Takeaways From The Preseason Opener w/ Jace Frederick

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Dane Moore

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🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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On today’s show, Dane is joined by Jace Frederick of the St. Paul Pioneer Press to give their takeaways from the Wolves preseason opener in Miami on Tuesday night. In a game that Karl-Anthony Towns Rudy Gobert and D’Angelo Russell all sat out, what stood out from the players who did play and got the chance to take on a bigger role? — Anthony Edwards functioning as the point guard in DLo’s absence — Jaylen Nowell getting the start and looking like the most talented bench guard on the roster — Naz Reid and Nate Knight get the chance to play significant minutes in Towns and Gobert’s absence — A commitment to the “high wall” concept with Gobert not playing — Kyle Anderson and Taurean Prince showcase the skills that could make them valuable this season 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 day more NBA podcast, brought to you by Blue Wire podcast coming at you Wednesday morning after the wolves preseason opener on Tuesday evening.
0:24.0	I'm joined by Jace Frederick from the Pioneer Press as I am every Wednesday.
0:28.4	Jase, we have kind of a basketball game to talk about from last night.
0:34.2	Obviously, no Carl Anthony Towns and Rudy Gobert, which we knew going into the game.
0:38.7	And then last minute scratch, DeAngel Russell, which you and I speculated at practice might be the case.
0:46.4	The other day, they're very much treating this preseason, at least the first couple games as like deep preseason, right?
0:57.1	Where we're going to get, what we're going to learn is going to be a lot more about the guys,
1:03.0	I think, six through 12 on this roster than we are one through five.
1:09.7	So given that those guys were out, what kind of stood out to you about who started this
1:16.0	game and who kind of took on a bigger role last night than anticipate, but maybe we
1:21.4	anticipated for the season.
1:23.3	I think the biggest, like, it wasn't even a revelation, but just maybe the surprise in
1:28.8	terms of the starting lineup was, you know, you know DeAngelo Russell's out. And that's not
1:33.2	a surprise and you said we speculated on that. And that's because like when you have three guys
1:37.3	on your team who are veteranish who have been all-stars and two of them are already out, it only
1:43.5	kind of makes sense that you're probably
1:44.6	going to sit the third one too. Just because, you know, like its first game of the preseason,
1:49.0	you know, it's, I don't know, sometimes it's just like a veteran, like, here you go. You know,
1:53.9	we're not going to make you play all of these. But when Russell's out, immediately your thought goes okay so Jordan McLaughlin starting and that was not
2:01.2	the case it was Jalen Noel and but then as like as soon as the game starts playing out you realize
2:06.8	like oh Jalen Nobel is not the point card um Anthony Edwards is the point card and that was probably
2:12.3	intentional by Chris Finch and I think it's just a sign of things to come of like there, it might be very common.
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