The Similarities Between Chris Finch and Nick Nurse: 31-28 At The All Star Break + The Impact Of Adding Defensive Coverages + More Shooting Woes

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Dane Moore

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4.9 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, we take stock of where the Wolves sit after losing the final game before the All Star break — their bizarre path to being a top-10 offense and above-average defense 59 games into the season. We also focus this episode on the similarities between Chris Finch and Nick Nurse, and the striking likeness of the Wolves and Raptors’s statistical profiles this season. — If Chris Finch is Nick Nurse 2.0, what impact does that have on winning? — Why the Raptors might be the team most stylistically similar to the Wolves in the league right now — Why the Wolves are adding to their defensive coverage portfolio and what impact those additions might be having on the defensive drop-off this past month — The Wolves shooting woes these past few games, and wondering if there are tweaks that Beasley and McDaniels can make to their shot selection — Inconsistency from DLo and Ant of late 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.
0:18.3	Coming out your Wednesday night after the wolves lose to the Toronto Raptors by 12.
0:23.6	Final score, Wolves, 91, Raptors 103.
0:28.2	And that was the last note here before the All-Star break.
0:31.3	The wolves do go into the break now at 31 and 28.
0:34.9	They have the seventh best record in the Western Conference. Two and a half games behind the Denver Nuggets for the six seed and 28. They have the seventh best record in the Western Conference. Two and a half
0:38.9	games behind the Denver Nuggets for the six seed and three and a half games behind the Dallas
0:44.2	Mavericks for the five seed. It's been a winding road of ups and downs on both sides of the
0:51.5	ball for the Wolves now 59 games into this season.
1:01.6	They do go into the break with the number nine offense in the league for the season and the number 13 defense.
1:09.8	In ways, I think you can say those rankings are maybe decently close to what we would have predicted for this team going into the year.
1:14.4	Being a top 10 offense was a common belief back in October.
1:20.1	And being around average defensively, maybe more like 18.
1:24.2	I think that was kind of the hope going into this season.
1:31.1	But again, like, I don't think we could say anybody predicted this. Like, this path to 31 wins to 28 losses to a number nine offense, number 13 defense,
1:37.8	like this path has not been predictable.
1:40.4	And the more time I think I spend trying to wrap my head around that unpredictability and just not be able to wrap my head around it, I think more and more about this season being sort of an unpredictable journey because we just didn't know that much about the wolf's coach going into it.
1:58.1	Right.
1:58.3	Like I think Chris Finch came into this season with a high IQ score.
2:03.0	He was popular.
2:05.1	We thought he was probably a good coach, but we didn't know exactly how he would be a good coach,
2:12.4	what that would look like.
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