May 9, 2025 • 16 mins
Minnesota Tim reviews the Minnesota Timberwolves' unusual victory over the Golden State Warriors in Game Two of the playoffs. He discusses the game's strange tone, the performance of key players like Anthony Edwards, and the overall intensity of the match. Tim also reflects on the Timberwolves' potential moving forward in the series, especially in light of the Warriors' injury challenges.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
The Minnesota Timberwalls Game two victory over the Golden State
Warriors was one of the strangest victories I have ever witnessed.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
In my entire life.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
A weird game, a weird tone, and I'm gonna talk
about that today. Thank you for tuning into this podcast,
as if you're watching on YouTube or listening somewhere else,
make sure you hit that subscribe button wherever you are
watching or listening. But before I dive into the Timberwolves win,
(00:39):
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Speaker 2 (01:56):
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Speaker 1 (01:58):
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Speaker 2 (02:24):
All Right, the.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Timberwolves win one seventeen ninety three. Anthony Edwards goes six
for thirteen, still plays thirty four minutes despite an ankle
injury that forced him to miss eight minutes. Scores twenty points,
five assists, three steals, nine rebounds. Julius Randall twenty four points,
(02:52):
eleven assists, seven rebounds. Jaden McDaniels has been elite in
the playoffs, only two rebut ounce but sixteen points and
a big sixteen points, zero systs, three steals, three blocks,
impacting the game everywhere on the floor and the bench
(03:13):
came alive. Nazriet eleven points, Nikhil Alexander Walker twenty points.
But what was so strange about this basketball game is
the tone or the intensity of this basketball game. This
(03:34):
was a Game two at Target Center. The Timberwolves are
already down zero one in this series, and typically what
you see when teams are down one is an electricity,
is an intensity that you don't typically see in a
(03:59):
typical NBA playoff game. When I watched this game, it
felt like an NBA preseason game.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
The intensity was huh whatever. The Timberwolves offensively were not
moving with intentionality. The Timberwolves defensively would score and allow
an easy fast break opportunity Off a score, the Warriors
(04:35):
come down dunk. They only scored ninety three points, so defensively,
for most of the night, the Timberwolves defense was good.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
But I think.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Because the Warriors did not have Stephan Curry that had
severely impacted the amount of intensity the target center had
and the players felt because there was just none of it.
We're talking about the Western Conference semi finals. You compare
(05:11):
game two versus the series against the Lakers, and the
series versus the Lakers was way more intense than the
Timberwolves performance in game two. One of the biggest differences
in the game between Game one and Game two is,
of course, the three point shooting. In Game one, the
(05:35):
Timberwolves could not hit the broadside of a barn. In
Game two, the Timberwolves shoot forty three percent compared to
the Golden State Warriors twenty eight percent. In Game two,
the Timberwolves made sixteen threes compared to the Warriors nine threes.
(05:57):
So offensively, the Timberwolves scored a hut to seventeen points,
but even still did not seem to play all that
good offensively, although they scored one seventeen. How many layups
at the rim did Anthony Edwards miss? How many passes
(06:21):
did Rudy Gobert drop?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Seriously?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
It was posed in our group thread by Jacob, who
is a frequent guest on this show. He said, who
has better hands? Troy Williamson or Rudy Gobert, because both
(06:48):
are known for dropping the ball, and stan Van Gundy
was trying to defend Rudy Gobert by saying, oh, a
lob is so much easier for him to go get
when he said seven two, Yes, it is okay, It's
true a lob is easier to catch. But let's not
pretend like a seven to two player or any player
(07:12):
regardless of their height, cannot catch a ball that's thrown
directly at their chest. Like ball was thrown directly at
Rudy Gobert's chest and his hands were right there. That
is still a very catch ball pass he just can't catch.
He goes through these cycles where he catches these things
(07:32):
like he did versus the Lakers in Game five when
you put up twenty seven points, and then he has
a cycle in Game two where there's multiple passes throughout
this game where he just doesn't catch it, just flat
out ricas shades off of his hands and into the
(07:53):
defender's hands. It is just one of those things where
it's like, dude, why can't you catch the ball. But
this was a must win game for the Timberwolves. Actually
it wasn't. It wasn't even a must win game because
the Warriors are out Curry and the Timberwolves could go
into Golden State and win Game three in Game four,
(08:18):
but it just had a weird sense about it. The
electricity wasn't there, The crowd was silent, the players weren't intense.
It had the intensity of an NBA preseason basketball game.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Anthony Edwards have a few.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
More thoughts than Edwards six for thirteen to twenty points
a plus twenty one. I will say this, one thing
I have loved about Edwards in this series and throughout
the playoffs is that although he's not scoring the basketball
to the best of his abilities, he has impacted the
game on both ends of the floor. The offensively, Edwards
(08:59):
has been spectacled, and rebounding the basketball, Edwards has been great.
Nine rebounds in Game two, fourteen rebounds in Game one.
So although he is not impacting the floor the way
that we typically see on the opfensive end, he has
(09:19):
impacted the game on the defensive side of the ball.
And he has impacted the game rebounding the basketball, because
he tied Rudy Gobert in rebounds in Game two and
I'm going to guess that in Game one, Anthony Edwards
(09:41):
had the most rebounds on the Timberwolves roster, with fourteen
of them. So his presence is being felt in every
place on the basketball floor.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
But let me go back again.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
To the superstar comments that I've really been making all postseason,
because Anthony Edwards is still not an NBA superstar because
of his inconsistencies on the oppensive side of the ball.
(10:18):
How many layups did Anthony Edwards miss? John Krasinski counted
three in the first quarter. The dude can get to
the rim, but for some reason, at this stage of
his NBA career, finishing.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
At the rim.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
For a guy as athletic as Edwards is is a struggle.
And when you really think about superstars in the NBA,
I think about Lebron James at his peak. That's a superstar.
Is Anthony Edwards a player that's similar to Lebron James
(11:07):
at his peak? Now, not many people are, because Lebron
James is arguably the greatest player to ever live. But
even think about players like Yannis at his peak. Is
Anthony Edwards impacting the basketball game like Yannis.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Attended to Coombo? I really don't know what he said
at the end of this. I don't think he knows
what he said either.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Like he does during the course of an NBA game,
Edwards has superstar moments. But what we've seen in Games
one and in Games two is that Edwards is an
All Star. He deserves to be at the All Star Game,
(11:55):
but he does not have that consistent impact on an
NBA game that.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
You would hope that your superstar would. Now Anthony Edwards
is must watch TV.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
He's box office, He's the most important player on the
Timberwolves roster. All those things can be true. He is
becoming the face of the NBA. He seems to be
a bigger entertainer than Shae Gilgis Alexander. Although shake Gilgis
(12:31):
Alexander is the better player, he still is missing a
level of his game that I want to see superstar
players get to. And in Anthony Edwards defense, he's still
(12:53):
only twenty three years old and turns twenty four on
August first. There's time. It's not like he needs to
be a superstar today. But you can still see levels
of Edwards' game that have not fully arrived. His decision
(13:13):
making has become better, his willingness to be a playmaker
for teammates and to draw the double and to get
a hockey assist has been much better. But you still
want to see him become a more consistent player on
the offensive side of the ball, particularly particularly at the rim.
(13:44):
But now it gets interesting because the Warriors, without Curry
for the next two games at least, are going to
be underdogs, even at home. And maybe the Timberwolves will
play with more intensity on the road than they did
at home because they were expected to win games one
(14:05):
end games two, and when Curry went out, the lights
went down and it felt like a preseason game. But maybe,
hopefully because the Timberwolves are going on the road and
have this back against the wall mentality, that they show
up to the challenge. Jaden McDaniels said postgame that he
(14:30):
had rather play on the road, nothing against the guys
at home, but I like the back against the wall mentality.
I like silencing the crowd. So hopefully the rest of
the Timberwolves roster takes that with them, because it really
wasn't there in the first two games. We're talking about
the Western Conference semis. It was there against the Lakers
(14:51):
in round one. The intensity was there all series. I
had no questions or doubts about the Timberwolves urgency versus
the Lakers in all five games, and the Timberwolves went
two to one on the road against the Lakers. They
(15:13):
won game one, lost Game two, won Game five.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
So they can go on the road and win.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
These games, especially versus a Warriors team that does not
have Steph Curry. In fact, the Timberwolves should win this
series in five games. No ifs answer questions about it,
because even if Curry comes back in game five, is
he going to be one percent healthy?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
And Curry is heavily reliant on coming around screens and
making these quick moves, and with a hamstring strain that
is not going to be easy to recover from. You're
not gonna be one immediately. That's gonna take time. So
there's no reason why the Timberwolves should not win this
series in five and advance to the Western Conference Finals
(16:05):
two years in a row. Thank you for watching this
episode and for making this podcast part of your day.
Hit that subscribe button. Remember five Star Bass solutions of
in the Implus, They'll remodel your bathroom and give you
the bathroom of your dreams. In forty eight hours. That's
what they did for us. They'll do that for you
as well. Free consultations and affordable payment plans are available.
(16:26):
Thank you for watching. Everyone, have a great day.
The Minnesota Timberwalls Game two victory over the Golden State
Warriors was one of the strangest victories I have ever witnessed.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
In my entire life.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
A weird game, a weird tone, and I'm gonna talk
about that today. Thank you for tuning into this podcast,
as if you're watching on YouTube or listening somewhere else,
make sure you hit that subscribe button wherever you are
watching or listening. But before I dive into the Timberwolves win,
(00:39):
I need to tell you about Five Star Bath Solutions
of Minneapolis, because they remodeled our bathroom and gave us
the bathroom of our dreams in forty eight hours. It
did not take six weeks. It did not take eight weeks.
Five Star Bath Solutions of Minneapolis can enter your bathroom
and remodel it in forty eight hours, and I'm talking
(01:01):
about a full remodel. They remodeled our floor, our shower,
our tub, our sink, our mirror, our vanity all in
forty eight hours, and we had our bathroom back in days.
This was exactly what we were looking for. Maybe you're
in the market for a new bathroom and maybe you
(01:25):
don't want to cram into your teeny tiny bathroom in
the basement of the house. Contact five Star Bass Solutions
of Minneapolis and they can remodel your bathroom and give
you the bathroom of your dreams. In forty eight hours,
Five Star Bath Solutions of Minneapolis took our moldy shower,
got rid of the mold to got rid of steps,
(01:45):
got rid of handbars, got rid of outdated, embarrassing parts
of our bathroom because it was all embarrassing, the color
was disgusting.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
And they added value to our home.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So although we are paying an affordable price for their ramodel,
their remodel added value to our house. Double sink, vanity,
the whole shebang. Five Star Baths Solutions of Minneapolis can
remodel your bathroom and give you the bathroom of your dreams.
Contact them today affordable pricing, free consultations. Five Star Bath
(02:22):
Solutions of Minneapolis.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
All Right, the.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Timberwolves win one seventeen ninety three. Anthony Edwards goes six
for thirteen, still plays thirty four minutes despite an ankle
injury that forced him to miss eight minutes. Scores twenty points,
five assists, three steals, nine rebounds. Julius Randall twenty four points,
(02:52):
eleven assists, seven rebounds. Jaden McDaniels has been elite in
the playoffs, only two rebut ounce but sixteen points and
a big sixteen points, zero systs, three steals, three blocks,
impacting the game everywhere on the floor and the bench
(03:13):
came alive. Nazriet eleven points, Nikhil Alexander Walker twenty points.
But what was so strange about this basketball game is
the tone or the intensity of this basketball game. This
(03:34):
was a Game two at Target Center. The Timberwolves are
already down zero one in this series, and typically what
you see when teams are down one is an electricity,
is an intensity that you don't typically see in a
(03:59):
typical NBA playoff game. When I watched this game, it
felt like an NBA preseason game.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
The intensity was huh whatever. The Timberwolves offensively were not
moving with intentionality. The Timberwolves defensively would score and allow
an easy fast break opportunity Off a score, the Warriors
(04:35):
come down dunk. They only scored ninety three points, so defensively,
for most of the night, the Timberwolves defense was good.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
But I think.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Because the Warriors did not have Stephan Curry that had
severely impacted the amount of intensity the target center had
and the players felt because there was just none of it.
We're talking about the Western Conference semi finals. You compare
(05:11):
game two versus the series against the Lakers, and the
series versus the Lakers was way more intense than the
Timberwolves performance in game two. One of the biggest differences
in the game between Game one and Game two is,
of course, the three point shooting. In Game one, the
(05:35):
Timberwolves could not hit the broadside of a barn. In
Game two, the Timberwolves shoot forty three percent compared to
the Golden State Warriors twenty eight percent. In Game two,
the Timberwolves made sixteen threes compared to the Warriors nine threes.
(05:57):
So offensively, the Timberwolves scored a hut to seventeen points,
but even still did not seem to play all that
good offensively, although they scored one seventeen. How many layups
at the rim did Anthony Edwards miss? How many passes
(06:21):
did Rudy Gobert drop?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Seriously?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
It was posed in our group thread by Jacob, who
is a frequent guest on this show. He said, who
has better hands? Troy Williamson or Rudy Gobert, because both
(06:48):
are known for dropping the ball, and stan Van Gundy
was trying to defend Rudy Gobert by saying, oh, a
lob is so much easier for him to go get
when he said seven two, Yes, it is okay, It's
true a lob is easier to catch. But let's not
pretend like a seven to two player or any player
(07:12):
regardless of their height, cannot catch a ball that's thrown
directly at their chest. Like ball was thrown directly at
Rudy Gobert's chest and his hands were right there. That
is still a very catch ball pass he just can't catch.
He goes through these cycles where he catches these things
(07:32):
like he did versus the Lakers in Game five when
you put up twenty seven points, and then he has
a cycle in Game two where there's multiple passes throughout
this game where he just doesn't catch it, just flat
out ricas shades off of his hands and into the
(07:53):
defender's hands. It is just one of those things where
it's like, dude, why can't you catch the ball. But
this was a must win game for the Timberwolves. Actually
it wasn't. It wasn't even a must win game because
the Warriors are out Curry and the Timberwolves could go
into Golden State and win Game three in Game four,
(08:18):
but it just had a weird sense about it. The
electricity wasn't there, The crowd was silent, the players weren't intense.
It had the intensity of an NBA preseason basketball game.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Anthony Edwards have a few.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
More thoughts than Edwards six for thirteen to twenty points
a plus twenty one. I will say this, one thing
I have loved about Edwards in this series and throughout
the playoffs is that although he's not scoring the basketball
to the best of his abilities, he has impacted the
game on both ends of the floor. The offensively, Edwards
(08:59):
has been spectacled, and rebounding the basketball, Edwards has been great.
Nine rebounds in Game two, fourteen rebounds in Game one.
So although he is not impacting the floor the way
that we typically see on the opfensive end, he has
(09:19):
impacted the game on the defensive side of the ball.
And he has impacted the game rebounding the basketball, because
he tied Rudy Gobert in rebounds in Game two and
I'm going to guess that in Game one, Anthony Edwards
(09:41):
had the most rebounds on the Timberwolves roster, with fourteen
of them. So his presence is being felt in every
place on the basketball floor.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
But let me go back again.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
To the superstar comments that I've really been making all postseason,
because Anthony Edwards is still not an NBA superstar because
of his inconsistencies on the oppensive side of the ball.
(10:18):
How many layups did Anthony Edwards miss? John Krasinski counted
three in the first quarter. The dude can get to
the rim, but for some reason, at this stage of
his NBA career, finishing.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
At the rim.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
For a guy as athletic as Edwards is is a struggle.
And when you really think about superstars in the NBA,
I think about Lebron James at his peak. That's a superstar.
Is Anthony Edwards a player that's similar to Lebron James
(11:07):
at his peak? Now, not many people are, because Lebron
James is arguably the greatest player to ever live. But
even think about players like Yannis at his peak. Is
Anthony Edwards impacting the basketball game like Yannis.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Attended to Coombo? I really don't know what he said
at the end of this. I don't think he knows
what he said either.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Like he does during the course of an NBA game,
Edwards has superstar moments. But what we've seen in Games
one and in Games two is that Edwards is an
All Star. He deserves to be at the All Star Game,
(11:55):
but he does not have that consistent impact on an
NBA game that.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
You would hope that your superstar would. Now Anthony Edwards
is must watch TV.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
He's box office, He's the most important player on the
Timberwolves roster. All those things can be true. He is
becoming the face of the NBA. He seems to be
a bigger entertainer than Shae Gilgis Alexander. Although shake Gilgis
(12:31):
Alexander is the better player, he still is missing a
level of his game that I want to see superstar
players get to. And in Anthony Edwards defense, he's still
(12:53):
only twenty three years old and turns twenty four on
August first. There's time. It's not like he needs to
be a superstar today. But you can still see levels
of Edwards' game that have not fully arrived. His decision
(13:13):
making has become better, his willingness to be a playmaker
for teammates and to draw the double and to get
a hockey assist has been much better. But you still
want to see him become a more consistent player on
the offensive side of the ball, particularly particularly at the rim.
(13:44):
But now it gets interesting because the Warriors, without Curry
for the next two games at least, are going to
be underdogs, even at home. And maybe the Timberwolves will
play with more intensity on the road than they did
at home because they were expected to win games one
(14:05):
end games two, and when Curry went out, the lights
went down and it felt like a preseason game. But maybe,
hopefully because the Timberwolves are going on the road and
have this back against the wall mentality, that they show
up to the challenge. Jaden McDaniels said postgame that he
(14:30):
had rather play on the road, nothing against the guys
at home, but I like the back against the wall mentality.
I like silencing the crowd. So hopefully the rest of
the Timberwolves roster takes that with them, because it really
wasn't there in the first two games. We're talking about
the Western Conference semis. It was there against the Lakers
(14:51):
in round one. The intensity was there all series. I
had no questions or doubts about the Timberwolves urgency versus
the Lakers in all five games, and the Timberwolves went
two to one on the road against the Lakers. They
(15:13):
won game one, lost Game two, won Game five.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
So they can go on the road and win.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
These games, especially versus a Warriors team that does not
have Steph Curry. In fact, the Timberwolves should win this
series in five games. No ifs answer questions about it,
because even if Curry comes back in game five, is
he going to be one percent healthy?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
And Curry is heavily reliant on coming around screens and
making these quick moves, and with a hamstring strain that
is not going to be easy to recover from. You're
not gonna be one immediately. That's gonna take time. So
there's no reason why the Timberwolves should not win this
series in five and advance to the Western Conference Finals
(16:05):
two years in a row. Thank you for watching this
episode and for making this podcast part of your day.
Hit that subscribe button. Remember five Star Bass solutions of
in the Implus, They'll remodel your bathroom and give you
the bathroom of your dreams. In forty eight hours. That's
what they did for us. They'll do that for you
as well. Free consultations and affordable payment plans are available.
(16:26):
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