The Jarred Vanderbilt Game: The KAT And Vando Pairing + Can The Wolves Grow On O? + 4 Wins In A Row

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Dane Moore

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🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, we breakdown the Timberwolves fourth consecutive win — a win on the road against the Houston, fueled by a career-high in points and rebounds for Jarred Vanderbilt, who keeps expanding his offensive game. We also discuss Karl-Anthony Towns’ biggest scoring night of the season thus far, and how it feels like the Wolves have clearly taken themselves to a level well beyond the riff-raff of the bottom of the Western Conference. Specific topics include: — Being able to bring the fire, even with Patrick Beverley out — How Jarred Vanderbilt’s 21 points tonight are the culmination of a trend that has show Vando’s offensive role grow — KAT’s 40-point night, and how the Wolves have began to position KAT in a way that fits better around Vanderbilt — How the COVID games helped lay a framework for an offense predicated on ball movement — Nowell, Beasley and Okogie contributing off the bench 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 to you by Blue Wire podcasts.
0:18.5	Come at a Sunday night after the Timberwell's fourth consecutive win tonight against the
0:22.9	Houston Rockets.
0:24.1	Final score, Wolves 141, Rockets 123.
0:28.7	Tonight marks four wins in a row for the wolves.
0:30.9	Monday night, they beat the Clippers in L.A.
0:33.1	Wednesday, they beat the Thunder at home.
0:35.8	Sunday, they go to OKC, beat the Thunder again. And tonight, they won on the thunder at home. Sunday, they go to OKC, beat the thunder again, and
0:39.1	tonight they won on the road in Houston. I think we'll probably look back at this stretch here
0:45.2	as a run of wins against pretty bad teams. But I think even acknowledging that, I think you
0:51.3	have to feel as good about this stretch as you can, even given that context.
0:57.3	Particularly in these last three games against the Thunder and the Rockets, the wolves were just dominant.
1:02.7	If you watch tonight's game, it was clear Houston was just nowhere near the caliber of team that the wolves are.
1:09.3	And I know that should probably be expected.
1:11.6	Houston has the third worst record of the NBA, but it really has been since the Jimmy
1:16.6	Butler season where the wolves have clearly distinguished themselves from the bottom teams in the league.
1:22.6	I mean, if the wolves beat a bottom feeder last year, it kind of felt like they won a coin flip.
1:28.5	And if they beat a decent team, it felt like they kind of got lucky that night.
1:33.1	As we sit here now 40 games into this season, it feels very clear that the wolves are a team that's above the riff, raft, and firmly in the playoff conversation, the real playoff conversation.
1:45.8	Tonight in Houston, they were, again, not at full strength.
1:48.5	Patrick Beverly missed his second consecutive game.
1:52.5	And entering this game, I kind of thought back to some of the earlier games in the season
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