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Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Thibs Era Over; Bulls/Grizz Trade; More Butler Drama; News Catchup

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.52.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

The Wolves abruptly fire Tom Thibodeau. We evaluate the decision, its timing, and the Thibs era as a whole. We also look at a surprising Bulls/Grizzlies trade and discuss Jimmy Butler again making waves. Plus we catch up on some of the weekend’s...

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0:00.0

So we were expecting to do the 15 and 60 Eastern Conference meal bag.

0:03.6

Thanks. We got a ton of questions for that. Fear not. We will still be doing that on Tuesday night.

0:08.3

At least that's the plan as of now, but unexpected events intervened, unexpected for us and also

0:14.1

unexpected for one Tom Thuto. It certainly appears that way because most coaches wouldn't expect to be

0:20.4

fired the same day that they beat a team by 22 points. And I think on Friday, they beat the

0:26.4

magic handley 17th the number that's in my head there. And that sometimes happens when you have

0:32.0

an owner like Glenn Taylor and yeah, so I'm kind of conflicted on this because I do not think Tom

0:38.6

Thuto should be the coach of the Minnesota December wolves long term, especially as Kevin Pelton

0:43.2

wrote about in his piece because of Carl and then he towns long term development. But the way this

0:47.6

happened just feels so rough shot. Yeah, it does. I thought that they had exceeded expectations

0:53.7

since the Butler trade. Not clearly. That was a major issue. I'll give you what Taylor said

0:59.7

his reasoning was. I said, let's let it go and see how things worked. And I think now we've

1:05.0

gone up through halfway through the season. I don't think where we thought we would be or where we

1:09.1

think we should be. I'm just looking at the results. The results are that I don't think we should

1:13.6

have lost against Phoenix or Detroit or New Orleans or Atlanta. Maybe one of those gains we just

1:18.1

lost against a bunch of teams that we're a better team. So that's pretty delusional. I would say at

1:22.9

this point in time with the current town on the roster, I think to go 500 is pretty decent with

1:29.2

this squad. Now certainly there are a lot of things you could point to with tips that he is

1:34.2

done wrong, but much like with the Thai Lou firing, much like with the Hoi Berg firing while,

1:38.4

yeah, you know, I guess it makes sense. And these guys there wasn't that much evidence. Lou

1:42.3

maybe is a little different category there, but there was not much evidence that these guys are

1:45.6

doing a great job. The process behind it just doesn't really seem to make much sense. And I

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