Britt Robson On Where The Timberwolves Stand

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Dane Moore

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4.9 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Britt Robson of The Athletic joins to the show to discuss the thing that have actually came to fruition this offseason for the Timberwolves — from the Ricky Rubio for Taurean Prince swap to the two-way signings — and for what might yet transpire in regards to Jarred Vanderbilt and on the trade market. Along with some thoughts on the squad entering Summer League. — Britt gives his thoughts on the Rubio trade — How teams might be assessing Vanderbilt’s price tag in restricted free agency — The difference between the free agency part of the offseason (where the Wolves were silent) and the trade market portion of the offseason (where the Wolves could still make a move) — Trusting Rosas on two-way signings — Dane suggests a specific type of player the Wolves might be able to target on the trade market — Why it sounds like the Wolves may be changing their defensive scheme under new defensive coordinator Joseph Blair — What we’ll be looking for from Jaden McDaniels and Jaylen Nowell in Summer League Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the day more NBA podcast.
0:16.9	Brought you by Blue Wire Podcasts.
0:18.9	It's Thursday night.
0:20.3	Got Britt Robson of the Athletic, back from vacation, joining me tonight.
0:25.4	Britt, I don't know, the last time we did a pod, maybe like a week ago.
0:29.3	At least.
0:30.0	Yeah.
0:30.2	At least a week, maybe 10 days.
0:31.8	And it feels like nothing has happened in that time.
0:36.1	But they did make a trade at that time period.
0:40.0	It feels, again, like forever ago that they traded Ricky Rubio, for Tori and Prince in the second round pick.
0:46.5	I guess we can get into a lot of stuff looking forward here too, but also I haven't talked to you at all about.
0:53.3	Right. That's right. Yeah. We haven't talked to you at all about the Rubio and Prince Trace.
0:54.9	We haven't talked since the podcast.
0:57.4	We've exchanged notations online, but nothing, not that much direct.
1:03.0	A couple of notations.
1:05.0	Right.
1:07.0	You know, I think most people are surprised at the lack of glamour in the Rubio return.
1:18.5	You know, I think people at first were crossing their fingers thinking it was some kind of four-dimensional chess.
1:25.6	You know, like, and, you know, there were glimmers.
1:29.1	Hand-raised.
1:29.9	Hand-raised there.
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