Britt Robson On The Trade Deadline + The Wolves Scorching January

The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Dane Moore

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🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Britt Robson of MinnPost joins to discuss the Timberwolves evolution in the month of January to becoming a team with an offensive identity, in addition to their previously established defensive identity. We also discuss the case for and against making moves at the trade deadline. And then finally get to the upcoming schedule — that is easier than the past month, but may feature healthier teams. — How Chris Finch has developed an offensive identity for the Wolves — Where the numbers attribute the Wolves offensive growth this month — The trade deadline and the case for the status quo (Britt’s case) and making adjustments on the margins (Dane’s case) — Britt goes off on the TNT crew — An upcoming schedule of four games against Detroit and Sacramento, who are bad, but also getting back to full-health 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 to you by Blue Wire podcast coming at you Wednesday afternoon.
0:20.0	Minnesota Timberles beat the Denver Nuggets on Tuesday night. Blue Wire podcast coming at you Wednesday afternoon.
0:26.3	Minnesota Timberolds beat the Denver Nuggets on Tuesday night by 15 points.
0:29.3	They are now one game over 500.
0:35.5	I have Britt Robson here of Minpost to kind of, I want to start by just going back at this past month for the wolves.
0:39.0	As we remember back into the end of 2021, that was really when this team got hit hard by COVID.
0:47.3	A lot of games, no guys, none of the starters, even in the lineup.
0:51.5	January 3rd is kind of the date where they all got back.
0:57.3	And I've got a whole list of stats for you on this month. But the one that sort of pops most is that this team has been
1:04.2	the number one offense in the NBA over this past month since COVID. And it's pretty clearly, well, healthy and just moving in the right direction.
1:15.5	From kind of like a thousand feet in the air, where do you start by assessing this month
1:20.0	for the wolves?
1:21.2	I think I start with saying that if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
1:27.3	And I think that the key to this obviously is depth.
1:33.3	All three of the big three have had good months,
1:37.3	but all three have also had some barren patches
1:43.3	and some injuries in the case of Delo and some, you know, boil up
1:51.4	old troubles in the case of cat and some inconsistencies, just some dropout games in the case
1:58.4	of Ant. And I think even the losses have not been, you know,
2:05.6	ridiculously embarrassing.
2:06.9	I think that the fact that they had four home games in the month of January
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