The Nuggets Model vs. The Timberwolves Since Game 82 w/ Adam Mares of DNVR Sports

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Dane Moore

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🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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On today’s show, Dane is joined by Adam Mares, who covers the Denver Nuggets for DNVR Sports. Dane and Adam get into the linear progression of the Nuggets since the 2017-18 season compared to the Timberwolves volatility. The role of front office continuity, the growth of a Big 3, and the coaching schematics that unleashed Nikola Jokic and the Nuggets. — The Timberwolves having seven lead executives since the Nuggets hired Tim Connelly, and the impact of front office continuity — The similarities and differences between the trio of Karl-Anthony Towns, D’Angelo Russell and Anthony Edwards compared to the trio of Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr. — Chris Finch modeling the Timberwolves defense after what Michael Malone installed in Denver before the Nuggets defense made a leap — How Finch helped create the Nuggets offensive identity when he was in Denver, and Adam’s optimism for the impact Finch will have on Towns Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Dane Moore NBA podcast brought you by Blue Wire pods.
0:17.0	We're recording this Wednesday afternoon before the world's second preseason game, which is in Denver on Friday night against the Denver Nuggets.
0:26.0	No, we're not going to do a preseason matchup.
0:30.3	That would be...
0:30.5	Keys to the game.
0:31.8	That would be dumb.
0:33.2	That would be dumb.
0:34.5	But obviously, in Timberwell's World, those of you listening know thatuggets have been on the mind of Chris Pinch, on the mouth of some of the players and comparisons and that sort of thing.
0:43.8	So, Adam, I've been thinking a lot about the wolves in the context of the Nuggets.
0:49.7	And obviously, you've seen your team kind of make changes in that sort of direction and uh you know
0:58.0	and develop you know develop a defensive scheme around a center right and and so i just wanted to
1:03.6	bounce that some other sort of nuggets things off of you he's adam maras covers the nuggets for
1:08.1	dnvr sports How are you, Adam?
1:14.0	I'm good, man, and I got to tell you, Dana, I love this topic.
1:17.6	I'm really excited for this show, even though it's not my own.
1:22.9	I'm excited to be a guest because this is a topic that really kind of gets my mind going.
1:24.0	So it should be a good one.
1:31.7	Yeah, I mean, I've always, Adam and I go back a while. It's always, we go back to when the wolves and nuggets were in the same. Yeah.
1:31.8	Rival.
1:33.4	Going back to, you know, game 82 in 2017, 18.
1:37.1	And really, that's for me, a lot of the time when I think about this wolves team and how it's diverged and crashed in so many different ways over that period of time.
1:46.5	Like the nuggets have linearly, would it be fair to say, kind of progressed.
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