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It's February 23rd after the Wolves 27 point loss to the Philadelphia 76ers on Sunday night.

It was a game they had to play without Rudy Gobert because

Gobert was suspended as punishment for picking up another flagrant foul in Friday's game

against Dallas. I've got Wolves Beat writer Jace Frederick here with me and Jace. I felt like

all night sitting there in the stadium the story was no Gobert and kind of all the tentacles that come off of that.

Gobert is obviously an imperfect player, but it's interesting to watch when he doesn't play.

That's almost those are the times where you seem to or I seem to feel his value even more.

He's just a stabilizer for this group.

I thought this game really highlighted just some underlying issues that this team has,

that Rudy Gobert more often than not covers up for them.

This loss certainly wasn't all on the bigs for not being able to make up

for Gobert's absence. The offense was pretty awful as well. Another one of those turnover

fest games. We'll talk about that. And no, Nas Reid. But did it surprise you how much this team

seemed to miss Rudy last night? Maybe in the past we've seen they almost

do a little bit more like fly around and whatnot it's like sometimes that plays in the guy's

strengths defensively and when they can get a little bit out of like that structure but that was not

the case last night uh it was it was interesting to watch and even rewatch and when they

tried to go like switch heavy plays that had like multiple actions multiple screens in it they would

get lost. Somebody would just end up wide open communication was bad there like these these lineups that

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