Reacting To The Preseason Opener -- Ant's Defense, Okogie Starts + DLo's Bench Party

The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Dane Moore

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🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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On today’s show, Dane is back with a takeaways from the Timberwolves preseason opener against the New Orleans Pelicans. Any ideas that the Wolves are entering the season with bad vibes after firing their President of Basketball Operations were squashed with a pretty inspired effort from Anthony Edwards, D’Angelo Russell, Karl-Anthony Towns and the rest of the Wolves. Topics include: — Ant’s defense, of all things, shining in preseason opener, and what impact that could have — Starting Josh Okogie at power forward, and what we can takeaway from Chris Finch’s rotations — Being back at Target Center + witnessing Russell grow into the role of being a team leader, on and off the court — A lesser offensive burden for KAT, but a responsibility to be the team’s defensive tentpole and best defensive rebounder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Dane Moore MBA podcast brought you by Blue Wire podcasts.
0:17.8	We're back.
0:18.6	Another season of postgame pods here.
0:22.3	I am coming at you tonight, Monday night, after the timbrel's preseason opener it was a win at home against the new
0:26.2	orleans for those of you who might be new to the show just quickly um we'll explain what we do
0:31.7	here after wolves games it's just me on these episodes unlike the ones with guests just me about
0:36.4	25 minutes kind of i don't know I guess it's my notebook from the game
0:40.0	talking about what we saw on the floor and what I heard from the players post game.
0:44.4	So, so yeah, notebook, we'll mix in a few audio clips, and we'll just get into main takeaways,
0:49.1	just what we were, you know, what we were able to learn the first time seeing this team in a while. Obviously, at the beginning of the year, there's a ton to learn every year.
0:56.5	You know, we need to figure out what the rotations are going to be.
0:59.1	What are the schemes going to be?
1:00.6	Where are players being used?
1:02.2	And, you know, right now, we haven't seen these guys play for months, so who's improved?
1:07.5	Where's everybody at?
1:08.7	Most of you know the drill. We did this after all 72 games last
1:11.7	year. So we'll get started tonight. First preseason game, what do we learn? I think for me, my biggest
1:17.9	takeaway was Ant and his defense. I know it's, I know it's preseason, easy to overreact, but I'd have
1:24.7	my single biggest takeaway from the game is that Anthony Edwards brought a completely
1:28.8	different approach to defense. I thought I thought it was phenomenal defense of them
1:33.3	defensively tonight. And we'll get into specifics of why, but I think we've got to think
1:40.1	back to last year, right? Like defense was a major problem for aunt and that obviously right
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