meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Are The Timberwolves Trying To Be The Blazers with Steve Dewald of Blazer's Edge

The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Dane Moore

Sports News, Sports, Basketball, News

4.9666 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In advance of Blazers-Timberwolves, Steve Dewald of Blazer's Edge joins the pod. Steve and I discuss the similarities between what the Wolves are building and what the Blazers have built. What is the ceiling of a "good offense, bad defense" team? How has Robert Covington fit in Portland thus far? Could Minnesota have outbid Portland for Derrick Jones Jr.? Do the Blazers miss David Vanterpool? And reflecting on Jake Layman's time in Portland. Submit your Blue Wire Hustle application here: http://bwhustle.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

What's up, y'all?

0:01.6

It's Drusky, and I've teamed up with Mountain Dew to produce a hilarious new basketball podcast called The Do Zone with Drewski.

0:07.7

Learn the backstories of your favorite ballers and celebrities like Jamal Murray.

0:11.1

Did you have like a favorite team?

0:12.6

Was it the Raptors at the time or no?

0:14.6

Was the Raptors even started around that time?

0:16.1

Come on, bro.

0:16.7

I ain't that old, fam.

0:18.2

You're talking like I'm 50. Taylor, Rokes, Asian Wilson, and many more.

0:21.8

You won't want to miss this.

0:23.0

Listen to The Do Zone with Drewski on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:48.4

Hey. This is the day and more NBA podcast brought to you by Blue Wire podcasts.

0:56.8

And the Minnesota Timberwolves are headed to Portland to face Damien Lillard and C.J. McCollum and the rest of the Portland Trailblazers on Thursday.

1:09.5

Portland has become a team that I've really oddly obsessed with over these past few years or two years, really, since they brought in David Van der Poohle.

1:14.4

I just think in my mind there are so many reasons to draw parallels between the two teams.

1:19.1

And just from a Timberwell standpoint to think that the next good version of the Timberwolves looks a lot like this Portland team or kind of the Portland team of the past two or three years.

1:26.5

You know, I just think the Blazers are kind of shaping up to be a proof of concept

1:31.3

for what Gerson Roses is trying to build in Minnesota.

1:35.4

So to talk about all this, to talk about my half-baked Blazers' wolves comparison,

1:41.7

Steve DeWald, who covers the Blazers for Blazers Edge. And is one of my, I refer to

1:47.5

you and a couple of other guys as my quote unquote summer league friends who I hang out with

1:51.8

like three straight days once a year in July that we don't see each other for for 12 more months.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dane Moore, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Dane Moore and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.