Top 5/Lou Nanne/Wolves Talk - Bumper to Bumper 5/5/26 Hour Two

Dan and Gaardsy review the Top 5 before Lou Nanne makes his weekly appearance and discusses the Wild move at goalie for Game 2 and how things look for the rest of the Colorado series. Dan also continues the Wolves/Spurs discussion to wrap up the show.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And just in case you missed it, it's the top
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Louis in about twenty five minutes or so on game
number two, Wild and Now Dallas was last series in
Colorado to try to even up their series with the Lanch.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Where would you like to begin today's top five? Let
me see here. I want to pull up one song. Bye,
Let's see if I can find this.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
It should have been prepared, but I just thought of
this like two seconds ago.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
So why not. Well, now we don't even have anything.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
Can't find it? Well, I can find it. It takes
some time. It let's take some time. So I'll just
give you. John Hines on taking the Gus bus out
of the garage.

Speaker 5 (00:54):
Gus is going to be in net tonight. We've had
two very good goalies all year long. You know, Gus
has played a lot of good hockey for us. While
he's taking the brunt of the playoffs. You know, he's
played seven straight games, played very well you know, the
quick turnaround at the end of the series to come
to Colorado. And you know, we have confidence in both
of our goalies. They're both excellent, they both paid really
good hockey. We believe in either one of us, either

(01:17):
one of them can win us a game. And I
think it's a good opportunity to get Gus in the net.
He's hungry to get in you know. I think he
dealt with not playing for a while. Obviously, Whally played
very well. Our team won and continue to go through.
But we got another excellent goalie that's hungry to get
back in the net.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
So the Gus buss gets to not the gymnastics and
the Kevin o'connellization of these answers. It's like, we got
to make sure everybody's good. We like everybody. They're both
great goalies, and we've got a lot of confidence in
all of them. Everyone's fine. There's no fire here. It's
it's something, but that just must be goalie mentality. I'm

(01:53):
not a puckhead. I don't understand it. I'll ever understand.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
It's sinking to mile correct correct see May five. What if, however,
far the Minnesota Wild get in the playoffs, maybe even
all the way to the Cup. What if we've seen
the last of aalsteat and for the rest of the.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Playoff run, can't rule it out.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Gus Buss comes out of nowhere, shocks everybody, becomes the
dominant goaltender we once thought of him as anything. It's
possible in hockey. Yeah, hockey's a funny game. Goaltenders are weird.
There is sometimes no rhyme or reason for why, logically,

(02:39):
out of nowhere they might play.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Well.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
I'm not predicting that it's a fascinating decision. I tend
to lean your way, which is I'd given the kid
another start. I worry there's a catch twenty two to
what I'm about to say. But what I worry about
is the obvious that I don't want to say. Your

(03:01):
seasons on the line. But I don't think you want
to get down two all, even though both games are
there and it's such a big game to that extent,
it's such a big, important rebound game that you know,
there's a part of me that that that says, well,
if we get this wrong, then we're you know, completely
done and it's and it's over right. There's no there's
no turning back now again, you're coming home for your

(03:23):
own two games, so you could you could, you know,
if you if you just maintain your home serve, you
can go back for a pivotal game five there. But
there's so much at stake, you know, when you make
this this.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Kind of move.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
And I worry that he's been out so long that
it's a little unfair to expect that he's going to
just This isn't like the middle of the regular season, right,
he can ease into it. You've got to get a
good performance tonight. On the other hand, the longer you
keep him out, the less likely it is. For that
very same reason you want to use them at all.

(03:57):
And for teams that do use two goaltends, this is
part of the process. This is exactly the way they
do it. This isn't like football. The cliche about Mace
always says the if you got two quarterbacks, you have none, Right.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
The truth is you can have when you have two goaltenders.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
You can have two goaltenders, right, Depending on the team,
and over the course of season, the Wild had two
goaltenders more than I think we even expected when the
season began. That, of course, was before a Volstet learned
that he can't drink twelve diet cokes.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
A day, not barely.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
It was part of his conditioning and his regimen, his
food and drink regimen that had to be had to
be realigned, shall we say.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
He and Anthony Edwards share that that's very for soda.
Apparently very true. I can't believe I just called it soda.
I'm from Minnesota. I never say that.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
So anyway, Puck drops seven o'clock.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
Tonight Wild Avs Game two pregame show right here on
the fan at six thirty.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
What has happened to Larry Mondelo?

Speaker 5 (04:54):
Guy?

Speaker 3 (04:54):
What do you mean? What the hell has happened to him?

Speaker 2 (04:57):
You'll have to be more specific. Well me read you
the text. You tell me if there's a punchline here
that I'm missing. The other thing about being aggressive towards
Wemby is the shop lockers want space. The best thing
to do is get into their body, especially with Wemby,
because he weigh about as much as a flyweight. There's
so black and shots that will wear him out and
maybe with a different crew get him in foul trouble.
Doesn't that sound like a straight basketball observation?

Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yeah, what are we doing here?

Speaker 2 (05:21):
What's happened to Larry Mondelo guy? Leave the takes to
the rest of the line. Okay, you just come in
for your ros and cheap.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Just a punchline.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Tatless box and mashed potatoes. Might say, with a different crew,
get him in foul trouble. But that's that's not a punchline.
That's just a little bit of a dig about officiating.
That's all that is. I Larry mindella guy, I don't
know you. That's just that just doesn't sound I know yourself.
Maybe does he know himself right? Maybe he's trying to

(05:51):
branch outran you know, kind of go in a different direction,
sick of always being the court Chester, recreate himself, we
imagine himself, imagine himself tiers of a.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
Clown, that kind of thing. Yeah, I don't know anyway. Sorry,
Well maybe maybe this is the new LMG. It's possible.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
We'll have to see, all right, So six thirty pre
game right here on the fan last night on the fan,
you heard this.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Harper the rebound, They get it to Wenby, back to Harper.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Three seconds left now with two cham Penny moves to
his left fires a three at the buzzer, it's up
the front rim, no good, the ball game is over.
The Timberwolves of stolen Game one in San Antonio one
oh four, one oh two. Well, it's interesting because I
ripped the Spurs play by play guy for suggesting that

(06:41):
the Wools stole Game one. Horton said it as well.
Here's my Here's the cliche is when you're the road team, yes,
and you win game one, it's meant as that kind
of thievery in a broader sense.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
But within the game game itself, my reaction was if this,
if that shot had gone in, the Spurs would have
stolen Game one.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
I don't care if it's on their home court. That
was the Wolves game.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
They had dominated through much of the fourth quarter, had
built the lead of as much as nine.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
I think yes on the conley.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
So if they lose at the end away, you know,
with with two offensive rebounds helping the San Antonio cause,
the bad pass from Anthony Edwards and a three at
the buzzer, are you kidding me? I devastating, And I
was I in that sense. I thought that would have
been the fevery within the game. But I get it.

(07:39):
It's a cliche. That's often used regarding the road team
hitting you know, the other team's court.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
For Game one and winning.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
One four one oh two was the final the Wolves
steel game one, and I liked what Mike and Noriri said.
I had the same reaction as the shot was going up.
Everybody because it's a wide open three knas just completely
flow eyes at them and you know, gives them a
wide open look. Not the most disciplined, you're in a
scramble mode there, but when it went off the rim,

(08:08):
I had the same thing that Mike and Norrey did
and like, wow, that's it. Yeah, because the last minute
was so anti NBA. It was there were no timeouts,
there were no reviews. Everything finished.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
It seemed like so quickly that as they're coming up
to court, you said, this is it.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
This is the ballgame right here.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
It was crazy because you're used to nine reviews, fifty
timeouts and none of that happened. Got to say it
was kind of nice, but it was so pressured. Yeah,
is that all there is?

Speaker 3 (08:35):
Wait? Was that?

Speaker 5 (08:36):
Is that? Is?

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Is that the actual game? Yeah? You know you mentioned
Micah who joined us at three thirty. I definitely think
they are conscious of trying to tire out Wemby, and
there's no question that should be part of the strategy.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
The Spurs very intentionally.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Wemby's minutes in the regular season to like thirty, twenty nine,
twenty eight, twenty seven, and it made sense in terms
of his background, his his his injury history, et cetera.
But the downside is, you know, you got to up
it in the playoffs. I think he played forty last night,
and you run the risk he's not really ready for
the worst simple physically speaking, because of what he is.

(09:23):
That's an extra ten minutes a game that you he
has to be committed to. And in Micah's world, what
did they do with the Nuggets two best players? They
basically said, we know you're all world, especially Joker, but
we're just going to make you work from start to finish.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
In the two man game.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
We're going to make everything difficult and by the fourth quarter,
we're going to tire you out. Yep, And they were,
And I think he mentioned the Spurs play a completely
They don't play a two man game at all the
same way.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
Near the free near the three point line.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
But the idea here is make him have to be
as active as possible. Have him in actions when you can,
you know, bump him, lean on him, use Randall.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Despite the big height difference.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Just use his strength and his weight to have some
sort to exact some sort of a maybe physical toll
on a guy who is still well, he's a flyweight.
According to Larry mondelo guy, yep, and I think that's hell.
Next game he gets still he got score forty, of course,
but I think it's smart strategy. Just as Mikeuld put it,

(10:33):
it's the old boxing analogy.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
You just keep going with.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
The body blows man, go to the gut over and
over again, hoping that it might have a cumulative effect
later on the other guy's you know, best chance to
throw his best punch. And of the seven games that
the Wolves have played in this postseason, six of them
and really seven because the Wolves cut it to two
in Game one of the fourth quarter against Denver, the

(10:59):
other team has looked exhausted playing the Wolves.

Speaker 4 (11:01):
There's no question I takeaway from this team they have.
They are just physically draining, and they've got a lot
of guys and Jayden of course doesn't even look tired.
Again at the end, Rudy never really looks tired either.
Randall look gast last night. They all did, but the
Wolves were able to make more plays. I think because
they were believe it or not, the fresher team, even
though they went six games against Denver.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Was there one more Wolves thing I wanted to bring up.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
And I don't know why you wait for it or
try to come up with There are a lot of people
worried about Larry mondela Guy a wellness. They think there's something, yeah,
that he needs an intervention. Well, this is it is
what we're doing. Example of flimflam. Give me vintage Larry
mondela Guy or give me nothing. I mean that, you know,
flim Flam speaks for a lot. But I think a

(11:44):
lot of people are concerned. I mean, you just try
to speak the truth and.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
Then the game everybody's excited about tonight starts in about
thirty minutes in Washington, Washington, d C. Everybody is for
the sixteen and nineteen Washington National host the fifteen and
twenty Minnesota Twins.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
In the start of you, I don't think I saw
the heavy bad weeks. Maybe it was the subheadline, but
the Twins are not even close to being buried in
the standings. That's that's what we got. That's it's going
to bring up the standing start to be in silver
lining and it's like it's it's technically true, but why
aren't they buried? Look at the look at the records
in the division. That's that's what we're gonna raise a

(12:20):
banner bock.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Go ahead. We're two and a half games back.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
We're in last place in the division two and a
half games.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Is there some kind of like do the Twins pay
the Start Tribune for a continual silver Linings approach?

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Is that what it is to get on it? Follow
the money.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
It's bizarre to me after that, wasp Lavelle on Friday,
if necessary.

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Speaker 2 (12:54):
Louis in fifteen minutes questions six four six eighty six,
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(13:43):
Louie coming up at the bottom of the hour six
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Uh the brat Sean Brian k f A n text line.
Longtime local media gadfly Eric Vigo had d MD me
listening to the discussion we were having about my annoyance

(14:03):
with the number of jackals who basically made it sound
like the wolves are fools if they try to ever
challenge when Banyama and I'll say again some days, discretion
or some moments, discretion is the better form of valor.
You can be smart with it. There's ways to thread
the needle. But the idea that you have to you're
so concerned about being embarrassed by a ball being swatted

(14:29):
away or the media, the media jackals who seemed embarrassed
for the wolves. It's a curious phenomenon. And he made
I think a good point on that same issue. We
are imprisoned by the fear of judgment just as much
by the fear of failure. In twenty twenty six holds
a lot of athletes back.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
I think there's some truth totally kids in particular, and
it's got the lower you go down.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
Sure, you don't want to make a mistake, you don't
want to be embarrassed, you don't want to get cooked.
You know why the ankles broke, And as you said,
it's it's it's stunning.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
I guess I might understand it more with young kids
because they're young and they're playing or even athletes at
the professional level. But I'm I'm I'm continually amazed at
how many media members seem more embarrassed for the player
than the player is. Like there's that that that that
concern about what that image is going to look like,

(15:26):
like it's going to be baked into your memories for
the rest of your life if you get dunked on.
For God's sake, it's stupid, but it's viral, and that's
where that, unfortunately is I think governing the way. Too
many people in my business even think, you know what, yeh,
that's interrupt No, that's right.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
We pick and choose what's embarrassing and what's not true too,
because and it's not the same because it wasn't a
game winning shot. But Aunt had Wemby in isolation last
night in the fourth quarter, Yes, and knocked us three
down bad in his face.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yes, it's a terrific shot.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
From about the same spot where Luca did the same
to Rudy.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
Now I get it.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
It's the Western Conference Finals game winner, hunted matchup, but
it's the same phenomenon Anthony Edwards. The guy's blocking everything
in that night. And I think before that, Jaden turned
around and did the nevermind and said, no, I'm gonna
come back out and I'm gonna give.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
It to Anty. Yes he did. That's exactly what he did.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Nailed the three and it's just like okay, And again
it wasn't a game winner, so I know. But it
is interesting how we pick and choose what's embarrassing, who
got cooked.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
It's just which goes back to.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Reputation hasn't been around long enough to where we're going
to take shots at him and rip them and say, well,
we can't. You know what, maybe you can't do this,
this and this, even though he can do three or
four other things. He'll get there eventually, unless he wins
titles every year, which eventually might very well happen, although
I don't think we're quite there yet. The twelve block

(16:55):
shots I've heard, and I guess I missed this, but
I've heard fairly objective people say they think at least
two of them were goaltending.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
I don't do you remember the ones in particular, because
none of them stood out to me as absolute goaltending.
But these are from people I trust they're being fairly objective.
Were there a couple that you saw that were clearly goaltendering?
The most egregious one is the second Shannon one. The
second Shannon one, So the ball had already hit the backboard.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
Yes, okay, like pretty dramatically. It was weird and.

Speaker 4 (17:25):
Even like obviously you know me, I'm a rube.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
I see things through the wolves perspective.

Speaker 4 (17:31):
We get no calls, although I thought we got one
on the Randall push off of Castle where they called
it on him.

Speaker 3 (17:36):
Randall went to the line early in the game. There
was that.

Speaker 4 (17:40):
There was the the over and back that was clearly
deflected into TJ. Shannon that was tipped and then it
hit his knee and went out. Like there was just
a lot of like those are ones you just can't miss.
Like they're not judgment calls, you know what I mean.
That's not did a guy rip his did he take bumps?

Speaker 3 (17:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (17:57):
He Finchy basically said today yes, he said four or
maybe five basically all twelve or some you know, Rudy
even said I got fouled on a couple of them.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
That's the other thing. Too, It's like, what's the foul, Well,
what it's not. It's the playoffs, there's contact, everybody's playing physical.
But the first, I think it was the second Shannon
one was easily off the backboard, and then Wenby cleaned
it up. It was just it's weird that they just
everything kind of felt a step slow for those guys
talking about the officials at first, where they were just

(18:28):
missing what should be pretty fundamental things for NBA refs
to get making a quick text note here it's a
Johnny athletic for a piece of intel I'm looking for.
Here's the other sneaky thing we haven't talked about at
all that has gotten some attention nationally and should.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
Darren Fox was awful. He was. It's stunny.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
He's a max player, I know, and I love him.
You know, I love him awful. It wasn't just that
he missed nine or fourteen shots. He finished with six
six of the San Antonio Davy a total of thirteen
they had. He had almost half of them, and believe me,

(19:13):
that went a long way to opening the door to
the Wolves winning. And I expect similarly he'll probably play better.
But let's remember something to the Aaron Fox, Man, I
know you love him skilled. Uh, this is the first
time he's been out of the first round. And you know,

(19:33):
I don't want to put it all on the Wolves defense,
but if you're doing the pecking order again, he is
their second best player, right, So their big two would
be Fox and when by Yama the Spurs big the
Nuggets big two were obviously Joker and Jamal, and the
Wolves defense neutralized the Denver big two and offensively, neither

(19:56):
of San Antonio Davies big two.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
Were a factor. That's a MA major victory.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
So one of the national guys said, flat out, Mike
Conley out played de Aaron Fox.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
Think about that for a minute.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, because Conley is in a very different role and
he had He had a great game last night four
three pointers correct, seven twenty four minutes again, zero turnovers
as well. Louie right around the corner. As I said,
keep the questions coming in. Uh, we'll talk old tender
with him and who knows what else is the wild
Prepare for Game two right here on the fan. Pregame

(20:30):
show will begin at six thirty from Denver, Colorado.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
Welse he sneaks around the world.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Ye ride.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
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Speaker 2 (21:01):
Brought to you by his good friends at KEM six
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have questions or observations on the Wild Last Series or
anything else going on in the Stanley Cup playoffs before
we get to Louis real quick update on a story
we spent a decent amount of time on Seaffert and

(21:23):
one of his compadres over at ESPN reporting moments ago
that it appears that the NFL officials are on the
verge of signing a new collective bargaining agreement. So all
that teeth gnashing over the possibility of having to bring
in refs from college, it is beginning to look as
if that will not be necessary.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
Well, that was a good two week story.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
We milked it, they milked it, and then we move
on with the rest of our lives. Our next guest
loves officials, always has loves referees, always thinks they get
a bad rap. You've told me many times over the
years you think that, no matter the sport, are all misunderstood,
didn't you.

Speaker 6 (22:03):
Well, I want to tell you something that you didn't know.
But when I was after I graduated from the university,
and I didn't sign with Chicago and Winter the first
year I was an official. Honest to god, I do
appreciate what they do. I just could upset what they
call our team.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
Who were you doing that with? What was the high school?
No kidding?

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yeah, yeah, how did you find it?

Speaker 6 (22:27):
They found me? What I mean, that might be a
good thing. I was, you know, I had Yeah, we
had we had four children, and so I had to
put food on the table.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
What was the experience?

Speaker 6 (22:37):
I could think if I.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
Did what I mean, But clearly the experience did not
make you think more often of the difficulties and challenge
of their jobs. That's for sure, because you still ripped
on officials all the time.

Speaker 6 (22:49):
No, not all the time. I know, I really do
respect the visions. I can't believe what a good job
they do. I just I just reserved the right to
get upset with them when they miss the ones.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
On not Yeah, I understand that.

Speaker 4 (23:01):
My sources telling me that, like the state tournament broadcasts,
Louis always favorite Dina.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
That's what my they did.

Speaker 6 (23:12):
Yea, it didn't matter who won. I just want to
have no overtime to get home over you guy, did you.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
Call a lot of penalties or did you just were
you one of those officials who said I got to
let the players decide.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
I'm not going to get that involved.

Speaker 6 (23:29):
I don't recall ever the penalty.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
Really to get home? Yeah, you get home. I love it.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
That's too good. That's too good. Here's your toss up question.
This is from Jake in Maple Grove. Does Louis buye
the backup goalie effect theory that this texture has and
my playing and phantom experience, I've always believed the teams
play a better game defensively when their stud goalie isn't playing.
Could that would all be the is in Net tonight?

(24:01):
Wake up the guys to play a more structured defensive game.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
What do you think?

Speaker 6 (24:06):
Well, yesterday last night, Kevin Gorgon I had a long
conversation and I gave him my reasoning why I thought
they should just played Gus tonight and said, keV, you
could be right. At that time he wanted well to
be back in Net, and I said, just let me
give you a few scenarios, different ones. First of all,
a couple of years back, he'll recall what happened when

(24:27):
we played Flurry. Both games in tell but the Telbot
comes in at the end, I said, and that's sort
of that might have been the reason why Tealbot devinually
was traded. Was then I said, you have a rookie
goal dinner, and who's had a sensational run. Now he
wasn't great. There are three goals in the same position.

(24:48):
Even whether they said that's where they were shooting, that's
where he has a weak spot. Whether that gets in
his mind or not, that wasn't where my thinking was going.
I think he was going. You have Gus when you
look back when he's had his off runs there during
the year and he'd come back, he'd be out of
the net for a while, and he came back strong

(25:09):
for the majority of times. I can't remember when he didn't.
And so I said, he's sitting there and you know
he's he's waiting for the chance, and I'm just hoping
that the same thing's going to happen. But more than that,
here's what really is an effect that I'm thinking about.
What if will he goes back in the net tonight

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and he let the same type of goals in and
they get beat the same way. Now, going back to Minnesota,
Gus is going to come in and an all likelihood
volume might never get back in the net because it's
going to be tough to beat Colorado, whether I like
it or not, I secretly was thinking Minneeserota was going

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to beat Colorado if they were healthy. But you lose
your best defensive defense, but then your best defensive forward
and try and slow that machine down for four or
other games, It's going to be really difficult, which means
that Gus bite would won, might win too, but then
he's gonna have the run of the net for the
rest of the series. And then next year you go
with Wally. And is that still sitting in Wally's mind

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if he goes back to the playoffs? What happens? I said, Now,
if you take him out and Gus goes in and
has a bad night, then Walley's gonna be thinking, well,
what happened to him, happened to me? Isout a big deal?
He goes back, he'll be back in the net the
next game in Minnesota, and so it's gonna sort of
clear his mind. And that's why I was hoping they

(26:35):
were going to go with Gus tonight.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
So are you surprised though, that they're going with Gus,
not that you didn't want to see that, but that
they made that call.

Speaker 6 (26:45):
Yeah, I am only because it looked to me like
some of the statements I heard after the game were
strong enough that it felt to me like they were
trying to reassure Wally because he's going to go back
in the net.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Interesting, So what do you make of the accusation the
comments from I think it was more than one member
of the lanch. Maybe it was one I don't recall,
basically saying, in fact, we found a weakness where there's
a certain spot that we scored several times on and
we've figured that out that we got to tell on

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this guy.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
What do you make of that?

Speaker 6 (27:20):
Well, that was Cadreta said, and then and he was
we lead to the three goals at the head, and
that one said above the pad below the glove, and
that the renouncer was pointing out a few times as well.
And I think that maybe he didn't realize that he
shouldn't be saying it, or if or maybe there was

(27:40):
something in his mind to just get well, I think
you always going to go back and get him thinking
about something that he shouldn't be thinking about.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
Well, well, it's It's what we've talked about forever. It's
what makes the game so fascinating is that you have
this ongoing component that plays the most important position in sports,
and you can calculate it out a million ways. Louis,
I think, you know, on the debate team, I think

(28:07):
I could debate either side of this pretty persuasively, and
I really, I really do.

Speaker 3 (28:14):
I get your point.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
I think there's a way to argue it in favor
of keeping val set out there. But it's so consequential, right,
I mean, we've seen how often these are the kinds
of decisions. Now, maybe, like you say, maybe we're kidding
ourselves given the injuries, and it's not going to matter
all that much, but you know, sometimes these are the

(28:36):
decisions we look back on and being so key.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
And in hockey it's always this, right.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
I mean, it can be line changes, I guess it
could get occasionally lineup changes, but when you factor in
all the.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
All the the the the.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Power that a goalie has one to turn a game
one way or another, it's still the key decision that
any coach.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
Has to make.

Speaker 6 (28:57):
Well, Dan, I said, Kevin, you might be and I
could agree with you that I could argue the other
side of it pretty good too, but we've done it
when when we were in the playoffs we switched the
Malassi and Beauprey and it worked out. And it's just
a gut feeling. Now. You could be right, you could

(29:18):
be wrong, but I think one of the things you
have to take into account, Gus has been your number
one goalie for most for the year. Basically until the
last three weeks he was the number one goal that
was Now do you want to even take a chance
of going into the offseason, say that they they put
Wally in and he stays it in net. Then he

(29:39):
come back with Gus what you have to do in Minnesota?
And now he's not only upset that he didn't get
a chance before that after eight goals were given up,
but then if he gets beat on top of that,
do you want that kind of thought going through his
mind all summer long? And is this how they really
felt that You told me I was was there number

(29:59):
one going then told me that we got two goods.
Are not afraid to put anybody else in? And yet
they were that You have to remember that there unless
they trade them their time with the club doesn't end
just with the series. If they happen to get beat,
then they're back there next year. And and now what

(30:19):
kind of how is they going to affect the relationship
during the year when things go sour for my goaltender,
which they will for a period of time all year
long with everybody that happens. But I just think that
I think it was a natural to come back with
Gus tonight.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
If what if.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
Gush is horrible tonight, then what are you do in
game three?

Speaker 6 (30:42):
Then you know what that does to re leaves the
pressure off wall You going into the third game. That's
why he'll definitely be back Wall. You'll be differently in
the net. And at least then two things are going
to happen. One's going to leave the pressure of Walley
to play in that third game, and two it's going
to reach any doubts of Gus why they weren't playing them.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
Six five one guy asks what is the strategy against
a team like Colorado? Do you try to go toe
to toe like a Rocky fight again or do you
have to try to lock things down and win two
to one? How many minutes into period one before Felino
gets the roughing call against.

Speaker 6 (31:20):
The car well, I I hope you get the quick
maybe you'll put them out, But I have to tell
you you you have to pressure Colorado, especially the defenseman.
You have to make certain that they don't come out
so quickly and with speed, and you have to check
them tightly all the way down the ice. You you

(31:41):
got to continually be picking up your man, the open man.
You're not going to win games against Colorado if you're
in out numbered situations all night long. And they gave
them far too many out numbered situation situations that some
of the resulting goals and others pretty near goals. But
you don't play running gun with the number one defensive

(32:03):
team in the league.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
I get this question a lot, not always for you,
but today it is for you.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
This is from.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
Wilfred in Richfield. We asked Louis why Quinnesota doesn't play
on penalty.

Speaker 6 (32:19):
Kills, because first of all, he's getting too much ice
time as it is, and if you look at the
difference in body position in front of them that when
you're killing penalties, usually you're not going to play a
smaller guy killing penalties when you're battling for position, unless

(32:41):
they have a unique talent at it. We played Kurt
Giles killing penalties in front of that, and Kurt was
as small as either, but he had great body position.
Spurgeon has a great body position. He's killed penalties for
years and years here in Minnesota, which at first astounded
me how good he was at it, and then I've
seen it so often I'm not surprised. And Quinn does

(33:04):
need a little rest. I mean, he's already playing half
the game, so what better time than to get it
than to try and muscle with guys for pucks. It's
not like there's a difference between getting the puck and
having a roove to escape people like he does when
he's five and five. But whenever you're killing the pedal,
you're five to four, which means at all times the

(33:25):
defensive team's going to have two guys on that puck.
So if it's Quinn, he's got to go in the
corners and battle two guys to come up with the puck,
which isn't going to happen a long at the time
because the first guys just could have pit him and
it's going to take a lot of wear and tear
out of him. It's not using his best talents at
the best time, and it's giving the other guys an

(33:46):
opportunity of kills Pedalis for a long time to do
their job, and they had that last one killed. I mean,
we know it's a full string goal, but you know
everybody else's saying, Wallad really was. It was a short
ended goal because of Brooklyn care and stick bounced bouncing
in my favorite, got out of the penalty box.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
So let's take a little bit broader view on game one,
because we haven't talked on air since then. Beyond the goaltending,
how much of it do you put on the goaltending?
How much of you put on the play in front
of Volstead And just generally speaking, did you come out

(34:26):
of that game even less convinced that the Wild can
play with them, especially given the injuries, Or you say, well,
it's basically a one goal game for to what like
four minutes to go. You don't want to shoot out
with them, but they they got they climbed back into
the damn thing. What did what did you What were
your general impressions off of game one?

Speaker 6 (34:45):
Well, my general impression was if we had Rodin and
hearackter think there I think we would have won the
game because if you notice how many times without Brodine
there the game could be entry to the zone to
the left side, you were able to control pucks for
a long time and even battle for the pucks. One
of the things that is overlooked about broded by many

(35:08):
many people how efficient he is along the boards fighting
for pucks and getting them out of the zone, not
only full strength, but killing pedalings as well. And so
you miss one of the top defensive players in the league.
And I'm not the only guys saying did you watch
any broadcasts that everybody's seeing it now as well? And
Eric connects your best defensive forward and checking hitting, eliminating guys, Well,

(35:35):
you missed those two guys. I think they would have
made a significant difference in that game because then it
changed your defense pairings, it changes how you're playing against
other people, and it definitely changes your forward matchups. And
so that was huge. That's the thing that upset me
the most. I mean, I really felt the same way
assault about the while playing Dallas that the while we're

(35:57):
going to win, and I felt this about Colorado if
while we're healthy, while we're going to win, and and
now I'm you know, I'm not so optimistic because I'm
telling you Brody will not be back for the rest
of the playoffs, and we're going to be very lucky
if we see her that back for the playoffs from

(36:18):
Russo too and and so, if you're missing two of
your best players, you're already playing the best team in
the world and now you're you're short handing yourself. The
only thing we got going for us is what I
was hoping would happened at the beginning of the series.
I'm not overly sold on the Golden End of Colorado.
That's our key, and I still think we got the

(36:42):
chance if we we really have to check him tightly.
I wouldn't be surprised if he would move Hunt over
with with Spurgeon and and because of the speed on
the off side for the who the matchup's coming with
that group and put Goes back with Middleton as five

(37:02):
and six and also killing Bentley. Say, that wouldn't surprise
me either, because that's something that I would think about.

Speaker 3 (37:08):
In Game one.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
What was worse the wild goaltending or the defensive play
in front of the goaltender.

Speaker 6 (37:16):
Well, it wasn't the defensive play on in front of
the goaltending was it was a lack of checking, yeah
and watching guys. That was to me that allowed the
goldending to be worse because it was giving clear shots.
They were getting opportunities. Colorado was getting wide open opportunities
from scoring areas the place where they could score. You know,

(37:39):
when your goal that is hot but not going to
score all of them, and they might not score any
of them. But he wasn't hot, Wally, You have to
be honest, Wally, probably three goals there that I think
he would like to have back. But at the same
time they were fellow. Those opportunities were given him by
the poor defensive player that never should have been there

(38:01):
for them to have that kind of chance.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
Again, we'll keep the text going via branch on Brian
Caffe and text line six four six eight six. So tonight, early,
what are you looking for? What do you need to see?

Speaker 6 (38:18):
I need to see that not allowing the freedom to
move with the park the way Colorados were going like
racehorse hockey, out of their zone, down the ice into
the wild zone. I want to see more of the
plays challenged that the wild blue line not giving up
the zone so quickly because when you start backing off
and they're coming with that speed, they don't have to

(38:39):
break down the speed to get into the zone. But
if you the key is going to be tight gaps
between the fowards and the defenseman, especially in the neutral zone.
If there's tight gaps in that neutral zone, that's going
to cut down on the ability of Colorado to full
speed into their offensive zone. So I want to see

(39:01):
tight gaps. I'd almost want to see, and early in
the game, just uh, when you have a chance, you
go to two man portcheck. But if you don't, you
just go one and have four in a neutral zone
really with tight gaps so they don't get that opportunity
in the way I had, and keep keep shutting them
down there because if they're not careful and you got

(39:23):
those tight gaps, they'll turn pucks over the blue line
of the Wild, which might give the Wild some opportunities
to transition real quickly into a man situation for them.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
What beyond this series, I know that's the center of
your attention, But what beyond this series has caught your
eye around the rest of the league to this point.

Speaker 6 (39:45):
Well, the game last night and you know it was
it's a one one hockey game, went four and a
half minutes to go in the game and there's an
icing of the pocket. Lacom Pody had position and a
parent I se and Michael comes and by the time
they got to where they're going to call the icing,

(40:06):
it could have gone lea coolbe's way, a bit of icing,
but they did. So Vegas gets the box, scored a
goal and wins the game. And Vegas right now is
it was just you know, they're a role and Anaheim
is just really upset. I mean they are really upset
because they thought it was a different icing. The guy

(40:29):
was ten feet before the redline when he shouted it.
And the other thing is Philadelphia coming back with the
kind of game they did when Carolina looked so dominant
in that first game, and last night, Philadelphs, you should
have won the game. They had a breakaway in overtime,
they got messages in net, but they had fourteen shots
in overtime and didn't win the game.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
Tonight, you'll be obviously watching game two tonight. You can
of course listen to it on the fan. Pregame shows
started six thirty, opening face up just past seven o'clock.
So when we get around two and the current condition
the team is in. Are you even more superstitious than
usually are? Is it moving in walking into that rooms

(41:10):
depending on how it's going, or what's what's the lou
Nanny Hockey experience TV experience going to be tonight.

Speaker 6 (41:17):
I'm gonna be sitting and not moving. A lot of
things are bad right away, and then I'll have to
move to change things. We can go back and sit
on a different seat and not move again. I don't
move very much. I really like that. I'm just my
wife and I watching a game. I don't I don't
want to talk. I don't want to ask questions. I
just want to watch and I and I'm my own

(41:41):
CDs reverted in again and it is not good. I
mean I always reserved the right to revert, yes, and
I've reverted. I mean, it was really tough for in Dallas.
I don't know how I didn't have cramps two weeks.
I went to the I went to the to the
doctor this morning to get a shot my elbow because

(42:02):
they can't straighten out my elbow and I have to
get some quarters. Yeah, you can't build your elbows. Well,
I've been sitting in a certain position for three weeks.
Maybe forgot the word it's supposed to go.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
That's too good.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
Now do you ever you you will change your position,
sit in a different spot? Do you ever actually move
the furniture around? Here is a few for furniture stay stationary?

Speaker 6 (42:31):
Oh no, I uh. I might spin the chair one
way and another way. I used to have fourth spin
to the right and tour to the left when the
games started, stacort first, and I go forward to the
left and tour of the right to eat it, and
all that has been work that I go for each way.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
That's so good, That is so good.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
I well, I've seen you in action occasionally in that situation,
so I'm not I'm not all surprised. Do we look
at tonight? Is there such a thing as a must
win when you're still on the road, What do you think?

Speaker 6 (43:01):
Well, yeah, you would like to think it's not, but
it's gonna be because of the short handedness of the team.
And it's almost a must win because I don't know
if we could go four games shorthanded, and that's what
it would take to put Colorado out After tonight, I

(43:25):
just think it's gonna be really tough. You're playing the
best team in the world, and they proved it all
year long. And so I'm feeling better today because I'm
so certain that the Wild, that the team is going
to play better. And when I say play better, I
mean they're going to be much more effective defensively working drones.
Zone Mines has done an outstanding job with this team

(43:47):
and the way they check. They are really a good,
physical and diligent checking team. So yeah, it's gonna matter
a lot on whether Gus gets his bump game because
he's going to get tested. Yeah, and if he gets
his bounce back game, that's going to make the guys
check even better as a game is going on and

(44:09):
with more conference and then we got a chance to win.
You know, they there's a lot of talent on this
Wild team. He when they lose two great players like that,
they've still got a lot a lot left. I frankly,
I think Price is going to get He could get
two goals, might get none, but I think he's going
to get two.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
Yeah, I mean the big knockers sometimes that's what changes things.
You got to have somebody, you know, play out of
their mind to that end. Maybe you've already answered the
question six five. One guy asks, if you were behind
the bench tonight for the wild, what one player are
you asking to do? What one thing to potentially change
the momentum in the series.

Speaker 6 (44:44):
I'm going to ask Caprieso to shoot more often and
control the pub, going into the zone with speed and
shoot whether you know pretty passes. He is still an
extremely accurate shooter. He hits the upper corner and especially
on the near side when he's coming off the right
way and he's left hand shot so often it's amazing,

(45:08):
and those shots will beat that goal dinner, and I
want to see him take those shots. He You know,
you get into tendencies passing the park a lot in
the works with he and Z Guerrilla have got such
a great field for one another where they are what
they're going to do. But they've both had occasions the
last this last game, and you know one in Dallas

(45:30):
of overpassing. And I know somebody who was listening to
Phil talking during the Tampa game the other night, and
so was doing the radio and he said, in the
first period, for God's sake, shoot the puck with passie.
And that's what goalscorers think about. They think shoot the
puck and even though we had a number of shots,

(45:54):
we can have more. And I think with this goaltender here,
we want to take more shots because he doesn't look Yeah,
all that salt to me. Had like some of the
great quote enders in this league. He's had a great year.
I go along with that. But the pressure is different
right now. Challenge him, make him make saves that he's
used to make it and the best guy to do
that it's Caprice.

Speaker 3 (46:15):
So that's a great point. That's that's exactly what you need.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
And we don't have to wait long because it's a
seven o'clock start tonight, six thirty pre game show on
the fan. Thanks as always, especially for the extra contributions,
and we will stay in touch as this thing plays out.

Speaker 3 (46:29):
Thank you, Luigi, gay buddy, I appreciate it. Thank you
always a pleasure.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
Louis brought you by camps. Lots of lots of texts
I couldn't even get to with Luigi. They were coming
in fast and furious. So we'll address two or three
of those when we come back after very short, short
top of the hour pause and maybe the rest of
the way we do indeed, just mix and match between
reacting to Game one of the Wool series and previewing

(46:55):
Game two of the Minnesota Wild series.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
Don't go. There's always a role for Mike Connory. He
certainly was last night.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
Twenty four minutes, twelve points, all on three point shots,
including the biggest one on the right side that increased
the lead to I think nine. Yes, that was with
aunt still on the bench. Yes, it was interesting when
he left. They were up four and they built upon that.

(47:44):
I want to say, Conley hit a three? Did Nas
have a basket in that time?

Speaker 3 (47:48):
Put back?

Speaker 2 (47:48):
Yeah? I think you're right about that where he kind
of left Wemby and got the ball. I was very
hard on Nas after Game one of the Denver series.

Speaker 3 (47:57):
I think he deserved it.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
But I will say what stuck out to me last
night about Reid was his defense. I thought defensively he
was a lot more. Eventually the fray and active, eventually
he's still There's I can't describe it. There's something where
it's almost like he's surprised how intense it's going to be,

(48:20):
or how low he has to get, or you know,
someone's you can't just whip a pass somewhere that someone's
going to be there, like he gave up a three
point play in the first half last night and it
was on the first two steps where he's just.

Speaker 4 (48:32):
Kind of getting back. Yeah, it's a crap, I'm done.
It's like, that's what's still and again I know he's
battling his shoulder.

Speaker 3 (48:37):
He was actually pretty funny today.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
He caught he saw the thing at halftime where he
was kind of wincey after he took that half quarter.
He said, Rudy threw it to me, and I didn't
really think much about it. It was probably the dumbest
thing I've ever done. Probably help, it didn't help. So
but he played great and he hit those big THREESO.
He hit a couple of big threes and I thought
changed the game. He was much more active defensively as well.

(49:00):
For the record, we were talking about Darren, how dreadful Darren.
Darren Fox played going five for fourteen for the floor,
had six turnovers in the game.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
That was high, I think on our side.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
I think Randall had five, but Fox had six and
missus nine or fourteen shots. And he's, you know, he's
supposed to be the guy. He's a veteran player, he's
a max player.

Speaker 3 (49:26):
The whole bit. Guess what.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
The Wolves used a lot of different people on him defensively, yep,
but mainly they used Jadeen. Yeah, it's not a coincidence.

Speaker 3 (49:39):
It's not No, it's not a mistake.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
I mean, just how important he is on that side
of the ball in a game where offensively, you know,
he didn't have I guess you could say it didn't
feel like he had a lot going, but by the
end of the ninety had sixteen points.

Speaker 3 (49:52):
It felt like he had some big shots, and he
did hit some big shots. He was seven.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
I like, that's what's interesting about this distribution on on shots. Right,
We've got Randall with twenty, Jaden with fourteen, Conley eight,
Shannon thirteen, Edwards thirteen. I honestly, sometimes and again eventually
you need the over the top performance from Edwards obviously,

(50:18):
but they're in some ways more lethal when it's set
up this way. And I do think that Finchy did
a really good job managing the Edwards minutes. I really do,
because it's you know, when they tell you, okay, once
you around twenty five, then you got to figure out
you don't want to run out where Then in the

(50:38):
fourth quarter he's not available.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
Right, it's tempting, and it's got to be tempting.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
But I think they that Finchy did a very good
job making sure he had still had some minutes left.
It was I think the way to go was to
have him come off the bench. I don't know. I
asked Micah Nori that this when we chatted with him
at three thirty. You know, well, they do it the
same way in game two, and he made it even
more open ended, like, well, we've got to be sure

(51:03):
Eying's okay that he can play in game two, which
I the most encouraging part physically, I thought was that
I didn't see anything that looked funky. You know, I
could go, oh god, they are rolling the dice putting
him out there. He looked shaky. He looks like he's
playing off one foot or whatever. I didn't see much

(51:23):
of that. Now, we didn't see the whole package, the
way he's capable. But I didn't come away going, well,
why even bother having him out there at all, especially
in the fourth quarter when he ended up scoring eleven. Later,
the bad turnover obviously, and the mistakes on the defensive
rebounding end, but I thought that that was managed well.
And it's easier to manage it, obviously if you start

(51:46):
him off the bench and if the other guys are
keeping you within striking Yes, and they did, and there
were It felt like there were half a dozen times
where san Antonio was looking to break the thing open
and take it from four to five to ten or twelve,
And credits to the Wolves, they fought back every single time,
whether ant was in there or not. He came up

(52:06):
gimpy that one finish in the fourth where he got
kind of tied up. He finished at the rim and
kind of landed funny. He might have landed by somebody
and he started limping a little bit. But that was
like ten seconds and then Yeah, he wasn't his normal
explosive self, but he took Keldon Johnson twice, and Johnson
was honest, Yes, I like that guy, Keldon Johnson.

Speaker 4 (52:27):
Yeah, I wouldn't schuirp Anthony. I don't think that's a
good idea, right. But he bullyballed Randall a couple of times.
He clearly wanted the smoke from Edwards, and Edwards got
the most of them.

Speaker 2 (52:36):
Yeah, the footwork was good from Aunt last night, and
the Wolves did finish with the six in double figures,
and I forget even you know, nas we're talking about
the shot selection. He had eight, Edwards, as I said, thirteen,
Randall with twenty, Jaden fourteen, and Conley eight, and Terrence

(53:03):
Shannon Junior was at thirteen. The free throws, because there's
a lot of talk about this, you know, people saying, well,
the Spurs can play a lot better, shoot a lot better,
and that's true, but you know, twelve for twenty one
from the free throw line could have been absolutely lethal.
The reason they lost a game like that. They've had
fifty seven percent. San Antonio Davey was fourteen for eighteen

(53:27):
last night.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
So how many points did Shannon finish with?

Speaker 2 (53:30):
Shannon finished with seventeen excuse me, let me back up
a little bit, sixteen sixteen points only five, you know,
not efficient, five for thirteen in the floor. But again
he got to the free throw line eight times. Yeah,
and has gotten the three throw line in both of
those games, and once again had zero.

Speaker 3 (53:49):
Turnovers, which I think is a big deal and nothing
feels fluky about it.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
That's the funniest thing, Like we're just going, yeah, Shannon's
having you know, great games. He was non existent essentially
the entire season, and now he's in here in big
spots and they're putting the ball in his hands more
so than other guys, established playoff pedigree guys, and crazy
he was delivering.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
It is crazy when you really think about.

Speaker 2 (54:14):
It, but it did and that at the end of
the game six in Denver, that's exactly what they did.
They isolated him out high, and he scored when he
went to the left and and got like a fifteen
foot or whatever he else, So yeah, it look, there's
there's not a conspiracy against him, and he obviously what
there were things he wasn't doing in the regular season

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early before he got hurt that contributed to him going
from a rotation guy early yep, to your in the
doghouse and we're done with you. But I do think
Inchy has acknowledged part of what may have played into
that was not taking advantage of the ball being in
his hands and that it always is harder on a
team that's where the balls dominated with Edwards, but it's

(54:58):
not impossible because he's Edwards doesn't play forty eight minutes.
There's ways to try to take advantage of that. And
even when Edwards is on the court. Yeah, there are
ways to take advantage of that, and they're they're obviously
going to have to moving forward.

Speaker 4 (55:10):
There's not any questions with this group too. I'm just
curious in the future because the other thing that was
roadblocking him was you had Dante. Yeah, played all he
into Yeah, that's true, and more recently you have Io
and they're both well.

Speaker 3 (55:22):
It sounds like Io.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
Got a positive he's got a positive injury designation for tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (55:27):
It's an upgrade questionable. So he's apparently improving.

Speaker 4 (55:29):
But those guys were more of your lead guards even
during the regular season, certainly after the deadline when they
brought Iow in, So it wasn't just Ant obviously taking
all the playmaking responsibilities or the ball handling, and so
moving forward, it'll be interesting to see how that because
you can do a lot of different things now. You
can keep Io off the ball, you can keep Dante
off the ball when he comes back.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
Like that's a good thing to have, knowing that Shannon
can do it. Rudy was one for five from the
free throw. I mean, he was the worst on a
bad free throw at night. He was one for five.
Usually you can count on him go and fIF fifty
percent right or fifty eight or whatever on a given night.
And I think he made the last one, yes, book,
but he was dreadful from the line and Julius was

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three for six.

Speaker 3 (56:12):
From the line.

Speaker 6 (56:13):
Two.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
How about the trade on the bones Highland made three
and they called the foul and they say the shot
doesn't count. So instead of the made three by bay
that was big, huge, that was massive. Yeah, I could
have been I don't know what the rule is. That
was the right call now, I think it was the
right call. The question was whether the call is about
when the whistle is blown or when the foul is committed?
I know, and I don't know what the ruling is
on that. That's something maybe we could have talked about

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with with Micah. Let's get one more pause in and
will remind you about an outstanding four o'clock guest. It
has some Timberwolves implications, but some arts implications as well,
and then we'll prepare you for what's up the rest
of this evening and what we have coming up on
tomorrow's broadcast.

Speaker 4 (56:56):
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Speaker 3 (57:00):
Nineteen seventy five. It's the Bumper to Bumper Show Wrap.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
Dan, do you think Rudy or Shack are worse at
free throws? I don't know the stats, but why I
can't tall guys shoot them?

Speaker 3 (57:22):
My guess would be such a good question. There were
so many theories with Shack.

Speaker 2 (57:29):
My guess would be that over the course of his career,
Rudy would be a worst free throw shooter than Shack.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
With that, maybe I'm wrong, Maybe it's Shack, I mean
the hat I mean.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
Was there was there ever a strategy called the hacker
Rudy It's been done strategy because it might be a
factor in this series. I was surprised they didn't do
it last night when they put him back out on
the floor, see exactly a couple of minutes. I had
something to do with why he was out there, was
out of there as long as he was too. We'll
look that up. I'm not sure who is which is worse.

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Don't forget Tonight Live and Local once again on the Fan,
beginning with the Wild pregame show. Immediately following this program,
because opening face off has just passed seven o'clock, tonight,
all of the action on FM one hundred point three,
The fan with plenty of reviewing of Game two.

Speaker 3 (58:16):
Tomorrow on this program.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
Will also preview game number two in more depth the
Wolves and the San Antonio Spurs. Davy, I want to
thank our special guest today that includes Wolves lead assistant
Mike and Noriri, who joined at three point thirty for
a wide ranging conversation Luigi. At five thirty, Luigi's usually

(58:40):
pretty upbeat and positive, he sounds very very discouraged. Not
so much because he doesn't think at full strength the
Wild could play with the Lanch, but that with the
players they're missing, both good defensive players want to forward

(59:00):
Eric Sinek obviously and Brodine not available. He thinks it's
going to be very, very difficult to come back and
end up winning this series. Louis joined at five point
thirty and a good solid half hour with their old
friend Jimmy jam Harris back in the news locally because
he and Terry his partner Judy jam Harris, I should say,

(59:24):
and Terry Lewis they're going to perform at the Great
Minnesota Get Together, the State Fair that's right.

Speaker 3 (59:29):
Around the corner.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
They officially are now a part of. We talked about that,
We talked about the Wolves. We talked about a couple
of other honors and appearances for Jimmy and that, as
I said, is podcastable, should be available after the show
between four and four thirty. Tomorrow is Kessler Day and
tomorrow is also who else we have scheduled for now

(59:53):
former Wolves team doctor and Anthony Edwards confidante or in
Ozone Robbie Seka looking forward to that at four o'clock
hours some time. And we may add as some things
working on a Wild Guests as well Wild Guest and
maybe even some stuff later in the week involving our
guy Craiger. So lots yet to come the rest of
the week. Thank you for listening, Thank you for watching
Wild Hockey. That's next, don't go away. You know I'm

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with Minnesota. Hey, I got Minnesota back at all time