Sixers Bury The Wolves: The Starting 5 Drop-Off + Doubling KAT + Seeing Beasley's Impact In His Absence

The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Dane Moore

Sports News, Sports, Basketball, News

4.9 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, we dig into the Wolves’ 31-point loss to the Sixers on Friday night that highlighted some concerning trends. Including the Wolves starting five plummeting over the past two months, Karl-Anthony Towns being guarded by a small with a lurking double team, and Anthony Edwards’ continued funk. — The starting five going from being the Wolves’ greatest strength in the first half of the season to a glaring weakness over these past two months — The Sixers guard KAT Utah-style, with Embiid lurking a la Gobert, and why that’s a red flag come playoffs — Jarred Vanderbilt benched in second half — Anthony Edwards’ funk continues, but some signs of life in the third quarter — Seeing Malik Beasley’s value to the second unit in his absence tonight due to a non-COVID illness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Danemore NBA podcast, brought to you by Blue Wire Podcasts.
0:18.6	Coming out your Friday night after the wolves lost by 31 points to James Hardin,
0:24.7	Joelle Embed, and the Philadelphia 76ers.
0:27.9	Final score was Wolves 102, Sixers 133.
0:32.6	I think what we've come to learn about this Wolves team this season is that they can compete with top 10 teams
0:39.1	in the league, but in order
0:41.4	to do that, and in order to get
0:43.2	a win over that caliber of team,
0:45.3	they need to be clicking on all
0:47.3	cylinders. Not a lot of margin
0:49.2	for error.
0:51.4	Lately, with this team,
0:53.3	obviously the cylinder that has been down is the defense.
0:56.6	And while the offense has been good, the defense has been bad.
0:58.9	But when I think about when the wolves were clicking on all cylinders in the first half
1:04.4	of the season, I think about the starting lineup.
1:06.6	You know, they had this ability with that starting five once they put it together to
1:10.7	just punch first.
1:12.8	That Delo, Pat, Bev, Van der Katt starting five was, it was just a lot to handle for a lot of teams.
1:19.3	And most teams were not handling it.
1:21.8	Back in December, we talked extensively about how that starting group was killing people.
1:26.9	I mean, before the turn of the year, January 1st, when those five starters were on the floor together,
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