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It's October 9th.

And on today's show, I will be joined by Wolves beatwriter, Jayce Frederick from the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

I love Jason's training camp coverage of the wolves every year.

I feel like he's really, really good at highlighting the real sort of inflection points of the season ahead.

This past week, he's written really good pieces on Anthony Edwards and Jalen Clark that we're going to use to sort of guide our conversation today.

It'll be a lot of talk about the feasibility of getting the defense back to where it was

two seasons ago when the wolves did have the number one defense in the league.

You might be listening to this on Friday morning or over the weekend and wondering why we

aren't referencing anything from the wolves' Knicks preseason game.

And that is because we recorded this right before that game.

So whatever happens in New York, Kyle and I will dive into when we record on Friday.

So Jason Frederick on Anthony Edwards, the importance of Jalen Clark this season.

And I'm sure we'll mix in some Rob Dillingham talk related to the defense

as well. Let's go. All right, we are now joined by Jace Frederick. I'm excited to have Jace

back on the show weekly for this season. It will normally be Mondays with Jace, as it has been for the last few seasons, but it is the preseason right now. So we are mixing in a Thursday. Hi, Jace. How we doing, man? Excellent. How about you? I'm good. I'm good. It's, uh, not as good. Not as excellent, not excellent, but why not.

Let's hold you back into a new rhythm.

Okay.

Yeah, that like it's figuring out life at this, this time.

It's a little bit different, you know, in a good way, in a good way.

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