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Timberwolves Solve For Wemby, Knicks Dominate & a Ruthless Celtics Offseason Plan

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RealGM NBA Radio with Wes Goldberg

News, Sports, Sports News, Basketball

4.7627 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The Minnesota Timberwolves went into San Antonio and showed why they may have the ultimate advantage over Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs. Wes Goldberg and John Wilmes discuss a thrilling Game 1 and how the Timberwolves solved for Wemby, then talk about some Game 2 adjustments. They also discuss the Knicks' dominant win over the 76ers and look ahead to Round 2 matchups between the Lakers and Thunder and the Cavaliers and Pistons. Finally, they discuss why the Boston Celtics may need to be even more ruthless this offseason and why the Bulls' new front-office hire signals a new direction for the franchise.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Timberwolves took game one in San Antonio and in that game might have showed why they have the ultimate edge over Victor

0:05.8

Wambiama start the second round.

0:28.3

We're going to look ahead to Lakers Thunder, Cavs Pistons.

0:31.0

We're going to look ahead to what the Boston Celtics need to do this offseason after they were eliminated.

0:35.2

Plus, we got some front office and coaching moves to get to,

0:38.3

but let's just jump right in, John, to Timberwolf Spurs.

0:42.3

Minnesota gets game one in San Antonio,

0:45.3

and to me, my big takeaway in this one was

0:47.3

Minnesota really brought the physicality to Victor Wembeyanama.

0:51.3

And I think one of the things going into these playoffs

0:53.3

that I was really interested to see was,

0:56.0

when teams were able to scheme up against Victor

0:58.5

and the Spurs, would we see an adjustment period

1:03.1

for Wembe where he was gonna have to adjust

1:06.4

to playoff level physicality in all of these questions

1:08.7

that we have about young players,

1:10.2

specifically young big men in their first playoffs? And for Victor Wominyama in the first round, very much not an

1:16.5

issue. But here against Minnesota Timberwolves, whose whole thing is physicality, right, where they're

1:21.5

able to come at you in waves of Rudy Gobert, Julius Randall, McDaniels, all these guys. I actually

1:26.7

thought that they moved them off the spot quite a bit in that game one.

1:30.3

You could look at the 12 blocks and that's really cool and he actually had a pretty decent rebounding game.

1:34.3

But I just thought in this game and really down the stretch,

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