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The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Everything Makes More Sense With KAT + Observations From Raptors-Wolves

The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Dane Moore

Sports News, Sports, Basketball, News

4.9666 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Everything the Timberwolves run on both sides of the ball makes so much more sense with Karl-Anthony Towns in the lineup. On today’s pod, we get into how this plays out and which players we saw this specifically impact against the Toronto Raptors on Sunday night. - Why the Timberwolves spread offense was destined to fail without a presence like KAT, who actually causes the defense to shift - Why it wasn’t a coincidence that Anthony Edwards had his most-efficient shooting night (from 2) while KAT was out there next to him - How Edwards’ skillset is proving to overlap more with D’Angelo Russell’s than it does Malik Beasley’s — and why that’s not necessarily a bad thing - KAT unlocking the dunker spot — and Jarred Vanderbilt took advantage of that - How Ricky Rubio runs on the competence that KAT provides Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up, y'all?

0:01.6

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0:07.7

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0:11.1

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0:12.6

Was it the Raptors at the time or no?

0:14.6

Was the Raptors even started around that time?

0:16.1

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0:16.7

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0:18.2

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0:21.8

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0:23.0

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0:49.9

Yeah. This is the day and more NBA podcast brought to you by Blue Wire Podcasts. And Sunday night in Tampa Bay was the Timberold seventh win win of the season, a 116-112 win over the

0:56.5

Raptors. Carl Anthony Towns is back for the wolves and games are starting to make more sense.

1:03.2

It doesn't necessarily mean for 48 minutes. The end of this one was a little rough. It was not

1:08.0

48 minutes. The fourth quarter was very rocky. We'll get to that

1:11.9

in a little bit. But just from a basketball standpoint, I think that's, you know, that's where we're

1:16.4

feeling the difference with Kat. I mean, everything the wolves do makes far more sense when they

1:21.8

have a player like Kat who is a, you know, a floor spacer, a post-up threat, and someone who's, you know, big enough to be a real rim defender.

1:30.6

I know, we say this all the time, but everything the wolves are set up to do is built around having a player who checks those boxes.

1:38.5

And we're starting to see that here.

1:40.8

It's not even like Kat is setting anything on fire right right now i mean he he had he had 20 and 11

1:46.0

tonight which is you know fairly pedestrian by his standards but but when you have that player

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