How The Wolves Might Matchup With The Thunder In The Season Opener

The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Dane Moore

News, Sports, Sports News, Basketball

4.8 • 722 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Andrew Schlecht — who covers the Oklahoma City Thunder for The Athletic — to discuss the Wolves and Thunder matching up twice in the first three games of the regular season. Not a game preview, but in light of the schedule coming out, this conversation serves as a way to think about how the two teams matchup with each other. — The Wolves soft schedule to start the season — How do OKC fans feel about opening the season in Minnesota? Do they think the Wolves are good? — The Chet Holmgren homecoming angle — Understanding who exactly is gonna start/be in the rotation for the Thunder? — Who guards who? How are the Wolves going to matchup with the Thunder and how will the Thunder chose to matchup with the Wolves — Will Finch put Gobert on Holmgren, and if so, would that be what the Thunder would prefer (pulling Gobert away from the basket)? Sign up today for a 14-day free trial of Aura’s digital security at Aura.com/Dane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Danmore NBA podcast, brought you by Blue Wire podcast coming out in Monday, August 22nd.
0:10.7	We are still very much in the dead point of the NBA offseason.
0:16.1	But we did get a little bit of news last week.
0:18.9	Of course, the NBA schedule came out last week.
0:21.8	And personally, I'm not a huge, like, break down the schedule guy.
0:27.1	We're not going to go deep today into the strength of schedule or how many back-to-backs
0:32.1	or anything like that.
0:32.7	Because when I see the schedule, I get excited.
0:35.0	I'm trying to find out who the Timberwolves are playing, right?
0:38.0	And so first thing I look at is the season opener.
0:42.1	Of course, this year that's the Oklahoma City Thunder.
0:44.9	But to kind of stretch the relevance of that, I'm going to point out that the wolves not only play the Thunder in the opener.
0:51.1	They also play them the third game of the season.
0:53.1	And I think that's enough reason to bring on my friend, Andrew Schleck, I almost messed your name up there. Andrew,
1:00.0	you cover the thunder for the athletic. This would be a really inappropriate time to do a game
1:07.4	preview two months in advance. So we're not going to call it a game preview.
1:12.2	Yeah.
1:13.0	We're going to call it a way to think about the Timberwolves and the Thunder
1:18.0	through the way that they match up.
1:21.0	So thank you for doing this.
1:22.0	What's up, man?
1:22.6	Yeah, man, glad to be on.
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