Wolves Win 7th In Last 8 Games: Leveraging Defense Into Offense + Okogie's Impact + Not Letting Go Of The Rope

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Dane Moore

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🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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On today’s show, we react to the Timberwolves win over the Indiana Pacers on Monday night, the seventh win in their last eight games. A Wolves team that just doesn’t seem to willingly give away games the Old Wolves might have. How this Wolves team is not letting go of the rope. Topics discussed include: — How the diversity of the Wolves firepower allows them to overcome scenarios in games when KAT hits a wall — The Wolves leveraging defense into offense as a way to let the offense breakthrough — D’Angelo Russell’s growing voice as a quarterback of the defense — Playing without Jaden McDaniels, Jarred Vanderbilt and Patrick Beverley, and how Josh Okogie filled the void — The KAT and Naz pairing finally clicking — The value of being able to reach down the bench to find answers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the daymore NBA podcast brought to you by Blue Wire Podcasts.
0:17.9	Coming out to Monday night after the Timberwolves win again, this time over the Indiana
0:22.3	Pacers. Final score, Wolves 100, Pacers 98. Wolves have now won seven of their last eight games.
0:29.5	And even after that six-game losing streak at the beginning of the month, the wolves are now
0:33.4	over 500. They're 11 and 10, which ties them with the Los Angeles Clippers for the five seed in Western Conference right now.
0:42.3	Past two weeks have been great. There are four teams in the NBA who have won seven games over that stretch.
0:47.9	One, the Golden State Warriors, who have the best record in the NBA at 18 and 2. The Phoenix Suns are also 7 and O over the past two weeks.
0:55.8	They have the second best record in the NBA this season.
0:57.9	They're 17 and 3.
0:59.4	Then the other 7 and 0 team these past two weeks is the team who played the Phoenix
1:03.5	Suns in the NBA finals last year and won the NBA championship.
1:06.1	The Milwaukee Bucks were back rolling.
1:08.5	And then there's the Minnesota Timberwolves.
1:09.9	7 and 1 since November 17th.
1:12.6	Over that stretch, they have both a top 10 offense and a top 10 defense.
1:17.7	I mean, they're balling.
1:19.8	And they're winning games like tonight that felt like games a year ago where they would just let go of the rope.
1:29.1	And it sort of just falls apart.
1:31.4	They get blown out or they blow a big lead.
1:34.6	I mean, obviously this Wolf's team isn't immune to that either.
1:40.3	Like that one loss over the past two weeks was the Charlotte game and that was definitely a let go of the rope game. But the frequency of that energy is undeniably down this year. And that's because I think
1:46.9	they're catching themselves more frequently. Ropes start slipping. They grab it. And tonight in the
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