How did the Wolves beat the Lakers?
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🗓️ 1 May 2025
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Summary
Rudy Gobert had 27 points and 24 rebounds to lift the Minnesota Timberwolves to a series clinching win over the Los Angeles Lakers. Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni are joined by Anthony Slater to breakdown the Houston Rockets big win and how the Warriors bounce back in game 6. Then, Dave and Es discuss Gobert’s huge game, the Lakers biggest concerns going into the offseason, and who the Wolves should want to face next.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni & Anthony Slater
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily. |
| 0:08.9 | Coming up, the Warriors got stomped in game five. |
| 0:12.3 | So we're going to get game six in the bay. |
| 0:13.8 | We got Anthony Slater here to talk about that. |
| 0:16.3 | And the Lakers, they're going on vacation. |
| 0:22.4 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:24.0 | Good morning, guys. |
| 0:25.7 | A heck of a game that you had to travel to Houston for, Anthony. |
| 0:30.4 | Not the best. |
| 0:32.5 | Yeah, not the worst. |
| 0:33.5 | Wasn't as bad as Memphis game 5, 2022. |
| 0:36.7 | It actually, Marcus made this point to me on our postgame podcast. |
| 0:40.6 | It was actually a reminiscent of game four of the West finals that year against Dallas. |
| 0:46.1 | They were up 3-0. |
| 0:48.0 | And they got blown out, went to the bench. |
| 0:51.9 | And the bench, including Moses Moody at the time and like |
| 0:54.4 | pneumonia Bielita played so well that there was a moment in the fourth it was like should you |
| 0:57.9 | go back to the starters right that's what did happen at night there was step |
| 1:01.3 | curry at one point well pretty soon after they pulled the plug with 18 minutes left uh took his |
| 1:06.8 | thumb wrap off like unwrapped it took his ankle braces off and those things contraptions. I don't know if you've seen them. Yeah. And like gave him to the trainers and then whatever. And then it was right around with Kevin Knox hit a three to cut it to like 15 in the corner. And I may Udoca goes back to his starters, by the way, which was like, I guess he kind of had to. But that Steph called the ankle braces down and put his ankle braces back on. Like, Steve Kerr says he was never thinking to go back to him. But it got like mildly interesting for a second. And we had a skirmish mop-up type of skirmish. Right. Yeah. Cam Spencer, as the broadcast said. You know, they mistakenly called him Cam Spencer. Yeah. Yeah. Headbutt. He got ejected. He got ejected. Hey, listen, look, there's a strong argument to make that that bench unit did their job by getting the starters back in the game, right? I mean, it's not so much about game five. It's about game six. |
| 2:01.1 | So if you're thinking ahead, right, which I bet Steve Kerr has this in mind, he's out there saying, hey, we want to push the pace. We want to get these, get under their skin. I mean, imagine a world in which it's not Pat Spencer throwing the head butt, but it's Alper and Schengoon. And we're spending tomorrow like, |
| 1:59.2 | Is Sangoon going to be suspicest? |
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