On today’s show, Dane is joined by Jon Krawczynski from The Athletic, plus Adam Mares and Harrison Wind from DNVR Sports to preview Game 2 of the Wolves-Nuggets series. But at the beginning of the episode, prior to joining the guests, Dane goes solo, sharing audio clips from Tuesday’s Wolves practice that hopefully illustrate where the Wolves are at in advance of Game 2. Some topics today include... — Needing to up the physicality against Denver — How the Wolves generate better offense in Game 2...
Apr 19, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Jace Frederick from the Pioneer Press to discuss what needs to change in Game 2 for the Wolves. Dane and Jace focus on specific tweaks to the offense and rotation. Topics today include... — The Wolves needing to come in more prepared — Finding ways to weaponize Rudy Gobert, on both sides of the ball — Making more shots so as to be caught in transition defense less often — Having more Towns, Conley and Anderson minutes — Finding ways to activate Anthony Edwards ...
Apr 18, 2023•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Chris Hine from the Star Tribune to discuss what happened in the Wolves Game 1 loss in Denver. This episode is split into three parts: offensive subplots from Game 1; the defensive subplots; and then Tim Connelly’s comments to media pregame. Specific topics today include... — As ineffective as the Wolves offense has been all season — How the double big look slowed the offensive effectiveness of KAT and Ant specifically — The decision to start KAT on Jokic, and ...
Apr 17, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to preview the Wolves and Nuggets first round matchup. Naturally, this episode also includes plenty of discussion of the Wolves play-in win over the Thunder as well. As we sprint into the postseason, Dane and Britt try and cover all the bases. Sign up today for a 14-day free trial of Aura’s digital security at Aura.com/Dane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 16, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige from SKORNorth to discuss the Wolves officially making the playoffs. Dane and Kyle get into what went into the Wolves 25-point win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Friday night before looking ahead to the matchup against Denver — which somehow begins in like 36 hours. Topics today include... — The Wolves actually tapping into their big identity to take down the undersized Thunder — Nickeil Alexander-Walker getting the start and being the X-factor i...
Apr 15, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane previews the matchup against the Oklahoma City Thunder by first giving updates from Thursday’s practice on the health of Rudy Gobert and Anthony Edwards before bringing in Andrew Schlecht who covers the Thunder for The Athletic to get some of the Thunder perspective. Topics today include... — Rudy Gobert talks about his back injury and availability for Friday — The balance between attacking the offensive glass and getting back in transition — Playing through likely KAT doub...
Apr 14, 2023•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined in LA by Wolves beat writer Chris Hine from the Star Tribune to discuss the Wolves losing the play-in game to the Lakers on Tuesday night. Despite being short-handed, it felt, at least for three quarters, that the Wolves had enough to win. Dane and Chris breakdown how the Wolves built the lead and then ultimately let it slip away. Topics today include... — The offense completely drying up in the 4th — What role KAT’s foul trouble played + KAT’s overall performance...
Apr 12, 2023•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost after the Wolves final game of the regular season. Obviously no shortage of items to get to from the beating the Wolves gave themselves in the first half and the beating they handed out to the Pelicans in the second half. Topics today include... — Is McDaniels a more consequential loss than Gobert? — With McDaniels’ season over, some discussion on what his extension talks might look like this summer — Do the Wolves really “have to tra...
Apr 10, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane gets into the Wolves’ “active hands” against the New Orleans Pelicans in Game 82 and tries to apply some context on what went down between Rudy Gobert and Kyle Anderson, and how they’re going to need to move forward through the altercation and without Jaden McDaniels. Because Chris Hine got stranded on the road after the Wolves’ win over the Spurs, Dane goes solo on this one. Topics today include... — Can Gobert and Anderson make it work going forward? — What role did Gober...
Apr 10, 2023•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson and Kyle Theige live from Falling Knife Brewing Company to discuss where the Wolves sit 80 games into the season at 40-40. Dane, Kyle and Britt start by discussing Britt’s most recent column about the Wolves consistently being .500 this season, and whether or not that can change here in the final week of the season and into the play-in/playoffs. Then they take questions from listeners live from the taproom. A whole array of topics are covered as we...
Apr 07, 2023•2 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Wolves beat writer Jace Frederick from the Pioneer Press to discuss what went into the Wolves win in Brooklyn on Tuesday night. The episode starts by focusing on how the Wolves closed the game, with Rudy Gobert on the bench, and how it worked. From there, most of the focus was Karl-Anthony Towns and his bounce back game after only having eight points on three shots against Portland on Sunday. And finally some two games to go standings talk. — Not closing the ga...
Apr 05, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Chris Hine from the Star Tribune to discuss a loss so bad to the Portland Trailblazers that you can’t help but deeply question the trajectory of this team as currently constructed. With that, topics today include... — Were the 52 games the Wolves played without Karl-Anthony Towns at all relevant to solving the puzzle at hand? — Why this season has made conversations about a potential Karl-Anthony Towns trade not seem inappropriate — If you have to play offense ...
Apr 03, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige from SKORNorth to discuss the Wolves’ bizarre loss against the Lakers on Friday night and the role the illness this team is dealing with is making it very difficult to understand what they are (or are not). Topics today include... — Was that the October Wolves or are they just sick? — Where we’ve most seen the impact of the flu going around the team — The bizarre Anthony Davis ankle roll sequence and how that seemed to turn the game — How do the Wol...
Apr 01, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to discuss the Wolves loss in Phoenix on Wednesday night and the outrage surrounding NBA officiating that has taken over the NBA. After covering the loss and the postgame comments from Chris Finch and Rudy Gobert on the officiating, Dane and Britt dive into the Wolves’ overall play since the return of Karl-Anthony Towns. Topics today include... — Chris Finch and Rudy Gobert’s commentary on the officiating after the Phoenix loss — What...
Mar 30, 2023•1 hr 27 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Wolves beat writer Jace Frederick from the St. Paul Pioneer Press to discuss what the Wolves’ recipe is for winning basketball. As the roster has gotten back to full-strength, the identity is coming together, making it clearer what ingredients are required for winning. Topics discussed today include... — Driving down the frequency of mistakes on both sides of the ball (turnovers, missed rotations on defense, lacking effort) — Playing an equal opportunity offens...
Mar 29, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige from SKORNorth to discuss the Wolves peaking at a perfect time to save their season. With consecutive wins over New York, Atlanta, Golden State and now Sacramento the Wolves appear to have an identity coming together that makes you believe they’re in the mix as any team of the Western Conference’s large middle class. Topics discussed by Dane and Kyle today include... — An identity coming together before it’s too late — Did the Mike Conley trade save...
Mar 28, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Wolves beat writer Chris Hine from The Star Tribune to discuss the Wolves’ biggest win of the season, a 3-point Sunday night win over the Golden State Warriors. The focus of today’s episode is on how the Wolves used a high-level defense performance to beat the Warriors, fueled offensively by Naz Reid, who led the Wolves in scoring for the second consecutive game. Topics today include... — No longer needing to “hide” anyone on defense — Rudy Gobert inching close...
Mar 27, 2023•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to recap a wild week in Wolves World. From the Anthony Edwards injury in Chicago to the return of Karl-Anthony Towns and the Wolves apparent commitment to thinking big. Topics for today’s show include... — How Finch is thinking “big” more than he ever has — The importance of Kyle Anderson and Mike Conley as safety blankets — How Naz Reid proving to be in the rotation changes not only the rotation but the identity of the team — What do...
Mar 24, 2023•2 hr 35 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige from SKORNorth to discuss the return of Karl-Anthony Towns and how the Wolves went big to beat Atlanta on Wednesday night. The focus of today’s episode is on KAT, not only in how he looked individually but in the grand scheme of the Wolves’ new roster. Topics today include... — What stood out from KAT individually — How playing this personnel should change the attention KAT receives defensively — Naz Reid plays, drops 26 and “needs to be in the rota...
Mar 23, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Wolves beat writer Jace Frederick from the Pioneer Press to discuss what we are looking for in Karl-Anthony Towns’s return to play on Wednesday night and going forward. Dane and Jace rattle off five things they’re specifically looking to track in KAT’s return to play. Topics today include... — First, will both KAT and Ant play on Wednesday? — What will transition defense and offense look like once the two centers are back on the floor — How much will offensive ...
Mar 22, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige from SKORNorth to discuss one of the Wolves more impressive wins of the season, in New York on Monday night. After recapping what stood out in the Wolves Ant and KAT-less win, Dane and Kyle discuss the imminent return of Anthony Edwards and Karl-Anthony Towns (probably on Wednesday) and what that could mean for the Wolves’s positioning in the Western Conference standings. Topics today include... — Taurean Prince’s insane shooting performance, bounci...
Mar 21, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Chris Hine from the StarTribune to discuss Anthony Edwards’s injury and how the Wolves are going about replacing his production in the meantime. The Wolves have now lost their last three games and five of their six, so Dane and Chris also get into the impact this skid is having on momentum with just 10 games left in the season. Topics today include... — The Anthony Edwards and when we think he might return — Getting the chance to see Jaden McDaniels do more off...
Mar 20, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to discuss Britt’s most-recent column on the reffing disaster against Boston on Wednesday, the consistently-.500 Wolves and Rudy Gobert’s play of late. Discussion today starts with the Boston game but extends to really a big picture discussion of the Wolves 70 games into the season. Topics include... — How the refs lost control of the Boston game — Rudy Gobert’s play of late, and how the ways they use Gobert is constantly evolving — T...
Mar 16, 2023•2 hr 30 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Wolves beat writer Jace Frederick from the Pioneer Press to discuss Kyle Anderson and what went into the Wolves’ 21-point win in Atlanta on Monday night. Dane and Jace discuss Anderson’s second triple-double of the season and how Anderson has become an invaluable part of this Wolves team. Additional topics today include... — Does Kyle Anderson still close games once KAT is back? — No longer being able to hide bad defenders on Jaden McDaniels — The Wolves having...
Mar 14, 2023•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Wolves beat writer Chris Hine from the Star Tribune, who is in Atlanta for Wolves-Hawks on Monday. Dane and Chris get into the Wolves’ maddening relationship with being consistently inconsistent and how it feel like that lack of consistency needs to die to salvage the opportunity for this season to not feel like a let down. As always, the specter of the return of Karl-Anthony Towns weighs in large here, so Dane and Chris give their latest thoughts on timetables...
Mar 13, 2023•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to discuss Karl-Anthony Towns returning to live action at Wolves practice on Thursday and how that might impact the rest of the season. As always, Dane and Britt bounce quite a bit. But today’s show’s primary topics include... — What Chris Finch said at practice on Thursday about what KAT is able to do at practice right now — Does it make sense to have KAT come off the bench (at first) when he returns? — What will the closing lineup b...
Mar 10, 2023•2 hr 35 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Wolves beat writer Jace Frederick from the Pioneer Press to discuss a Wolves offense that is desperately in need of the somewhat ambiguously absent Karl-Anthony Towns. Dane and Jace start the episode by talking about how the Wolves didn’t have the firepower to keep pace with Joel Embiid on Tuesday night before getting into KAT and his absence. Topics today include... — Not being able slow Embiid’s offense, while Embiid was able to slow the Wolves’ offense — The...
Mar 08, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Wolves beat writer, Chris Hine from the Star Tribune. Chris was on the road with the Wolves for the Wolves’ California road trip, so he shares some of the sights and sounds from the Wolves road trip. And then Dane and Chris get into Chris’ feature story on Jaylen Nowell and his “basketball whisperer,” Spencer Levy, who has been helping Nowell through a contract year. Topics today include... — Chris shares sights and sounds from the Wolves four-game California r...
Mar 06, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige from SKORNorth to discuss the Wolves beating the Kings on Saturday night to extend their recent winning streak to three games. Now eight games into the post-DLo era of the Wolves, Dane and Kyle review the trade and take a look at how the pre-trade Wolves compare to the post-trade Wolves. Topics today include... — Recapping the Wolves’ California road trip — Noting the offense has been the same pre-trade vs. post-trade — Reviewing the trade, not in o...
Mar 05, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to focus on discussing the ascension of Jaden McDaniels this season. After focusing on McDaniels for the first half of the pod, Dane and Britt get into the Mike Conley and Rudy Gobert, and how Gobert punished the Clippers for going small. Then the episode is finished off with some discussion about the NBA standings at large — from the bottom of the West to the teams that look most like true contenders. Topics today include... — Jaden ...
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