May 17, 2025 • 42 mins
Minnesota Tim and Jake's Takes discuss the current state of Minnesota sports, focusing on the Timberwolves' playoff journey, the impact of players like Julius Randle and Anthony Edwards, and the team's performance leading into the Western Conference Finals. They analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the Timberwolves, their clutch performances, and the challenges they may face against younger teams like the Thunder. The conversation culminates in predictions for the upcoming series and reflections on the Timberwolves' potential to advance to the NBA Finals. In this conversation, Jake and Tim discuss the NBA playoffs, focusing on the Timberwolves' chances against potential opponents and the dynamics of key players. They also analyze the Vikings' upcoming schedule and the implications for their season. The discussion shifts to quarterback decisions and the future of players like Julius Randle, culminating in reflections on the Celtics' playoff performance and the market for Randle's contract.
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We love it. Minnesota sports is hitting their stride and
there is only one person that I can talk about
this with. It is Jake's Takes. Jake's take on takes
and takes and takes on Minnesota takes and takes. So
Jake Timberwolves in back to back Western Conference Finals. The
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Minnesota Vikings schedule comes out, the Minnesota Links win game one.
The Minnesota Twins are on an eleven game win streak.
Twelve Yeah, wow, where do you want to start? I
want to start with Rudy Gobert dumping his pregnant girlfriend
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and trying to figure out that battle.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Uh, you know, we can maybe leave that for the
he said, out of respect for his difficult times, if
people wouldn't mind speculating. So, I don't know about you,
but I think we are trying to be respected. Yes,
podcasters who don't want to gossip.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Let's not dive into the privacy of Gobert.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Although it seems like he might have taken a page
of Bain's book on that one. You're gonna go Wolves
and Viking schedule, and I was gonna say, whoa the Twins,
but out the only twelve pack we want to take
back from Wisconsin. And because the Brewers last night it
was twelve wings. It's pretty clever. But I think the
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Wolves are probably the most pressing, uh you know event
in Minnesota. Although we played it was Caton or not
Kingen Clark.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, yeah, we did. We bade her last night defeated
the Dallas Stars basketball teams. Right, I had no idea
what they were called, but he said, I'm like, oh, yeah,
the thing. So the timber Walls back to back Western
Conference Finals appearances. Nobody would have expected this. When their
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blue thirty point leads to the Bucks lost to the
Indiana Pacers. Bench couldn't figure it out throughout the entire season,
and all of a sudden the final two weeks they
start playing basketball as a team and start figuring things out.
Julius Randall starts playing the best basketball of his career.
Anthony Edwards has played spectacular for the most part, with
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a few games that have been duds, but he's really
controlled the tempo and the pace of the game by
distributing to team. It's his decision making. It has been
overall better your take your thoughts on the Timberwolves, advancing
your just overall perspective on all things Wolves.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah, I mean Randall has taken the world by storm, right,
I mean that's kind of the first thing. Ant's kind
of doing what you would expect to some degree, right,
twenty seven eight six, Like that's right what you need
him to be at. It's high expectations, but he's hitting them.
Randall's been the question mark, right. It's his playoff history
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is pretty sketchy, just as overall his attitude and effort
on previous team. Right, the Knicks were like burning his
jersey on the way out, Like he's kind of left
a burning, you know, scorched earth from where he's been
in the past because of all the different issues, and
he has been nothing like incredible. He made Draymond Green,
who was a Defensive Player of the Year candidate, you know,
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look like he was standing in cement. He couldn't guard
him on the perimeter. He was getting bullyballed by Randall
like there was nothing his little he does and he
does the same move eighty percent of nigh which he
drives to lap, spins back and then does that little
like leaner step fade and it's from like eight ten
feet and it's cash like every time that I don't
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I was trying to find I saw a stat and
I couldn't find the full stat of it, but something
like there has been four or five players that have
averaged twenty five and five while shooting fifty percent or higher.
And it was like Lebron, it was like, I remember
who the other ones were. It was like players players
in the last onest Julius ran and it's just like,
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obviously it's ten games, it's whatever. You could say. The opponents,
neither of them have been super formidable, but he is
he If he plays like this, that is the Wolves
having a chance of the championship. Right. If he has
a big drop off next series, you know they might
you know, with some lock and whatever ankles off. I mean,
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there's other ways the Wolves can win, but the clearest
path to winning the next series, which I think will
be the hardest series of the whole run here, it
really relies and if Julius Randall keeps this up, I mean,
they are the best team in the league, there's no
if fans or butts about it.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I would say that Julius Randa is also built for
playoff basketball, despite his struggles in the past, and the
reason for that is because you look at the way
he plays basketball, the physicality that he plays with, and
when he plays with that type of physicality in the playoffs,
they're not calling those offensive fowls or chargers. They're letting
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him play to a degree that you never see during
the regular season. So when you see Randall, who's one
of the biggest stout guys that you'll see in a
basketball court despite not being the tallest, and he lowers
his shoulder, ninety of the offensive plays that he's been
showing off in the playoffs are charges during the regular season.
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So the fact that he can take his physicality into
the playoffs and the officials are letting him play has
been a huge part of why he's been so successful
in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Well, and the difference between last year and this year
right in terms of you look at what Towns gives you,
what Randall gives you, right, the obvious the first response answers,
While Towns can spread the floor, he hits threes like
that's more valuable to us as a team. No, I
mean again, it valuable. I mean obviously the Knicks. Granted,
Towns had an awful series against the Celtics in terms
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of three point shooting, but generally speaking, he's a great
three point shooter. Right, The Wolves have plenty of that. Now,
Dante's kind of stunk, right, but he generally he's shooting well.
Conley's shooting good, Jaden McDaniel's Randall all shooting above thirty
almost thirty five percent. Right, we have enough three point shooting.
What we didn't have last year was when they would
double Ant or chase Ant. Right, we'd swing the ball
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to Towns and they might help or whatever, and then
there's nobody. There's no counter options to break down the defense. Right,
you had a bunch of three point shooters. Gobart, who's
gonna just stand on the block and hope for a rebounder,
Hope somebody grabs his arm as he's trying to rebound,
and that was kind of possession. Now, when that breaks down,
ants doubled or tripled, right, swing it to Randall and
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he's making the defense is just absolutely pay And that's
the difference between this year and last year is you
have two options that can ten seconds left on the
shot clock, you give them the ball and there's a
good chance that there's at least a good shot that's
going to happen, you know, with at a decent percentage.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I mean again, both Aunt and Randall are shooting plenty
good enough. You know, Ant's forty five, thirty nine percent
from three, Randall's fifty from three. We both end of
shot block, end of game right, fourth quarter situations are
able to just get good shots consistently. And that's you know,
playoff basketball. It's at the end of the day, it's
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kind of what it comes down Tom.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And you see the physicality and and really the three
point shooting has gone down in the playoffs. You've seen
the teams score like last night the Celtics scored eighty
one points against the Knicks. He saw against the series
with the Warriors. A ton of those games were below
one hundred points. And I would say that, I know, statistically,
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you look at Edwards thirty nine percent from three, Julius
raynad can knock down three, is Dante Mike Conley. So
the statistas are not going to back up my opinion
on this because I think overall, the Timbrels were like
top five in NBA three point shooting throughout the season,
A large part of that from Anthony Edwards, who led
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the league in three point shooting.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yep, but.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I do think the Timbrels have a problem with their
inconsistent three point shooting. Correct meaning, when I look at
the Timbrols roster, I do not see a roster full
of knockdown three point shooters. I see a roster that, Okay,
this game they're gonna shoot like fifty six percent from three,
but then in game two they're gonna shoot like twenty
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five percent. I don't see a lot of consistent, like
forty to fifty percent games where they're like, okay, I
can rely on you for the entire bog. Either they're
just like super red hot or Edwards is like nine
for eleven from the three point line, or they're like
Edwards is like one for twelve from the three point line.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yep, You're not wrong, because, like I mean, even there's
how many times have we been watching you see like
ants like three for ten or three for twelve, and
you're like, man, I mean there's been playing those games
you know, like you said, as a team, we're pretty streaky.
So you're right, it's not where this knockdown like you know,
especially like because again Dante's a perfect example where I
mean isn't great either. It's only twenty five the moment,
but you know that's somebody who's supposed to be that guy, right,
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He's supposed to be our most consistent, accurate you know,
the looks he's getting usually are going to be pretty open,
you know, compared to like ant Er, you know whatever,
Like he gets pretty open mostly shots right and he's
not hitting him right now either. So that's I was
going to bring it up, like, I don't know, should
we be concerned or excited? Here you go, here's the
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segment for you should be concerned or excited that though
Timberwolves have not played like their best consistent basketball yet, it's.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
A good question. Ah, I'm going to be concerned that
they have not played the best basketball yet, but also
excited that they have made it to the Western Conference finals.
And I'm not going to apologize. And Draymond Green, as
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much as people hate on him and myself included following
the Warriors series, he had some good things to say
about like, oh, we didn't have step but like, hey,
we won NBA Finals when other teams got injured, so
like they beat us, Like that's straight up, they just
beat us. The Timberwolves one of the biggest things that
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need to change, specifically coming from Anthony Edwards, I think
during this Warrior series, and Chris Finch made mention of
it during postgame and like timeout interviews and stuff like that.
He said something along the lines of, like Edwards is
feeling out the game in the first half and then
really exploding in the second half, attacking the rims, scoring
points and really making his mark on the game. I
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don't think that Wolves, specifically Anthony Edwards can do that
in the Western Conference Finals, No, I think first quarter
Edwards needs to make a statement and put the Timberwolves
in a position because we're not playing the Warriors without
Steph anymore. We're not playing an old and slow Lakers
team anymore. I mean, if the Nuggets win versus the Thunder,
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that's a huge break for the Timberwolves. I agree, especially
because Aaron Gordon is doubtful with a hamstrings train and
if Gordon is not available in the Western Conference Finals,
that's a huge advantage Minnesota Timberwolves and thunder Our younger,
more athletic have a little bit more rim protection. But
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something that I think needs to be adjusted majorly is
Anthony edwards Is approach in the first half compared to
the second half, because if he has the same approach
in the first half in the Western Conference Finals, the
Timberwolves are going to be down by fifteen and they're
going to be playing catch up the entire game.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yep, yeah, I know you're right. I would. I think
I agree with your sentiment in terms of I'm more concerned.
It doesn't mean I'm not excited. You know, we have
to keep in mind the perspective, you know, even just
four or five years ago, for like fifteen straight years,
what was our biggest event of this year as a Timberwolves, right,
the draft lottery? Right?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
You know how many years now have we passed that
night where it's like, oh, I didn't know the draft
lottery was tonight? Where that was like appointment television for
us from like two thousand and five to like twenty
twenty almost. So you know, the perspective of being so
appreciative and exciting and watching all the games, you know,
Western Conference Finals back to back years, first Minnesota franchise
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since nineteen eighty one. I think I saw the North Sers.
You know, all that is great, but yeah, I am
more concerned that it's going to be too late to
when they kind of figured out when you're playing some
of like the Nuggets or the Thunder because again, it
doesn't matter who you beat. You gotta beat who's on
the schedule, and you gotta beat the right. But you're
to your point Lakers where fat Luca, old Lebron who's trying,
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and Austin Reeves who just got swallowed up by our defense,
Like that's not a you know, formidable opponent in terms
of like big picture. Right Again, Warriors without staph, we
know that that's just you know, without staph all season,
they're a lottery team. So it's just you know, you
don't have to apologize for beating those teams for one.
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But again, it has not really tuned them up, and
they have not looked you know, game one aside from
the Lakers series or whatever that was where they hit
like fifty threes, you know, but that's just kind of
like you said, hot shooting night. They haven't really put
a full game together, and you know, especially the Thunder
and even the Nuggets too, and you're playing the best
player in the world. You can't get away with taking
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quarters off, taking stretches off, not you know, and just
having those Wolves against teams that are you know, equal
or better than the Wolves.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
And you see that a lot from the Timberwolves too.
You see a lot of stretches where they're just like,
how is this team winning all these games? You just
see like a like a six minute stretch where they'll
go without a field goal, and it's like, what happened here?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yeah? And it's not they have enough talent not to
say that they can't, right, I mean, it's you have
you have random you have you know, nas and shooting
in mcdonal's and Gobert and blah blah blah, list goes on.
You know, could they play inconsistently and squeak their way
to the finals and squak out championship. It's certainly possible.
But obviously, again, if you're going to do it confidently
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is the right way to say it. But right if
it's going to be more convincing, they got to start
playing more consistently, and you can't bank on Hey, we
need to to outscore the Nuggets by twenty points in
the last fifteen minutes. You know that kind of thing.
You know, you can't really bank.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
On that, right And the window this season is more
open than ever. I mean, if you get to the
finals and you said, oh, you could play the Knicks
or the Pacers to win the whole darn thing, I
think anybody in the Western Conference would take that. And
the Timberwolves have a chance to face off against the Knicks.
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Everyone's gonna talk about it. Yeah, oh Timberwls Nicks, the trade,
what happens? Who won the trade? Who didn't? So this
is the year to do it because it's as open
as ever if you don't have to face Boston. And
I was never really afraid of the Cavaliers because company halftime.
It's just a different kind of basketball. But another big
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thing to take into this next series. Last year, and
this really means that Edwards and the Wolves players are
completely without excuse. Last year, you're coming off a seven
game emotional stand with the Nuggets where you know they
had to pour your heart and soul into the series.
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Edwards was gassed for Dallas, wasn't quite himself didn't have
the energy or burst that you typically see, and it
just kind of fed across the entire Wolve's locker room
cat was terrible against Dallas. Now they got the rest,
they beat Warriors in five thunder, and Nuggets are going
the distance. The series will start I think on Monday
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or Tuesday, Tuesdays.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
I think they play Game seven tomorrow. I think it's tomorrow,
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah? Yeah, Game seven is tomorrow on Sunday, and then
they games one will be on Tuesday. So like the
team that they're facing will be on short rest. Off
an emotional seven game series, the Wolves have to go
on the road, but regardless, they should be the more
prepared and more energized team entering the Western Conference Finals,
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which they did not have a year ago.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yep. Yeah, I generally, like most of the time, I
am not a you know, they always say that, especially rest.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Versus rust versus rest. Stan Van Gunday's a big rust guy.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Always. The Warriors five days off, they just couldn't handle them.
Oh five They're just so used to playing every other day.
They just could not get used to that schedule. In
Game one, like this is stupid.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I generally I think rust is the dumbest excuse for
bad play.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
There are two minutes of rust. Final'll give it to
you right in the first quarter, getting your feet away,
kind of figuring it out.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, Like, there's no situation where you'd rather play Sunday
Game seven and then Tuesday game one, then Wednesday game five,
Tuesday game one. Because it's not like they they make
it sound like, well, the first time they picked up
a basketball.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Totally Tuesday the street, you know, like an NFL player. Oh,
they took this guy off the streets.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
It's like, it's not like the Wolves have spent Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
Monday not preparing for each games. They went to McDonald's
three times a day playing Xbox. Like again, you're right,
like the jitters of like thinking about it for four
or five days. Maybe they come out a little nervous.
I mean they would anyway, right it's the Western Conference Finals.
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But yeah, ilways, just think the rust thing is just
the lame excuse people say when the team starts off bad,
but then when they start out great, it's like you
don't bring it up. Well, I don't know, it's just
a dumb I just think that's so dumb when it
uses like legit like that all of the rest was
the reason they lost to Golden State in the first game. No,
they just sucked. They just played bad. It just happened.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Sometimes I have a uh, I just had a thought
come to me. Then you say, oh oh, let's say oh.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Oh, oh oh.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
So this thought came to me, Will Jake take the bait?
I was thinking about the first two series and how
those went, and uh, the first two series, the Timberwolves
were like historically clutch, like lutcher than they've been all
the year. And I think John Krasinski posted something like
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their net rating and clutch time in the playoffs has
been like eighty two versus the regular season it was
like twenty five. They're talking about just like completely shifting.
And here's where I think the question comes. First two series,
you're largely playing older, slower teams that were gassed in
the fourth quarter. Let's say the thunderbeat the Nuggets, and
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you're facing a younger team in the fourth quarter, the Timberwolves.
Here's the statement, will Jake take the bait? The timberwolves
clutch performances in the first two series were largely because
the old Warriors and the old Lakers ran out of
gas and did not have the young legs, and that
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is a big concern against the Thunder because they have
the young legs to stick with the Timberwolves late in
the game. Will Jake take the bait?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yeah, well, I don't know if that's like the sole reason,
but it definitely right, the defensive intensity from the Warriors
and the now the Warriors had didn't have a lot
of talent, but the the you know, they just they
couldn't muster up enough defensively. They had some good guys,
but this whatever. And the Lakers, like you said, they're old,
and Reeves's bad, Lucas bad, Like, they just had a
lot of weak defensive players that were always kind of
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in the mix. And even Lebron is good, but like
it depends who's guarding and what he's trying where you're
asking him to do. He still made some phenomenal plays obviously,
but it's just hard, right forty one years old. Yeah,
people I've seen it online like, ah, do you want
to play the Thunder? You know their inexperience blah blah
blah blah blah. There is no doubt question in my
mind that the Wolves would have a better time against
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the Denver Nuggets. Does that mean that they beat the Nuggets?
Not necessarily. The Nuggets are still capable of winning obviously,
but I would be much more nervous against the Thunder
kind of for that reason. The amount of guys they
can pull. I mean, Denver has sort of five and
a half players that they can play. You know, you
have Michael Porter with some sort of shoulder injury that's
like kind of serious. It sounds like that he's playing through.
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Russell Westbrook is like their key chess piece that you know.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
There's inconsistent.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yeah, he's super inconsistent. Christian Brown is like their third
best player. Now, Like I don't know, it's it's it's
no question you'd rather play Denver if you're playing, you know,
can you be clutch against Denver and down the stretch? Absolutely.
You can go at Christian Brown and you can go
at Jamal Murray. You know, he doesn't hardly guard anybody
like Yo Kich is a good rim protector, but like
not amazing, Like you can go at him. You know,
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he's fine. He's the big dude. Compared to the Thunder
with Jaylen Williams and Chat and Shae's a phenomenal defender. Again,
just say about Ant Dort Dort right, think about the
amount of bodies they could throw at Ant. I mean
that's they have Dort again, Shay if he really wants
to can go at him. I mean they got bodies
that Caruso is super pesky, is kindly going to get
any looks against Crusoe's guarding him. There's not a chance.
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So to your point, if we play the Thunder are
clutch numbers, you know you can't rely on just being
super efficient down the stretch because the Thunder are going
to have answers for what we do well, the Nuggets less.
So I think it's possible, sure, but it's going to
be a lot more difficult for them to kind of
bottle up the Wolves.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
So your prediction for the Western Conference Finals? Will the
Timberwolves advance to the NBA Finals for the first time
in their history last year? And I'm so glad this
monkey is off my back while you prepare your take,
I predicted the Phoenix Suns to beat the Warriors to
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beat the Wolves, and the Wolves swept them in four.
I predicted the Nuggets to beat the Wolves Wolves one
in seven. I predicted the Wolves to beat the Mavericks
and the Wolves lost in five. But this past series,
I predicted the Wolves to beat the Warriors in six
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and they did. So I think the proverbial monkey is
off my back in terms of like them doing the
opposite of what I say, I will do the opposite. Ah.
So your take opinion on the WCF.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Well, i'd say, and it's hard because we don't know
who we're playing. To say, there's kind of the two scenarios.
I think if the Nuggets pull it out somehow tomorrow,
I think, I know it wouldn't be a sweet right.
I know, we beat the Nuggets like six straight games,
and I was like, oh, they got the Nuggets number.
It's like, again, slow your role you're playing, Nikola jokicch like,
it's not going to just be like that. But do
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I think in a seven game series they'd still beat
the Nuggets? I do, Okay, So I'd say yes if
the Nuggets managed to pull it out. If the Thunder
pull it out, that just scares me to death the
way that they play. And do they have an entwer
Per rando, I don't know. Maybe you know but again,
the way that they could guard Aunt is what would
terrify me. I know he's split too too in the
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regular season, but who knows.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
You know, again, regularly one of those games those Aunt
didn't play the entire fourth quarter and the Timbrels were
down like twenty five points, right, and the bench brought
them back.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Yeah. So like regular seasons, that's hardly hardly matter. But
now more than ever, it's like who played didn't matter.
Were they're coming off back to back like whatever. I
would lean that the Thunder would be able to you know,
take down the Wolves unfortunately, m m. But that I
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mean it's a toss up. It truly would be a
toss up. And at the end of the day, if
you looked at like Vegas, right, Oklahoma City would be
a slight favorite home court advantage. You know, Shay is
tough and they have some shooting.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Although I will say this, a lot of the stuff
that he gets during the regular season isn't called in
the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
He slowed down.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
He's got a little James Harden esque to him, where like, yes,
he is one of the best players in the league.
A lot of it comes from the free throw line. Ye,
same thing with James Harden. That's been his wrap for
his entire career. Stellar regular season player. And this is
a little different because Shay is a better playoff player,
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but the large point still stands. He loves to knock
down free throws and they don't call as much in
the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
And I should say too, And I mentioned a couple
of times how the Thunder would have answers for Aunt.
We also do have some answers for Shaye. I mean,
we have guys that can lock him up, lock him
up his term because he could score a lot still anyway,
but that can slow him down is a better way
to put it. You know, McDaniels is like the best
defender in the entire world. Like he's built to handle
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somebody like Shae, you know, with his length and his quickness,
and you know his demeanor. Will say, his happy demeanor.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
So his emotional demeanor.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Yea, his emotional demeanor.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
So do you think he really needs to cut back
the emotional a little bit?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
He probably needs to settle down a little bit. Yeah,
he smirked once and it was kind of like whoa man?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
He punched a wall a few years ago.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
That's true, that's true. Maybe he learned his lesson since
then he's like he's just mellow. Now he's chilling. Man.
I don't know what about you.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I think the Timberwolves sweep either team regardless one through four. No, No,
I'd lean a little bit. I hate agreeing with you
because the banks it a little bit boring, But I
agree with you, all right.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
But it's I mean, it's not a controversial takes.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
I'm trying to put on my skip Bayless had like
the Timberwolves are winning in four games and the Anthony
EDAs becoming the face of the league. No, I think
the Thunder would beat the Wolves, and I think the
Wolves could have a chance against the Nuggets. I think
the Thunder beat the Wolves in like six, and the
(28:48):
Timberwolves would probably go to seven with Denver. So that's
the way I would go with it.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
But it does. Yeah, it's especially if Gordon's thing is
and be lingering too. I mean that that changes their
entire Then they're then they're then they're cooked. They're cooked.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
But uh, just take a look at the Minnesota Vikings
schedule because that came out, and then then we'll wrap
up the podcast on this today the schedule.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Came out.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Are uh find folks love the back to back International
ballgames versus Steelers in Ireland dobloom, and then in London
to take on the Cleveland Browns. My first impressions of
the schedule is that, hey, it sets up perfectly for
(29:43):
what the Vikings are trying to do. And you're one
of McCarthy. Easy schedule to start at Chicago. I mean,
they're a tougher opponent, but I don't really fear them yet. Yeah,
home versus Atlanta, home versus Cincinnati, and then Pittsburgh and Cleveland,
and then he got the bye week and then he
got the meat of the schedule. But the biggest meet
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of the schedule versus Philadelphia and versus Baltimore. Both of
those are home games, yep, which give the Vikings a
greater chance to win those games. And then even home
versus Washington gives the Vikings a greater chance to win
those games. So the toughest opponents outside of the Division
for the Vikings are all home games, which is valuable.
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And then yeah, Dallas, New York. I think the schedule
sets up really favorably for the Vikings in year one
of McCarthy.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, I looked like at a first glance through, I
would say, like my first Zoo's kind of tough schedule.
But yeah, then me break it down. So you play
the the AFC North Pittsburgh they don't even have a
quarterback at the moment. M hm, they will get one.
I hope Cleveland they're kind of a train Wreck's that quarterback? Yeah,
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who knows who there? Or Dylan Gabriel or Flacco or
whoever the else they signed any Pickett, any picket, Like
it's just a mess obviously. Then you have Baltimore is
obviously top tier. Like that's tough, but like you said,
it's home. You know, Eagles again home, it's and then
you play the NFC south right, you have Dallas, eh,
(31:24):
New York bad, you know, Washington good. But you could
argue that they're not gonna be I mean, odds that
they repeat what they just did is tough. Yeah, I
mean Atlanta is not. You know, it's not you know
since Sinna it's tough too. But again, another home game.
So you could argue the three best teams that we
play for best really are all home. Mm hmm, it's yeah,
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it's you. I mean, if you don't start four and one,
let's say, right, yeah, I mean that's because it's a
tough stretch to go Philly Chargers, which should be they're tough,
and it's there's a week to.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Have the physicality against Philadelphia and then you got to
go on the road against the Chargers on Thursday night.
That's but then we have the extra bike to go
add Detroit, so that's an advantage, right.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
So I mean then you have those four in a row.
Those are probably the four toughest, just kind of for
back to back to back to back at Seattle for
what seems like the thirty eighth time.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
And the less.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
You know the Donald Revenge game is that I didn't
even look his owen. That's just a regular three or five.
I thought maybe that would be like a fun one.
It's always you always wonder how they decide what games.
I mean, obviously they try to find good games and whatever,
but like, why is the Vikings versus the Falcons a
Sunday night football?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Right?
Speaker 2 (32:38):
He cares about watching that one?
Speaker 1 (32:40):
But anyway, they're gonna assume that Michael Pennick Junior is
gonna get injured and Kirk Cousins is going to be staying.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Maybe already went through that whole thing though. That was
So my question for you is going to be, uh,
you do you would you offer JJ McCarthy for Kayleb
Williams because apparently he wanted to come here.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Yeah, talking to lawyers, talking to uh, his dad about
joining the United Football League. And what's so interesting about
this is like Ben Johnson was already hired and you know,
he's got the offensive guru mind that everyone wanted and
he didn't want.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Not.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Well that's not true, I guess because this was before
he was drafted, right, and Matt Eberflus I got that
all messed up. I went on a whole ordeal yesterday
about how then Johnson was hired and he still don't
one he had his first year of men evils. What
was I thinking? What an idiot?
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Uh? Maybe say that one from off the socialsause otherwise
you'll I.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Think, well, yesterday I did it, and uh, yesterday I
did this.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
I know I'm saying, maybe make sure those don't end
up on socials, that's all.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
No, they already are. The socials were posted yesterday, but
I'm not seeing any really poor feedback yet.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
And it's kind of weird. I didn't really see why
why did this come out?
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Now?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
I did not see that a bigger article or like
a book or something.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah, some book by or something, Oh, senior ESPN writer, Wow,
some book.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
I did just trade him in my Dynasty fansy. I
had Caleb Williams, and I trade him in my Dynasty
Fantasy League.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
So who did you get?
Speaker 2 (34:16):
I'm not a believer. I got Jayden and Daniels.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Wow. I would give you Jade and Daniels for Caleb Williams,
a Bears fan.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
But I also had to add a couple of firsts.
So it was it was a It was an expensive
trade on my part. I gave up some equity. But
I just don't Caleb just something about I just don't
trust it. Yeah, I agree, I think he'll be okay,
like he will be better than he was last year.
But I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
I see.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
You know top ender, and I've never been wrong. I mean,
I said, why should we draft Adrian Peterson? We have
Chesster Taylor. I said, Anthony Davis is probably going to
be a bus doesn't need to be the first first
of world pick.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Speaking of terrible opinions, ye all that I that he
brought this up yesterday Boston versus the Knicks, and I'm like,
I do you think Boston is still gonna win this series?
Even with Jason Tatum hurt. I still like the Celtics.
(35:17):
I like their depth, I like the veterans. I like
Jalen Brown to stub up his game. I like the
guard that they have that knocks down all these shots.
P their zingis they got Pritchard, sixth Man of the Year.
I'm like, I still think Boston's gonna win the series.
I turned the game on well not in in nineteen
(35:39):
to eighty one late in the fourth corner. Knickerbockers and
Jalen Brown had some interesting comments following the game. Did
you see those?
Speaker 2 (35:47):
I did not actually know?
Speaker 1 (35:49):
It says, this finishing in May feels weird. It's definitely
not something we were prepared for, said Celtics star Jalen Brown.
Things didn't go our way this year and it's unfortunate,
but we hold our heads up regardless. Losing to the
next feels like death. But I always thought, but I
was always taught that there's life after death, so we'll
(36:09):
get ready for whatever's next in the journey.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Interesting deep.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Yeah, interesting comments following the game.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
They got a lot of money stuff to figure out
because persingis and holiday, they have to make some choices
and get rid of some guys if they can. Here's
a question, maybe end with this because we're're wrapping up here.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
So if you're Julius Randall, Okay, here's a player option
for like thirty million and roughly I remember exactly better
route thirty, do you test the market or do what
I'm just going to say. So, you know, three months ago,
it was like, let's trade him. You know, he's for sure,
you know, wow. People were just all fired up.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
And he's gonna sign this player object because he's not
going to get a bigger deal anywhere else.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Correct. Now, are you if you're Randall, do you opt
in for that one year and you finish your contract
at thirty one? And what kind of problem can you
get at thirty one? Or I mean it's only one year?
I know, but do you test the market? And I
mean the teams that have cap unfortunately for him, are
all the bad teams. The luxury tax thing has absolutely
(37:17):
blown up the way that the top end teams compete.
It's made it very difficult. There's lots of teams that
are trying to shed money, which is if that's what
the league wants, it's fine. It does create more parody
and creates interesting off seasons and whatnot to whatever. But
you know, do the Wolves, you know, what is he
looking at? Like what would Brooklyn pay him? What? Like
(37:38):
Detroit I think has some money. Like there's some teams
out there. Detroit's obviously decent. They made the playoffs, but
you know they can.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Think, well, Julius Randall were one piece of way from
taking the next step.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Right, Like, does does he get three or four years
for forty some million a year? Like? Is that what?
I don't know what the Julius random market is? Or
does he Hey, I want to keep playing with the
Wolves with Aunt with you know, and I'm gonna you know,
it's it'll be interesting, I guess, for lack of a
better word, I don't really know if I'm him, you know,
(38:10):
it depends how much E value is winning too? Right?
Could he do a two or two year extension with
us and spread out the money a little bit or
three years or whatever? Right? Right?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
And probably the best scenario for him in his mind
if I can sign a contract extension with the Wolves
and extend this two years.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Right.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
But also the last thing in his mind is probably
sticking with that player option, because the last thing he
wants to do, yeah, is keep that one year and
then have to figure out and negotiate a contract that
he wants at thirty one, Right, this is the summer
for him to strike gold, right with the Wolves or
(38:53):
with someone else.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Right, this is kind of probably his last chance to
get the biggest it'll be the last the biggest contract
he's had, the last one.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Right, It's like Sam Darnold a little bit, Yeah, Like
this is the last chance that he has to make
a huge dollar amount, especially because of the way he's
played in the playoffs. As you've mentioned. And when you're
thirty one, you're not signing a three year deal when you're.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Doing you know, there's you're going year to year at
that point, you.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Know, right, right, And when you're thirty, it's like, well,
we could sign three years and then thirty three and
then you're kind of then you're just kind of a
bench player everybody everywhere else till until you finish off
your career. Uh So it really depends on what the
Timberwls want to do. But that's what Randall is thinking.
(39:44):
A one year security option for a guy that's been
hurt for a large part of his career is not
what he's gonna want, and it's not what his agent
is going to tell him. They're going to work on
a two to three year contract extension with the Wolves,
and uh, if that doesn't happen, they're going to test
the market.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
In my opinion, yep, I agree, yeah, and especially I
mean it depends what happens in the next two series too.
If there are two series, right, does he win a
championship and just mm hmm does that make him want
to stay and win another one? Does that make him say, oh,
I won my championship, Let's go to Brooklyn for five years.
You know, I'm making it up, but you know whatever,
it's a huge number that Darnold did, right, that kind
of thing. He's made it very interesting again now because
(40:24):
it seemed like it was kind of easier when he
wasn't playing so well. Totally yea, and now it's like
going to be complicated again.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
It went from gosh, I hope he doesn't sign this
player option deal. He's stuck for thirty million.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Yep. Million might be a bargain, right, And I was like, well, yep,
and they need him, I mean they do.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Yeah, you're right. Yeah, well, Jake, thanks for your takes.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
It's always a pleasure Minnesota, Tim.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
I appreciate it. It's always a good time together. M hm,
great time, great time together. Well, everyone, thank you for
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We love it. Minnesota sports is hitting their stride and
there is only one person that I can talk about
this with. It is Jake's Takes. Jake's take on takes
and takes and takes on Minnesota takes and takes. So
Jake Timberwolves in back to back Western Conference Finals. The
(02:18):
Minnesota Vikings schedule comes out, the Minnesota Links win game one.
The Minnesota Twins are on an eleven game win streak.
Twelve Yeah, wow, where do you want to start? I
want to start with Rudy Gobert dumping his pregnant girlfriend
(02:38):
and trying to figure out that battle.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Uh, you know, we can maybe leave that for the
he said, out of respect for his difficult times, if
people wouldn't mind speculating. So, I don't know about you,
but I think we are trying to be respected. Yes,
podcasters who don't want to gossip.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Let's not dive into the privacy of Gobert.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Although it seems like he might have taken a page
of Bain's book on that one. You're gonna go Wolves
and Viking schedule, and I was gonna say, whoa the Twins,
but out the only twelve pack we want to take
back from Wisconsin. And because the Brewers last night it
was twelve wings. It's pretty clever. But I think the
(03:21):
Wolves are probably the most pressing, uh you know event
in Minnesota. Although we played it was Caton or not
Kingen Clark.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, yeah, we did. We bade her last night defeated
the Dallas Stars basketball teams. Right, I had no idea
what they were called, but he said, I'm like, oh, yeah,
the thing. So the timber Walls back to back Western
Conference Finals appearances. Nobody would have expected this. When their
(03:52):
blue thirty point leads to the Bucks lost to the
Indiana Pacers. Bench couldn't figure it out throughout the entire season,
and all of a sudden the final two weeks they
start playing basketball as a team and start figuring things out.
Julius Randall starts playing the best basketball of his career.
Anthony Edwards has played spectacular for the most part, with
(04:14):
a few games that have been duds, but he's really
controlled the tempo and the pace of the game by
distributing to team. It's his decision making. It has been
overall better your take your thoughts on the Timberwolves, advancing
your just overall perspective on all things Wolves.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah, I mean Randall has taken the world by storm, right,
I mean that's kind of the first thing. Ant's kind
of doing what you would expect to some degree, right,
twenty seven eight six, Like that's right what you need
him to be at. It's high expectations, but he's hitting them.
Randall's been the question mark, right. It's his playoff history
(04:54):
is pretty sketchy, just as overall his attitude and effort
on previous team. Right, the Knicks were like burning his
jersey on the way out, Like he's kind of left
a burning, you know, scorched earth from where he's been
in the past because of all the different issues, and
he has been nothing like incredible. He made Draymond Green,
who was a Defensive Player of the Year candidate, you know,
(05:18):
look like he was standing in cement. He couldn't guard
him on the perimeter. He was getting bullyballed by Randall
like there was nothing his little he does and he
does the same move eighty percent of nigh which he
drives to lap, spins back and then does that little
like leaner step fade and it's from like eight ten
feet and it's cash like every time that I don't
(05:41):
I was trying to find I saw a stat and
I couldn't find the full stat of it, but something
like there has been four or five players that have
averaged twenty five and five while shooting fifty percent or higher.
And it was like Lebron, it was like, I remember
who the other ones were. It was like players players
in the last onest Julius ran and it's just like,
(06:02):
obviously it's ten games, it's whatever. You could say. The opponents,
neither of them have been super formidable, but he is
he If he plays like this, that is the Wolves
having a chance of the championship. Right. If he has
a big drop off next series, you know they might
you know, with some lock and whatever ankles off. I mean,
(06:22):
there's other ways the Wolves can win, but the clearest
path to winning the next series, which I think will
be the hardest series of the whole run here, it
really relies and if Julius Randall keeps this up, I mean,
they are the best team in the league, there's no
if fans or butts about it.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I would say that Julius Randa is also built for
playoff basketball, despite his struggles in the past, and the
reason for that is because you look at the way
he plays basketball, the physicality that he plays with, and
when he plays with that type of physicality in the playoffs,
they're not calling those offensive fowls or chargers. They're letting
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him play to a degree that you never see during
the regular season. So when you see Randall, who's one
of the biggest stout guys that you'll see in a
basketball court despite not being the tallest, and he lowers
his shoulder, ninety of the offensive plays that he's been
showing off in the playoffs are charges during the regular season.
(07:23):
So the fact that he can take his physicality into
the playoffs and the officials are letting him play has
been a huge part of why he's been so successful
in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Well, and the difference between last year and this year
right in terms of you look at what Towns gives you,
what Randall gives you, right, the obvious the first response answers,
While Towns can spread the floor, he hits threes like
that's more valuable to us as a team. No, I
mean again, it valuable. I mean obviously the Knicks. Granted,
Towns had an awful series against the Celtics in terms
(07:53):
of three point shooting, but generally speaking, he's a great
three point shooter. Right, The Wolves have plenty of that. Now,
Dante's kind of stunk, right, but he generally he's shooting well.
Conley's shooting good, Jaden McDaniel's Randall all shooting above thirty
almost thirty five percent. Right, we have enough three point shooting.
What we didn't have last year was when they would
double Ant or chase Ant. Right, we'd swing the ball
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to Towns and they might help or whatever, and then
there's nobody. There's no counter options to break down the defense. Right,
you had a bunch of three point shooters. Gobart, who's
gonna just stand on the block and hope for a rebounder,
Hope somebody grabs his arm as he's trying to rebound,
and that was kind of possession. Now, when that breaks down,
ants doubled or tripled, right, swing it to Randall and
(08:37):
he's making the defense is just absolutely pay And that's
the difference between this year and last year is you
have two options that can ten seconds left on the
shot clock, you give them the ball and there's a
good chance that there's at least a good shot that's
going to happen, you know, with at a decent percentage.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I mean again, both Aunt and Randall are shooting plenty
good enough. You know, Ant's forty five, thirty nine percent
from three, Randall's fifty from three. We both end of
shot block, end of game right, fourth quarter situations are
able to just get good shots consistently. And that's you know,
playoff basketball. It's at the end of the day, it's
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kind of what it comes down Tom.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And you see the physicality and and really the three
point shooting has gone down in the playoffs. You've seen
the teams score like last night the Celtics scored eighty
one points against the Knicks. He saw against the series
with the Warriors. A ton of those games were below
one hundred points. And I would say that, I know, statistically,
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you look at Edwards thirty nine percent from three, Julius
raynad can knock down three, is Dante Mike Conley. So
the statistas are not going to back up my opinion
on this because I think overall, the Timbrels were like
top five in NBA three point shooting throughout the season,
A large part of that from Anthony Edwards, who led
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the league in three point shooting.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yep, but.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I do think the Timbrels have a problem with their
inconsistent three point shooting. Correct meaning, when I look at
the Timbrols roster, I do not see a roster full
of knockdown three point shooters. I see a roster that, Okay,
this game they're gonna shoot like fifty six percent from three,
but then in game two they're gonna shoot like twenty
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five percent. I don't see a lot of consistent, like
forty to fifty percent games where they're like, okay, I
can rely on you for the entire bog. Either they're
just like super red hot or Edwards is like nine
for eleven from the three point line, or they're like
Edwards is like one for twelve from the three point line.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yep, You're not wrong, because, like I mean, even there's
how many times have we been watching you see like
ants like three for ten or three for twelve, and
you're like, man, I mean there's been playing those games
you know, like you said, as a team, we're pretty streaky.
So you're right, it's not where this knockdown like you know,
especially like because again Dante's a perfect example where I
mean isn't great either. It's only twenty five the moment,
but you know that's somebody who's supposed to be that guy, right,
(11:04):
He's supposed to be our most consistent, accurate you know,
the looks he's getting usually are going to be pretty open,
you know, compared to like ant Er, you know whatever,
Like he gets pretty open mostly shots right and he's
not hitting him right now either. So that's I was
going to bring it up, like, I don't know, should
we be concerned or excited? Here you go, here's the
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segment for you should be concerned or excited that though
Timberwolves have not played like their best consistent basketball yet, it's.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
A good question. Ah, I'm going to be concerned that
they have not played the best basketball yet, but also
excited that they have made it to the Western Conference finals.
And I'm not going to apologize. And Draymond Green, as
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much as people hate on him and myself included following
the Warriors series, he had some good things to say
about like, oh, we didn't have step but like, hey,
we won NBA Finals when other teams got injured, so
like they beat us, Like that's straight up, they just
beat us. The Timberwolves one of the biggest things that
(12:16):
need to change, specifically coming from Anthony Edwards, I think
during this Warrior series, and Chris Finch made mention of
it during postgame and like timeout interviews and stuff like that.
He said something along the lines of, like Edwards is
feeling out the game in the first half and then
really exploding in the second half, attacking the rims, scoring
points and really making his mark on the game. I
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don't think that Wolves, specifically Anthony Edwards can do that
in the Western Conference Finals, No, I think first quarter
Edwards needs to make a statement and put the Timberwolves
in a position because we're not playing the Warriors without
Steph anymore. We're not playing an old and slow Lakers
team anymore. I mean, if the Nuggets win versus the Thunder,
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that's a huge break for the Timberwolves. I agree, especially
because Aaron Gordon is doubtful with a hamstrings train and
if Gordon is not available in the Western Conference Finals,
that's a huge advantage Minnesota Timberwolves and thunder Our younger,
more athletic have a little bit more rim protection. But
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something that I think needs to be adjusted majorly is
Anthony edwards Is approach in the first half compared to
the second half, because if he has the same approach
in the first half in the Western Conference Finals, the
Timberwolves are going to be down by fifteen and they're
going to be playing catch up the entire game.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yep, yeah, I know you're right. I would. I think
I agree with your sentiment in terms of I'm more concerned.
It doesn't mean I'm not excited. You know, we have
to keep in mind the perspective, you know, even just
four or five years ago, for like fifteen straight years,
what was our biggest event of this year as a Timberwolves, right,
the draft lottery? Right?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
You know how many years now have we passed that
night where it's like, oh, I didn't know the draft
lottery was tonight? Where that was like appointment television for
us from like two thousand and five to like twenty
twenty almost. So you know, the perspective of being so
appreciative and exciting and watching all the games, you know,
Western Conference Finals back to back years, first Minnesota franchise
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since nineteen eighty one. I think I saw the North Sers.
You know, all that is great, but yeah, I am
more concerned that it's going to be too late to
when they kind of figured out when you're playing some
of like the Nuggets or the Thunder because again, it
doesn't matter who you beat. You gotta beat who's on
the schedule, and you gotta beat the right. But you're
to your point Lakers where fat Luca, old Lebron who's trying,
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and Austin Reeves who just got swallowed up by our defense,
Like that's not a you know, formidable opponent in terms
of like big picture. Right Again, Warriors without staph, we
know that that's just you know, without staph all season,
they're a lottery team. So it's just you know, you
don't have to apologize for beating those teams for one.
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But again, it has not really tuned them up, and
they have not looked you know, game one aside from
the Lakers series or whatever that was where they hit
like fifty threes, you know, but that's just kind of
like you said, hot shooting night. They haven't really put
a full game together, and you know, especially the Thunder
and even the Nuggets too, and you're playing the best
player in the world. You can't get away with taking
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quarters off, taking stretches off, not you know, and just
having those Wolves against teams that are you know, equal
or better than the Wolves.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
And you see that a lot from the Timberwolves too.
You see a lot of stretches where they're just like,
how is this team winning all these games? You just
see like a like a six minute stretch where they'll
go without a field goal, and it's like, what happened here?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yeah? And it's not they have enough talent not to
say that they can't, right, I mean, it's you have
you have random you have you know, nas and shooting
in mcdonal's and Gobert and blah blah blah, list goes on.
You know, could they play inconsistently and squeak their way
to the finals and squak out championship. It's certainly possible.
But obviously, again, if you're going to do it confidently
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is the right way to say it. But right if
it's going to be more convincing, they got to start
playing more consistently, and you can't bank on Hey, we
need to to outscore the Nuggets by twenty points in
the last fifteen minutes. You know that kind of thing.
You know, you can't really bank.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
On that, right And the window this season is more
open than ever. I mean, if you get to the
finals and you said, oh, you could play the Knicks
or the Pacers to win the whole darn thing, I
think anybody in the Western Conference would take that. And
the Timberwolves have a chance to face off against the Knicks.
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Everyone's gonna talk about it. Yeah, oh Timberwls Nicks, the trade,
what happens? Who won the trade? Who didn't? So this
is the year to do it because it's as open
as ever if you don't have to face Boston. And
I was never really afraid of the Cavaliers because company halftime.
It's just a different kind of basketball. But another big
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thing to take into this next series. Last year, and
this really means that Edwards and the Wolves players are
completely without excuse. Last year, you're coming off a seven
game emotional stand with the Nuggets where you know they
had to pour your heart and soul into the series.
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Edwards was gassed for Dallas, wasn't quite himself didn't have
the energy or burst that you typically see, and it
just kind of fed across the entire Wolve's locker room
cat was terrible against Dallas. Now they got the rest,
they beat Warriors in five thunder, and Nuggets are going
the distance. The series will start I think on Monday
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or Tuesday, Tuesdays.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
I think they play Game seven tomorrow. I think it's tomorrow,
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah? Yeah, Game seven is tomorrow on Sunday, and then
they games one will be on Tuesday. So like the
team that they're facing will be on short rest. Off
an emotional seven game series, the Wolves have to go
on the road, but regardless, they should be the more
prepared and more energized team entering the Western Conference Finals,
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which they did not have a year ago.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yep. Yeah, I generally, like most of the time, I
am not a you know, they always say that, especially rest.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Versus rust versus rest. Stan Van Gunday's a big rust guy.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Always. The Warriors five days off, they just couldn't handle them.
Oh five They're just so used to playing every other day.
They just could not get used to that schedule. In
Game one, like this is stupid.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I generally I think rust is the dumbest excuse for
bad play.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
There are two minutes of rust. Final'll give it to
you right in the first quarter, getting your feet away,
kind of figuring it out.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, Like, there's no situation where you'd rather play Sunday
Game seven and then Tuesday game one, then Wednesday game five,
Tuesday game one. Because it's not like they they make
it sound like, well, the first time they picked up
a basketball.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Totally Tuesday the street, you know, like an NFL player. Oh,
they took this guy off the streets.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
It's like, it's not like the Wolves have spent Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
Monday not preparing for each games. They went to McDonald's
three times a day playing Xbox. Like again, you're right,
like the jitters of like thinking about it for four
or five days. Maybe they come out a little nervous.
I mean they would anyway, right it's the Western Conference Finals.
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But yeah, ilways, just think the rust thing is just
the lame excuse people say when the team starts off bad,
but then when they start out great, it's like you
don't bring it up. Well, I don't know, it's just
a dumb I just think that's so dumb when it
uses like legit like that all of the rest was
the reason they lost to Golden State in the first game. No,
they just sucked. They just played bad. It just happened.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Sometimes I have a uh, I just had a thought
come to me. Then you say, oh oh, let's say oh.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Oh, oh oh.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
So this thought came to me, Will Jake take the bait?
I was thinking about the first two series and how
those went, and uh, the first two series, the Timberwolves
were like historically clutch, like lutcher than they've been all
the year. And I think John Krasinski posted something like
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their net rating and clutch time in the playoffs has
been like eighty two versus the regular season it was
like twenty five. They're talking about just like completely shifting.
And here's where I think the question comes. First two series,
you're largely playing older, slower teams that were gassed in
the fourth quarter. Let's say the thunderbeat the Nuggets, and
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you're facing a younger team in the fourth quarter, the Timberwolves.
Here's the statement, will Jake take the bait? The timberwolves
clutch performances in the first two series were largely because
the old Warriors and the old Lakers ran out of
gas and did not have the young legs, and that
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is a big concern against the Thunder because they have
the young legs to stick with the Timberwolves late in
the game. Will Jake take the bait?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yeah, well, I don't know if that's like the sole reason,
but it definitely right, the defensive intensity from the Warriors
and the now the Warriors had didn't have a lot
of talent, but the the you know, they just they
couldn't muster up enough defensively. They had some good guys,
but this whatever. And the Lakers, like you said, they're old,
and Reeves's bad, Lucas bad, Like, they just had a
lot of weak defensive players that were always kind of
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in the mix. And even Lebron is good, but like
it depends who's guarding and what he's trying where you're
asking him to do. He still made some phenomenal plays obviously,
but it's just hard, right forty one years old. Yeah,
people I've seen it online like, ah, do you want
to play the Thunder? You know their inexperience blah blah
blah blah blah. There is no doubt question in my
mind that the Wolves would have a better time against
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the Denver Nuggets. Does that mean that they beat the Nuggets?
Not necessarily. The Nuggets are still capable of winning obviously,
but I would be much more nervous against the Thunder
kind of for that reason. The amount of guys they
can pull. I mean, Denver has sort of five and
a half players that they can play. You know, you
have Michael Porter with some sort of shoulder injury that's
like kind of serious. It sounds like that he's playing through.
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Russell Westbrook is like their key chess piece that you know.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
There's inconsistent.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yeah, he's super inconsistent. Christian Brown is like their third
best player. Now, Like I don't know, it's it's it's
no question you'd rather play Denver if you're playing, you know,
can you be clutch against Denver and down the stretch? Absolutely.
You can go at Christian Brown and you can go
at Jamal Murray. You know, he doesn't hardly guard anybody
like Yo Kich is a good rim protector, but like
not amazing, Like you can go at him. You know,
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he's fine. He's the big dude. Compared to the Thunder
with Jaylen Williams and Chat and Shae's a phenomenal defender. Again,
just say about Ant Dort Dort right, think about the
amount of bodies they could throw at Ant. I mean
that's they have Dort again, Shay if he really wants
to can go at him. I mean they got bodies
that Caruso is super pesky, is kindly going to get
any looks against Crusoe's guarding him. There's not a chance.
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So to your point, if we play the Thunder are
clutch numbers, you know you can't rely on just being
super efficient down the stretch because the Thunder are going
to have answers for what we do well, the Nuggets less.
So I think it's possible, sure, but it's going to
be a lot more difficult for them to kind of
bottle up the Wolves.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
So your prediction for the Western Conference Finals? Will the
Timberwolves advance to the NBA Finals for the first time
in their history last year? And I'm so glad this
monkey is off my back while you prepare your take,
I predicted the Phoenix Suns to beat the Warriors to
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beat the Wolves, and the Wolves swept them in four.
I predicted the Nuggets to beat the Wolves Wolves one
in seven. I predicted the Wolves to beat the Mavericks
and the Wolves lost in five. But this past series,
I predicted the Wolves to beat the Warriors in six
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and they did. So I think the proverbial monkey is
off my back in terms of like them doing the
opposite of what I say, I will do the opposite. Ah.
So your take opinion on the WCF.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Well, i'd say, and it's hard because we don't know
who we're playing. To say, there's kind of the two scenarios.
I think if the Nuggets pull it out somehow tomorrow,
I think, I know it wouldn't be a sweet right.
I know, we beat the Nuggets like six straight games,
and I was like, oh, they got the Nuggets number.
It's like, again, slow your role you're playing, Nikola jokicch like,
it's not going to just be like that. But do
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I think in a seven game series they'd still beat
the Nuggets? I do, Okay, So I'd say yes if
the Nuggets managed to pull it out. If the Thunder
pull it out, that just scares me to death the
way that they play. And do they have an entwer
Per rando, I don't know. Maybe you know but again,
the way that they could guard Aunt is what would
terrify me. I know he's split too too in the
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regular season, but who knows.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
You know, again, regularly one of those games those Aunt
didn't play the entire fourth quarter and the Timbrels were
down like twenty five points, right, and the bench brought
them back.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Yeah. So like regular seasons, that's hardly hardly matter. But
now more than ever, it's like who played didn't matter.
Were they're coming off back to back like whatever. I
would lean that the Thunder would be able to you know,
take down the Wolves unfortunately, m m. But that I
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mean it's a toss up. It truly would be a
toss up. And at the end of the day, if
you looked at like Vegas, right, Oklahoma City would be
a slight favorite home court advantage. You know, Shay is
tough and they have some shooting.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Although I will say this, a lot of the stuff
that he gets during the regular season isn't called in
the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
He slowed down.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
He's got a little James Harden esque to him, where like, yes,
he is one of the best players in the league.
A lot of it comes from the free throw line. Ye,
same thing with James Harden. That's been his wrap for
his entire career. Stellar regular season player. And this is
a little different because Shay is a better playoff player,
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but the large point still stands. He loves to knock
down free throws and they don't call as much in
the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
And I should say too, And I mentioned a couple
of times how the Thunder would have answers for Aunt.
We also do have some answers for Shaye. I mean,
we have guys that can lock him up, lock him
up his term because he could score a lot still anyway,
but that can slow him down is a better way
to put it. You know, McDaniels is like the best
defender in the entire world. Like he's built to handle
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somebody like Shae, you know, with his length and his quickness,
and you know his demeanor. Will say, his happy demeanor.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
So his emotional demeanor.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Yea, his emotional demeanor.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
So do you think he really needs to cut back
the emotional a little bit?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
He probably needs to settle down a little bit. Yeah,
he smirked once and it was kind of like whoa man?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
He punched a wall a few years ago.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
That's true, that's true. Maybe he learned his lesson since
then he's like he's just mellow. Now he's chilling. Man.
I don't know what about you.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I think the Timberwolves sweep either team regardless one through four. No, No,
I'd lean a little bit. I hate agreeing with you
because the banks it a little bit boring, But I
agree with you, all right.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
But it's I mean, it's not a controversial takes.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
I'm trying to put on my skip Bayless had like
the Timberwolves are winning in four games and the Anthony
EDAs becoming the face of the league. No, I think
the Thunder would beat the Wolves, and I think the
Wolves could have a chance against the Nuggets. I think
the Thunder beat the Wolves in like six, and the
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Timberwolves would probably go to seven with Denver. So that's
the way I would go with it.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
But it does. Yeah, it's especially if Gordon's thing is
and be lingering too. I mean that that changes their
entire Then they're then they're then they're cooked. They're cooked.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
But uh, just take a look at the Minnesota Vikings
schedule because that came out, and then then we'll wrap
up the podcast on this today the schedule.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Came out.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Are uh find folks love the back to back International
ballgames versus Steelers in Ireland dobloom, and then in London
to take on the Cleveland Browns. My first impressions of
the schedule is that, hey, it sets up perfectly for
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what the Vikings are trying to do. And you're one
of McCarthy. Easy schedule to start at Chicago. I mean,
they're a tougher opponent, but I don't really fear them yet. Yeah,
home versus Atlanta, home versus Cincinnati, and then Pittsburgh and Cleveland,
and then he got the bye week and then he
got the meat of the schedule. But the biggest meet
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of the schedule versus Philadelphia and versus Baltimore. Both of
those are home games, yep, which give the Vikings a
greater chance to win those games. And then even home
versus Washington gives the Vikings a greater chance to win
those games. So the toughest opponents outside of the Division
for the Vikings are all home games, which is valuable.
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And then yeah, Dallas, New York. I think the schedule
sets up really favorably for the Vikings in year one
of McCarthy.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, I looked like at a first glance through, I
would say, like my first Zoo's kind of tough schedule.
But yeah, then me break it down. So you play
the the AFC North Pittsburgh they don't even have a
quarterback at the moment. M hm, they will get one.
I hope Cleveland they're kind of a train Wreck's that quarterback? Yeah,
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who knows who there? Or Dylan Gabriel or Flacco or
whoever the else they signed any Pickett, any picket, Like
it's just a mess obviously. Then you have Baltimore is
obviously top tier. Like that's tough, but like you said,
it's home. You know, Eagles again home, it's and then
you play the NFC south right, you have Dallas, eh,
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New York bad, you know, Washington good. But you could
argue that they're not gonna be I mean, odds that
they repeat what they just did is tough. Yeah, I
mean Atlanta is not. You know, it's not you know
since Sinna it's tough too. But again, another home game.
So you could argue the three best teams that we
play for best really are all home. Mm hmm, it's yeah,
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it's you. I mean, if you don't start four and one,
let's say, right, yeah, I mean that's because it's a
tough stretch to go Philly Chargers, which should be they're tough,
and it's there's a week to.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Have the physicality against Philadelphia and then you got to
go on the road against the Chargers on Thursday night.
That's but then we have the extra bike to go
add Detroit, so that's an advantage, right.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
So I mean then you have those four in a row.
Those are probably the four toughest, just kind of for
back to back to back to back at Seattle for
what seems like the thirty eighth time.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
And the less.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
You know the Donald Revenge game is that I didn't
even look his owen. That's just a regular three or five.
I thought maybe that would be like a fun one.
It's always you always wonder how they decide what games.
I mean, obviously they try to find good games and whatever,
but like, why is the Vikings versus the Falcons a
Sunday night football?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Right?
Speaker 2 (32:38):
He cares about watching that one?
Speaker 1 (32:40):
But anyway, they're gonna assume that Michael Pennick Junior is
gonna get injured and Kirk Cousins is going to be staying.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Maybe already went through that whole thing though. That was
So my question for you is going to be, uh,
you do you would you offer JJ McCarthy for Kayleb
Williams because apparently he wanted to come here.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Yeah, talking to lawyers, talking to uh, his dad about
joining the United Football League. And what's so interesting about
this is like Ben Johnson was already hired and you know,
he's got the offensive guru mind that everyone wanted and
he didn't want.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Not.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Well that's not true, I guess because this was before
he was drafted, right, and Matt Eberflus I got that
all messed up. I went on a whole ordeal yesterday
about how then Johnson was hired and he still don't
one he had his first year of men evils. What
was I thinking? What an idiot?
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Uh? Maybe say that one from off the socialsause otherwise
you'll I.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Think, well, yesterday I did it, and uh, yesterday I
did this.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
I know I'm saying, maybe make sure those don't end
up on socials, that's all.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
No, they already are. The socials were posted yesterday, but
I'm not seeing any really poor feedback yet.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
And it's kind of weird. I didn't really see why
why did this come out?
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Now?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
I did not see that a bigger article or like
a book or something.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah, some book by or something, Oh, senior ESPN writer, Wow,
some book.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
I did just trade him in my Dynasty fansy. I
had Caleb Williams, and I trade him in my Dynasty
Fantasy League.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
So who did you get?
Speaker 2 (34:16):
I'm not a believer. I got Jayden and Daniels.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Wow. I would give you Jade and Daniels for Caleb Williams,
a Bears fan.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
But I also had to add a couple of firsts.
So it was it was a It was an expensive
trade on my part. I gave up some equity. But
I just don't Caleb just something about I just don't
trust it. Yeah, I agree, I think he'll be okay,
like he will be better than he was last year.
But I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
I see.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
You know top ender, and I've never been wrong. I mean,
I said, why should we draft Adrian Peterson? We have
Chesster Taylor. I said, Anthony Davis is probably going to
be a bus doesn't need to be the first first
of world pick.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Speaking of terrible opinions, ye all that I that he
brought this up yesterday Boston versus the Knicks, and I'm like,
I do you think Boston is still gonna win this series?
Even with Jason Tatum hurt. I still like the Celtics.
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I like their depth, I like the veterans. I like
Jalen Brown to stub up his game. I like the
guard that they have that knocks down all these shots.
P their zingis they got Pritchard, sixth Man of the Year.
I'm like, I still think Boston's gonna win the series.
I turned the game on well not in in nineteen
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to eighty one late in the fourth corner. Knickerbockers and
Jalen Brown had some interesting comments following the game. Did
you see those?
Speaker 2 (35:47):
I did not actually know?
Speaker 1 (35:49):
It says, this finishing in May feels weird. It's definitely
not something we were prepared for, said Celtics star Jalen Brown.
Things didn't go our way this year and it's unfortunate,
but we hold our heads up regardless. Losing to the
next feels like death. But I always thought, but I
was always taught that there's life after death, so we'll
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get ready for whatever's next in the journey.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Interesting deep.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Yeah, interesting comments following the game.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
They got a lot of money stuff to figure out
because persingis and holiday, they have to make some choices
and get rid of some guys if they can. Here's
a question, maybe end with this because we're're wrapping up here.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
So if you're Julius Randall, Okay, here's a player option
for like thirty million and roughly I remember exactly better
route thirty, do you test the market or do what
I'm just going to say. So, you know, three months ago,
it was like, let's trade him. You know, he's for sure,
you know, wow. People were just all fired up.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
And he's gonna sign this player object because he's not
going to get a bigger deal anywhere else.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Correct. Now, are you if you're Randall, do you opt
in for that one year and you finish your contract
at thirty one? And what kind of problem can you
get at thirty one? Or I mean it's only one year?
I know, but do you test the market? And I
mean the teams that have cap unfortunately for him, are
all the bad teams. The luxury tax thing has absolutely
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blown up the way that the top end teams compete.
It's made it very difficult. There's lots of teams that
are trying to shed money, which is if that's what
the league wants, it's fine. It does create more parody
and creates interesting off seasons and whatnot to whatever. But
you know, do the Wolves, you know, what is he
looking at? Like what would Brooklyn pay him? What? Like
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Detroit I think has some money. Like there's some teams
out there. Detroit's obviously decent. They made the playoffs, but
you know they can.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Think, well, Julius Randall were one piece of way from
taking the next step.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Right, Like, does does he get three or four years
for forty some million a year? Like? Is that what?
I don't know what the Julius random market is? Or
does he Hey, I want to keep playing with the
Wolves with Aunt with you know, and I'm gonna you know,
it's it'll be interesting, I guess, for lack of a
better word, I don't really know if I'm him, you know,
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it depends how much E value is winning too? Right?
Could he do a two or two year extension with
us and spread out the money a little bit or
three years or whatever? Right? Right?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
And probably the best scenario for him in his mind
if I can sign a contract extension with the Wolves
and extend this two years.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Right.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
But also the last thing in his mind is probably
sticking with that player option, because the last thing he
wants to do, yeah, is keep that one year and
then have to figure out and negotiate a contract that
he wants at thirty one, Right, this is the summer
for him to strike gold, right with the Wolves or
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with someone else.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Right, this is kind of probably his last chance to
get the biggest it'll be the last the biggest contract
he's had, the last one.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Right, It's like Sam Darnold a little bit, Yeah, Like
this is the last chance that he has to make
a huge dollar amount, especially because of the way he's
played in the playoffs. As you've mentioned. And when you're
thirty one, you're not signing a three year deal when you're.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Doing you know, there's you're going year to year at
that point, you.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Know, right, right, And when you're thirty, it's like, well,
we could sign three years and then thirty three and
then you're kind of then you're just kind of a
bench player everybody everywhere else till until you finish off
your career. Uh So it really depends on what the
Timberwls want to do. But that's what Randall is thinking.
(39:44):
A one year security option for a guy that's been
hurt for a large part of his career is not
what he's gonna want, and it's not what his agent
is going to tell him. They're going to work on
a two to three year contract extension with the Wolves,
and uh, if that doesn't happen, they're going to test
the market.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
In my opinion, yep, I agree, yeah, and especially I
mean it depends what happens in the next two series too.
If there are two series, right, does he win a
championship and just mm hmm does that make him want
to stay and win another one? Does that make him say, oh,
I won my championship, Let's go to Brooklyn for five years.
You know, I'm making it up, but you know whatever,
it's a huge number that Darnold did, right, that kind
of thing. He's made it very interesting again now because
(40:24):
it seemed like it was kind of easier when he
wasn't playing so well. Totally yea, and now it's like
going to be complicated again.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
It went from gosh, I hope he doesn't sign this
player option deal. He's stuck for thirty million.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Yep. Million might be a bargain, right, And I was like, well, yep,
and they need him, I mean they do.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Yeah, you're right. Yeah, well, Jake, thanks for your takes.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
It's always a pleasure Minnesota, Tim.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
I appreciate it. It's always a good time together. M hm,
great time, great time together. Well, everyone, thank you for
joining the show. Remember five Star Bass Solutions of Minneapolis,
which I forgot to talk about. I guess I'll put
a little ad at the beginning of the.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Show just recorded after m h.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
I already have one recorded.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
An Do you need to like say anything about it? No? Right?
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Yeah? Yeah? Are you gonna I heard them.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
I've heard good things from cancel them. Hey, but maybe
when you finish your basement again. We got to do
that at some point, So well, there you go. I'm
not gonna do myself. That sounds like a heck of
a lot of work.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
That sure does. Yeah. We're doing some landscaping outside right now.
A lot of work that I.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Don't mind though, because that's just manual labor. At least
I can comprehend it. Bathroom stuff just seems like if
I screw up, mold might be ruined. Yeah, sure, the
way it feels anyway, I know it's not likely, but you.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Know, so, don't be like Jake. Be like Jake, actually
be like Jake.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Correct, don't remodel your own bathroom because a bathroom is
a life, part of your value to your house. Five
star Bass Solutions of Minneapolis. All right, everyone, thanks for
Jake joining Jake and I today, and have a good day.
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