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The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Wheels Come Off In Toronto: Can KAT's Usage Go Up? + DLo's Extended Cold Stretch + Will Nowell Play In The Playoffs?

The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Dane Moore

Sports News, Sports, Basketball, News

4.9666 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, we discuss the Toronto Raptors beating the Wolves on Wednesday night at their own game — forcing turnovers, getting offensive rebounds and making 3s. It was also another game where Karl-Anthony Towns got removed by Toronto’s aggressive coverage on him. So we also ask the question of how the Wolves can raise KAT’s usage through the aggressive coverage. We also talk D’Angelo Russell’s extended stretch of cold shooting and get into how the bench is taking form after losing Jaden McDaniels and Malik Beasley to injuries. — Can the Wolves get more from KAT when he’s aggressively being doubled? — DLo’s down, then up, then down production chart this season, and how it has been the opposite of the Wolves defense’s production arc — The role defense will play in Jaylen Nowell being in the playoff rotation — The Wolves have been outscored by 76 points in the three games Malik Beasley has missed this season 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 Daymore MBA podcast brought you by Blue Wire podcast coming at your

0:17.9

Wednesday night after the Wolves lost in Toronto by 23 final score

0:22.7

was Wolves 102 Raptors 125.

0:26.9

It was a game that definitely was not taking that sort of shape early.

0:30.9

The wolves actually looked great in the first quarter.

0:33.1

They were turning it over a bunch, but defensively they were having their way with the Raptors.

0:36.9

Raptors only scored 20 in the first quarter. They're getting out aggressively on the

0:40.5

perimeter and limiting looks at the rim for Toronto. And I thought Cat specifically was rolling

0:47.0

on both sides of the ball to start this game. In the first quarter, Kat had eight points,

0:51.5

seven boards, and three assists. But unfortunately, for the rest of the game, Kat only added eight more points to that total,

0:57.7

only three more boards, and zero assist, which kind of continues this trend for Kat

1:03.8

of hot first quarters and sort of tapering off as the game goes on.

1:08.9

And we've kind of asked Kat recently about that pattern of, you know, kind of hot first

1:14.6

quarters and then it kind of slows down as the game goes on.

1:17.5

And he's pointed to the fact that teams are loading up on him more and more lately and more

1:22.9

and more as the game goes on in the second, third, and fourth quarter, which I think is accurate.

1:28.4

You know, when, when Kat gets going, that's when you see the doubles coming earlier and more often.

1:34.0

Or tonight you saw the box in one look that the Raptors threw at them.

1:37.9

The question I have when these things are happening, where Kat's shot total is big and then totally goes away

1:45.6

is whether or not there is more cat can do to play through that coverage i mean i i i don't know

1:52.4

i've never been double triple teamed and and felt like i needed to shoot more i i think it's

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