Episode 172: Chris Finch

The Young Man and the Three

ThreeFourTwo Productions | Wondery

Sports

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The coaching series is BACK with a banger. This week we welcome in Minnesota Timberwolves head coach, Chris Finch. We are so grateful for the time he gave us and hope you all enjoy the episode. Topics include: Chris coaching JJ Redick on The New Orleans Pelicans, his unique coaching journey in Europe, coaching for The Houston Rockets G-League team, experimenting in the G-League, balancing analytics and personnel, figuring out how to use Karl-Anthony Towns and Rudy Gobert, the evolution of Anthony Edwards, learning from the playoffs, the very public bench fight between Rudy Gobert and Kyle Anderson and dealing with team conflict and so much more.

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0:00.0	Each week on the Mr. Ballon podcast, you'll hear about new inexplicable encounters, shocking
0:05.9	disappearances, and other strange dark and mysterious stories.
0:10.1	Listen to the Mr. Ballon podcast, Strange Dark and Mysterious Stories, only on Amazon Music.
0:18.2	Welcome to Yoll Minute 3 with JJ Reddick and Tommy Alter, brought to you by 3-4-2 Productions.
0:26.4	This is episode 172, Chris Finch.
0:30.0	This is an episode in our coaching series.
0:33.4	As some of you might know, Chris Finch was an assistant coach on the New Orleans Pelicans.
0:37.6	My first year there, loved playing form.
0:40.9	He's now the head coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves.
0:43.0	He's led that team to the playoffs the last two years.
0:47.0	He's got an amazing journey to become an NBA head coach.
0:50.9	We get into his entire background, his time in Europe, both as a player slash player
0:57.1	coach, and as a coach has moved to the G League, his start with the Houston Rockets, and
1:02.4	how he worked his way up in the NBA.
1:04.8	Look, when I think about this conversation in particular, I'm really fascinated with a
1:13.0	couple aspects of it.
1:15.1	Number one, Anthony Edwards is having a fantastic World Cup, and Chris talks a lot about
1:21.2	Anthony Edwards, schemes, things that he can do better, things that he does great naturally.
1:27.6	I know that he wants him to be a high volume three point shooter, which for the most part,
1:31.5	Anthony Edwards has been in his career.
1:34.3	That's one thing.
1:35.3	I think his development, Anthony Edwards' development, as an all NBA perennial all-star
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