Are The Suns Or Warriors A Better Playoff Matchup For The Wolves?: Point Ant + Prince At The Trade Deadline + Where's The 3-pt Defense?

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Dane Moore

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4.9 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, we react to the Wolves 10-point loss in Phoenix on Friday night, and pose the question of whether the Suns or Warriors would be a better first round playoff matchup for the Wolves. We also take a look at Anthony Edwards playing point guard — as we saw Friday with both D’Angelo Russell and Patrick Beverley out of the lineup. And finally we discuss the proposition of trading Taurean Prince at the trade deadline. Topics today include: — Point Ant: discussing how Anthony Edwards faired playing point guard with DLo and Pat Bev out — The Wolves’ defense again craters made 3s — Would the Warriors or Suns be a better first round playoff matchup for the Wolves? — The pros and cons of trading Taurean Prince at the February trade deadline Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the day more NBA podcast brought to you by Blue Wire podcasts.
0:17.8	Coming at a Friday night after the world'suz in Phoenix on the second night of a road
0:22.3	road back to back. Final score tonight was Wolves 124, Sons 134. I thought all things considered,
0:30.1	this was a pretty fun one. It was a back-to-back. No Patrick Beverly again. Danjo
0:35.1	Russell missed tonight's game with his shin contusion.
0:45.5	But even with that, I thought the game was competitive when I don't think that was necessarily the expectation, made it interesting to watch.
0:54.1	And with that, on tonight's show, we'll talk about what it was like to get a look at Anthony Edwards playing point card for the Wolves without Beverly, without Delo.
0:57.7	It was a loss, but Ant had 27 points and a career high 10 assists.
1:03.2	We'll also, tonight, again, need to talk about the three-point defense for the second straight game.
1:06.2	The Wolves opponent shot over 50% from deep.
1:18.5	And I'd also, on this show, like to take a second, you know, after this back-to-back against Golden State and Phoenix to kind of think about what a playoff series might look like against other of these teams.
1:22.9	And then on top of that, we also just hit on some other notes and stuff.
1:26.9	Good nights from Tori and Prince and Malik Beasley off the bench for the wolves.
1:28.4	But let's start tonight with Ant. Like I said, 27 points, career high 10 assists for him. His career high in assists before
1:33.5	tonight was seven. The wolves won the 37 and a half minutes. Edwards played tonight by six
1:39.7	and they lost the 10 and a half minutes when Edwards was on the bench by 16.
1:46.2	Credit to Ant, but also kind of an indictment of the Wolf's depth tonight when they were playing without both DeLo and Pat Bev.
1:53.3	I mean, it was going to be a thin point guard night no matter what.
1:56.4	And so to that end, Finch just leaned more and more into point-ant as the night went along.
2:03.5	Initially, Jalen O.L. starts.
2:06.0	Jordan McLaughlin was mixed back into the rotation mix tonight.
2:09.3	But the best extended stretches of this game was when Ant was the clear-cut point guard.
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