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May 25, 2025 • 19 mins

Minnesota Tim discusses the Minnesota Timberwolves' impressive victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 3 of the playoffs. He highlights the significant adjustments made by the team, particularly in their shooting performance, and emphasizes the importance of key players like Anthony Edwards and Terrence Shannon Jr. The discussion also touches on the dynamics of the game, the correlation between offensive success and defensive intensity, and the expectations for the upcoming Game 4.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Adjustments, adjustments adjustments for the Minnesota Timberwolves organization and roster
implanted by head coaches, enforced by players, which created a
Timberwolves one hundred and forty three to one hundred and
one victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder. Good morning, Happy Sunday.

(00:30):
My name is Tim, and we're going to talk about
the Timberwolves Game three win over the Thunder, the adjustments
that were made, and how the Wolves won this game.
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Solutions of Minneapolis. All Right, Timber Bowls win, and it's
adjustment season because everyone wants to talk about the adjustments.
But the first thing I want to talk about is
the swing from game one to Game three. The Wolves

(02:27):
lost Game one one, fourteen eighty eight. That's a twenty
six point loss, and then one game three one forty three,
one to one, that's a forty two point win. We
are talking about.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
A sixty eight point swing, sixty eight point swing from
game one to game three, and before we dive into
the adjustments, that stet by itself is just.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
A mind boggling number. The Wolves lost by twenty six
and then they win by forty two. So much can
change from game to game that one team can lose
by twenty six and another team can win by forty two.
I don't think there is another sport like basketball where

(03:28):
the swings are so different. The differential can be so different.
And the main adjustment that the Wolves made in this
game is they made their shots. People want to complicate
these things and oh they did this, and they did that.
Oh oh, the brilliant strategy by the Wolves to guard

(03:54):
Shaye Gogus Alexander this way or to put this offensive
motion in the game. The thunder just could not see
it coming. The biggest adjustment the Timberwolves shot fifty percent
from the three point line twenty for forty compared to

(04:14):
the twenty eight percent from the three point line in
games one in games two. That's the difference. That's why
the game was different. That's why the Wolves won this game.
Everybody was clicking from three. Edwards five for eight from three,
Conley two for six from three, Jada McDaniel's two for four,

(04:37):
Julius Randle two for five, and the bench nas Reed
two for three, Stevincenzo two for two, Nikhil Alexander Walker
two for four, So as much as people want to
make it about adjustments, and the Timberwolves did this, the
game was impacted and it changed because the Timberwolve shot

(05:00):
fifty percent from the three point line. Sure, they did
do things differently defensively, but here's the truth. Offensive shot
making is directly correlated with defensive intensity. The Timberwolves defensive
intensity was different in Games three than it was versus

(05:22):
games one in games two because they were making more
shots in Game three. And although it shouldn't be, you
should be having a defensive intensity regardless if your shot
is going in or not. But the truth is, even
in open gen basketball, even in the NBA, defensive intensity

(05:44):
is correlated with shot making. Because you make a shot,
you start feeling good about yourself. You make a shot
and you want to work harder on the other end
of the floor because you feel good about yourself. And
the Timberwolves could do the exact same thing in Game

(06:05):
four where they guard shade the exact same way, They
have the exact same shots, they have the same intensity,
and they can lose. So as much as people want
to make it about the adjustments, it was the shot making.
It was the thunder not shooting as well. So One

(06:30):
of the best things Charles Barkley says is it's a
make or miss league. Who's gonna make shots and who's
gonna miss the shots. It's really as simple as that. Uh.
One of the big adjustments, however, we're gonna talk about adjustments,
was the input into the lineup of Terrence Shannon Junior,

(06:55):
the rookie out of Illinois, and my first reaction to
him going in is it's about time because he should
be a regular part of the Timberwolves rotation, even if
it is only for ten minutes a game, five minutes

(07:16):
in the second quarter, five minutes in the third quarter,
particularly when Anthony Edwards is off the floor, that's when
he should be in because Terrence Shannon Junior offers the
Timberwolves an offensive option that doesn't really exist outside of

(07:40):
Anthony Edwards. Julius Randall brings this and Anthony Edwards brings
us this, but outside of those guys, it's really only
Terrence Shannon Junior. Terrence Shannon Junior is different than Nikill,

(08:00):
Alexander Walker, and Dante DiVincenzo because he does not live
and die in the three point line. He attacks the
rim similarly to Anthony Edwards, and when Edwards is not
on the court, there is no reason why Tyn Shannon
Junior should not be on the court because he provides

(08:23):
the Timberwolves something different than jacking and hoisting threes. He
puts more pressure on the defense than Dante DiVincenzo and
Nikill Alexander Walker combined, especially when those guys aren't making
their shots. And in Games three, they made their shots

(08:45):
because everybody was making their shots. Nikill Alexander Walker five
for nine twelve points, Dante DiVincenzo two for two six points,
Niles Reed four for six ten points. Especially when Nasri
does not have it going. The Timberwolves best scoring threat

(09:08):
off the bench, Terrence Shannon Junior, should be in the game.
And that's what we heard from Chris Finch postgame. He said,
You're gonna see a lot more of Terrence Shannon Junior.
There is a lot to love about this game, not
only offensively, but defensively. The dude is physical and he
plays with an energy that you don't see from every

(09:32):
single player within that Timberwolves organization. And here's a stat
about Terrence Shannon Junior coming from Dave mcmannimon. He says
his nine points in the first half are the most
by a Timberwolves rookie off the bench in an entire
game in franchise history, eclipsing Shane Heel's previous record of

(09:54):
six points against the Rockets on April twenty fourth, nineteen nine,
tinety seven. I have no idea who Shane Hill is.
I've never even heard of him. But here's also the
truth about Taryn Shannon Junior. The dude is ready to
play NBA basketball even though he's a rookie. Because he's

(10:16):
a twenty three or twenty four year old rookie. The
difference between being Rob Dillingham, a nineteen year old rookie,
and being Arryn Shannon Junior, a twenty four year old
rookie is leaps and bounds. We're talking about mountains versus

(10:39):
valleys of a difference. Because his body has matured, he
is strong, he does have an NBA body, and when
Taryn Shannon Junr. Is in the game, he can be
physical with the opponent because he's ready to be physical

(10:59):
with the opponent. So great draft pick by the Wolves,
and I think Terrence Shannon Junr. Is going to have
a major impact on the Timberwolves organization. Not just for
the rest of these playoffs, but next year, in the

(11:21):
years going forward, because I think he's a special talent
and he only has one move, which is fascinating. The
dude can't go right, he only can go left. And
you hear so much about oh, you need to have
a counter move to your move, and sure there's advantages

(11:44):
to that, and I think that's how you take the
next step in the league. But you look at some
of the great players. Anthony Edwards has counter moves. Julius Randall,
he can't go right, he can only go left. He
only has one move, post up, fadeaway over his left hand.
How many skyhooks have we seen from Julius Randa a
little left over his right hand shoulder, Never and never

(12:07):
see it. Tiarren Shannon Jr. Is the same way. If
you're a young kid and you want to become a
great player, perfect one move, work on one move over
and over and over and over again until that one
move is great. Because Arren Shannon Jr. Is a testament

(12:30):
and so are many NBA players a testament to really
only having one move. Can trouble with his right hand
towards the basket and NBA defense is struggle with that.
So just kind of a fun interesting note about that.
All right, next point I want to make Anthony Edwards.

(12:54):
I've been clamoring for Edwards not to sit back and
relax for the first half. As you do that, the
game's over. The Thunder are a different animal. And finally,
in Game three, Edwards started the game hot and ready
to play. Sixteen points in the first quarter. Was efficient,

(13:14):
set the tone offensively and defensively, had multiple strips from
the Thunder offense, and had fast break dunks, knockdown threes,
was aggressive, played tremendous defense. He's got to set the
tone every single game for the Timberwolves to have a
chance against the Thunder because I have my doubts about

(13:40):
the Wolves being able to win back to back games
against the Thunder. The Thunder are going to look completely
different in game four, and so will the Wolves than
they did in Game three because the likelihood is that
the Wolves will not shoot twenty for forty from the
three point line. The offense is going to struggle more,

(14:01):
which is going to impact the defensive intensity. And what
does need to happen in game four is that Anthony
Edwards needs to start the game with the same energy
as he did in Game three. He needs to start
the game with the same mentality of impacting the game

(14:25):
and wanting to destroy the Thunder. In the opening period,
Anthony Edwards by himself outscored the Thunder in the first quarter.
He had sixteen points. The Thunder had fourteen points. And
that's the kind of impact that we want to see
from him. Sure, he will not outscore the Thunder in
Game four by himself in the first quarter, but the

(14:49):
idea is still the same. He needs to put his
foot on the gas pedal as soon as the opening
tip happens, because that's the formula the Timberwolves need to
beat the Thunder. And he saw the teammates feed off
of Edwards' energy in games one. In games two, Edwards

(15:12):
was so relaxed at the beginning of the game that
he forced the teammates to make plays, and Julius Randold
did so in game one and kept the Walls in it.
But in game two, and Randa wasn't that guy, Edwards
still wasn't really that guy. Then everything just fell apart

(15:34):
one last talking point. Third quarter, Timberwolves are up by
like thirty to start the quarter. The Thunder going in
an eleven to two run to cut the lead to
twenty two. Finch calls the timeout. Fans are panicking. I
sent a text to the group thread that said this

(15:57):
will become a single digit lead at some point. Well
I was proven wrong because immediately after the timeout, the
Timberwolves go on a seven to zero run and get
the lead back up to thirty and after that the
game was over. The Thunder were always going to make
a run, but how the Wolves responded to that run

(16:20):
was going to be the difference between winning or losing
this game, the difference between winning this game easily and
winning this game with a little worry because the lucky
part for the Timberwolves, the fortunate part for the team
is that they were up by thirty one and the

(16:40):
Thunder went on an eleven to two run, which meant
the league got cut down to twenty two. Instead of
the lead being twenty two or twenty and the Thunder
going on and eleven to two run and the lead
getting cut to eleven or twelve, and they're right back
in the game. The Timberwolves still had some buffer and
some room to breathe because they played so well in

(17:03):
the first half. So when the Wolves went on a
seven to zero run, the Thunder waved the white flag
and the game was essentially over. So great work by
the Timberwolves responding to that, because the Thunder are a
great third quarter team and we've seen that in games
win end games two. The Thunder blew the games open

(17:25):
in both games of the third quarter, getting big double
digit leads, and that was enough for the Thunder to
hold off the Timberwolves in games won end games two.
So the fact that the Wolves responded to US eleven
to two run with a seven to zero run of
their own was huge because the Thunder arrested their players

(17:50):
in the entire fourth quarter, and the Timberwolves also got
to rest their players for the entire fourth quarter, so
they be ready and energized four game four. Both teams
should be. But again, as far as adjustments go, there's
not a single adjustment that's gonna make a forty two

(18:12):
point game. Sure, there's small things you can do guarding Shay.
They doubled him off the pick and roll, they made
him pass, but Terrence Shannon Junior outscored everybody within that
Thunder starting lineup. That's not an adjustment. That's just a

(18:32):
guy making shots and finishing at the rim. That's a
team knocking down threes at a high clip. So adjustments, adjustment, Sure, fine,
you can call it that. I'm just gonna call it
what it is. The Timberwls made their shots as simple
as that. All right, everyone, Thanks for watching. Make sure

(18:53):
you check out five Star Bass Solutions in Minneapolis and
go Wolves game fours around the corner Monday night, Memorial Day.
Have a good day, everybody,
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