Wolves Fanline - Western Conference Finals Game 2

Max Fuller, Parker Fox, and John B take your calls after the Wolves drop Game 2 to the Mavs. 

Episode Transcript

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Work. Oh well, Twins wonthree two. That's how you gotta start

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it off. P w h ownPete Boston. Anything else happened tonight?
Next was good, next one,next that our time was great. They
still got it. They still gotit, still got it, still got
it. Oh well. Despite somesuper heroic efforts from nas Reed and the

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rest of the Timberwolves in the fourthquarter, Luka Doncic played the role of
the villain, daggering the Minnesota Timberwolveswith a late three to put the Mavericks
up two oh and seal the gameone oh nine to one oh eight.
Nas Reed had a chance to tiethe game with three seconds to go,

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and it looked like it was gonnabe a fairy tale ending, but it
just didn't go. And now yourMinnesota Timberwolves find themselves down two oh heading
to the lone Star State on Sunday. This is Wolves fan line Ak Howland
with the Homies, presented to youby ABC American Building Contractors. And speaking

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of building guys, we're gonna haveto rebuild after this game. The Timberwolves
just gonna have to just I don'twant to say like clear house like that,
but I mean, they're just gonnahave to start from scratch, get
back to the drawing board, andget back to what they do best.
Max Fuller here alongside Parker Fox MC, John B John Barry. Where do
we even start with this game?Y'all just got to make more shots,

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right, just make more shots thanthey do. Set it after game one?
How they win Game two? Makeshots? The key players did not
make shots and so we lost byone. Yeah we got I don't know,
man, it's just like you talkabout all these things that you think
you're gonna see. You know,we talk pre game about how we expect
Aunt to get to the rim andyou know, finish war, which we

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saw a little bit more of,but still, you know, in my
opinion, not enough. And thenyou know we talk about Pa comes in
here and you know, he callsout a big cat night tonight. Right.
I hate to say you're wrong,Pa, but but no, I
just you know, you expect somuch more. And I think everybody in
the crowd just really wanted that one. I think that's what makes it really

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so tough, is because so manypeople want this, for this team,
for the city, for the state, and it just like didn't happen tonight.
Which really stinks. But you know, I think I think we did
do some really good things and there'sa lot to build on and realize that,
hey, we're a pretty good roadteam. You know. We went
we went into Denver and we gotwe got two against the champs and the
MVP, like three against the Chancethree. That's true, we did,

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and I think that's, Uh,you gotta if you're going to find some
sort of silver lining here, youtell yourself, hey, if we did
it against the former champs, theMVP, there's no reason we can't go
into Dallas and do it against them. They have fair weather fans down there.
They're not they're not hardy and toughlike us up here in Minnesota.
So I don't know, just tostaying positive and you know, hoping that

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the guys are affected by this inthe right way, and then we come
out on Sunday, right right ahowl. Yeah, it looked like it
was going to be off to theraces. The Timberwls held an eighteen point
lead at one point, twelve pointlead at halftime. The three was falling,
the team was attacking the basket earlyand and the edwards looked pretty good.
Mike Conley had a huge balance backgame. Nas Reed obviously was pretty

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much the hero of the game.He hit a bunch of big shots to
keep it close late, to keepthem ahead late, I should say,
but just couldn't get that last oneto go. What really, to you
guys, what was the biggest difference? It was a tale of two halves.
It was completely different, a differentgame in the first twenty four minutes
than the second twenty four minutes.What was the biggest difference in the second

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half to you guys, I thinkKyrie and Luca getting getting off on track
and hitting their shots and making playsand timely shots. Tyrie could not miss
the fourth quarter. They went onthat aight Oho run to take the one
point lead in the fourth quarter,and now that's when it was a game,
and it was like game on andthey got they got a lot of
confidence from that at O run andman, man man, Yeah, I

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don't. I just I just didn'tsome of the ball stream stuff we talked
about on the show pre game andsome of the stuff that we wanted to
see differently. Yeah, we sawa couple of changes, but at the
end of the day, we gota fight a way where we can get
Jaden McDaniels in front of Luka Dancic. It's too hard to guard Luca when
you're already have to guard him frombehind, you know he's playing, and

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Luca gets him on his hip andgets him on his back, and it's
either a bucket or I think there'sno way Dallas doesn't lead the league in
all you dunks. It's insane howmany they get. That's all their big
men do, all they do.Derek Lively went six for six because it's
just don't they're all just ali aldunk. It's just insane. Kyrie and

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Luca just have but they can putit in that exact right height where like
this looks too high almost. Andthen it was Star Wars night over at
target Field. We had a coupleof Sith Lords jo Target Center and the
force was not with us. Thatwas looking like Order sixty six was called
in the fourth quarter because my god, or where Luca and Kyrie just not

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They just could not miss. Andthat's I mean, that's why you get
a guy like Kyrie Irving, right, I mean just for the big moments
like that. He's been there anddone that, and you could tell that
fourth corn playoff, playoff Kyrie,he's done it before. He's absolutely you
know, obviously when he had LebronJames on his team, that helped him
too, But Kyrie has always beenthat, you know, that go to
kind of guy, that big shotkind of guy, clutch Blair. He

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hits that corner, like when hecaught the ball in the corner there at
the minute lefter or whatever. Itmeans like that's cash that's going in every
every every day of the week,that's going in, and it's that's a
layup for a guy like Kyrie Irving. It's you gotta find ways to you
can't break down, and if you'regonna break down, you got to know
who you're breaking down and what you'reallowing. For example, Luca end of

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the game gets switched on an islandwith Rudy Gobert. That's it can't happen
if you want to if you wantto be a championship team, if you
want to be about your details,if you want to be about winning a
championship. I respect Rudy and Ithink he's one of the best in the
league at switching onto guards and containingthem. But this is Luka Doncic we're
talking about, right, this isthe guy that lives for the step back.

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I'm gonna talkalk my crap after Ihit this cash kind of three you
get, you get put on theLuca Island. It can get, It
can get dangerous out there, itcan get but I mean, you just
gotta find ways to do the littlethings right. And we just we didn't
do it tonight. And like wetalked about off there, that's one of
those situations where you almost just throweveryone that you have at Luca can make

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the Derrek live leaves Washington, evenif they're wide opening like like you said,
John, even if it's an alley, one of those another alley to
one of those guys at least playfor this and anybody anything but a Luca
donches three in that situation. Andthat's exactly you're probably gonna hear Trent Tucker
tomorrow morning say you gotta double Luca. Get the ball auto. I guarantee

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you eight ten tomorrow morning, TrentTucker will say you gotta double Luca.
Get out of his hands. It'sridiculous, man. And this is howling
with the homies. If you wantto howl with those more of a whimper
tonight than a how But we're stillpreaching hope. This team can still I'm
doing Wolves in six. Is itzill alive? Nobody wants to hear that

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right now, but it's true.This team is resilient. They can still
do it. Called us one eighthundred three two zero five three two six
or text us six four six eightsix. We got Tony in Charleston that
wants to howl with the homies.What's good, Tony? Hey, how's
it going? Yeah, Tonys fromCharleston and came up flew up today to
watch the game. Thanks for havingme on. Appreciate it. Hey,

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a lot of bad calls tonight.We were you know, eleventh row and
we you know a lot of folkswere unhappy with several of the file falls.
My question is I think two parts. One, I think the NBA
needs to take a look at howthey're reviewing plays and and and fils are
just i think they're missing something thereand it has been consistent problem throughout the

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playoffs. But secondly, kind oftagging along that, why are we not
why are the Wolves not challenging moreof these calls. There was a couple
that clearly should be set aside allthe game. You know, obviously the
game should never be decided about,but you know, you know there are
things we could have done better.But just the calls, just talking about
that, why are we not challengingsome that were very clear? I know

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the coach isn't right there because he'ssitting second row, but why does he
not hold up his hand with somesignals of hey, that's what we need
to call it? Like the Imean, just listening to the crowd,
you should know which ones you shouldbe challenging. I think we missed the
ball in a few I appreciate thecall, Tony. Someone just commented on
the stream and said, I'd ratherinhale a Chris hockey fart. I think

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that's kind of how we're all feelingright now. Oh my god. But
yeah, the refereeing, it's it'squestionable at times. It happens in all
of the core four major sports.There was some questionable calls late, but
you can't really blame this one onthe rest. It's late game execution,
and it is. It is afair question to ask why the Wolves coaching
staff didn't challenge a couple of thosecalls. Especially when they had more than

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a couple of times. Yeah,I mean there's a guy on every staff,
on every you know, team that'sin charge of you know, having
an iPad in his hand and deciding, hey is this am I going to
tell the head coach? Are wechallenging this call? And you oftentimes you
see the guys kind of look athim, and the head coach will look
at him and he'll be watching andhe'll he'll either you know, twirl his

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finger and say let's let's review thisone, or he'll hold back and they
decide to hold back on that one. I don't know. We saw him
and replay a couple of times.It seemed like Jaden got a lot of
ball, but it maybe got alittle bit of hand too, And I
actually saw I actually saw Luca Garzasignaling the motion of himself hitting his own
hand. Because a lot of peoplewere booing about why are we not calling,
you know, reviewing this, andit seemed that there was a consensus

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on the Wolves bench that hey,this was a foul, it's not worth
using our review. I don't know. To me, it seems like so
many times when we go to thisreview, it at least gives you a
chance so you don't maybe try it. But I don't know. There's somebody
that's, you know, in chargeof that, and that's his role and
whoever that may be for each staff, and you know, I mean Dallas
got both of them to night.You know, they challenged twice and they

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got him and then but but heis right. I think, you know,
I would like to see a rulechange in some sort of way where
you know, obviously the ball wasout on Jaden, but he was fouled.
To have that happen, you're notallowed to call a foul because of
that. You can't go and callfoul on a on a replay. So
I'd love to see some sort ofrule change where you shouldn't be great given

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the ball if you fouled and therest missed it in real play, you
know. So it's like I'd liketo see that change. But that's just
kind of my opinion on it.John from but Midgie, you're howling with
the homies. What's good? John? Tell me something good? Yeah,
I just I just think it thinkswe wasted a day in mcgame of Masterpiece

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game one, you know, andthen a naz Reid Masterpiece game two.
You know, the whole thing isjust like, why do I look sports
to sect my mood so much?I mean, that's that's what's what's got
me most bummed. I mean it, I'm just mad at myself for being
mad about the game, but becausewe love it, right, because it
brings us the highest high, itcomes with the lowest lows, but we

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love it and it fills our heartsand breaks our hearts, and I love
how John started with a question aboutthe Timberwolves and then started questioning because by
the end of the call, whatam I doing watching sports? I should
learn get hobby, I said,get a skill. I feel you,

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John, I feel you. That'show all of the Twin Cities is feeling
right now. But we're gonna talkthrough it. People, we're all in
this together. Don't give up justyet. This Timberwolves team can still do
it. Sunday night at seven.We'll see how they respond. Game three
is coming at you on Sunday,but we're we got more Howling with the

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Homies coming at you right after thebreak. This is Wolves fan line ak
Howling with the Homies, presented toyou by A. B. C.
My name is m. A X. And we'll be right back on KFA
and after this, welcome back tohowling with the homies. And sometimes we

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howl enjoy, sometimes we howl inpain, and all of the Twin Cities.
It's feeling a little bit shook rightnow. After Luca Doncic hit a
dagger three with about three seconds togo that put the Mavericks up one oh
nine one eight for good, andyour Minnesota Timberwolves are heading to Texas down
two to oh in the Western ConferenceFinals. Max fully here alongside Parker Fox

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and John Barry. The phone linesare lit up. Not only usually the
phone lines are only if it's justlike an okay game, then they ain't
lit up. If they if theykicked ass, then they're lit up.
If they were ass, then thenthey're lit up. And right now it's
it is the ladder. We gotMike from Oscio on the line. What's
good, Mike, Hey, guys, how you doing tonight? It's been

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a little bit of a rough one. Yeah, that's that's the understate of
today, Mike oh Man. Yeah, Hey, I just have a couple
three real quick points that as soonas the game got over, I had
my dad. He was texting me. I had a guy in Arizona call
me out of Phoenix, and andwe were all kind of wondering three things.
One, yes, you know aman through eternal Rittian that sucked to

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watch that he's been off. Whoknows what's going on there? But we
kind of wonder, just you know, we hate to bring bring the word
kind of rigged type of stuff intosport. Now you kind of wonder,
no, right, right, andneither my But when you watched a couple
calls right at the end there,like you guys brought it up with the

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Jaden miss on the you know,ball out of bounds, take you tack
thing. It happened again on withI think it was actually Kyrie on the
other end. And the Wolves wereup by three or four points in both
scenarios with like thirty forty seconds ago. And if they make those particular
when you know someone slaps hands,I always wonder, as a fan boy,

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what is up with that when theyjust swallow the whistle. I get
it when you got a big centerbeating up each other or whatever, but
you're right there. So that's acomment I have. And we all were
kind of asking, We're like,what are we watching? And thirdly,
quick about Luka. Dude, youknow the guy can shoot. I get
it, But to me when Iwatch it in slow moll and some of

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the announcers when you watch other sportsshows kind of talk about certain aspects of
this sport. Aren't aren't you notallowed to dive into the defender when you
shoot? Kind of like the samething when a defender undercuts you when you
land straight down or whatever. BecauseI watched Luke do this all the time,
it reminds me, that's my questionas a sports fan, because I

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kind of wonder and any barks atthe rest constantly, and to me,
isn't that a technical when you're swearingand barking all the time. I don't
know. I'm confused sometimes when Iwatch this as a fan. I don't
know enough probably, but it's alittle weird to me. Goot d Ask,
Thanks guys, Yeah, thanks forthe call, Mike. Mike said
a lot there. I'll start withwhat he first said as Anthony Edwards just

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didn't have it tonight and he justdidn't have it late. Him and Karl
Anthony Towns again, we were askingfor our Batman and our Robin are our
two Batman's to show up, andI mean thirty six points between the two
of them and just pretty brutal shootingwise, just isn't going to cut it,
you guys. It is exhausted.He's chasing around Kyrie, He's chasing

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around Luca. He's exerting so muchenergy. I don't think he's getting enough
calls at the at the at thebasket. He's not getting the face of
the league type. He's not,but he's still giving maximum effort and he
is gassed. And that man isplaying forty five minutes in this series.
And I don't know about you,but I looked I'm tired of just watching

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him run around him seriously, SoI don't know what it's going to take
to give that man some rest orget him a couple of breathers in the
middle of the fourth quarter or thirdquarter. I don't know what it's going
to take. And it felt likeearly on he was mostly on Luka Doncics,
and I thought that was going tohelp the the energy levels at least
not having to guard Kyrie as much. But still, Anthony Edwards looked pretty

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gassed towards the end there, andand Nasried was playing really well. I
think that's more so why Karl AnthonyTowns wasn't on the floor at the end
there, but still not not theoptics. We understand Nareg is playing well,
but the optics of having your arguablyyour second best player not even on
the court for the last five,six, seven minutes is not a good
look as a partner. Yeah,it just doesn't seem like we're we've figured

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out what we want to do.You know, I think championship teams kind
of have your rotation down, andyeah, you got to make little adjustments.
And I don't mind going to Nasrikbecause he's hot, but yeah,
we got to find a way toget Aunt little breathers here and there.
If that's truly what it is,if he's truly just that exhausted, because
we need that, we need thatSun series Aunt. We that's the type

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of guy. If we want towin a championship, forget everything else.
Like we can talk about whatever theheck we want to talk about. We
can talk about refts, we cantalk about whatever the heck we want to
talk If we're not getting the bestversion of Anthony Edwards, we're not We're
not quite good enough we just aren't. We're not quite good enough to win
a championship if we don't get thebest version of every guy in the roster,
but most specifically our best player,Anthony Edwards. So we got to

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find ways to make sure he's healthyand make sure that you know, he
can play and be effective. Andyou know, I even think of the
last possession three seconds left. Yeah, you know, Nas is hot,
and that's a shot Nas can make, And honestly, it's probably the right
play when you drive a lane andthe defender closes in on you to kick
it out. That's that's what we'retaught. But like, I would just

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love to see Ant put the pressureon the rim because I just feel,
I don't know, I just feellike his first step is so different than
any other player in the league.And I'm even here to say I think
he's got one of the best firststeps of all time, and I think
he can get downhill and make playsat the rim and even if he doesn't
finish, he's putting, you know, he's putting the raft in a position
where it's a it's a hoop ora whistle. And I don't know,
I just haven't seen that version ofAnt this series and we and we,

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I don't know, maybe we've beenspoiled because we've seen so much of it
and we've seen him do it allyear and just maybe it's just not happening
right now. But yeah, I'dlove to see us find a way to
get a healthy Ant and Game three, we only win if we have a
healthy Ant. Yeah, it's andit's even more startling in contrast to what
the Mavericks are getting out of thereto Superstars, which is everything that they

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have. Yeah, and Anthony Edwardsjust looks indecisive out there. He looks
like, like you said, thewhole it's kind of a microcosm of the
whole Timber. We don't really looklike we know what we fully want to
do against this Dallas defense yet.I mean even that last the second to
last possession, when he makes thatthat pass, you know, he knows
he's our team, right, Likehe he understands that, like he sees

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the media to like he knows everybody'stelling he's our team. Like twelve seconds
left, you're gonna you're gonna throwit to this First of all, Nas
isn't ready because you're supposed to bethe guy taking the shot, like,
this is the kind of thing wherelike when you play so many games together,
a person does a thing so manytimes, so as Nas, Yeah,
the coach canna be like, Nas, you gotta be ready and do
it. But but at the endof the day, no, Ant's Ant's
got to shoot that because that's whathe's done for ninety four games. That's

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what he's That's what he's done,So that's what each person comes to expect.
Every single person in target center thought, An, it's gonna shoot this
ball, and then he throws itout of balance. So it's like,
I don't know, is it atired thing? Is it? Is it
just the moment's too big. Idon't know what it is. This is
the first series where they've had legitimaterim protectors that they have to go to
against. I wouldn't call Nirkica rimpprotector. No, I wouldn't call yo

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Ka rim protectors. So I'm stilltrying to adjust to this, would you
say, Parker like trying to figureout how to get past Lively And let's
the other guy's name, Jones,Jones Jr. They're they're more athletic,
they are long ranging guys rather thanthey're the closest looking team to our team
that we've played thus far. Andthe Wolves don't. They look like they

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don't really know how to handle playingkind of their mirror image. Almost.
Yeah, this this Dallas team isbuilt on length and athleticism and PJ.
Washington and Lively and you know,Gafford and Derek Jet like, this is
long athleticism and and we're not tryingto make any excuses here for that.
We we got to find ways tobeat those kind of things, whether that's

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a coaching schematic thing where I don'tknow, let's let's work on getting the
guy in the dunker spot and youknow, finishing strong or whatever it may
be. But we can't. Wecan't. And this is what we always
said that we can't let another teamdictate how we're gonna play, Like,
we gotta play the way we play. And yeah, you're gonna make little
adjustments and find ways to score theball and and all that kind of stuff,

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but you gotta find a way toto I don't know, Adas like
they got those lobs so easy atthe rim ye every time, and I
feel like we're just as good ofa defensive. That's why it's like,
oh yeah, we gotta Lively andGafford are these defensive stop right? I
mean we have a better team.We have the four time defensive Player of
the Year, right, and we'vegot a sixth Man of the Year.

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Man. It's just yeah, it'sto give a little bit of hope.
We lost by one point. It'sone point one basket here. It's so
close both ways, but it's justthe one point hurts even more when you
had an eighteen point lead. Iagree with you. I still have hope.
I still believe in this team.But it wasn't like a back and
forth game like last game, andit was you. You were in control

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of this game for I would say, seventy five percent of this game.
And then all of a sudden,Luca and Kyrie just start showing. I
mean, Kyrie couldn't forget that's unreal, how good they're really good. We
have to we have to drop thisconversation. They're yeah, they're really good.
Eric from Grand Rapids, You're you'rehowling with the homies. What's good?

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Eric? Hey? So, Iwas just noticing that we were at
the game here and in the firsthalf, when we were pushing the lead
way up we had Kyle Anderson,who finished the first half as a plus
fifteen, and you had Jaden McDanielsout there at the same time, and
and it was the length of thosethree that was really causing a problem for
Luca and Kyrie and the wool andthe Mavericks went on the run in the

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third quarter, and the staff coachingstaff seemed to oblivious to the fact that
Kyle Anderson was plus fifteen during thistime, and then they went back to
it way late after the run andit wasn't the same exact lineup. It
just seems like a huge coaching Yeah. I mean, I think you obviously

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as a team, you know,you're the five guys out on the court.
You gotta figure out a way toget things done. But but you're
right, I think I would haveloved I think the way Kyle Anderson has
played in this series. Like,yeah, a lot of people want to
talk crap about Kyle Anderson his game, but I think I think he's an
awesome option. You know, wetalked about some pick and roll stuff that
that Dallas runs. I think Kyle'sa guy that can guard the four slash

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five position and then he can switchon to a guy like Luca, like,
I way rather have Kyle Anderson guardingLuka Doncic isolated on a perimeter at
the end of the game there thanRudy Gobert. With all due respect to
Rudy, but I don't know,you're I think the caller's right. I
think you know, you gotta findways to whatever isn't isn't working that night,
and if something else is working,like you gotta you gotta go with
that lineup and run with them alittle bit. So, I don't know,

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I'd like to see him, youknow, go back and watch that
film and say, hey, wheredid where did we go wrong? Offensively?
Where do we go wrong? Mismatchwise? Where do we go wrong
defense? Lee? And how canwe kind of counteract that for for Game
three in Dallas. Yeah, thisis Howling with the Homies aka Wolves fan
line, presented to you by ABC. Shout out to ABC, Shout out
to all the callers on the line. We're going to take a few more

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calls before we bow out gracefully orI guess maybe ungracefully. After tonight,
Dave from Savage You're Howling with theHomies, yo. You know, who
do you who anyway right, talkabout it, Dave, give me to
talk about it. People are saying, I'm at all I think the MAVs

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should be scared. We almost winall these games and our two superstars aren't
even playing. Well you kidding me? No, he's right, you know,
I will say, okay, Iwill say, though, uh yeah,
we're for sure not losing, orwe're not God, you know what,
they're not right. If Luca asthe whole state of Minnesota baffled,

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confused, befun and questioning ourselves afterone single shot, we appreciate you,
Dave, Tim Tebow guy, you'reon the line, you're howling with the
homies. What was good TTG?What's up? Maxie? Tell me some
good TTG? Well, steal apage out of common Man's book. We

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got a key on Kyrie, Wegot a lockdown Luca. We got to
freeze Rudy Fernandez from that three pointline. Rudy Fernandez. Maybe I'm missing
I didn't. I mean, peopleare getting on Rudy obviously that he got

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the shot, But it's Luka doncicSo I don't think Rudy had a particularly
horrible game or anything like that.People are are getting on him. I
actually liked how the Wolves got himmore involved in the offense. I mean,
he had sixteen points, ten rebounds. That's usually you look at that.
That's a great Rudy game. That'sthat's what you get Rudy four outside
of the defense. That's what youwant from Rudy offensively. So I don't

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I don't really understand the criticism ofRudy so much exactly. That's it.
That's it. It's about to bepaid three hundred and forty million miss dollars
like this is you know, weI don't know. I think oftentimes we
forget who we're playing against a reallygood teams. The other guys are getting
paid to this is. This isa really good team and they match up

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really well against us, and we'rejust going to have to find ways to
limit those. Yeah, one hundredpercent. Jordan from Bismarck. You're the
last caller on Howland with the homiesfor the night. So make it good,
Parker. Shout out to Saul PhillipsNorthern State, one of the best
guys in college basketball all time.Listen, if Anthony Edwards doesn't figure it

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out, it's not gonna matter.We can talk about Kyle Anderson. You
can talk about Jade McDaniels, youtalk about Nasried, you talk about everybody.
If Anthony Edwards continues to play likethis, they're gonna lose it in
four. It doesn't matter what happens. If Anthony Edwards isn't going to step
it up, it's over. Shoutout to Aaron and Erica for driving me
to the game tonight. Had afew beers go Wolves. Yeah, get

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them safe, man, Yeah,get home safe. We need Wolves fans
back in Target Center when we comeback here. Yeah. But he's the
callers, right, and we talkedabout it, you know, earlier on
the show. It's you know,this is a Wolves team where you know,
you gotta have Any team that's gonnawin a championship in the NBA has
got to have their batman, andtheir batman's got to be there and he's

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got you know, like this islike you talk about, Okay, who's
gonna who's gonna win finals? MVP? Who's got a chance? Like you
know, this Dallas team has youknow, Luca or Kyrie, Boston has
you know, Tatum or Brown?Uh, you know the Pacers probably have
Halliburton if they were gonna win itand for us, for us, it's
it's it's Anthony Edwards. Like there'sno there's no second guessing who. This

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is not like an Egua Dollar momentwhere like we're not taking Andre like.
This is not like a moment wherelike you know who who even said that
was that. It's not a momentwhere you guys thought I was the most

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ridiculous. We're not gonna like wakeup and Max color, but is gonna
be like give me like it's Edwards. We overthink this. We we're gonning
the series talking about X factors whatever. We need our A factor to show
up and show up big. Imean, I expect him to. I

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expect you to. In Dallas Gamethree and Kat they're like, let's go,
let's just it lives and dies withus. Hopefully they got that fire
underneath them. And because it's Imean we we we debated if tonight was
a must win game. There's nodebate about Sunday. Sunday is absolutely a
must win game. As we allknow, no team in the history of
the National Basketball Association has ever comeback for three. Oh, so we're

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gonna need everything that the Wolves got. And then some And speaking of Sunday,
Parker and I will be at Gray'sProvisions and Libations for a live watch
party starting at six pm. Ifyou want to come out and join us,
hoodie who how hopefully celebrating a bigtime Wolves win. And speaking of

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libations, I'm getting ready to getoff the air here. Market Center,
Target Center was on. Whoever wasin the building tonight, props to you.
I love all of you guys outthere tonight. Thank you for coming
out for Games one until you've beenamazing. And we got free chicken.
We got free we got chicken.Kyrie Irving of all people who would have
thought that he was gonna miss too, And when he missed those two free

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throws, I was like, it'sin the bag. But the bag had
a hole at the bottom. Itwasn't act. This wasn't the kind of
bag with fries at the bottom,y'all. The bag was empty, but
Luca's bag was plenty full. Hehit a dagger of a three to put
the Mavericks up one oh nine,one oh eight, and your Minnesota Timberwolves

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are down two to oh heading tothe lone Star State. Everybody stays safe
tonight, keep your heads up,have a hope. This team ain't done
yet. They've got up off themap before they can do it again,
and I think they will on Sunday. Thank you all for joining us.
Thank you to John Barry, thankyou to Parker Fox. Thank you to

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Nick Madden and Brett Blake Moore.Back at the station. We appreciate you
all. We'll be back, y'all. Love y'all, Love y'all. We
ain't scared. We got this.We got this. One oh nine,
one oweight. Your Minnesota Timberwolves fallto the Dallas Mavericks. This has been
Howling with the Homies, presented toyou by ABC. Well how to let
y'all on Sunday. Peace,