Hey, yeah, I feel like Kobe in a fourth quarter.

This is the Dame Moore NBA podcast, and we are brought to you by prize picks coming at you Tuesday night from Frost Bank Center in San Antonio after the game five loss by the wolves.

In this series, it was a 29 point loss, which means if they're going to win game six and force a game seven back here in San Antonio, things are going to change, adjust for the wolves.

I've got Wolves beat writer from the Star Tribune, Chris Hein here with me in San Antonio at Frostbank Center for some

immediate reactions after the game as we've been doing all postseason. Chris, I've got a few

things down that I want to make sure we get to over the next hour. But yeah, we've been doing

these immediate reaction episodes and kind of starting with starting with a big

takeaway and then moving into maybe some of the smaller things so wolves down three to two in

this series going home for game six what is your biggest takeaway um with this team in this

moment i have a i i guess would be a very big takeaway in terms of big, big picture takeaway here. And

when you think about where this roster is, Ants timeline, you've got Rudy, you've got Julius,

you got trounced pretty good by Oklahoma City a season ago.

Julius and Rudy were not very effective in that series.

You're playing the Spurs now.

It has been a tough series for the two of them again and Oklahoma City and San Antonio

you expect are going to be the dual powers in the Western Conference for the foreseeable

future and you now have potentially a body of work that suggests if you are going to compete with the big boys

for the next three years or whatever before second apron problems, max extensions and all that stuff sets in for all of them.

You know, is this front court ultimately good enough to get you to that ceiling?

We talk a lot about Rudy being a floor razor and I think in some ways Julius is a floor

razor with his playmaking

during the regular season but I look at last postseason I look at this one and I just I just don't

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