that kind of got us into a bit of a
Pickle with three early fouls and three turnovers and you didn’t really have much to do in this game at all you didn’t see him in the second or in the fourth quarter again um oh boy but um I dare if I can do all of this including sound effects and talking to
Chat and reading box scores but um got gorilla I hope that came through uh Cameron’s so much better at that than I am in other news my I feel like my computer is fixed I’m no longer GNA get those like stutter screens and um have to leave and come back so I hope
That’s GNA uh persist tonight because boy was that a struggle for uh for me all all of the season um guys uh our three of follow last night and we were a little too jump shot happy tonight I think in a lot of ways a show of
Maturity show of maturity to start a game like tonight is to get down low Beast Down Low against the Youth of Portland they have no business being in this game right and get DeAndre Aton in foul trouble the way that you got you know uh zubot and and Mason plumbley in
F trouble get to the rim get to the line and we didn’t none of that we were like hucking threes from you know Bend Oregon that’s a dumb thing to say but uh you know uh cat was really like trying to get his footprint on this game and he was
Another version of cat another life another side of cat tonight that I just didn’t appreciate which is kind of the H I don’t know what that uh that phrase is is kind of like a big warning sign for this team is can we consistent can we stay mature through a stretch can we
Build off of you know momentum from the last previous games can we stay in the pocket that we’re building for ourselves it’s sick it’s so sick that um you know goar can scream at us at halftime and it’s like a player driven you know shift right not it’s not the
Coaches telling us it’s the that’s the players of halftime in the Lakers game or in the Clippers game really showed out right man tonight it was a different story it felt like Vince had a hold on this game and was really trying to find energy out of anyone outside of ant
Heroics in the first quarter you know popping off for 18 points we weren’t really playing a great game and you know tip your hat off tip your whatever you’re wearing off don’t I don’t know I’m saying there but uh Portland’s not like a bad team they’re bad but uh they
Were hungry tonight and any Any Given Sunday any given Monday any given Tuesday on the back to back right you’re going to see something from anyone and uh scoot Henderson Off the Bench was a problem nine assists 14 points insane DeAndre Eon uh playing with money playing with his food in Rudy goar
And Cat and pop off to 22 and 16 so how do we respond right with some of their dudes and like even jeremi Grant Jeremy Grant like doesn’t get going early but like still pops off for you know double digits let’s go to the comments uh as we
Uh progress through the show we’ll get to the tier list but guys all 50 60 plus of you that’s crazy it’s 1130 go to bed this is not that important it’s just the first game in a two game series against Portland uh Chanty bips LED Portland Trailblazers and I had the honor and
Privilege to watch the Blazers feed where they had Terry Porter guest star in the third quarter that was pretty cool I think the whole second half he’s a little uh quiet in the fourth quarter but um he basically said you know it’s ant team he basically said a lot of
Really fun things to kind of if you are a fan of the Tiber wolf you get pretty excited to hear an altered it you know Viewpoint of a team and uh yeah everyone question the goar trade and now who’s laughing Doc Rivers says you know um how do you respond after a second
Half you know like start like uh Portland started to creep up and and that 11o 12-point lead became a two-point lead for them man that second quarter was stupid we had like goar uh naah Jaden slowmo Monte Morris out there and we weren’t getting anything going and the
Start of the fourth quarter boy I hope Finch who had like to hold on to this team for a while not let like anyone kind of go um he he tried to different approach in the fourth quarter we had Nas and N playing off of each
Other and I think he went to ant early in the fourth quarter and that was really cool just to close this game out build a lead extend that lead push it out to a doz tell him throw throw in the towel right we got a we got a couple we got like
Four minutes of uh our bench mob that was really cool to see and it was nice to see that yeah despite all the momentum going in Portland favor um heroics of n the heroics of NS that fourth quarter really pushed uh and then ant just closed it out in style in
Rhythm 41 points man that’s incredible man to the comments oh [ __ ] we got a live post game coming tonight I was worried about it after you guys might not having one I honestly I I wanted to do the show tonight you know um Cameron’s off with
Family which is so cool I think he’s going to the show on Thursday or going to the game on Thursday which is even cooler and I wanted to do this show because I wanted to talk a little bit about Scoot and in DeAndre Eaton and um how would we respond in a back-to-back
Situation because you know just felt like maybe maybe some people would come to play and some people didn’t that’s clearly what happened uh disco wolf your goat for hitting the like and now we’re trying to catch up here my friends sorry if I miss a lot of your comments uh Kieran coie
What’s up one of the biggest stripes was cat getting three early files that’s right uh Rudy Gober future coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves yes absolutely uh I want to know who cussed out the team after the third quarter JJ reick JJ reck to broadcast the finals with Doris Burke in my
Bre the JJ creates I’m sorry don’t don’t uh don’t unsubscribe after what I just said to you about you uh but yes na my king somewhat solo what a game for N I am somewhat solo tonight however I’m not uh because I have all of you
Guys uh good day to live on the west coast that is true is 9:30 but it is very late for me as it is for all of you as well g n tier I think I think we’re on a come up here for the tier list spoilers we’ll have a girl in
That tier for sure um I added a couple people to the tier list and I had to say goodbye to our boys shake Milton and uh Troy Brown Jr and I kind of was a little uh in advance I might have put in a little Easter egg we’ll see if you can spot
Him um holy hell Nas shot for looks as smooth as I’ve SE as I’ve it’s been since we got him in the trade last year something that really I just love appreciate respect admire just fullon GM over is discipline and preparedness and just um the will to
Right you don’t need to throw acrobatics and athleticism and and you know light strength and you know your ability to be quick with your hands and just do normal Al basic fluid things and it will produce right if you practice the same shot form you’ll
Produce um it’s so dumb to say but I appreciate it because people like na has simplified the hell out of their game same with nas they have simplified the [ __ ] out of their game so he’s really just doing a step back three or a dribble side step three or just get it
In Rhythm and shoot the three and it’s butter his form is not is not influenced by anything and it’s great to see because not everyone does that in the league in this team on our starting unit right um n n bench best bench do I
Man I had to start the season I kind of felt that you know kind of like that energy building you know the preseason was a a great like notice to say hey uh Shri Milton and the bench boys are going to really kind of prove
Its worth and we’re going to be a tough team we’re going to be a tough out despite you know even if like this the game’s like cat has like this because of our bench and well this season has proven that a bench needs to be as
Strong as it can be but we didn’t really have it um consistently all year and we’re still trying to find it but who’s been Mr consistent all years been nikil Alexander Walker boy and it showed out tonight mostly also because Jane McDaniels was an absolute zero finch I talked about
Finch just a little bit ago he recognized nonsense tonight he was really quick to say Carl you’re your cat you’re not subing back in you’re not seeing a whiff of that fourth quarter you’re not seeing a blip of that second quarter you’re sitting down and you’re pouting and you’re doing the YMCA in
Foul trouble and Jane McDaniels was an half with zero I honestly he had great looks all game and he actually was trying to be like I feel like we were forcing the ball in his hands for the most part in the early parts of this
Game he was dribbling the ball up he was like getting the ball in early action you know things that you do with people that are not always engaged in the ball on offense um 0 for seven like what the [ __ ] right um is this the future of our team is it
In his hands oh we can’t have a dud from jayen McDaniels man as much as I praise him and like just love what he does for our team in games like this like some of it’s kind of replaceable right we saw that clear as day nikil alander Walker who’s an even better
Point of attack Defender and on offense is no longer a liability you can say 39 37 36% from three I don’t give a [ __ ] he looked perfect out there as far as I’m concerned n with 7,000 exclamation points I heard it LOL uh Debo welcome to the show my
Friend 80 of you guys are here tonight what’s going on hit the like hit the Subscribe share with your friends tell Cameron um how much you miss him in the comments below um ant is looking unreal we are Beyond blessed hashtag blessed to have this next insane player on the Wolves
Man I saw those yellow burned yellow colorways and man my head went into dark places like dark west southwest coast places and I really hope that’s not the case but of course he’s he’s with us and I love it and I love those shoes too man
And uh what a what a trip so far for ant um I feel like he’s 41 points I can’t believe it I’m looking at two assists and um that’s you know lower than the nine lower than the the uh 17 assists in like three turnover or like two turnovers in the last couple
Games and he started all a little slow again tonight right he had two turnovers early those were his only turnovers I thought he really just decided to take this game over and um the rest of us kind of just fell in line you know it was like so fun to see um in
Games like where our the flow is not with us we’re not pushing to the next player and um you know was a problem in that regard and maybe we were trying to feed goar but goar wasn’t getting the ball uh nearly enough but uh it was just
Like [ __ ] it take it over and I loved it I loved it because we needed some juice from someone or somewhere tonight and cool guys oh my gosh Cameron my friend you are here what the [ __ ] uh seven Waits is a win is a win is
A win pulled away in the fourth Luca always wears ant shoes I saw that too ants wear are Lucas wearing the colorways he was wearing those blue ones tonight [ __ ] yeah that’s so cool waloff drives a lot you’re right big time Anthony Edwards game Big
Time n game you’ll see it in the in the the tier list shortly um and who is better n or Nas Noah do not make me choose tonight it’s clear as day is n but actually I don’t even know for the season there’s no wrong answer how about that
Guys Improvement yes a game like tonight I don’t know what you’re uh referencing as I’m trying to catch up with all the comments but a game like tonight spells a loss when cat’s trying to like establish 2x Speed Energy man he was so freaking incredible last night his Pace
His speed it was was not faster than him he was playing contained in in in just like solid mature basketball that was a different story man right so can we build off of that win yesterday oh can we build through the adversity of cat getting in foul trouble well the answer
Is yes and we found another like example tonight to look at film to break down this game and say hey how did we win this game when at one point in the fourth quarter it was 86 to 84 and we were losing I think that was right after like
Na fouled scoot Henderson or something and Scoot Henderson hit three free throws killer good for him I hope he has a killer career I’m really rooting for him and the Blazers to kind of respond after the Dame you know era I don’t know man they have a lot of weird pieces
Though JJ this is a lot of JJ tonight awesome I I honestly have missed the hell out of you JJ um I remember when it was five viewers and you were the only one talking to us you and Godfrey and then Cameron’s dead at the end oh man and some random punks from
Reddit I worry for the rematch on Thursday I well I don’t worry as much for the rematch on Thursday um as I did for tonight but Portland has a lot of film to build off of and we’re not going to have this performance from n probably we’re not going to have probably this
Performance from an so can we spread it out can Jaden exist in tonight’s game on Thursday’s game can cat double his output at least it was nice to see him get to the free throw line but can he at least get to 20 points you know like that’s what we’re going to
Need and I think that’s kind of more uh believable than like Portland taking us down you know wow I love this I hope n not stay with us for a long long time like our benches are floor you know like at our worst we’re playing like five
Bench 10 bench players you know and if like I guess our second our second quarter unit was pretty bad huh but like if we have a NW and a NS and a slow-mo playing the way he did tonight for example uh yeah we have some capable and potent you know even
Starter replacement level players in nonnas and I just love it Aon always has goar’s number it says vas vas what’s up my friend um some of your commentary in the Discord tonight had me like on the floor tonight so I love that I love being on the floor um Aon always has goar’s
Number aton’s game is like what goar allows right Aon doesn’t like get to the the free throw line Aon doesn’t dunk or lay it in he has these like weird mid-range shots basically like a poor poor poor man’s LaMarcus Aldridge who I’ve always hated and I can’t believe I brought him back from
The dve but like DeAndre is all offense no defense has rebound has rebounding in his DNA but like so sh every big in the NBA right so um I agree with we win Thursday I think this team has confidence against us on Thursday that last another five minutes okay
Sure it’s 5:30 in the morning here in England Simon I salute to you my friend and also go to bed or go to work I don’t know what you’re supposed to do right now don’t be here this is just a really weird live reaction postgame show of the
Timberwolves of our fan favorite team um this is score Northwest uh brought to you by uh no one oh wish me luck that Anthony Edwards plays Thursday I will wish you luck boy will that suck if he didn’t um Charlie barley 100% chance of a tries that left-handed bank shot in
The All-Star Game oh that that was sick that was so sick midnight wolf midnight wolf also from England you got you guys would find each other picture send it to us we’ll throw it on our walls wolves after dark fade guys and then K Brewers we’re gonna uh go to the
Tier list right after a few more of these comments here’s my weird thought of the night good teams are consistent easier to game plan against Bad teams aren’t you never know what you’re going to get this is not weird at all this is pretty this is very very astute
Observation I think Young teams are hungry to show out and show up you know like they just got a bunch of random dudes starting tonight some uh some Kamar who I guess was a former teammate of Anthony Edwards um they had tyel and um I think they had baton and doop
Apparently Cameron remember remembered doop from last year earlier this year something like that and you know baton from Toronto having it was was awesome tonight for them what am I talking about them for oh because yeah they’re going to bring weird energy into the game they’re going
To try to muck it up they’re trying to GNA outpace you and we’re on tired legs so they knew that they knew how to run up and down the court faster than we can it was very evident that cat wanted no nothing to do with this game he’s walking up there on countless
Possessions i w notes like four or five possessions in a row here’s the last one up and down the corner and even in transition he was like not responding to the right person you know to tag you know what I mean on defense oh my gosh eating a bowl of Lucky Charms just
For you Cameron shout out to M&M’s on ice cream he lived up to the dominating name tonight that’s for sure yes all righty all already oh oh Cameron season’s over was flashing my ey was flashing my eyes for a few seconds before Mike walked it off and kept
Playing oh God when scoot Henderson Dove no no no I didn’t want that I didn’t want that to happen the exact same thought went through my head too um Noah right back uh to you like I said Jaden’s our most replaceable player starter at the moment he being a trade
Piece in the future considering our salary C situation we will see what I would want in return is someone to align with the nas na ant like kind of window and someone to build with um I don’t want to move Jaden but games like tonight you just kind of kind
Of Wonder right I think the Jaden goar pairing is the reason why we are top of the West now a full game up on OKC who also won tonight and uh or wait are we a full game or are we half a game a full
Game and now we’re two games up on the Clippers who were the one seed for all of like 45 minutes um Solon Hill oh my gosh I remember that fjd I’ve never said that out loud fjd I wonder what does that stand for but looking at snoody the snoody of yours
What a good game this was a fun game this was a fun could we could we test ourselves through this game and walk through that murky water and backto back tired legs no one else has it going early at least except for ant that second quarter was
Scary look we pulled it through and that fourth quarter was awesome uh where are the ant haters at Johnny 2x I love this comment he’s going to go down as the best player in Timber history so great I’m gonna remember this comment because I don’t think you’re alone in
That uh John I think you should be really like excited or we should all be excited first of all but I think kg had a window and and we didn’t build around kg the way that we’re building around an right now is that like kind of incredible we had the one
And a half years of Sam Cassel spr well doesn’t matter red hyberg Wally zerak Trenton Hassel Anthony peer Ricky Davis Troy Hudson right like nonsense players trying to build something with kg and we just couldn’t do it we put couldn’t pull the correct strings and couldn’t sign deals underneath the tables like Joe
Smith IND the eie guys I am stalling I forgot how to do this here it is Boom tearless time and look who’s here someone who’s not quite yet a Minnesota termin has appeared I have future proof to this thing in the event that uh it does indeed
Happen um how do I get this so it looks better oh yeah that’s pretty cool um mark my words mark them I love it Johnny 2x if you haven’t joined our Discord join our Discord everyone not just Johnny 2x we can all be Johnny 2X and join the
Discord tonight Evergreens 11 I don’t think I’ve seen your name here before my friend thank you so much for joining 70 of you guys are here right now so sick and I just stalled for 30 minutes oh shoot Sabrina I told you I was gonna do a quick show tonight maybe
We should have had you here um someone we all need to tip our hats to is Kyle Anderson the man had eight assists zero turnovers files and he was a plus 29 spoilers he was incredible I’ll be putting up near the top of the tier list tonight midnight wolf my friend
Hello Nate H hello hello hello trying to get caught up with the with the groups commentary which is always incredible Gerald what’s up my friend I honestly think cat is our most pointful player 22 points per game isn’t hard to find and 40% is from three is
Beyond easy to find and that person can play the at half the price or two3 price or three fifths of the price or 47th of the salary of cat we’ll see we’ll see we’ll see tonight is not about cat slander or banter or trade potential because the trade uh deadline has passed
Crone new member new member is that a burner account Crone aren’t you already a member any thank you my friend uh we’ll be getting together and watching game sometime soon don’t forget the goat Mark mson can’t I had a drink with it I can never forget
Uh The Other M Morris ah we’re so close to catching up caught up every night is about cast ler yes check your DMs however public facing tonight we’re not do to do it but how about uh how many of them have won Three-Point Contest told you VCH told you Al righty
Guys I uh it’s time for tier list I am going to be terribly uh unprepared in terms of checking in comments and doing the tier list and doing stat stuff but guys as I refresh the page of my stats it wasn’t me just being frozen there Luca Garza Five Points give him an
A no one else uh note so I’m going to move on uh Monte Morris oh uh 11 minutes 0 for three but two assists I am I am I am fine I am fine with him doing as much as he can honestly a backtack situation after playing like 60 Minutes All Season
Not expecting anything out of him I thought it was pretty cool that he took it he was trying do his thing and um you know like another reason to like really promote slow-mo tonight is that he took the challenge of being like the main point guard tonight uh cly started but
Was kind of a decoy in a lot of ways because he wasn’t um at 100% I felt I thought I thought he was slower than normal we don’t have shake out there right so we have a little Monte and Monte is like kind of figuring out his
Role R still and I think Dane Moore and Kyle tiger were like he should be more aggressive or we don’t know how to use him yet and absolutely so there’s no problem here um we get to figure it out live and have a have a allar break to really kind of bring him
In um so I have I have no problem with him um Naas Reed usually I end the the the bad tier list with NZ re but Nas Reed is not the allstar uh from our bench tonight 10 points three rebounds one assist one steal this is a
B it could be an A but he missed his first couple shots hit that one three then he was kind of just a kind of like a decoy uh kind of a a a pseudo threat on the perimeter and then he was kind of driving to get to the rim that sick dunk
That is like almost aworthy and I I’m sometimes I’m a simple man I just love dunks threes and oops and not oops but like Aly oops and I don’t like backwards passes I don’t like through the leg dribbles I’m a simple man and Naz makes it simple and is so electrifying when
He’s on I’m giving him a b uh nille Alexander Walker nope slow-mo 22 minutes uh you could look at his statline and say one for three o no three-point attempts in the modernday Contemporary NBA oops 6 for six from the free throw line eight assists team High plus 29 eight points still delivered
Still uh acted as his counterpart uh off off of Portland in every way and you had scoot Henderson with nine assists you had slowmo the exact opposite player with eight uh this is a welcome back to form slowmo thank you for for sticking with us we are sticking with you because
We kind of have to also but uh in games like tonight this is why I feel like you were here there was moments in the Clippers game where I was also like oh slowmo is coming back slowmo coming back you know and uh if you rewatch man slmo
Had something going on uh last night too so I hope we see this slmo I think a lot of it was just like you know a psyche like uh he had The Yips right losing confidence in himself eye injury the eye surgery that really kind of affected him probably enough slowmo conversation
For tonight um his impact was giving everyone else the opportunity to have open looks and he was a he was the goar Whisperer in a lot of ways toight as well and I thought he handled uh the point guard duties uh swimmingly where we were kind
Of in a weird position where if ant didn’t have the ball who was who was who who is creating offense right n isn’t the Creator that Conley is n isn’t the Creator that slow-mo is at least we have slow-mo to kind of blur those lines of who’s bringing the ball up who’s calling
The shots it’s awesome but with slow-mo comes and to kill Alexander Walker with a the kill the kill is in his name depending on how you pronounce it it’s K but we didn’t peel over o I’m good tonight I’m good na I almost want to rename this the na one
Tier that that’s pretty dumb right n nine n nine uh no commentary from me here n Alexander Walker even before I talk about his stats he’s an A1 he’s a non n tonight 18 points and that wasn’t enough like that that is not his the the reason why he’s an
A1 five for six from three might be one of the reasons but he also played insane defense against Simons who I thought was handling Jaden tonight I thought Simons pulled away every time that Jaden was trying to guard him he would step back a little bit further and get that three
Going or he would get that floater going and Jaden was like kind of rendered useless out there hats off to Chris bench for recognizing recognizing that and keeping not on him Simons went six for 19 you know like not the best output that’s a wigin statline right there and yeah sure he
Got his points but he was kind of useless like I wasn’t scared uh lot largely because of Na I think this na is best na is I I I see consistency out of him that I rarely see out of of a bench player a bench player is usually trying to get their next
Contract tring to show out trying to do uh everything um with an extra oomph or extra like you know spirit and he is doing everything as we see him and nothing extraneously new or extra or different nothing to stand out from the crowd and he’s killing in his role he’s
Killing in the performances that we need him in and think all season long since the trade holy crap we were nowhere in that Series against Denver without him and it’s just it’s just permeated it’s just like continued to be in his game uh all season long he’s been Mr consistent
Um and now hitting 40% clip from three what a steal can’t believe unreal uh performance from n tonight will we get this again on Thursday probably not probably absolutely not will we get this again sometime when we need it I think so and that’s really where it’s at right
Now with now he’s always going to be there the way that Conley was clutching out games early in the season right the 65 to1 turnover ratio Mike Conley we’re getting a lot of just absolute production from the unsung heroes the others and tonight it was n
And I love it and I want more of it I didn’t get to hear the Minnesota broadcast but it’s so sick to hear this right isn’t it awesome to have this like a bench player who you are completely underpaying and we’re and he is so fine
He’s so fine to be here and excited to be here and he had this exceptionally emotional like four-minute interview prior to a game I don’t remember who against who where he was just like so fortunate and so like his preparedness has gotten here and you know he just
Keeps working on his game despite anything oh man you weren’t a member until now you just gifted okay my friend well thank you so much man um catching up on a couple comments about 10 minutes ago Morris looked a little slow on defense working himself back to injury Monte Morris needs to
Watch film workout during the break I think it’s gonna happen because we are so heavily reliant on him because we lost two for the price of one right it’s pretty exciting honestly have Finch kind of go to him right away immediately maybe because we just don’t have anyone else but lots of
Trust in Tim conally there right like the shake milon minutes didn’t really work out he put him in and forced him through the beginning of the season and then he just put him in the end of the bench so I think we’re trying to just
Force this and see if it works and then if it doesn’t we’ll find out another way but I’m pretty sure it’s will I’m pretty sure it will it doesn’t seem like he’s going to really hurt us on any end on either end um slowmo yeah um slmo does that every year he
Might be traded Ood understood feels like last year would be the year when he felt he was the safest to stick on the team so he might do it regardless of whether there’s rumors or not yeah not his clutch he seems to make the most timely threes in the fourth man
That was a that was amazing Kon with the on point he’s on fire GIF in Discord shout out to Discord apparently wolves after dark commented 100 likes and we changed the top tier to gorilla nuts all 64 of you 65 now now Ry uh um moving on to the starters unless there’s
Anyone else that I might have missed one two three four five yeah Anthony Edwards man sorry just took a second there to stare at the super box score Mike Conley as we were talking about a little bit earlier before uh 26 minutes seven points six assists three block shots remember mik Conley
Three block shots what um it doesn’t matter what he does out there he uh uh survived an injury scare um the bread and butter to this team the reason why we go he was a b tonight nothing um exciting but absolutely was not me I thought he had a
Uh tough task of guarding SC Henderson a tough task of like chasing Anthony Simons when Jaden wasn’t on him and you know I thought I don’t know I thought that they played I thought they played up up front on him pretty aggressively and I thought he got him in weird situations and I
Thought he played to the best of his ability which is great we don’t need a whole lot out of him uh anything more is like kind of like extra right just a butter cherry on top oh Jaden McDaniels I’m sorry I don’t even want to really talk about your performance
Tonight the only thing I’m going to say is on the end of the back toback and you’re kind of nursing a hand injury as I grab a drink of water shout out to all of you guys for sticking around nearly 45 minutes after the game this is bedtime
I hope you guys are lying laying in bed just like going to sleep on this monotone voice of mine Carl Anthony towns I don’t want to respect this game performance or anything out of you eight for eight from the free throw line is fine you hit that
Three in the third cool that was in Rhythm through the offense you hit that three that was sweet an awful performance we can’t see the yin and the Yang on a back toback form we I need 10 games of you to play at one level you know and it was this
Level that we’ve seen you get play at for 10 games you know I’m moving on but I just I hated tonight from cat and uh it’s not it almost doesn’t feel Fair because we just have to go to the others and the others will pick up the
Pieces Stitch the terar is in our genes and that’s not because of it’s a fashion trend and ant just has to play herob ball for us to stay competitive and build like a eight-point lead that’s kind of like that’s kind of embarrassing cat that’s kind of unfair um even on a
Back toback right in any given whatever Tuesday any team could beat any team we’ve seen it and we’ve dealt with it it’s like because of games like this right like we can’t just completely stomp on someone’s throat in the first quarter because you’re not playing consistent
You’re not playing the way that you were playing last night if you played the way that you played last night I had no I would have had no issues even if you had three files I would have had no [ __ ] issues but you were just playing a different game that
First quarter and it was not it was not fun moving on let’s see here YMCA was a treat to see tweeted retweeted and and uh posted even on Reddit uh if you look at all the forums like real GM Reddit Hannis hoopus they were all screaming at cat like what is this nonsense
Right we’re doing this despite performances like that whoa Monte Morris in the screen has a massive head and men do come shout out you Cameron uh okay Rudy Gober I feel like with the exception of like three games all season Rudy goar’s floor has been a B+ a
Minus once again yeah maybe he lost tonight’s battle in quotation marks against DeAndre Aon but no one came close to the rim tonight if I were to look at the the stats and I’m going to right now uh terribly points in the paint well they matched us 50 to 44 so screw my
Commentary but uh I thought you know from last night we had like 68 points or whatever in the paint it was amazing thought we were GNA we were going to double down on that effort and be bigger and stronger than our opposition and we could have but we
Were playing very uh skittish and afraid of getting to the rim we weren’t getting the calls which I thought was fine like let the let the players play that’s fine uh ant was falling down a lot but goar played uh his game it doesn’t matter how the game is being
Called this is kind of what I want out of a $60 million man right like I know what I’m getting out of Rudy goar every given night there might be some random underhand shot there might be a dunk where he could have dunked but he throws it off the backboard you know
16 points 15 rebounds a block shot doesn’t get into foul trouble this guy he’s incredible he’s the reason why we are number one in the west where is Rudy goar there he is anony if we break down his game he played eight minutes of the first quarter he scored two points he
Kind of was a little Irrelevant in that first quarter in the second quarter cat played zero Rudy goar played the entire second quarter in the third quarter Rudy Gober scroll down a little bit more Rudy Gober played nine minutes in the third and then Rudy goar in the fourth quarter
Played nine minutes in the fourth quarter like the entire fourth quarter until it was Out Of Reach right on the end of a back toback and he’s older than cat and he’s slower and more potentially fragile than cat right like his ankle’s one ankle he’s gone for a month doesn’t matter the challenge
Doesn’t matter the athleticism or size or whatever he’s going to have a role there was a clip that uh was a two or three minute clip on Rudy goar’s defense on the perimeter U that’s kind of just SE this season I I a Optimist in me but I don’t know if
He’s going to be kind of like you know small Bal out of the playoff rotation right he’s going to be there and he’s going to be the reason why we are what we are because the way he’s been be able to defend the perimeter has been outstanding yeah sure scoot Henderson’s
A little bit faster than him at times and get around him that’s fine we don’t see that as often in the playoffs and there’s no Chris Paul to do a too small on Rudy go oh I don’t even know who does Chris Paul play for again that’s right
Um I guess that leaves us with one player am I wrong one two three four that’s one player left usually we save A1 tier for the one-offs the can’t forget will never forget this game but uh without ant tonight we lose by 20 I swear oh without anite we are nowhere in this
Game 41 points four rebounds two assists two steals a block shot four for eight from three he was the man uh in the ant versus ant duel he doubled them up in the uh who’s the best player on the court ant 23y old ant taking over the
NBA as Terry Porter said it is no longer Carl Anthony Town’s team it’s ant’s team A1 I’m sorry if you guys have said some stuff I have missed in commentary uh whirly squirly just watch the NBA 9 Minute recap vid apparently Aon decided he was goingon to play basketball tonight usually TS it
In antis Neo I love that I’m surprised ant played so well he usually phones it in phones it in you said phones it in a comment ago you said phones it in again I love it I’m gonna use phones it in uh in my next sentence
After I read your comment uh so well he usually phones it in against these kinds of opponents I am not surprised I surprised that maybe the output but I felt that he was GNA take this game over him and Cat were going to be like a onew
Punch or we were going to be like shut out you know like I really think that they they were going to either be way too much energy and we were going to not be able to respond or we were just going to onew punch them out of the game early
And neither happened but I I I was feeling this kind of game from Ant and ant takeover was throughout the whole game I loved it the way that he closed out this game too incredible you you saw it in his eyes like the way that he was
Driving to the rim and not getting those calls he wasn’t like bitching at the refs he’s getting back on D and he was doing it again he was like I don’t give a crap I’m getting to the rim it’s DeAndre Eon on the other side right like
He could do anything he wanted it was awesome he knows Kung Fu now I love it I love it okay Brewers the only difference between anunt and Neo is that Aunt already knows he’s the one I love it shout out to all of you guys these are those are nice those were
Nice but that was a quick it was a quick good reference Edward just used defense to rest the S and that went out on off yeah guys GS by nine binary P nine nonbinary Pals my friends all 70 of you can’t thank you guys enough for joining us on this ride this
Journey we’re number one on the west 38 wins feel like there’s a there’s a Kyle Tye tweet coming in tomorrow morning or this time last year or this time in 18 years ago we had 19 wins or like I don’t know one comment that uh or one thought that uh Blazers
Broadcast brought up is that we have never had first place for as long as we’ve had it this year like kind of combined right like uh this year um than our entire existence in Timber’s history and that includes the 0304 year where we went 60 wins
Right I don’t remember if it was 62 and 20 or something or if it was like 58 and 24 or something I don’t remember the exact record but we have held first place as long as we’ve ever had it combined this year than our entire history an incredible comment an incredible feat
And I’m just thinking back to the 034 year where it’s like the Lakers had Carl Malone and Gary Peyton and Kobe at his Prime and sha in his prime and Rick Fox and whatever the [ __ ] Derrik Fischer was in like Utah and no maybe not Utah maybe it was Utah Utah with uh
Darren Williams yet or no but Sacramento Dallas with Dirk Kings were insane my favorite team that was on the Timberwolves kings are so much fun Denver how could we forget that year those years man those were insane years and now we have a different feeling of
Uh of uh who’s at the top of the West this year I feel like there’s holes in every team our team is maturity and discipline in jersey number 32 right in a lot of ways sorry not trying to be negative here about that but and we are a little slower than maybe we
Should be uh you know like when we have ant and Cat on offense our offense will get better as we are slowly seeing it kind of come up right from the bottom of the West bottom of the NBA we’re slowly getting better efficent efficiently offensively like the Clippers have holes
They are like 0 and seven 0 and8 against teams that are bigger than them you know Phoenix Suns they just lost Bradley Beal again they are just three-point Shooters and Katie is old uh OKC is Young Pelicans are young and they’re I I don’t know what they
Have like I think they’re very exciting and very scary to face off and against the West Dallas just got bigger but Dallas still has Kyrie Irving and I don’t know how Kyrie Irving is gonna fit in with those new dudes and Luca’s Luca and like can that actually perform in
The half court we’ll see Sacrament Kings haven’t improved Denver Nuggets didn’t make a move in the trade deadline you know like they could have made a move I thought the Lakers stood Pat and they’re relying on De uh D’Angelo Russell now and oh my God Draymond Green’s back and
Now the Warriors are back you know it’s like it’s it is kind of scary but they all have holes every team in the west is scary but also there’s flaw there’s flaws all over which makes me feel really excited about the end of the race here towards
The end of the the year how we’re going to build off of these kind of games and hopefully we don’t take these games for granted because maybe our schedule’s a little bit easier but we can really catapult ourselves in these games as the season matures and we can really find ourselves
Offensively I think and I thought it was such a great offseason mindset to pull in Rudy and be like we’re a defensive first team with you you and Jaden you know you and Jaden n Conley bring us there slowmo bring us there ants on board you know cats never played better D this
[ __ ] is exciting and yeah maybe it took us three and a half quarters to really take care of business against Portland that’s just gonna happen right what I would love to see is consistency what I would love to see is more of end of the bench minutes meaning
We blow out teams where I really enjoyed the fact that we didn’t see cat in the fourth quarter of last night’s game and tonight because we didn’t need him and frankly that’s cool because that’s kind of a mark of a good team where we can play without our bench
Best players playing heavy minutes sometimes and uh take care of business and good to see I’m gonna end with a few comments here from chat and then I’ll probably call it here um a walking to West All-Star locker room in first place feel good right gr agreed oh what did you say it’s
Still Denver till you knock them out yeah oh yeah I didn’t say I don’t think I said anything negative about Denver but I just think that H some teams have made moves and I think the Clippers look stronger than they’ve ever they’ve ever been Thunder are not an easy out we are
The best defensive team in the NBA right now and we are built to beat the Nuggets could they have found someone I think they could have they’re a little too reliant on some of the pieces that are young Patrick Watson Christian Brown whatever it’s still them until we take
Him down jel takes him down I agree with that it’s just how it is Jamal and joic are who they are sigara minutes AR nice a Garza oh I don’t understand I think I see Garza so it’s like Luca Garza nice yeah I think we just saw Miami beat
Milwaukee tonight or uh yeah that’s what happened I think right yep Victory cigars oh my I’m an idiot guys and that’s how we’re going to close the stream tonight uh with a sound effect okay I don’t know and uh yeah that’s it for me 52 wins is all but
Inevitable um smoking that Luca pack Thursday is another game I’ll be here Cameron will be there and maybe he’ll call in and give us a from the from the garage how did it feel uh point of view um thank you guys so much for joining hashtag join the Discord like share
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