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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

Tales From the Couch: Timberwolves, Clippers, Suns, Thunder, and Magic, Plus Jon Krawczynski on Minnesota's Ceiling and Best Ant Stories

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

As the NBA season heads into All-Star break, Ryen has his eye on the top teams in the West in Tales From the Couch (00:40). Jon Krawczynski, who covers the Minnesota Timberwolves for The Athletic, joins him to discuss how the Wolves have made a major leap this season, Anthony Edward’s leadership, and Rudy Gobert finally fitting in with the team (28:02). Plus, Life Advice! One guy was chastised for not tipping properly (56:06). The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please check out theringer.com/RG to find out more, or listen to the end of the episode for additional details. Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Jon Krawczynski Producers: Cliff Augustin, Steve Ceruti, and Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

On today's podcast, Lot of N a lot of life advice little tails from the

0:15.0

couch run through four games and John Krasinski who covers the timber wolves

0:19.9

he been doing it 20 years is Is this team a real title contender? That Clippers win is nice on

0:26.8

Monday and we have a ton of feedback baked into life advice so it's a long one.

0:31.2

Enjoy. advice so it's a long one enjoy. We start today's

0:40.0

we start today's podcast little NBA tails on the couch. We'll be sprinkling this in a little bit more.

0:46.0

All right we start with really a tale from Monday night's game and that's Minnesota's win at the Clippers.

0:51.0

We'll have John Krasinski on obviously later to go a little bit

0:53.9

into this, so a little bit of an overlap and some of the thoughts I have here that I'll ask him about.

0:58.0

They've gotten LA twice now. When you go back and look at the season series you have to double check

1:04.0

and be like who was playing who wasn't playing clippers for the most part were

1:06.4

healthy in both these games. The length on the perimeter is a real thing

1:09.8

when you look at how McDaniels is assigned defensively to Kauai, you've got Ant on Paul George.

1:15.4

Alexander Walker's been a better defensive player.

1:17.5

Like if you're not gonna have like perfect matchups throughout all of it, then you can put one of the tall

1:20.8

guys if you want to on Harden.

1:23.3

There's just a nice set of guys.

1:26.1

And then on top of everything else,

1:28.0

you just have length and bodies.

1:29.9

And there's value to just being big at times because when the clippers are rolling and they're getting their side to side action and then all of a sudden it feels like the pain is just there for him and

1:38.8

Kauai doesn't even need that much room because he's so much stronger and how well he's played this year.

1:42.7

You know, Kauai gets that shoulder into you and then does the little step back and it just

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