The Wolves Are The No. 1 Offense Since COVID Outbreak: DLo Dialed-In + Bench Players Finding Roles + Slowing Harden

The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Dane Moore

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🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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On today’s show, after the Wolves knocked of the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday night, we discuss what has driven the Wolves to be the number one offense in the NBA over the past three weeks. We focus on what changed during that stretch of COVID protocol games and how D’Angelo Russell has been the face of this latest team-wide offensive boomlet. Topics today include: — No. 1 offense in NBA since January 3rd — How DLo’s play has been representative of the offensive burst — shooting, passing, playing with pace — Being able to have a dominant offensive performance on a slow night for Karl-Anthony Towns — How a team meeting helped lock the Wolves roster into specific roles player-by-player — Why it’s important that the defense, which has dipped lately, rejoins the party for the Wolves’ upcoming road trip Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the dayn'clock.
0:13.7	This is the Danmar NBA podcast brought to you by Blue Wire Podcasts coming at you Sunday night after the Timberl's beat the Brooklyn Nets 136 to
0:22.7	125 yes no Kevin Durant for the Brooklyn Nets who missed Durant missed his fourth straight game
0:29.9	but it was still James Hardin was still Kyrie Irving and the Nets were otherwise pretty much
0:35.8	a full strength they had not been struggling coming into Minnesota.
0:39.2	They'd won two of their first three games without KD.
0:42.6	This was the fourth game for them on a four-game road trip.
0:46.1	So we kind of just knew coming into this game from the Wolves perspective
0:49.4	that tonight was going to be about slowing down Hardin and slowing down Kyrie or just straight
0:56.3	up outscoring the nets and the wolves they kind of did both or in ways they did both.
1:01.7	Kyrie did have a big game.
1:02.7	He had 30 but Hardin only scored 13 points.
1:05.7	And the wolves on offense, they also blitz the nets.
1:08.7	They scored 136 like I said.
1:13.0	They shot 44% from 3 and 57% from two. And here we are. All of a sudden, after being a below average offensive team
1:20.5	for the first half of the year, the wolves have switched gears into becoming a very good offensive
1:25.9	team since they kind of got their team back from COVID.
1:29.4	It's been nine games since the starters were all back and the team was at full strength.
1:35.3	And the wolves are the number one offense in the NBA over that.
1:37.9	Now three-week stretch, number one.
1:41.2	So I think the question we have after this win, kind of now extending an impressive
1:47.9	stretch of offense is, you know, what is behind the uptick in the wolf's offense lately? And I think
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