Reactions From The Intro Presser For Walker Kessler, Wendell Moore Jr. and Josh Minnot, Plus Jaylen Nowell Buzz

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🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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On today’s show, we react to the introductory press conference for Walker Kessler, Wendell Moore Jr. and Josh Minott. In addition to getting into the rookies’ first media availability, we dive into Chris Finch’s first time speaking with reporters since the draft, which included some dialogue about some Wolves players already on the roster. Most notably Jaylen Nowell’s name being included in the “young core” along with Anthony Edwards and Jaden McDaniels seemed noteworthy. So on top of getting into what Finch and Tim Connelly said about the new rookies, this episode will also focus on what we can take from Finch’s commentary on Nowell and also on Karl-Anthony Towns’ ability to sign a supermax extension in July. — Where will Moore Jr. fit in on the roster in terms of position? — What do the Wolves envision from Kessler on the offensive end? — How might they use Kessler defensively? — What might we be able to expect from Minott in Summer League? — What would a bigger role for Nowell mean for Malik Beasley? — Finch on how they plan to approach free agency and the trade market — KAT’s supermax coming up shortly Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the day more NBA podcast, brought you by Blue Wire podcast, coming at your Tuesday afternoon, June 28th. Today we had the introductory press
0:22.7	conference for Walker Kessler, Wendell Moore Jr. and Josh Minot, the Wolves three draft picks.
0:28.7	That will be with the wolves this season. So on today's show, we'll get into some of what was
0:32.8	said during that press conference that I'm sure many of you saw. But I let some of the most
0:36.6	interesting commentary the day came after the press conference when Finch talked into scrum with reporters,
0:43.4	and you might not have got a chance to see that. So we're going to focus on that a bit
0:46.3	just because Finch hadn't had the opportunity to speak with the media like this since
0:51.5	the Tim Conley Press conference. So this media availability kind of gave him the chance to, I guess, sort of take stock
0:58.3	of the roster at the moment as now they've moved through the draft and they are getting
1:02.3	into free agency now.
1:04.6	And I thought the sentiment of what Finch said kind of was an extension on what Conley said
1:10.8	about these draft picks not
1:11.9	being expected expected to be immediate contributors and rather, you know, pieces who could
1:18.2	contribute more significantly a few years down the line. But, but Finch added even more color than
1:23.0	that by expressing, you know, where he does expect to see more of that immediate contribution coming from.
1:29.4	And I thought he included an interesting name when talking about the internal development with this group.
1:35.1	Here's Finch on Tuesday afternoon.
1:36.8	Do you have a different perspective on the roster now versus a year ago?
1:41.0	It's largely the same, but just after seeing a full seat in force.
1:44.0	Yeah. I mean, you know after seeing full season. Yeah.
1:45.0	I mean, you know, yeah, absolutely.
1:47.0	I think we've seen some growth from everybody.
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