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The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Britt Robson On Micah Nori + How Chris Finch Has Approached Coaching The Wolves

The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Dane Moore

Sports News, Sports, Basketball, News

4.9666 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson of MinnPost to discuss Britt’s feature story on Chris Finch’s lead assistant in Minnesota Micah Nori, and the impact coaching has had on the Wolves exceeding expectations thus far this season. From there, Dane and Britt discuss coaching tweaks we might see from the Wolves in the post-All Star break portion of the season. Topics today include: — Micah Nori’s background as a lifer in the NBA coaching world — The Chris Finch and Nori working relationship — What coaching tweaks we might see from the Wolves in the post-All Star portion of the season — Checking in on the success of the Wolves’ previously dominant starting 5 — The areas D’Angelo Russell, Anthony Edwards and Karl-Anthony Towns have found success defensively — Looking ahead to a Memphis matchup out of the break, and to a difficult schedule that will come to define where the Wolves stand in the playoff race Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:18.0

On today's show, we have Britt Robson of Minposts joining me here.

0:22.9

As we record this on a Wednesday afternoon, one day before the wolves began their post-all-star

0:28.2

break portion of the season. Brit, over the break, you took this time to do actually one of my

0:35.1

favorite things you do as a writer and that's stopping and digging

0:39.4

into one of the wolves assistant coaches which I guess maybe doesn't sound like that sexy of a

0:45.8

thing right like on the surface but I think back to your David Vantapult feature you wrote a couple

0:51.9

years ago I mean sometimes these are the most prolific people

0:57.0

that we have very little information about.

1:00.0

And you uncovered some information on Micah Norrie,

1:04.0

Chris Finch's David Vantepoole, his lead man on the Wolf's Bench

1:10.0

this season. When you, when you write these stories, what goes

1:16.8

into it? Why is it an important story to you? Because I'm, I know it's a topic you chose by choice.

1:23.8

Right. So I'd assume there's some level of heavy personal intrigue there. What goes into it?

1:30.4

Well, especially for Minpost, I wanted to keep it regular at once a week, even with the break.

1:37.9

And I thought, what could be kind of a timeless thing that I could hit people with who haven't seen the wolves for six days.

1:47.6

And then I thought, well, a personality profile would be good. And like most Wolves fans, I think I was

1:57.1

charmed by Noray's halftime reports, you know, coming out of the locker room.

2:03.6

Some of it is a quick synopsis of what happened in the first half and what they plan to do maybe in the second half.

2:09.8

But it's usually really benign and it's kind of milk toast.

2:14.8

They don't usually want to reveal too much or even if they do want to reveal too much,

2:19.5

a lot of these coaches just speak in, you know, Argett, you know, like just, they, they don't

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