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The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Britt Robson On Enjoying The Confident, Winning Wolves

The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Dane Moore

Sports News, Sports, Basketball, News

4.9666 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson of MinnPost to discuss his column on why this is a confident Timberwolves team worth enjoying the rest of the season — whatever the final outcome may be. We get into how the Wolves have gotten here and what that final outcome might end up looking like. Topics in our conversation today include but are not limited to: — Karl-Anthony Towns’ ratification tour and acknowledging that individual accolades matter to him — The Wolves officially having exceeded everyone’s preseason win total expectations — The Jaden McDaniels injury and the path(s) the Wolves have to replacing his minutes and production — Looking at the final 11 games of the season — The Wolves developing a Memphis Grizzlies-like confidence — Malik Beasley’s unexpected and unprecedented resurgence over the past three months Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the dayn'

0:03.0

This is the Dane Moore MBA podcast brought you by Blue Wire Podcasts.

0:17.7

Coming at you a Thursday afternoon, I have Britt Robson of MinPosts joining me for

0:22.8

today's episode, Britt. You wrote an article this morning titled The Wolves Look to Make

0:28.3

Their Closing Argument that they are yes, pretty damn good. And I want to start with one paragraph from that story that ties to Carl Anthony Towns because

0:41.3

I think it really, I don't know if it summed up what everybody else has been thinking about

0:45.6

Kat in this time, but it struck a chord with me.

0:49.0

And it's when you talked about how it's your bias to kind of discredit things like the three-point performance

0:57.0

or a one-game, 60-point game of just kind of noise over the course of this season.

1:04.5

But I really liked in the following paragraph, you described why that actually matters.

1:10.3

So for readers who haven't yet read this article,

1:13.2

why do things like the three-point contest and a 60-point game matter? Well, I think because Kat

1:22.1

needs ratification or needed ratification.

1:32.2

And I just think that if you look at what happened,

1:33.7

you know, he came into the league. First couple of years, he was regarded by GMs as the guy to have among everybody.

1:42.2

But Flip Saunders died before, after he drafted him, Sam Mitchell, Tibbs in that era,

1:50.1

you know, the Jimmy Hazing, you know, then Rosas and Ryan, his bosom buddy, but, you know,

2:00.0

somewhat callow bosom buddy. And, you know, somewhat callow, bosom buddy.

2:02.5

And, you know, it just got to be this thing where he, everybody knows a cat is a people

2:10.8

pleaser at heart, but some of that comes from wanting it in return, you know?

2:16.7

I mean, he's just somebody who wants

2:18.8

ratification. And for all his talent and all his skills, and oh, by the way, I forgot about,

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