Rosen Guarantee! Common Man Hour 3

Common Man Hour 3

--Mark Rosen Joins
--Game 1 Breakdown
--Rosen Guarantee
--Wolves 3's

Episode Transcript

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Wolves, a couple of thirteen fourteenpass on the common band Dan Colong with

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Tennabee, the legendary one Mark Roseand joins us now in studio here on
KFA N. This is my lastday of the week. I'm walking tomorrow.
You're also off tomorrow, but you'regoing to join me Monday. We've
all made you know what we're givingback to the team, the community,
the radio station. Monday is supposedit's a regularly scheduled day off for you,

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regardless if it's a Memorial Day.I was supposed to be off as
for all the rest, but becauseGame three will be Sunday night, we
think people will want to hear someTimberwolves talk, local Timberwolves talk coming up
on Monday. So I'll be backat twelve noon a year still planning to
join me at two o'clock, thencome I am Monday. I'll be here
Monday too. You were at thegame last night, UH one five lost

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to Dallas. Your thoughts, well, I saw a stat which is pretty
interesting and it's not an excuse.As a fact, the teams that play
Game seven's and move on are nowzero to eight in game ones against the
team that doesn't play a game seven, which is kind of interesting. And

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I know that I have a buddyof mine that was sitting courts last night.
I was in the media section nextto mister Barrero, and at one
point in the third quarter, apparentlyhe aunt turned to his cousin or brother
someone had said, man, I'mtired, and I thought, well,
okay, I understand the emotional hangover, but I also watching the fourth quarter.

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This was not like the Denver serieswhen they got blown out at home
a couple of times. The Wolveswere in position despite all their inadequacies and
faults and things that were not goingright for them to win this basketball game.
Kat hit a three pointer to puthim up by one, and hit
a three pointer to put him upby four, one two to ninety eight.

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And then I thought the key sequenceof the entire game, because it
usually it can come down to thatWolves, mister shot. Excuse me,
h, Dallas, mister shot.They got an offensive rebound, which they
were really good at last night,put it back a three pointer. They
they kicked it back out, hita three pointer, make a one o

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two, one oh one. Thenthey had another three pointer to take a
lead. This is all with likea minute forty to go, So the
game switched. There was three anda half minutes to go. The Wolves
were in position to maybe even closeit out. And so despite all the
issues that Wolves had last night,when you have Jade McDaniels and slow Mo
leading your scoring, basically Dallas didwhat they had to do to in the

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game. I mean, we allknow if he watched the game. Kyrie
was simply spectacular. In the firsthalf. He was unstoppable, as good
at play as I've seen from aguard. I don't know how long I
mean he was. He was vintageKyrie Irving. He slowed down in the
second half. Donsie did his thing. They have, you know, they
have some length that Denver did nothave, you know, coming off the

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bench. But the Wolves were justoff, off key, off their game.
Uh did didn't do any of thelittle things that defensively that they were
doing in Denver when they won thelast game. But you know, it's
it's gonna be that kind of aseries. I mean, I really feel.
I mean, I can guarantee youthe Wolves are going to win tomorrow

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night. Guarantee, Yes, yes, they will win tomorrow night. Because
I just think won't they be moretired today? I don't. I don't
know. I don't either, notfor a second. No, No,
I mean I think emotionally they mayhave been, you know, a little
bit of a you know that thatwas that game in Denver took a lot

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out of them, down by twenty, coming all the way back, and
then they have to you know,they have a day and a half to
get ready for a new opponent.I think playing in the road sometimes probably
even helps in Dallas's case. AndDallas is really good. I in my
observation of watching the game last night, I think the Wolves will make this
a long series. I mean,I still think they can win it,

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and probably will win it. ButI think tournight you're gonna see a completely
different basketball team and doing a lotof different things. And Dallas is fun
to watch. I mean, II had been. I know, your
son's favorite player for the longest time, was it Deuce's favorite player? Was
Kyrie? Or is it? Beats? I understand why. I mean,
he's he smells it, he canunder he he wants one badly. And

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and yet you know, they containeda little bit. They missed a ton
of three point shots. They misseda lot of shots that they were over.
They only took twenty five shots fromthree point runs and only made six.
Wolves took forty nine and made eight. Right, that's now you would
you know, one of the thingsyou could say in the wolves favor is,
look at they're probably not going tomiss eighteen. They're only they're not.
They're they're going to make more thaneighteen out of forty nine. But

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if they don't with Kyrie was funnyon the telecast last night at the half,
Barkley made a big deal of hesaid aunt poked the bear. After
the series clinching Game seven, hesaid, I got Kyrie. Yeah,
woy, Barkley said, you pokedthe bear. They brought Kyrie up to

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the broadcast area after the game withyou know, with Shaq and Draymond and
Kenny the Jet and Barkley, andthey set it up exactly how they said
on the air. You're sitting athome, mine in your own business,
watching game seventy. Here the youngkids say I got Kyrie. Kyrie laughed
and said, yeah, that's exactlywhat did happen to what I was thinking

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and whether he really poked the becausethey had another number or they didn't have
staffs. But they said that Kyrieis throughout the entire season gets off to
a really slow start in basketball again, right, last night was just the
opposite. It was whether whether whatAnt said Kyrie seemed to indicate that,
Yeah, I heard him say that, and it kind of gave me a
shot of adrenaline. Now, whetherthat was the only reason. Here's what

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I'll tell you. What Kyrie alsosaid was we made a concerted effort as
a team. We made an agreementthat we were going to try to be
a defense is what we were goingto hang our head on. He used
the old cliche we all use defensewins championships. Yeah, were the Wolves
maybe, you know, not playingoffensively like they we've seen against Phoenix and

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against Denver. I think Dallas hada lot to do with it. I
think they have a good defensive gameplan. Their two big men sat inside
and protected the rim more than Denverand Phoenix did in an effort to keep
Ant away from the basket. Doesn'tmean it'll work again, you know,
on on Tomorrow night. Finch couldcome up with some type of a grand
plan to find a way to getand to the basket. But and that

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one two punch of doncic And andKyrie is something to behold. That's those
two guys. That's I'm not youknow, and I'm not watching all the
matchups in the NBA, and Idon't know what the other one guard combinations
look like. But that was thatlooked at least last night, even though
the WOL was only lost by three, it just almost looked unbeatable the way
those two play together and play withtheir teams. And I mean Aunt had

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trouble covering Kyrie last night. Kyrieis very slippery. He does that against
everyone. Yeah you can, hecan't, and it usually gets off as
you say, the slow starts,then finish is strong. He's kind of
a fourth quarter finisher, where lastnight he got off like a house of
fire. And donstage to me,looked a lot healthier and spry than he
did at the end of the OklahomaCity He was hurting. He has knee

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issues that were bugging him. Hewas uh he had and then ankle too.
They say it's all knee, yeah, And he looked a lot fresher
last night. The days of restthat he got certainly helped him. And
you know, again, he wasnot good from three points shot he missed,
you know, it was three outof ten. But his overall game
you talked about earlier, the eightassists, you know, the three steals,

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the rebounds that he got. Imean, he just he's got great
vision, obviously, and it makeshim one of the best. One.
Well, he finds a way tocreate an open shot. A lot of
it's on screens. I get that, but when in he's very he's like
a g I compare them to likewe saw Murray at times during the Denver
series where it seemed that that littlepull up fade away jumper he would not

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miss. Donc gets that shot fromyou know, from all different parts of
the floor inside the circle. Hedoesn't miss much. He's not from the
two pointers. Yeah, the differentthings. He's the he's the leagues leading
scorer for a reason. Yeah,this is Dallas is there for a reason.
And they made you know, thetrade they made during the they all
start before they all start breaking thetrading deadline, and got some of those

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young kids. I mean, youknow Gafford Kid and PJ. Washington and
you know they've added length. Theygot they got the type of players that
they just before could not compete withthe best teams with and now they they've
added that that element. And yetat the same time, you know,
you can't have Cat going six fortwenty and two for nine from three.

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I mean, your two big guns, Karl Anthony Towns scored sixteen and Aunt
was off and he had nineteen thatthey couldn't compete with. You know,
it's a game of stars and thosetwo other players. When when Jade McDaniels,
as I said, which is great, great to see. You know,
he was especially from three point landand I think they started out five

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or six or was it six forseven, five for five. Yeah,
he could not miss and he hehad those. They were giving him that
open look. So and go Bertwhen he went off the court made things
a lot easier for Dallas and hehad. It was still a very competitive
game. Like I said, theWolves, and despite all their you know,
their issues, I thought, we'restill going to find a way to
win it. In the last threeminutes. I really thought I did too.
I think they were going to winthe game. They mean Cat and

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hit those back to back three pointerstwo three minutes to go. I thought
it was their game. And thenjust a strange set of circumstances, a
couple of possessions that went haywire forthe Wolves, and that was it.
And then Connley, he didn't playvery well last night. He did not,
No, he did not. Hetried that alley up a couple of

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times without success to go bear,you know, even though it was a
long shot. He takes the threepointer, gets gets fouled. They've got
a chance. You make them bothand you can try to miss the third
and get that tap in. Andhe missed the second free throw, and
you got to make that in thatsituation. Well they miss They missed seven
free throws last night, which againis not one was the one where you
got to make that second one sothat you can try to miss the third

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and get that tip in basket,which has been done before. But it
just wasn't. There a lot oflittle things didn't go their way. And
still I think it's going to beyou know, I I hope people aren't
you putting the nail on the coffinbit right now today? One most people
like to I always take the temperature. I was telling ten to be there's
there's the young sales guys here.They're van and Clayton and mad and they

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they're all Wolves fans and they're Itried to say, because you panicking,
Yet he goes, absolutely not.They love what they've seen, They love
what happened against Denver. So there, I don't think anybody is because of
what they've seen this team do.When you look back, and I tried,
the one thing is you got towarn people just because it happened against
Denver where you rallied back from.Sure, you lost three in a row
and you have to win two ina row just because we've seen that.

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That means they're capable, but doesn'tnecessarily mean it's going to happen against Dallas.
I think you know what they weredoing the old one. You know,
you know the Wolves had a hada very frenetic Game seven in which
they had to rally back in thesecond half and and spend a lot of
energy. And I get all that. I know Dallas was only six games
series, but they have to rallyback from a seventeen point deficit. They

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were able to do it. AndI know that because it was a six
game, a seven game, therewas an extra game in a less day
risk. These guys are all young, it's I don't have more than anything.
I think maybe Aunt being being spentin the second half had more to
do with chasing Kyrie around the courtin that first half, more than he
was tired from the game that wastwo days. He had to run around

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a lot. Hey, that's whyit's a series, and that's why these
are the two teams left left standing, and Finch made that very clear,
apparently in a very feisty film sessiontoday. According to sources who are heard
about it, he said, youknow, I just want to make sure
this guy's do The Western Conference finalshave started. Yes, Mark Rosen doing

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his best Joe Nameath imitation guarantee aTimberwolves win Tomorrow night. We'll talk more
Wolves. I just want to sayNunnuts, Wolves, Mavericks and some other
topics as well, with Rosie tendabein common. Next year. On the
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game last night. This one says, Rosen, say what you really want
to say? An came out flat. It's not an excuse, it's an
explanation. My comeback to that is, if you're flat coming into game one
of the Western Conference Finals at homeagainst a rabid crowd with decibel levels we've

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never heard before, there's something wrongwith you. Then you and you know
what you remember Jesse Ventura, Iain't got time to believe. Guess what
if you ain't got time to betired, there's time to be tired when
the series is over. You're ayoung man. We talked about he had
two nights off. I just don'tlike that excuse about being a tucker.

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You get an adrenaline rush just byI'm inhiling the crowd last night. I
don't care what situation you're in,and you're you hear many times and players,
especially someone who's young as aunt andjust feed off of that. I
mean, I don't, I meanhe said that word. I don't.
I mean we've joked about it inthe past, like the golfer football team
as a team came out flat againstIowa. Whatever the case may be.

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When you look like, man,the team isn't in sync. But the
Wolves did enough things early in thegame. They led after the first quarter.
It wasn't like they left thirty threetwenty seven, right, It wasn't
like they were down like in Denverthey were getting blown out by twelve points.
Yeah, I mean an and theydid the right thing. In fact,
Finch said maybe he should have playedKyle Anderson a little bit more because

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he was finding his shot. TheMavericks were pretty much ignoring him. He's
you know, he's slow mo.He's not a guy that's going to light
it up, and all of asudden, he's hitting shot after shot,
wide open, little six seven footshots that he's really proficient at, and
you're trying to counteract everything that KyrieIrving was doing over forty minutes, and
he was especially in the first half. By the way, I don't think

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i've been for fourteen in the firsthalf and twenty three points. Yeah,
he was that good. I mean, he was spectacular and he didn't play
certainly at that level the rest ofthe game. But they had contributions from
other players. But again he comesback to you know so much what happened
in the first quarter or second quarterthe Wolves and Finch mentioned it. I
was in a Zeos conference after thegame. They had this happen to him.

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The end of the first half wasa disaster. Again, things that
just happened, the turnovers, themisshots, and then the opportunities that Dallas
ends up taking advantage of. They'vegot to clean that up. And even
after all said and done, Iguys talked about the beginning of of our
little hour here, that the Wolveshad plenty of opportunities to pull away and

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win that basketball game. And andDallas did what they've been doing this.
They got that offensive rebound and thenthey kicked it back out for a three,
and then they took the lead,and they cut it to one,
and then they took the lead afterthat and another three pointer, and the
Wolves had trouble recovering at that point. But it's still a very competitive game
till the end. Despite all theproblems that the Timberwolves had, kind of

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closing on defense, making shots thatthey that they normally would make, a
lot of, you know, alot of in and out, a lot
of you know, those types ofshots. But that's basketball. Yeah,
Dallas had their fair slse. Theyabsolutely did. Absolutely, they had a
lot of good looks. Here's atext message that said, teams coming off
a game seven victory are seventeen andthirty in game one of the next series.

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Not time to panic, not notnot yet, you know, And
those stats to me are are that'slike the Twins had gone to eighteen in
postseason play while they won a game. Because there was another stat I just
saw on ESPN if I read itcorrectly, the Timberwolves in their playoff history

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when they lose game one, theirrecord is one in ten. The only
time they lost game one of aseries and came back to win the series
was against Sacramento twenty years ago.So if you want to use stats like,
hey, teams gout games in fiftuyseventeen thirty, not time to panic,
you could also say, oh yeah, but the timber Ros also.
But again, I don't put anystock into that because none of those one

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in ten teams included any of theplayers that are playing now or coaching staff.
But that's what I'm saying. That'swhy those stats to me of what's
happened in the past and this youcan use them. They're fun. Some
that are more recent than have todo with the current team can be more
they they can have more meaning tothem, and you might be able to
use them. But something like teamscoming off a game seven victor are seventeen

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and thirty in the game one ofthe next series that that means at seventeen
times the won. So I don'tlook at that as being any type of
a barometer. As we've seen,every game takes on a personality of its
own, and I think these teamsare are pretty evenly matched for a lot
of reasons, and then they havedifferent, uh sort of look to what
they do. But there's a reasonthey're in the Western Conference Finals, and

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I think it's going to be aseries, a long series. I don't
think anything surprising about that. Anyonewho thought that this would go in four
or five. This kid, Ithought we're going to sweep them. Well
I change, I said, MAVsin a sweep, and then I,
yeah, that's right. I can'tkeep up. I can't either. I
guess I'll go right now with theMAVs sweep my predictions. Okay, all

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right, that's right, But theWolves are proven to be and you know,
really home court they think they fight, you fight tooth and nail.
I got a home court advantage.Well what the Wolves are now lost with
three games of their home court,yep, in a very short span of
time. And yet there's still kickit and very much involved this. And

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I think they you know, whateverhappens tomorrow night, and I do think
they're gonna win. They'll go intoDallas on Sunday and then Tuesday. And
maybe it's the line that Finch said, like you know about the whole being
at home for such a long time. He goes, you want to be
around your family that much. Ithink a tongue in cheek when he said
it. But there's something about teamsthat especially, I don't think they're gonna
be intimidated. We saw that whenthey went to Denver for Game seven and

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fell behind by twenty and still cameback and one. So you know,
I don't know if the home courthonestly means all that much anymore. It
was wonderful there last night. Theenergy was off the you know, off
the charts, uh. But Dallascertainly was. You think Kyrie Irving and
Donson's are affected by the crowd,not for a second. Sure last night.

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No, Kyrie thrives. Love thoseguys thrive off of that. They
love most players actually do they likeus against the world circle the way against
everybody's against us. I think almostall after yes, actually have that they
have that you are in sports.I think you know home ice, home
field, where you know the NFL. But I think it's it's pretty minimal

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when you get to this point ofthe postseason, in particular, so many
points out. Well, they hadtwo days rest between Game seven and Game
one. There's only one day restbetween one and two. Won't they be
more tired? Yeah? I think. I think, I think the the
the people that the oran because somuch emotion was put into right, it
was more than men. But youknow, I just to me, if

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if, if, if they reallydid come out and I don't believe in
this, but if you're going touse they came out flat, and they
scored thirty three points in the firstquarter, and ant he hit a couple
of threes early, so I don'tknow how flat he could have been.
But if you come out flat forGame one of the Western Conference Finals,
and you to me my interpretation arecoming out flat, would be you're down
by twelve or ten or twelve inthe first quarter, not leading at the

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end of the first quarter. Howdo you say you came out flat and
you're still winning by six points atthe end of the first quarter. And
then again, like like Finch broughtbrought up just an awful end of the
first half, and you just kindof feel like the whole thing just kind
of you sag a little bit becausethey just made just a bleepload of mistakes
in the first half. And that'sthat's costly. It wasn't this, It

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wasn't this. It wasn't the samemistakes right that we saw in the one
Denver game in which whenever he hitthe three, when they scored what was
it, eight points in about youknow, twenty seconds, right right,
Yeah, they completely turned a sevenpoint lead into a fifteen and that game
ended up with the Wolves loss.So yeah, it's well, you know

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again, you if you want tosay that, okay, And you know,
Barkley insinuated Aunt poked the bear bytalking about Kyrie. Kyrie didn't shy
away from that. He bought intoit. He basically he basically said that
it did inspire well, but healso appreciates an right. You know,

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what can you is? Can you? If that's what got Kyrie to play
like he did in the first half, I don't think he can recreate that
again. He can't go you knowwhat. You know he said he wanted
me after you know what I'm saying. So I just don't know if that
that may have worked for that game, but I don't know if you can
recreate that for game game. No, I don't think it sustains itself.

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And it's not like Bolten borb maentorialand Aunt was saying it as a sign
of respect. I mean, itwasn't like, no, that's what I
thought he did, much the wayhe did with Durant when he was doing
that whole thing. And you know, I mean, Kyrie has been around
long enough to know it's not somecollege ra ra thing. It's just you
know, and he has a lotof respect for Aunt and and I think
a lot of people, despite Kyrieirving kind of going off the deep end

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and a lot of things that hewas saying earlier. I mean, I
have such an appreciation for his game, especially watching him last night, and
we were just looking at each othergoing, Damn, this guy is as
good as I've ever seen at thatposition. Dominated a first half like he
did last night. Was that good? Really good? Yeah? He was.

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Let's take our final break, comeback one more second to go.
Big ticket JG waiting in the window. I think JG said he was out
today. I think he's got somekids, got some especially that going on,
so I think it's some big ticketwill be in that's coming up at
three o'clock. Right here on thefan Coup thirteen fourteen pastime comed he's tend

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to me. Mark Rose in lastseven got about ten minutes here, so
he's reading John Krasinski and The Athletic. He covers the Wolves for The Athletic
does a terrific job, and acouple of things that he wrote in here
his piece. First of all,Wolves ended up attempting forty nine threes,
a stark departure from the offensive identitythat got them this far. Wolves never

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attempted more than forty threes in theregular season and average thirty two point seven,
ranking twenty third in the league.They followed the same pattern in the
playoffs. They took forty in gamessix against Denver, but otherwise I've hovered
in their low thirties for most ofthe eleven games leading into the conference finals,
so to see forty nine attempts,including fourteen and the second was glaring,

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seemed indicative of two things. TheTimberls didn't quite have their legs underneath
them for the third round opener afteran exhausting, emotional, record setting comeback.
I don't buy that one. Ido buy this one where he says
they also needed to get used toplaying a team with legitimate rim protection on
the back line after not having anyconcerns in that area against Phoenix and Denver.
Yeah, I actually finished it afterthe game. If I stand corrected

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here that he said I think thereare more threes to be had, he
would not said that. Yeah,he was not shying away from the fact
that going, yeah, we gotit, we gotta do a better job.
Yeah, he did say Aunt hadopportunities to you know, to go
downhill I think is the term theyuse, uh, and do that more
successfully, and I think we'll seethat tomre night. But he wasn't shying
away from the fact that his teamtook that many threes. In fact,

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he thought they had. He said, here, here's finished his quote,
I thought most of them were goodshots, to be honest, we were
driving, making the right play,kicking out. I thought there were even
more threes. Yeah, yeah,yeah, that's exactly what he said.
Yeah. So, I mean it'syou know, you try to put I
know, maybe basketball is unique thatway. I mean the Tanne can weigh
in on Stanley Cup playoffs when youlook at teams and how that team can

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you know, win four nothing onenight and get sill Ac the next night,
and you go, what, what'schanged? Well, you don't look
at a strategic thing so much.All the power play click, the their
goaltending was out of sight. Butthe NBA, in particular in the playoffs,
Man, it changes so fast,and the complexion, even though you're
playing against the same players game aftergame, the games completely the script completely

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flips from game to game. AndI think we're going to see that again
more. Now, here's a lastthing I want to pick from. Krazinski's
piece in the Athletica says their abilitymeaning Dallas, their ability to score at
the rim and in the paint wasa personal affront to the proud Minnesota defense.
But there's no disputing the numbers Dallasoutscored Minnesota sixty two to thirty eight

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in the paint Wow, a shockingnumber for a Wolves team with so much
size. Golbert was quoted as saying, I got to do a better job
on the rebounds. I can't letthese guys just get offensive rebounds. I'll
be better and even aunt again takingsome of the responsibility, says, y'all
can see it. We are astep behind everybody, especially myself. Kyrie
got a transition layup from when Ithink we scored and he just outran me.

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I was just exhausted. So yeah, for sure, but we'll be
all right. So Golbert needs toknow he needs to do better inside and
Ant's going to have his work cutout for him with Kyrie. If Kyrie
continues to play like he did yesterday, it's going to be you know,
and that's a good two way player. We know that he prides himself on
his defense. Now, as amatter of fact, we've been talking about
that all year, about how Finchhas been. He's he's been coaxing it

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out if him telling him, youknow, you got, you know,
urging him to play more defensively.But you got to play both ends of
the ball. But Kyrie is ahandful because, like you had said,
his ability to get to the basket. He's quick, he's fast, and
he's he's got the full array ofshots. He can shoot with his left
hand, his right hand. There'snot much he can't do. That's why
he's a future Hall of Famer.Yeah, and you know, I think

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that Anton particular is going to takeit upon himself tomorrow night. I'm just
saying he was embarrassed, but Iyou know, he's he holds himself to
such high standards that I think tomorrownight, in particular, he's going to
want to prove that, you know, he's still the guy that you know,
this team you know, stirs thedrink, as they say, along
with Karl Anthony Towns, who's beenso good in the in this postseason.

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But like I said, buckle up, it's gonna be a long series.
You know. They Dallas has gotsome good young turks that are they got
great hands under the basket they getthey don't drop many rebounds. I know,
it's kind of a you know,like, well that's a given it
No, it's not. You seea lot of players that just can't hang
on the rebounds. They're good.Uh, and they're they're giving the Wolves

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a much different look than they hadin the first two series. Uh,
no, no question about it.I know we can flip subjects a little
bit. It's interesting to see,uh, justin Jefferson at the game last
night, and you know, heacknowledged the crowd and he certainly loves we
call them Jets, JJ and Jets. Well, I guess the other JJ,
right, so we just call himJets now. He says that's his
name, right. He said,I'm not He told McCarthy, I'm not

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JJ, I'm Jets. He gotto kick you and Jets gotta got a
kick out of on the big screenwatching Brian O'Neill slam a Bruski. Uh,
you know, sitting in the frontrow last night. But I think
that the conversation about Jets, andI know Ben Leeber talked about it this
morning and he says he's got alittle antsy about his contract situation, although
in the next breath he's saying,well, I don't really expect it to

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be a problem. But at thesame time, are they missing valuable time
because they have not only one,but two new quarterbacks. Got to get
on the same page mark, youknow, with Sam Darnold and JJ McCarthy
with OTAs, and we'll find outa lot more when they get to the
mandatory mini camp portion of it.When again, everything going on now with
the Wolves in particular, you know, the Vikings are even taking a back

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seat with you know, the earlyportion of this stuff. But you know,
I don't I don't know. Imean, everyone's speculating at the same
time. I heard anything to suggestthat they're not going to get this deal
done, but I think it wouldbe in everyone's best interest to get it
done, if not right at thebeginning of training camp soon thereafter. It

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doesn't sound like you have any panicabout the Wolves, you have no panic
about Jets, and you have nopanic about the Twins. Very common.
Whoa, whoa, they'll panic aboutthe Twins. First of all, they
just won two in a row.Yeah, there's still six games out of
first, but they have the winnerSchnitzel back it. Well, they got
another uh Texas team. It's youknow, they got a lot of things

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good things going on. The DallasDallas Stars are in the Western Conference Finals.
The Dallas Mavericks from the Western ConferenceFinals, the Texas Rangers are the
defending world champion, World Series champions. They're in town starting tomorrow night,
so they'll be here. They're goinghead to head against their own Dallas team
tomorrow night. The Twins game hasjust start a little earlier. I believe
the not to directly conflict, butit'll be a busy night downtown tomorrow with

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the Twins and the Rangers, andof course the Wolves playing Dallas as well,
but they have they're stuck with theCowboys though, so that there is
that. Jeff from Grant Rapids Rightson the Brad John Brian Cave and text
line, he says, can youcomment on why they took the points away
from Cat when he rebounded in thefourth quarter? It was above the cylinder

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that counts as goaltending. Yeah.I asked, uh part or Fox about
who's you know actually plays basketball,and I thought, you know, it
depends on the video angle you get. I thought it was really close.
It was. It was not oneof those that you go, yeah,
that was obvious offensive goaltending. Theball was up. The NFL, the
NBA issued a statement today and saidthey showed this, they have this gadget
for doing it, and they saidthe right call was made, and it

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was I can't argue that. Imean, it looked like it was very
very close. They reviewed it,they didn't give it to them, but
it was a critical call. Imean it was. It was critical.
But according to the NBA, ifyou want to believe what they said,
when they they showed us one ofthat one of the sales guys showed me
this, it's it's still shocking.Well you have they have some type of
gizmo like a gonculator. Someone takesus special shows every and it showed that

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it was over, and the NBAsays it clearly as a non basketway.
How do you define that it's overbecause for me, my opinion is it
was going to hit the rim.I think it probably would have hit the
side of the rim that would havebounced out. But they don't know that
because of the bounce of the bag. I know, yes, I understand,
but I'm just saying in terms ofhow do you determine it's in,
I think it just if it hasa chance part of it. I think

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it was just I think that's that'sthat's my interpretation, but I could be
wrong. But it's just like ifit could because the ball takes but wacky
bounces, you can't say it couldn'thave bounced in. So if it's if
it's above any portion of the rim, I think it's it's it's called.
Becomes a pretty easy call many timesfor the officials. That one was a
little dice yeer. But at thesame time, you know it was a
crucial thing. But the refs areagainst us, the walls against us,

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everybody's against us. We're tired.We came out flat. We uh Finch
said he didn't feel like the teamwas focused. It doesn't seem like they
were focused. I don't know.He tries, that's part of his job,
and I think, certainly by thesounds of it, he got their
full attention today mostly film session asopposed to, you know, doing anything

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on the court, and you know, those guys need to get their rest,
and I don't think they spent alot of time. And they shot
a few layupsinence about it and wenthome, took a nap. So that's
you. If guaranteed, yes,Allah, Joe, name it Broadway.
Joe guaranteed that the Jets would winSuper Bowl Three when they were eighteen point
underdogs to the Baltimore Colts. Youguarantee the Wolves will win tomorrow night?

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What about Sunday? Will they Whenwe come here Monday on Memorial Day?
Do you think we will have atwo to one lead or be down one
too. No, I'm not goingthat far. I think it's going to
be a six game series, potentiallya seven game series again, so I'm
not I'm not going to speculate onthat. I mean, I think the
Wolves play well on the road,I'm not, you know, I don't
think they're going to shy away fromit or be very competitive. They're five
to one on the road. Yeah, I don't think it's I don't think

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either one of these teams are goingto pull away. I don't think we're
gonna see I hope not, becauseI really, in spite of the loss,
enjoyed. Oh. It was aterrific game. We haven't got much
of the NBA playoffs of the IndianaObviously, Celtics game the other night was
crazy and the Pacers blew that one. None of the Denver games were very
close. No, last night itwas very good. It's fun. Tennebee,

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Are you going to guarantee a winfor the Wolves tomorrow? Night as
well. Are you guaranteeing one orwhat? Do you think? I will
not guarantee, but I do believethey will win as well. And do
you think when we're back Monday,if you are here, do you think
we will be talking about a twoto one Wolves lead? Well, they
win Sunday as well. Are youpicking game three after not seeing games?
Yes? Exactly, Good luck withthat for the sake of being a Homer

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and giving the listeners that they wantto hear. Yes, we're gonna win
the next two. If let's saywe lose the next two, we're here
on Monday and it's so three KennyRogers rock bottom of that. Yeah,
I guess you're probably right, Uh, Rosie. I look forward to seeing
that on money especially. Yeah.And I will be here as well to

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talk about two and three. Yes, and remember those who have come before
you. That's what what Memorial Dayis all about. Tennyby, thanks for
having me you as well, stickaround big ticket, Brett Blake Moore.
Next, I'm out tomorrow, Tennabythe ten fit Cheryl will set saile and
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