WCQ Game 1: Phoenix at Minnesota, 2:30 pm Saturday

FrenchMinnyFan · Post #61 » by **FrenchMinnyFan** » Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:22 am

Klomp wrote:

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I love Mike. He knows a lot that opportunities don’t come often. Hope we can make a deep run. He deserves it.Go Wolves!

winforlose · Post #62 » by **winforlose** » Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:26 am

https://www.si.com/nba/timberwolves/news/did-the-timberwolves-rope-a-dope-the-suns-in-regular-season-finale

Life gives you piss in a glass, call it lemonade and give it to someone else

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LondonWolf91 · Post #63 » by **LondonWolf91** » Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:53 am

Tbh, I understand a lot of you being concerned about our defense against the Suns but I think our issues have been mainly offensive against them. We give away too many points on turnovers.

Limit our turnovers and we should be way more competitive.

Other things to consider:

- Ant looked exhausted in the last game. He will have rested and should shoot/play better as a result
- KAT is back
- Suns shot lights out in the first quarter of our last game. That was an anomaly. We remained competitive the other quarters despite strongly losing the turnover battle

Suns will get points, it’s just how they are built.

FrenchMinnyFan · Post #64 » by **FrenchMinnyFan** » Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:39 am

We will be ready, i'm not worry. And Mike will be back to Grizz Mike level. Go Wolves !

winforlose · Post #65 » by **winforlose** » Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:09 pm

LondonWolf91 wrote:Tbh, I understand a lot of you being concerned about our defense against the Suns but I think our issues have been mainly offensive against them. We give away too many points on turnovers.

Limit our turnovers and we should be way more competitive.

Other things to consider:

- Ant looked exhausted in the last game. He will have rested and should shoot/play better as a result
- KAT is back
- Suns shot lights out in the first quarter of our last game. That was an anomaly. We remained competitive the other quarters despite strongly losing the turnover battle

Suns will get points, it’s just how they are built.

Beal and GA shot lights out against us. The link I provided has Micah Nori talking about it. The Wolves coaches seem to know that Booker and KD will get their’s. The key is to contain the others. Nori suggests that they knew they would play the Suns and therefore we did not make adjustments in game 82 that we could have made (even before the game started,) so we could use them in game 83.

winforlose · Post #66 » by **winforlose** » Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:09 pm

FrenchMinnyFan wrote:We will be ready, i'm not worry. And Mike will be back to Grizz Mike level. Go Wolves !

He certainly has been in the last 3.

Guest84 · Post #67 » by **Guest84** » Fri Apr 19, 2024 3:27 pm

Jim Pete gives his thoughts here:

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Guest84 · Post #68 » by **Guest84** » Fri Apr 19, 2024 3:47 pm

Wolves talk about 41 min in

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TimberKat · Post #69 » by **TimberKat** » Fri Apr 19, 2024 3:59 pm

winforlose wrote:
LondonWolf91 wrote:Tbh, I understand a lot of you being concerned about our defense against the Suns but I think our issues have been mainly offensive against them. We give away too many points on turnovers.

Limit our turnovers and we should be way more competitive.

Other things to consider:

- Ant looked exhausted in the last game. He will have rested and should shoot/play better as a result
- KAT is back
- Suns shot lights out in the first quarter of our last game. That was an anomaly. We remained competitive the other quarters despite strongly losing the turnover battle

Suns will get points, it’s just how they are built.

Beal and GA shot lights out against us. The link I provided has Micah Nori talking about it. The Wolves coaches seem to know that Booker and KD will get their’s. The key is to contain the others. Nori suggests that they knew they would play the Suns and therefore we did not make adjustments in game 82 that we could have made (even before the game started,) so we could use them in game 83.

Well, had they won game 82, they would play the Lakers. So, I am not sure I buy the "we had them right where we want them view", especially after 3 blowout games.

winforlose · Post #70 » by **winforlose** » Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:13 pm

TimberKat wrote:
winforlose wrote:
LondonWolf91 wrote:Tbh, I understand a lot of you being concerned about our defense against the Suns but I think our issues have been mainly offensive against them. We give away too many points on turnovers.

Limit our turnovers and we should be way more competitive.

Other things to consider:

- Ant looked exhausted in the last game. He will have rested and should shoot/play better as a result
- KAT is back
- Suns shot lights out in the first quarter of our last game. That was an anomaly. We remained competitive the other quarters despite strongly losing the turnover battle

Suns will get points, it’s just how they are built.

Beal and GA shot lights out against us. The link I provided has Micah Nori talking about it. The Wolves coaches seem to know that Booker and KD will get their’s. The key is to contain the others. Nori suggests that they knew they would play the Suns and therefore we did not make adjustments in game 82 that we could have made (even before the game started,) so we could use them in game 83.

Well, had they won game 82, they would play the Lakers. So, I am not sure I buy the "we had them right where we want them view", especially after 3 blowout games.

Hence my comment about lemonade above. It is also noteworthy that Denver only turned it up against Memphis in their game 82 once we were down big. For almost a full half they let the game stay close. I think had we been up big, Denver might have let the rope go and let us have #1 seed.

Also, had the Suns lost they would have been the 7 seed, played against LAL and the Wolves thought the Suns beat LAL.

Guest84 · Post #71 » by **Guest84** » Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:09 pm