A Wolves Roster Built to Withstand a KAT Injury? w/ Jace Frederick

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Dane Moore

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🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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On today’s show, Dane is joined by Jace Frederick from the Pioneer Press to discuss how this version of the Wolves is built in a way that should be able to withstand a Karl-Anthony Towns injury — at least significantly more than previous rosters have been. Dane and Jace walk through the Wolves rotation players player-by-player to discuss how they may be impacted by Towns’s absence. What players might stand to gain more freedom in a temporarily Towns-less roster? What players will be most hurt by Towns’s absence? — Why this Wolves roster is built in a way that should be able to withstand a KAT injury — What stylistic changes, outside of more pick and roll, might be enacted in KAT’s absence — Going through the roster player-by-player, discussing how KAT’s absence might impact them on an individual basis — What if things get significantly better in KAT’s absence? What then? Sign up today for a 14-day free trial of Aura’s digital security at Aura.com/Dane Use Code Dane25 to get 25% off- https://trylgc.com/Dane #ad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Dane Moore MBA podcast, brought you by Blue Wire podcast, company a Wednesday morning.
0:18.8	It's November 30th, a day after we received news that
0:23.0	confirmed Carl Anthony Towns will miss at least a month with a cap of the calf strain.
0:28.8	And on today's show, we're going to try and take our first stabs at getting to understand
0:33.8	what this team is going to look like without towns here in the interim.
0:42.5	We're going to go through the rotation players, you know, from Rudy Gobert to Austin Rivers and discuss how each player might be impacted or maybe, you know, freed in some ways by Towns's
0:49.2	presence, not being there in the mix for about 15 games or so.
0:58.7	So today, to do that, I'm joined by Jace Frederick from the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
1:00.6	Joins me every Wednesday morning.
1:05.2	Jay, so let's start with what you wrote about the injury yesterday.
1:06.5	I think it's in today's paper.
1:15.0	You kind of feel that this team is built to withstand this type of injury in that, you know, for no other reason,
1:19.1	they still have an all-MBA center in the front court every other time.
1:24.4	Obviously, in Carl's career that he's gotten hurt, they've taken a major hit in the front court.
1:26.1	They have Rudy now. But also in just the idea that this should kind of likely help the wolves defense close to
1:33.1	or as much as they lose on the offensive end, you know, in cat's absence.
1:37.1	So where are you just at kind of big picture with what this injury might mean for the next month,
1:43.0	six weeks or so.
1:45.3	I just think that, and this is almost like a revelation, so it was interesting because it happened
1:50.2	in the same game as Washington.
1:51.4	But like as what the Washington game was playing out in Porzingas was just, you know, a bunch
1:57.2	of open threes.
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