Mavs Takedown The Wolves: A New Defense On KAT + Luka Picks Apart Wolves Defense + Missing McDaniels

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Dane Moore

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🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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On today’s show, we get into the Wolves 2-point loss on the road in Dallas on Monday night. A game where the Mavs effectively slowed down Karl-Anthony Towns, while the Wolves struggle to contain Luka Doncic’s playmaking. With a rematch against Dallas coming on Friday, we focus this episode on the tactics the Wolves and Mavs used against eachother, so as to be able to estimate what the rematch might look like. Topics include: — A new defensive scheme utilized by Dallas to take KAT’s driving game away — The Wolves losing the non-KAT minutes and the Mavs dominating in the non-Luka minutes — Wolves switch coverages against Luka in the second half and find some defensive success — Taurean Prince continues to step up, but they missed Jaden McDaniels in this one — Jarred Vanderbilt’s role and effectiveness continuing to shrink Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the daymore NBA podcast brought to you by Blue Wire podcast coming at you Monday night after the Wolves lost in Dallas by two.
0:21.5	Final score, Mavs 110, Wolves 108.
0:25.9	The Wolves have scored 110 points or fewer three times now since the All-Star break.
0:30.9	They scored 102 against Philly.
0:32.9	They scored 110 against Orlando.
0:35.0	And tonight, 108 against Dallas.
0:37.7	Those are the Wolves, of course, three losses since the break.
0:40.8	So that means they are 11 and no in the games that they've scored over 110 since the All-Star break.
0:46.7	So I think tonight the main question I have is, you know, what did Dallas do to slow down to Wolf's offense?
0:53.3	That is, you know, largely been potent, not just down to Wolves' offense? That is, you know,
0:54.5	largely been potent, not just since the All-Star break, but for the past few months.
0:59.3	And I think the answer there is that Dallas just had an excellent game plan tonight, something
1:03.7	very different than we've really seen all season against the wolves. I thought the Mavs were
1:08.8	audacious in their commitment, just to taking Kat out of the game.
1:12.8	They'd clearly,
1:14.6	they'd clearly been watching film on this Wolves team lately
1:16.9	and had made a defensive plan clearly focused on stopping
1:20.7	what had been working best for the wolves on offense lately,
1:24.1	which, of course, is Kat's ability to drive to the basket. You know, they would press Powell up on Kat on the lately, which of course is Katz's ability to drive to the basket.
1:27.9	You know, they would press Powell up on Kat on the perimeter, but they also had players
1:33.1	in both of the gaps to both Katz right and another player to Katz left.
1:39.0	And, you know, so if Katz up kind of the top, the key or above the break on the right side,
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