The Wolves Defense Has Been Awful Lately: Can The D Bounce Back? + KAT Playing More Like Giannis On Offense This Year

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Dane Moore

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🗓️ 12 February 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, we finally hit on the topic that his been brushed under the rug for the past month: The Wolves’ defense completely falling apart. While the Wolves have had the No. 1 offense in the NBA over the past six weeks, the dirty little secret is that the defense has been almost as bad as the offense has been good. So on today’s we dig into how the Wolves feel like they are coming to grips with that reality, and understanding it is something that needs to change. — Another brutal defensive (+ good offensive!) performance against the Bulls — Needing to find some defensive identity, even if it isn’t the old identity — The importance of having Patrick Beverley and Jarred Vanderbilt healthy to reignite the defense — The latest evolution of KAT’s offensive game, and how it’s become more reminiscent of Giannis Antetokounmpo than it is of KAT’s old self Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the daymore NBA podcast brought to you by Blue Wire Podcasts.
0:18.3	Coming to Friday night after the Wolves will lose in Chicago by 12 final score, Wolves 122,
0:23.6	Bulls 134.
0:25.6	And at tonight show, we got to focus on that 134.
0:29.6	Obviously the wolves have been on a pretty impressive run here since the calendar flipped
0:33.6	to 2022, even with a second straight loss tonight. The wolves are still 13 and 7 since they got their roster all back from COVID on January 3rd,
0:42.4	over a month ago now.
0:44.7	But what's happened is over that run is that we've kind of become infatuated by the offense.
0:52.2	And by we, I mean, the royal we, I think the fans, you know, have been excited by the
0:57.3	offense.
0:57.7	The media, you know, we've been hype in the number one offense since January 3rd.
1:01.5	But I also think the players have become infatuated by the offense.
1:05.6	And the offense has been legitimately great, best in the league, but we have been brushing over the fact that this defense has been straight up bad for almost the entire time the offense has been good.
1:18.0	And it's starting to feel like this defense is getting worse.
1:21.2	Over just the past month, January 11th to February 11th, the wolves ranked 24th in the league on defense.
1:28.6	And I honestly think that oversells the defense.
1:31.4	I think it's been worse than that.
1:33.1	Because over those 16 games in the month,
1:35.9	the wolves have had an easy schedule.
1:37.5	They've played a lot of bad teams.
1:39.4	And they've also played a lot of teams that haven't been at full strength.
1:43.4	And I'm not trying to do the whole like discredit the schedule sort of thing. But that's just like a fact of teams that haven't been at full strength. And I'm not trying to do the whole
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