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It's April 14th.

I'm joined here in the studio by Wolves Beat writer Chris Hein from the Star Tribune.

And Chris, the plan today is to get your perspective on this series.

We haven't had you on in a couple weeks.

But I think also in addition to that, we had our first practice with the wolves.

We can begin talking about what the players and coaches are talking about in this series.

We did not get to talk to Anthony Edwards today. Hopefully that

happens tomorrow. We get a little bit more clarity from him, kind of on how he is physically

and all that sort of stuff. We did talk to Finch today, Rudy Gobert and Nas Reid. So yeah,

let's just let's just kind of start there with with them, the vibe at practice today and what these guys are talking about in advance of game one, five days from now.

What, yeah, what stood out to you today at practice?

What kind of stood out is, and we heard this a little bit last game or two of the season, just asking various guys about it as well.

It's like, does this team have the defensive ceiling that we all think it does that they think it does does does this team

have that switch to flip you know the cliche that we've been hearing so much about. And essentially,

the answer is yes, but with a question mark is kind of the vibe I've been kind of getting.

It's like, you know, to hear Rudy talk about it, to hear Nas talk about even, even Finch a little

bit, it's like, well,

we have no other choice right now. There's no more excuses. There's no other choice but to flip

that switch, but to actually play defense for all 48 minutes of a game on a night to night basis.

Like it's it's here, a team that was bored back in December waiting for the

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