The Wolves Dominate The Lakers Again: KAT Bests AD + Vando's Consistent Impact + No Ant = Jaylen Nowell Time

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Dane Moore

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🗓️ 18 December 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, we breakdown the Wolves second dominant performance over the Los Angeles Lakers and revel in Karl-Anthony Towns turning the corner over these last three games, following up a dominant performance over Nikola Jokic with a dominant performance over Anthony Davis. Topics today include: — Thinking about this Wolves team compared to the Jimmy-led Wolves team of 2017-18 — KAT re-establishing himself as one of the league’s best big men — The difference in the Wolves offense when KAT is doubled versus when he is guarded with single coverage — Attempting to quantify the value of Jarred Vanderbilt and his similarities to Dennis Rodman — Jaylen Nowell playing a big role in the absence of Anthony Edwards — The level of respect Wolves players have for Chris Finch growing, and why establishing that common ground feels critical to Finch’s system working 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.
0:18.1	Coming at you Friday night after the Timberwolves third straight win.
0:22.5	Tonight, the wolves for the second time this season dominated the Los Angeles Lakers.
0:27.0	Final score was 110 to 92.
0:30.4	I remember thinking this morning when I saw that the wolves were favored in this game that I
0:36.6	thought it was a little crazy.
0:38.7	You know, not crazy that it was a bad line that it was obvious to bet on the Lakers or the wolves
0:43.4	or I don't know, Vegas is smarter than I am that way, but just kind of the simple concept
0:49.4	that a game where LeBron James, Anthony Davis, and Russell Westbrook, we're all going to be playing
0:56.3	on one team and that the Timberwolves were going to be the other team.
1:00.0	Just the idea that that on paper suggests that the Timberals are the better team is
1:05.7	kind of a wild situation.
1:10.3	And obviously there's a ton of context there.
1:12.1	The Lakers have not been good this year,
1:13.8	and the wolves have been playing well, at least lately.
1:16.9	But still, on his face, just being favored against a LeBron James team is pretty wild.
1:21.3	And I just kind of started thinking,
1:23.6	I wonder how many times in LeBron's career the wolves have been, you know, favored in a game against LeBron.
1:31.2	I just think about that before the game, and I thought the one that came to mind was, I remember during the Jimmy Butler year, when the Cavs came to town, you know, the wolves were pretty good that year.
1:41.6	I remember there's like the Tyos Jones kind of like dunked on or around LeBron.
1:45.7	And I was like, you know, maybe that was a home game.
1:47.2	Maybe the wolves were favored in that.
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