A KAT Triple-Double and McDaniels Season-High: Picking Apart Utah + McDaniels As The Wolves' Aaron Gordon + Ant's Luka Role

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Dane Moore

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🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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On today’s show, we react to the Wolves’ 20-point victory over the Utah Jazz on Sunday night, fueled by a Karl-Anthony Towns triple-double and season-high from Jaden McDaniels in a different role. In a game without D’Angelo Russell and Patrick Beverley for the Wolves and without Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell for the Jazz, our topics today include: — How KAT picked apart the Utah defense at all three levels, and in different ways, in a triple-double performance — McDaniels stepping into an Aaron Gordon-like role next to KAT’s Nikola Jokic — Jordan McLaughlin and Malik Beasley get the start without DLo and Pat Bev, and their roles potentially shifting after the trade deadline — How each player of the Wolves’ Big 3 is playing this year when two of the three are off the floor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the day more MBA podcast brought to you by Blue Wire Podcasts.
0:17.7	Coming at you Sunday night after the Wolves beat the Utah Jazz by 20.
0:22.4	Final score of Wolves 126. Jazz 106. Tonight we got to talk about a cat just going off
0:29.7	tonight. Get a triple double, 31 points, 11 boards, 10 assists. Five of those assists went to
0:35.4	Jade McDaniels, who had a season high 22 points tonight on a perfect nine of nine shooting.
0:41.0	So we got to, we'll hit on Jaden's play of late, kind of some trends we've been noticing.
0:46.2	Jaden's now made nine of his last 18 threes.
0:49.5	And then, yeah, just some other notes from tonight's game, No DeLo, Pat Bev.
0:53.2	So we've got to see some solo play from Ant and Kat.
0:55.7	I want to throw some numbers out there.
0:58.3	Utah is also playing very short-handed.
1:00.3	We'll hit on that.
1:01.6	And the wolves went with a different starting five tonight.
1:05.2	But let's start with Kat.
1:06.9	Again, 31 points, 11 boards, 10 assists for him.
1:10.7	It did get a little triple double hunting in the fourth looking for some assists,
1:14.3	but the passing earlier in the game really did open up a lot for Cat and for the Wolves as a whole.
1:22.1	As we know, as we know well now, Utah guards Cat with a small, both Donovich or Rudy Gay, and they have their center kind of lurk Kat's way to double team him.
1:33.2	And tonight, Kat totally picked that apart.
1:36.4	He wasn't flustered, just kind of squared up, looked above it, found cutters or shooters.
1:41.2	He didn't commit any offensive fouls against the double, and he didn't have any
1:44.9	turnovers out of it. Now, the caveat is it wasn't Gobert as the lurking center this time.
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