The Timberwolves Defensive Scheme Is Changing + Observations From Blazers-Wolves Round 1

The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Dane Moore

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4.9 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The Minnesota Timberwolves defensive scheme is officially changing under Chris Finch. We saw the early signals of change in the first game after the All-Star break against the New Orleans Pelicans on Thursday and saw a whole new level of change against the Portland Trailblazers on Saturday. On today’s pod we get into the breadcrumbs of the change and why it’s important. - The Wolves history of awful team defense in Karl-Anthony Towns’ career - Finch believing a “bend but don’t break” defensive philosophy is not best for this roster (audio included) - Finch’s willingness to use KAT as a perimeter defender and how that shifts the Wolves defensive balance - KAT’s excitement level for doing something defensively he’s always felt he could do but has never been asked to do (audio included) - Juancho Hernangomez and Jaylen Nowell making cases to be a part of the rotation going forward Sign up for Dane's Patreon ($5 a month) at: Patreon.com/DaneMooreNBA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.7	Coming to you after the Timberold's first game of a home, home back-to-back against the Portland Trailblazers.
0:59.0	Wolves lost this one, 125 to 121.
1:01.0	And we're going to talk about that.
1:05.5	We're going to talk about kind of what went wrong in this one over the course of the game. But I want to start by talking about something that will not show up in that box score,
1:15.0	something that won't show up in any sort of advanced metric or whatever.
1:20.5	And that's that the Timberlves defense has changed or that it's changing.
1:26.3	Chris Finch is very clearly in the process of overhauling the Wolves' defensive scheme.
1:33.4	I mean, it's in small sort of bits and pieces and not necessarily successful thus far,
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