Britt Robson On The Timberwolves At The All Star Break

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Dane Moore

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4.9 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson of MinnPost to take stock of the Timberwolves at the All Star break. Dane and Britt discuss the Wolves winding road to a 31-28 record entering the break and discuss where Chris Finch can make tweaks on the margins to re-establish the team’s identity for the final 23 games of the season. Topics today include: — Jaden McDaniels’ recent ascension and Finch’s unrelenting belief in him — The evolution of KAT’s game, and the similarities and differences to his game compared to Nikola Jokic, Joel Embiid and Giannis Antetokounmpo — How the Wolves dual-window timeline has reset after the Patrick Beverley extension — What type of tweaks might we see from Finch post-All Star? — Who will and will not be in the Wolves’ playoff rotation? 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.
0:19.0	We are at the All-Star break, 59 games into the season coming at you Thursday afternoon with Britt Robson
0:25.8	of Minpost.
0:26.8	I almost have said Britt Robinson of the Athletic.
0:28.7	Not the athletic.
0:30.0	Minpost.
0:30.6	We were just talking about a story I wrote for the Athletic that was probably better
0:34.8	than the one I wrote today.
0:36.0	Yeah.
0:36.8	Well, Britt wrote today about Jade McDaniels.
0:41.8	The line Brit that stood out to me was, was you said that Jade McDaniels is becoming a fixture
0:50.8	of serious teams, a versatile role player capable of defending a variety of situations.
0:58.9	And as we were just kind of talking about before we turn the mics on here is I'm kind of starting
1:05.2	to view this team through for these last 25 games of the year through the lens of, you know, are you gaining progress
1:13.5	in the standings? Are you growing here towards the end of the season? But also specifically
1:18.6	through the lens of how have these guys developed or not developed in ways that is relevant
1:27.0	to a playoff series.
1:28.5	And I think Jaden's development over the last month or so really has been something
1:35.3	that's popped particularly over these last two games.
1:37.1	And it's something that you could very much see being valuable in a playoff series.
1:43.1	Is that at all what kind of inspired this for you?
1:45.0	Or was it just the last couple games?
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