On today’s show, Dane is joined by Jace Frederick from the St. Paul Pioneer Press to discuss the Wolves bouncing back from a rough start out of the break with a win in Los Angeles over the Clippers. Topics today include... — How it’s feeling like success for this Wolves team starts with Anthony Edwards and Jaden McDaniels, at least in this KAT-less period — Finch opting to pair all of Rudy Gobert’s minutes with Mike Conley, and thus all of the back point guard and center minutes to Naz Reid and ...
Mar 01, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to discuss a Wolves team that is in a bit of a free fall coming out of the All-Star break. Dane and Britt dive into the factors that have contributed to the recent demise. Some of those topics include... — How much of the blame this season falls on Chris Finch and how much is unfair to put on Finch? — The Wolves youth not being an excuse but seeming to rear its head in crunchtime — Ant looking fatigued, even after a week off for the A...
Feb 27, 2023•2 hr 41 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today's show, Dane is joined by Dan Bowling of the Genesis Company to discuss what Wolves fans should be expecting from new Wolves owner Marc Lore. Bowling had the chance to sit down with Lore prior to the episode's recording to better understand Lore's background in business, so as to have an idea of what Lore's vision for the organization might functionally look like. Lots of discussion on the business of basketball and the value of ownership in professional sports. A big picture pivot for ...
Feb 20, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige from SKORNorth to discuss where the Wolves sit at the All-Star break, starting the episode by taking a look at the Wolves loss to the Wizards on Thursday night and then by reflecting on the first 61 games as a whole. Topics today include... — The Wolves letting go of the rope against the Wizards, leading to a disappointing loss entering the All-Star break — What is behind the pattern of the Wolves stacking up just as many impressive wins as they do ...
Feb 17, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Wolves beat writer Jace Frederick from the Pioneer Press to discuss how the Wolves might close games in a post-DLo world. Dane and Jace use the Dallas matchup on Monday, and Kyle Anderson’s play specifically, to get into what late-game offense and defense might look like once the Wolves are back at full strength. Topics today include... — What stood out from Mike Conley’s introduction to the media on Tuesday afternoon — Looking into Kyle Anderson’s effectivenes...
Feb 15, 2023•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to discuss the Wolves win in Dallas on Monday night. A win that hinted at both the additional ways the Wolves can maximize Rudy Gobert and the idea that sometimes not playing him can be okay too. An array of topics in today’s show... — Gobert shows, at least for a game, that he can contribute to the Wolves’ fly-around identity — How Dallas played Gobert off the floor with a 5-out look, and how the Wolves’ adjusted — Why KAT will be a ...
Feb 14, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Wolves beat writer Chris Hine from the Star Tribune, who has been on the road with the Wolves since the acquisition of Mike Conley, to discuss what Chris has gathered from his interactions with Conley thus far. Dane and Chris discuss, on and off the floor, what the roster shift from D’Angelo Russell to Conley might look like. Topics include... — Initial reactions to Conley, from his debut in Memphis to how he seems to be acclimating to his new surroundings — If...
Feb 13, 2023•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to react to the Wolves’ activity at the trade deadline and to how the Western Conference power shifted at the deadline — for this season and beyond. Topics today include... — How the style of play might change in D’Angelo Russell’s absence, and who on the roster could benefit most from that change — If Patrick Beverley is bought out by Orlando, he would have interest in returning to Minnesota, but would he make sense on this Wolves ro...
Feb 10, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige from SKORNorth to give initial reactions to the D’Angelo Russell for Mike Conley, Nickeil Alexander-Walker and three second-round picks trade that went down Wednesday evening. Plenty of discussion on the motivations for the move. And then the Wolves also played a game Wednesday night in Utah, so Dane and Kyle got into that as well. — Detailing what the Wolves got back for DLo, outside of just Conley the player — An important difference in Conley’s o...
Feb 09, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Timberwolves beat writer, Jace Frederick of the Pioneer Press to discuss the Wolves’ debacle of a 34-point loss in Denver on Tuesday night. And then Dane and Jace take one more stab at the trade deadline, discussing what the team needs might be down the stretch run of the season and whether or not it is wise to invest resources to acquire that need. — What led to the Nuggets 33-to-2 run in the first quarter? — How might the Wolves weigh players returning from i...
Feb 08, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane takes a final look at the three Wolves players whose names have been most floating around the trade deadline rumor mill, in D’Angelo Russell, Naz Reid and Jaylen Nowell. Dane takes a look at what the future for those three players might look like from not only a trade standpoint but also from the standpoint of a potential contract extension. — Does keeping Nowell on the team and in the rotation make more sense now that he no longer needs to play point guard? — Nowell talks ...
Feb 08, 2023•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined in Denver by the DNVR Nuggets crew to discuss how the Wolves and Nuggets are matching up in this back-to-back and how they might matchup if they draw each other in the playoffs. But before Wolves-Nuggets talk, Dane starts solo, discussing the return of Jordan McLaughlin and how JMac being back in the rotation might change some things. Topics include... — How the Wolves fared in Jordan McLaughlin’s absence — Looking at who JMac had success with last season so as to...
Feb 06, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige from SKORNorth to discuss Anthony Edwards not being chosen as a Western Conference All-Star and to get into the Wolves’ win over the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday night. Much of the focus from the win against the Warriors is dedicated to Naz Reid, which naturally leads to a conversation about what his future with the Wolves might be as the trade deadline looms. Other topics today include... — Anthony Edwards not being chosen for the All-Star ga...
Feb 03, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Timberwolves beat writer Jace Frederick from the Pioneer Press to look at the Wolves through the lens of how they matchup against the other expected Western Conference playoff teams. Dane and Jace also get into the latest on Karl-Anthony Towns’s injury timetable and discuss the one fly in the ointment left in Anthony Edwards’s offensive game. Topics include... — Reacting to Tim Connelly’s public comments on the process of navigating KAT’s calf strain — Discussi...
Feb 01, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to talk about how the Wolves’s defense was exposed by the Kings’s 5-out offense in overtime on Monday night, all while acknowledging that result came in the backdrop of a marvelous January. A marvelous January specifically fueled by the now-unambiguous leap of Anthony Edwards. Topics today range from... — Detailing how the Kings’s 5-out offense exposed the Wolves’s defense and what the Wolves can do to counter spread offenses going fo...
Jan 31, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Timberwolves beat writer Chris Hine from the StarTribune to discuss the Wolves winning weekend over both Memphis and Sacramento. Dane and Chris get into some themes from the Wolves most-recent 3-game winning. Some of those topics include... — All-Star or not, Anthony Edwards’s game keeps elevating — Is the Wolves playing two bigs together more often recently something that helps them plan for Karl-Anthony Towns’s return? — Edwards and D’Angelo Russell play off ...
Jan 30, 2023•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige from SKORNorth to take another look at Anthony Edwards’ complicated case to becoming an All Star. Then Dane and Kyle go through the rest of the current starting lineup, looking not only at the impact Gobert, Anderson, McDaniels and Russell had in the win against New Orleans but how those four players have been impacting winning of late. — Ant’s All Star case. Should he make it over De’Aaron Fox or Shai Gilgeous-Alexander? (Because that’s the questio...
Jan 27, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Timberwolves beat writer Jace Frederick of the Pioneer Press to take a look at how the Wolves’ (difficult) schedule the rest of the way could tie into the trade deadline. Dane and Jace also take a look at the upcoming schedule against teams who could very well be their first round playoff opponent, and discuss which team the Wolves might matchup best against. — Vegas says the Wolves will finish with 38 or 39 wins. Why is that? — Wolves play 17 of their final 26...
Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to take a bigger picture look at who the Wolves have been over the last few weeks. Now 28 games into KAT’s absence, the KAT-less identity has broadly been defined, so Dane and Britt try to take what they have (or have not) seen in that time and connect it to what that might look like when KAT returns. Topics include... — Might the Wolves lean more into their big identity when KAT returns than they did prior to his absence? — What do w...
Jan 24, 2023•2 hr 32 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Chris of the StarTribune to discuss not only Anthony Edwards 44-point performance on Saturday night but also his growing ability to set the tone as a leader. Dane and Chris describe the cascading impact, on both sides of the ball, of Ant playing more consistently here in his third season. Additional topics include... — Ant setting the tone as a leader — Edwards guarding the best isolation player in the 4th quarter and the value of sliding Jaden McDaniels off-ba...
Jan 23, 2023•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige to discuss the Wolves’ back-to-back against Denver and Toronto — specifically the difference in the Wolves’ play in the fourth quarter. Topics today include... — The energy and effort in the fourth against Toronto, after having landed in Minnesota at 4am that morning — Anthony Edwards being able to slow down Pascal Siakam and the value that provided in how it allowed Jaden McDaniels to play off-ball — D’Angelo Russell’s fourth quarter shot-making — ...
Jan 20, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Jace Frederick from the Pioneer Press to discuss the recent report of the Wolves’ interest in trading for Mike Conley, and how a Conley-for-D’Angelo Russell swap could salvage the DLo Salary Slot we’ve been talking about. Also related to Conley, Dane and Jace go through Rudy Gobert and Conley’s three years together in Utah, detailing how chemistry took a few years to develop, as illustrated by Utah’s offense steadily improving year-over-year. Additionally, Dane...
Jan 18, 2023•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane starts the show off by explaining “The DLo Salary Slot” as the trade deadline looms. Explaining the value of having five max or near-max contracts on the books — like the Warriors do — and how that value could end up being overrated given how expensive it will already be from a luxury tax standpoint to just keep Karl-Anthony Towns, Rudy Gobert, Anthony Edwards and Jaden McDaniels on the books. Some salary cap context as the trade deadline and the inevitable D’Angelo Russell...
Jan 17, 2023•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Chris Hine from the Star Tribune to discuss the Wolves’ back-to-back wins over the weekend against Phoenix and Cleveland. The episode focuses more on Saturday night’s win against Cleveland and what exactly transpired in the second half to come back from 14 points down to win despite no Rudy Gobert in the second half and D’Angelo Russell being benched for the final 16 minutes of the game. — The Cleveland win filled with energy, effort and continuity; the things ...
Jan 15, 2023•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige of SKORNorth to take a look at the landscape of the Western Conference and Anthony Edwards’ chances to make the West’s All-Star team. Additionally, some conversation on Ant’s lingering hip injury and what Karl-Anthony Towns’ injury timetable is looking like. Topics today include... — Picking Western Conference All-Stars — Who is in the mix with Ant for the final All Star spots in the West — Some conversation on Ant’s lingering hip injury and KAT’s “...
Jan 13, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to discuss the consistently inconsistent Minnesota Timberwolves after their second loss to the Detroit Pistons in the last six games. Topics today include... — The Wolves’ propensity to not take “inferior” teams seriously — Why it’s hard to believe the Wolves will make the same second half push they did last year — Comparing Anthony Edwards’ bizarre hip injury to his bizarre knee injury last season — Is Ant the “most valuable” player ...
Jan 12, 2023•2 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Jace Frederick of The Pioneer Press to take stock of where the Wolves stack up at the halfway point of the season. Now, 41 games into the season, where do the Wolves rank on the offensive and defensive sides of the floor? Dane and Jace look at the margins of where this team could take a step forward and what areas have a chance to take a step back in the second half of the year. Topics today include... — Where the Wolves rank on the offensive side of the ball —...
Jan 11, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Timberwolves beat writer Chris Hine from the Star Tribune, who was on site in Houston Sunday night, to discuss the Wolves win over the Rockets. Topics today include... — The scene in Houston after the Wolves fourth consecutive win — Rudy Gobert being a tone-setter, and his teammates needing that from him — Falling down by 20 in the first half due to the same issues of rebounding, turnovers and effort, but bouncing back in the second half — What is the value of ...
Jan 09, 2023•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige from SKORNorth to discuss a handful of different topics that have materialized for the Wolves over the course of this now 3-game winning streak that followed the Wolves 6-game losing streak and low point of the season. Topics for this episode include... — What went into Rudy Gobert’s 25 and 21 performance against the Clippers — Comparing the time it took Conley and Gobert to find chemistry to the time it’s taking Gobert and his new teammates to find...
Jan 07, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, Dane is joined at Falling Knife Brewing Company by Britt Robson of MinnPost to do a live show. The conversation begins by discussing the new level Anthony Edwards has seemed to reach over these last six weeks in the absence of Karl-Anthony Towns. Dane and Britt also get into Jaden McDaniels’ seemingly underrated value and some general takeaways from the past few games before bringing in a third mic for listeners to come ask questions. Sign up today for a 14-day free trial of Aur...
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