Have The Wolves Adopted A 'Soft' Identity? w/ Jace Frederick

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Dane Moore

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4.9 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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On today’s show, Dane is joined by Jace Frederick of the Pioneer Press to the Wolves recent struggles that have been fueled by a lack of physicality. Dane and Jace discuss the Wolves need of letting go of some patience in the name of urgency to correct the identity this team currently has. Numerous audio clips from Rudy Gobert, Chris Finch, Naz Reid and Anthony Edwards. Topics include: — Avoiding becoming a soft team — Balancing patience against urgency — Not playing with physicality — This team not doing the little things while last year’s team did — Needing a tone-setter. Who could that be? — How much should we believe in the Wolves’ top-10 defensive rating? — How might the Wolves fare against the Suns and Grizzlies this week? Sign up today for a 14-day free trial of Aura’s digital security at Aura.com/Dane Use Code Dane25 to get 25% off- https://trylgc.com/Dane #ad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the day more NBA podcast.
0:15.7	I'm going to hear your Wednesday morning, November 9th.
0:24.3	Now today's show, we're going to try and figure out what is going on with Minnesota Timberlaves these days. They're now five and six on the season. Lost three of their last four.
0:30.5	And according to Anthony Edwards, after Monday night's loss, this is what is going on.
0:35.4	It's hard. I don't know, man.
0:38.9	We're going to try to figure it out because that's what they look like right now.
0:43.6	That's what teams are saying from the looks at.
0:45.7	They're coming out.
0:46.2	We're going to punk them.
0:47.5	So that's what's going on.
0:50.8	That was a question posed Anthony Edwards about how do you correct soft from becoming your
0:57.6	team's identity and that question was posed by my guest today, Jace Frederick from the St. Paul
1:03.0	Pioneer Press. So Jase, I'll just, I guess, pose kind of the same question back to you. Like,
1:08.0	how close do you think this team is to having kind of adopted a soft identity,
1:14.2	whether that be, I don't, temporary or, you know, a little bit more permanent?
1:20.0	Yeah, it's tough.
1:21.2	It's one of those things where I think that was my thought heading into last season with
1:25.5	this team, was like, I don't know.
1:27.7	I think if you have Carlin,
1:28.7	30 towns,
1:29.3	DeAngelo,
1:29.7	Russell and Anthony Edwards in the same starting lineup,
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