A Fitting One-Year Anniversary Of The DLo Trade In OKC + Observations From Thunder-Wolves 2.0

The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Dane Moore

Sports News, Sports, Basketball, News

4.9 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The Minnesota Timberwolves’ one-year anniversary of the D’Angelo Russell trade shaped up to be a fittingly bizarre game in Oklahoma City. On today’s pod, we work backward from Naz Reid getting the final shot to arguably the most disastrous first half in the Ryan Saunders Era. Topics include: - Naz Reid deserving the final shot How Reid’s 21 second-half points put the Wolves in the position to give him the last shot. And what Naz said he saw on that play (audio included) - Should the closing lineup have been: Reid, McDaniels, Layman, Beasley, Edwards My theory on why it would have been fine to close this game without a point guard. - Why Jaden McDaniels needs to start if Josh Okogie doesn’t With Okogie demoted from the starting lineup to the fringe of the rotation, Anthony Edwards has become the Wolves de facto “wing stopper.” Should that role go to McDaniels? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.1	And for a team that rarely wins, these Timberwolves have just a hell of a way of making their losses almost feel better than their wins.
1:09.1	If you missed the two-game road trip in Oklahoma City,
1:12.1	you missed some quintessentially wolves weirdness. I mean, they won on Friday night,
1:19.6	and I think just the grossest win I've seen since I've started covering this team three years ago.
1:25.4	It was just a, it was just a blah, you know, three-point win on what should have been
1:30.8	blah.
1:31.2	I mean, DeAndre Russell hit a game winner that felt, I don't know, just like more, it was
1:36.4	more like an exhale than it was something to celebrate.
1:39.3	And then tonight, round two against the thunder, it was the one- anniversary of the D'Angelo and Catt are both out for ambiguous and just kind of tanky reasons, which is also quintessentially wolves.
1:57.0	But they went on to play their least inspired half of basketball that I can remember.
2:02.1	I mean, the wolves gave up 83 first half points tonight to arguably the tankiest team in the NBA.
2:08.8	83.
2:10.3	The last time the wolves gave up 83 points in the first half was the first time they played Jimmy Butler after the Butler train.
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