The Wolves Are The ____ Best Team In The League? w/ Jace Frederick

The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Dane Moore

Sports News, Sports, Basketball, News

4.9 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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On today's show, Dane is joined by Wolves beat writer Jace Frederick from the Pioneer Press to discuss how many teams the Wolves are better than in the West. Dane and Jace do this by going through the West to list what teams they think would beat the Wolves in a playoff series. Then they look at the question another way by listing the teams in the West that they think will have a better record than the Wolves for the rest of the season. Also some more conversation about the Dallas matchup and a look ahead to the Orlando and Boston matchups. Specific topics and timestamps below... -- What teams in the West might beat the Wolves in a playoff series? (7:45) -- How many teams in the West will have a better record than the Wolves for the rest of the season? (23:30) -- Gobert needing to punish small-ball teams (32:00) -- Can KAT and Naz in high wall against Dallas (38:00) -- Jalen Suggs and the Banchero matchup (52:00) If you'd like to support our partners... -- To enter the ticket giveaway, support the show by subscribing for $5 a month: Patreon.com/DaneMooreNBA -- Want to advertise on the show? Reach out to [email protected] -- Try out Stone & Skillet at StoneAndSkillet.com and use code "DANE" for 20% off -- Contact Your Home Improvement Company at YHIC.com -- Sign up for Prize Picks, promo code "DANE" for a $100 signup bonus -- Sign up for HelloFresh at HelloFresh.com/danemoorefree and use code "danemoorefree" -- Try BetterHelp at BetterHelp.com/DANEMOORE -- Try Duer Jeans at ShopDuer.com/DANEMOORE for 15% off -- Sign up today for a 14-day free trial of Aura’s digital security at Aura.com/Dane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the day and a fourth quarter.
0:13.7	This is the Dane Moore MBA podcast brought to you by prize picks coming at Tuesday morning.
0:19.4	It's January 9th. The Wolves play in Orlando this
0:23.5	evening. We'll do another pod off of that game after the game. It'll be the Wednesday morning
0:28.5	show. That'll be Britt and I, but this episode is me and Jason. We're going to start by talking
0:35.8	about where we think the wolves rank in the Western Conference as of today, 35 games into the season for the wolves.
0:44.8	First, Jace, how are you?
0:46.5	Hey, man, good about you.
0:48.4	I'm good. I'm good.
0:49.6	I'm here in Orlando.
0:51.3	We're just talking about, like, there's always, like, the little fear that, like, something's going to go wrong.
0:55.2	We're like, for me, I don't travel as much as like, Chris.
0:58.8	So I'm like, you know, you started thinking, like, did I book the right, like, are there multiple airports in the city?
1:06.1	Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep. But I've had, until I am at the destination and my stuff's at the destination and whatever, like I am, I have a little bit of anxiety.
1:13.9	Exactly. Exactly. Just like, refreshing, refreshing. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like, are you scared of flying? No, I'm scared of all the process around flying.
1:22.8	I'm scared of messing. I'm sort of messing that up. Yeah. Yeah, but it's cool.
1:28.3	I'm glad to, I'm glad to be on this trip.
1:30.6	I think we talked about this before.
1:32.0	Like, this is just like an interesting time in the season for the wolves because it's hard.
1:40.5	It's the end of this 16 game run against really good teams finishing with four on the road here.
1:48.0	And a time where it would be understandable to go one in three, two and two or whatever of this four game road trip.
1:57.2	But also a time where you could be like, okay, they really showed me something here
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