Wolves Wax The Thunder: Beasley With The Starters + The Naz-JMac Pairing + Offseason Outlook For Prince/Naz

The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Dane Moore

Sports News, Sports, Basketball, News

4.9 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, we dig into what we can from a lopsided, 37-point Wolves win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Friday night. This episode focuses a lot on the Wolves bench, who continued a trend of excellent play of late in tonight’s game. And with that, we look into the offseason outlook of Taurean Prince and Naz Reid, who can both become free agents this summer. Other topics today include: — The Wolves bench players think they have the best bench in the NBA. Do they? — An offseason outlook for Taurean Prince and Naz Reid, both of whom can become free agents this summer — Malik Beasley getting more time next to Karl-Anthony Towns in Anthony Edwards’ injury absence — The growth of the JMac and Naz two-man combination over the last three years Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Dane Moore MBA podcast,
0:16.0	Grod you by Blue Wire podcast.
0:17.9	Coming at Friday night after the wolves beat the Oklahoma City Thunder on the road by 37 points.
0:24.1	Final score was Wolves 138, Thunder 101.
0:28.9	Somehow the Wolves scored 138 points in this game and no one on the team scored more than 20 points.
0:35.2	It was even across the board.
0:36.5	Malik Beasley had 15 points on five made threes.
0:39.3	Jade McDaniels has 16 points.
0:41.7	Three more made threes for him as well.
0:43.6	17 points for DeAngelo Russell, who also had seven assists and three steals.
0:48.0	18 points for Torium Prince, who was a plus 21 on the night.
0:53.2	20 points for Carl Anthony Towns, who only had to play 25 minutes in the blowout to
0:58.1	get his 20 points.
0:59.5	And then Nas Reid also had 20 points on the night.
1:02.1	He was a perfect 8 of 8 from the field, including two made threes.
1:07.2	That is a pretty professional performance for a team that was without Anthony Edwards again tonight for the second straight game.
1:16.3	If the wolves had a pretty professional performance on the other side of the ball, it wasn't exactly a professional opponent.
1:23.8	The Thunder played without eight players tonight.
1:25.6	No Derek Favors, no Josh Giddy, no Aaron Wiggins, no Kenrich Williams, no Tide Jerome, no Lou Dorth, no Mike Muscala, and no Jeremiah Robinson Earl.
1:35.7	Those guys may seem a little random to you, but those eight players have started a combined 186 games this season for the Thunder.
1:45.2	So I don't know if the Thunder are ever at really full strength, full strength,
1:49.6	but this was certainly not the full strength version of OKC.
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