Wolves Roll Warriors: KAT and The Bench Drive The Win + More KAT-DLo Pick n Roll? + Looking Back At The DLo-Wiggins Swap

The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Dane Moore

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4.9 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, we dig into what fueled the Wolves 20-point win over the Golden State Warriors on Sunday night and take some time, now three years later, to take another look back at the D’Angelo Russell for Andrew Wiggins swap. It’s an episode with a heavy focus on Karl-Anthony Towns — both in his impact tonight and potential for future impact in his pairing with DLo in the pick and roll. Today’s topics include: — KAT keeps his head, shutting down the Warriors offense at the rime and driving the Wolves offense — Checking in on the KAT-DLo pick and roll pairing, asking if we might see more of that action in the second half of the season — Wolves’ bench sparks a dominant second half — Looking back at the many factors that played into the DLo-for-Wiggins trade three years ago Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the daymore MBA
0:12.9	This is the day more NBA podcast brought to you by Blue Wire podcast coming at you Sunday night after the Timberls beat the Golden State Warriors
0:21.6	119 to 99.
0:24.4	Yes, the Warriors were without Steph Curry and Draymond Green, who were both injured tonight,
0:29.3	but maybe what are you supposed to do?
0:31.5	What have it been an underwhelming loss?
0:34.1	Sure.
0:34.4	Is it a great win?
0:36.1	Without Steph and Draymond?
0:40.6	No, but it is a win, and it's taking care of business.
0:50.4	Chris Finch was asked about after the game. I thought he nailed it. He was asked if it was a cathartic to get a win after the two losses in New Orleans and Memphis.
0:56.8	And Finch said, like, no, that's not the word. He said they expected to win this.
1:01.7	Finch said it was a business-like performance from them. And I think that's accurate. They did.
1:06.3	They just took care of business tonight against the Warriors. It was a Golden State team without Stefan Dreymann. So taking care of them was about slowing down Andrew Wiggins, Clay Thompson,
1:12.9	and Jordan Poole. Those were Golden State's weapons. And those three shot a combined
1:17.1	14 of 38 from the field in this game, 38% from three, but only 35% from two from those three.
1:25.3	I mean, Wiggins, Clay and Poole, they're going to get their threes off, and they're probably going to make them at a decent clip. They're good shooters.
1:31.0	But if you take care of the rim, like, you're going to be all right. And I think that's the first
1:34.8	credit to Kat in this game tonight. He manned the middle tonight defensively. He defended the
1:40.2	rim consistently at a couple blocks and finished with 11 rebounds despite not even needing
1:45.2	to play it all in the fourth quarter. And on offense, Cat was good too. He was guarded by
1:51.0	Kavan Looney, who kind of plays like Valenciunis, you know, for what Looney lacks in speed he tries
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