Where the Wolves fit in the West after the Doncic + Fox trades w/ Jace Frederick

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Dane Moore

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🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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On today's show, Dane is joined by Jace Frederick from the St. Paul Pioneer Press to discuss the Luka Doncic and De'Aaron Fox trades, and how that impacts the Western Conference -- specifically through a Wolves lens. Dane and Jace also discuss the Wolves losing Karl-Anthony Towns, and comparing the fanbase fallout from that trade to the Dallas fans' fallout from the Doncic trade. Specific topics and timestamps below... - The Doncic trade through a Wolves lens (1:00) - The KAT trade and the Luka trade + how that impacts fanbases (11:30) - The Fox trade making the West more dense + how that impacts the Wolves (34:00) - Needing to replace injured-Julius Randle's production to stay afloat in the West (53:00) If you'd like to support our partners... -- Purchase tickets to Falling Knife's Super Bowl party here: https://checkout.square.site/merchant/5WQV0YD8C37EC/checkout/U4WHQWRSIKHTUV4XOHNDSFPF -- Try out our new sponsor WtrMln Wtr at Whole Foods or Target: https://drinkwtrmln.com/ -- Contact Adrianna Lonick with Coldwell Banker Realty for a free consultation at: https://www.thedancingrealtor.com/ or call/text 715-304-9920 -- For more information on Treasure Island Watch Parties, visit https://www.ticasino.com -- Try out SKIMS Men's underwear: https://skims.com/collections/menswear -- This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://www.betterhelp.com/DANEMOORE and get on your way to being your best self. -- Get yourself a pair of Duer jeans for 20% by going to: https://www.shopduer.com/danemoore -- Contact Your Home Improvement Company: https://www.yourhomeimprovementco.com/ -- Follow Falling Knife on Instagram for weekly schedule updates: https://www.instagram.com/fallingknifebc/ -- Sign up for Prize Picks, promo code "DANE" for a signup bonus: https://www.prizepicks.com/ -- Want to advertise on the show? Reach out to DaneMooreProductions@gmail.com -- Support the show by subscribing for $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/DaneMooreNBA -- #BlueWireVideo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the day more NBA podcast.
0:14.0	This is the Daymore MBA podcast.
0:16.5	We are brought to you by prize picks coming at your Monday morning.
0:18.8	It's February 3rd.
0:20.5	And the plan for today's show is to talk about kind of how the Western Conference changed
0:25.6	overnight or over the weekend and where the wolves now fit within the new context of this
0:32.2	Western conference. I'm joined by Wolves beatwriter Jace Frederick from the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
0:37.8	And Jason, you wrote about this over the weekend, how it was after the Luca and AD trade,
0:44.4	but sort of how this changes, you know, through a wolf's lens, what the Western Conference
0:51.5	looks like for this season and for beyond.
0:56.1	But yeah, let's start with with this season.
1:00.2	Want to elaborate on that?
1:02.2	Yeah.
1:02.9	Yeah, I think I know like the Wolf's Play a bunch of games this week,
1:06.1	but like, and they just had a horrible loss to the Wizards.
1:08.0	But like my mind has only thought about yeah like this
1:11.0	trade mostly like maybe a little bit the king's trade but still like this trade like for the past
1:15.0	two days i would just be i know i've seen it on twitter and stuff mavericks fans are all about it but
1:18.8	like i would just sit there every like hour and be like i can't believe that happened uh but yeah i mean
1:24.0	my immediate thoughts were just like i don't think, and I know Dallas is like a playing team right now.
1:29.4	But if Luca was truly going to come back in this next week, I do not think even with Lively out that they were going to be a playing team.
1:35.6	And I don't think if playoff time came around and Lively was back, at least, you know, at some point in the first round or whatever, that Minnesota could have beaten Dallas. I really do think that there were two teams in the West that
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