Wolves vs. OKC 10-23-2022

[KGdaBom]

All of a sudden we're up 14. Can't explain it.

Anthony Edwards.

Watch a replay of this game later and you’ll see that when he’s the primary guy on offense, we score and score and score. We have our lulls when we deviate or he sits.

Ant is having a super efficient offensive night, but so are KAT and Rudy. More failure on your KAT hating.

[MN7725]

All of a sudden we're up 14. Can't explain it.

Anthony Edwards.

Watch a replay of this game later and you’ll see that when he’s the primary guy on offense, we score and score and score. We have our lulls when we deviate or he sits.

Ant's got to have the right mindset though, he gets blinders sometimes or is looking to get his
but yeah, team runs smooth when he's breaking down guys and collapsing the defense and starts kicking it

[m2002brian]

All of a sudden we're up 14. Can't explain it.

Anthony Edwards.

Watch a replay of this game later and you’ll see that when he’s the primary guy on offense, we score and score and score. We have our lulls when we deviate or he sits.

Ant's got to have the right mindset though, he gets blinders sometimes or is looking to get his
but yeah, team runs smooth when he's breaking down guys and collapsing the defense and starts kicking it

He’s doing a better job, especially in the second half of passing out when the lane gets tight on him.

[Movics]

Ant is taking that expected superstar leap this year. That jumpshot looks smooooooooth. Feels like every attempt will go in

[shrink]

All of a sudden we're up 14. Can't explain it.

ball movement

That’s the answer.

The reserves move the ball. McLaughlin catalyzes it, but Prince and Naz are willing passers, and I think SloMo will too.

The starters rarely do this, though we saw it a bit in the first quarter. DLo is a lot like Teague to me .. he wants to hold the ball and probe. Maybe that will work better with Gobert, but I much prefer the way the passing we see from JMac and the reserves, and the open shots it creates. I think the reserves play a better Finch-ball than the starters do.

[Nick K]

J Mac is a plus 23. Dlo a plus 0. Team runs better with J Mac.

Must say Naz Reid is having a great qtr.

[Calinks]

I do like him and think he can play a nice role but people need to stop saying Forbes is a Beasley replacement. They are not the same volume of shooter. I know Beasley was frustrating but people vastly underestimated how hard his job was. High volume three point shooters are not easy to find and they are streaky as hell because its a really hard role. You have to take almost only threes, a ton of them, and you get limited game time. Forbes can do that in bits but it wont be close to what Beasley could do, the positive trade-off is you wont suffer through those slumps.

[Calinks]

All of a sudden we're up 14. Can't explain it.

Anthony Edwards.

Watch a replay of this game later and you’ll see that when he’s the primary guy on offense, we score and score and score. We have our lulls when we deviate or he sits.

Ant's got to have the right mindset though, he gets blinders sometimes or is looking to get his
but yeah, team runs smoothly when he's breaking down guys and collapsing the defense and starts kicking it

It's a guard's game. WE have to have Ant be our best scorer, the NBA isn't built for bigs to carry you on offense. One of the reasons the Sixers keep flopping. Embiid is amazing but the game needs him to be Robin when it comes to scoring.

[Nick K]

AARROOOOOO!!!

[Calinks]

Arrrroooooooooooooo!!!!

[Nick K]

All of a sudden we're up 14. Can't explain it.

ball movement

That’s the answer.

The reserves move the ball. McLaughlin catalyzes it, but Prince and Naz are willing passers, and I think SloMo will too.

The starters rarely do this, though we saw it a bit in the first quarter. DLo is a lot like Teague to me .. he wants to hold the ball and probe. Maybe that will work better with Gobert, but I much prefer the way the passing we see from JMac and the reserves, and the open shots it creates. I think the reserves play a better Finch-ball than the starters do.

Nailed it!

[Folklore]

7 is not a PG, he's trash.

[Dalvin]

AAAAAARRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! 2-1 and above.500 again! That bench went on a run, definitely a deep team we have this year

[shrink]

15 rebounds for Gobert?

Any game Rudy gets less than 20 rebounds, I’m going to call him lazy.

[KGdaBom]

Anthony Edwards.

Watch a replay of this game later and you’ll see that when he’s the primary guy on offense, we score and score and score. We have our lulls when we deviate or he sits.

Ant's got to have the right mindset though, he gets blinders sometimes or is looking to get his
but yeah, team runs smoothly when he's breaking down guys and collapsing the defense and starts kicking it

It's a guard's game. WE have to have Ant be our best scorer, the NBA isn't built for bigs to carry you on offense. One of the reasons the Sixers keep flopping. Embiid is amazing but the game needs him to be Robin when it comes to scoring.

WHY? I don't understand this. If you have a big who scores efficiently why does he need to be Robin?

[WolfAddict]

Great game! Missed the Utah game with family commitments so was nice to sit and watch this in full.

Ant had a BRILLIANT game. Let's hope this is the start of a massive run from him.

The collapse in the 3rd didn't come so was happy with that.

Naz really stepped up in the last.

JMAC runs the offense so smooth.

A good win, and a momentum builder.

[Rauxcee]

As an outsider I really liked Ants game tonight. Much better, and he wasn't forcing it as much. I think once this team has played together for a month things will start really clicking.

[KGdaBom]

We ended up winning easy after some nervous moments. However OKC played without their best player SGA and most of the second half without their 2nd best player Giddey.

[MN7725]

All of a sudden we're up 14. Can't explain it.

ball movement

That’s the answer.

The reserves move the ball. McLaughlin catalyzes it, but Prince and Naz are willing passers, and I think SloMo will too.

The starters rarely do this, though we saw it a bit in the first quarter. DLo is a lot like Teague to me .. he wants to hold the ball and probe. Maybe that will work better with Gobert, but I much prefer the way the passing we see from JMac and the reserves, and the open shots it creates. I think the reserves play a better Finch-ball than the starters do.

yeah, I don't think Russell is Finch's type of PG

its pretty striking how much quicker action starts when JMAC plays, things start developing with like 16-18 seconds on shot clock

[winforlose]

I do like him and think he can play a nice role but people need to stop saying Forbes is a Beasley replacement. They are not the same volume of shooter. I know Beasley was frustrating but people vastly underestimated how hard his job was. High volume three point shooters are not easy to find and they are streaky as hell because its a really hard role. You have to take almost only threes, a ton of them, and you get limited game time. Forbes can do that in bits but it wont be close to what Beasley could do, the positive trade-off is you wont suffer through those slumps.

Beasley was inefficient a lot of the time. Yes he could get you some quick buckets, but he needed a lot of shots to sustain double digit scoring. You can argue the spacing was more important, but Nowell or Forbes can give you that spacing. The big difference is Forbes is better off the dribble but weaker at defense, rebounding, and quick release.