This is the Dane Moore MBA podcast, brought to Bob Blue Wire podcast coming at your Wednesday morning, October 26th.

I'm here at the Timberwolves practice facility with Wolves beat writer, Jace Frederick from the Pioneer Press. What do I always mess up your name when I'm introducing you?

What did you just say?

I think I said, Jace Frederick of the Pioneer Press.

Let's just say there, there's so much alliteration with the Pioneer Press.

You're already getting into peas in your head. Let's just say there. There's too much alliteration with the Pioneer Press. You're already giving me the peas in your head.

You're ready to rock.

Yeah, thank you.

Thank you for giving me the out.

How you doing?

Pretty good, man.

An eventful first four games,

maybe even more so than I suspected.

But it's been entertaining in a different way

and maybe not the way that Timoros fans were hoping. Right. I think the one thing that has been missing here, if we just super distilled it down to the first four games, is something that you talked about.

I think the first time you came on the show in September was that you thought this team was really going to miss Patrick Beverly and Jared Vanderbilt, particularly in the starting lineup from an energy and effort standpoint. I think I kind of pooh-poot it, but that has clearly shown up in these first four games. And I guess my question to you is how permanent is this lack that they have?

Is this a concern that you think is going to last throughout these first couple months of the season,

that this is going to be a starting unit that constantly feels like it needs that?

Or is this more temporary, in your opinion?

Yeah, the permanency is the ultimate question with this, because it exists now for sure.

I think what makes me think that it could last for a while is you look and it's like,

where do we miss it?

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