How The Wolves Keep Winning Without KAT w/ Jace Frederick

The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Dane Moore

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4.9 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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On today's show, Dane is joined by Wolves beat writer Jace Frderick from The Pioneer Press to discuss the Wolves continuing to roll in KAT's now 9-game absence. Dane and Jace recap the weekend of wins against the Cavs and Warriors and more globally take a look at why the Wolves aren't better without KAT but also haven't been worse for the wear. Specific topics and timestamps below... - How the Wolves have fared in KAT's absence statistically (1:00) - The Wolves leaning into playing multiple PGs and/or numerous handlers at all times (11:00) - The Naz Reid/Kyle Anderson split at PF (22:00) - Gobert's gravity "is the offense," says Mike Conley (35:00) - Ant's playmaking continuing to level up (40:00) - The impact of the group of PGs -- McLaughlin, Morris, NAW and Conley (48:00) If you'd like to support our partners... -- Contact Adrianna Lonick with Coldwell Banker Realty for a free consultation (and get a pair of Wolves tickets) at: https://www.thedancingrealtor.com/ or call/text 715-304-9920 -- To enter the ticket giveaway, support the show by subscribing for $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/DaneMooreNBA -- Go to https://drinkAG1.com/danemoore to try AG1 -- Try Unifyd Healing at https://unifydhealing.com/danemoore -- Try Factor Meals at: https://factormeals.com/danemoore50 -- Try out Stone & Skillet and use code "DANE" for 20% off: https://www.stoneandskillet.com/ -- Contact Your Home Improvement Company: https://www.yourhomeimprovementco.com/ -- Sign up for Prize Picks, promo code "DANE" for a $100 signup bonus: https://www.prizepicks.com/ -- Try Duer Jeans. For 15% off: https://shopduer.com/?utm_source=podsearch&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=danemoore23 -- Try BetterHelp at: https://www.betterhelp.com/DANEMOORE -- Want to advertise on the show? Reach out to [email protected] -- #BlueWireVideo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Dane Moore MBA podcast brought to you by prize picks coming on Monday morning.
0:18.9	It's, I guess, Monday afternoon now.
0:20.5	It's March 25th. And we have a full weekend of Wolves games to get two on today's show with Jace, wins over both Cleveland and Golden State this weekend. Two games when you looked at the schedule, maybe after Kat got hurt, they would go, those might be losses. They weren't. They beat Cleveland by 13 on Friday, beat Golden State by 4 last night.
0:42.5	Wolves do not look much worse for the wear since Kat last played 10 games ago.
0:47.6	Jason quickly run through some numbers here.
0:50.7	They have about the same winning percentage in the time that Kat played,
0:54.5	just the time that he's been out 43 and 19 before the injury,
0:58.4	six and three since,
1:00.0	with the three losses being pretty reasonable ones,
1:02.1	loss at Cleveland on the second night of a road,
1:03.8	road back to back,
1:05.2	lost to the Lakers without Gobert and Anderson,
1:07.9	and then a loss to the Nuggets without all three of Gobert, Reed,
1:11.1	and towns. Offensively, they're about the same 17th before the injury, 14th in this time.
1:18.6	Afterwards, the offensive ratings are nearly identical. They're playing faster since Kat has been
1:23.2	out. They were dead last in transition opportunities before Kat went down up to 19th in this two, three week time since they're also shooting and making more threes since Kat's been down.
1:35.9	But they are taking way fewer shots at the rim and shooting way fewer free throws.
1:40.5	That's where we kind of see Kat's absence show up the most at least offensively.
1:45.9	And then defensively, they're first before the cat injury. They're 10th in the time since,
1:50.4	which is probably mostly about Gobert also missing four of those nine games. And you see that in
1:56.9	the numbers by opponents getting to the rim and free throw lines significantly more
2:01.3	than before.
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