Britt Robson On Chris Finch's Plan For Fixing The Defense + Training Camp Breadcrumbs

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Dane Moore

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🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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On today’s show, Britt Robson of The Athletic joins the show to discuss his story on Chris Finch’s plan for fixing the Timberwolves story. Britt and Dane discuss Britt’s reporting on the story — including interviews with Finch, Elston Turner, Jaden McDaniels, amongst other — and just what Timberwolves fane should expect in terms of Finch’s plan to make the Wolves at least a mediocre defensive team. Additionally, Dane and Britt go into some of the other breadcrumbs that have fallen out of the first three days of Timberwolves training camp. — How Finch has used the Denver Nuggets defensive model with Nikola Jokic as a guideline for what the Wolves will be running — The differences between this scheme and what Tom Thibodeau and Ryan Saunders ran, and what this will ask of Karl-Anthony Towns and the rest of the roster — The importance of the defensive “low man” role that Jarred Vanderbilt, Jaden McDaniels and Taurean Prince will need to fill — Other audacious Finch plans. Plans that carry a risk, but, if executed, could increase the Wolves ceiling — The Timberwolves being one of the smallest teams in the NBA, and new defensive coordinator Elston Turner’s experience coaching a smaller roster in Houston Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Danemore NBA podcast brought to you by Blue Wire Podcasts.
0:17.5	It is Thursday afternoon here, which means we're in the middle of Timberwolves training camp.
0:23.1	I got Britt Robson of the Athletic here with me. We're actually at the Timberwolves facility
0:27.3	here at Target Center. Training camp's happening. I haven't been here in like a year. I was planning
0:34.5	on just doing a podcast by myself about the Dimmerold's defense and what
0:38.6	kind of like Chris Finch has been dropping some breadcrumbs here over the first couple days.
0:42.9	Sure.
0:43.9	Just talking about what this is going to look like.
0:45.7	He is very much an open book.
0:47.5	And then today you wrote a story about the defense.
0:51.9	You individually interviewed Chris Finch, Elston Turner, the new defensive
0:55.3	coordinator. And three or four other players that didn't really get into the mix, but interesting
1:00.7	background. I mean, yeah, I think that. What went into that though? So like, this is, this was one of the
1:05.0	classic like, Brit. Something's about the change. I'm trying to figure it out before we actually
1:10.8	see it on the floor.
1:11.4	You did this similar thing with David Van der Poe a couple years ago.
1:14.1	Right.
1:14.8	So, yeah, so what kind of goes into that?
1:16.8	Well, I mean, part of it is, first of all, it is the thing.
1:21.3	Yeah.
1:22.2	If the Timberwolves have a terrible defense, I mean, terrible offense, then everything goes down in the drain.
1:30.6	But highly unlikely.
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