Game 21 | MIN @ MEM 12/08/23

[winforlose]

Taking care of business. 4 of 4 against the sub 500 teams. God I love this version of the Wolves.

Before these four games, I said I needed to see us win 3-of-4 to be a true believer. Yeah, we beat good teams last year too, but we’d lose to teams like this. I wanted to see that we were different.

4 of 4! I’m all in on this team!

+2

[gandlogo]

Memphis themed hell yeah. 180 degrees different from Wednesday's game. Towns looks quicker this year. Not as athletic as Naz, but seems quicker. Five assists vs one TO - would love that as his baseline. All that and a Shake sighting. Get some rest fellas for what will likely be a tough game against NOP. Good win.

[shrink]

Quarter of the way through the season. 17-4. Crazy.

[KGdaBom]

Taking care of business. 4 of 4 against the sub 500 teams. God I love this version of the Wolves.

Every day
Every way

[KGdaBom]

Warriors and Thunder in OT. Thunder up 3. Come on Warriors.
SGA might be the best basketball player on the planet.

[_AIJ_]

Damn this team is legit

[FrenchMinnyFan]

Crazy how we shoot well at 3 despite Naz and Slomo beeing 0 on 11 !

[Klomp]

AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Missing the IST is worth it for getting these 2 wins. 17-4! In times past, I wait for the end of the season for the team to reach 17 wins, we just reached it on early December this season!

Already matched/exceeded 4 of 34 seasons in franchise history (including both years of the Kurt Rambis era)

[shrink]

Shake Milton 6-9, 3-5 3P, 17 PTS
Troy Brown Jr 8-10, 4-6 3P, 20 PTS

And I loved the team’s offensive ball movement, and the defensive effort and rebounding. Beautiful game.

[TimberKat]

Did everybody leave? I'm posting by myself.

I been on vacation. Great to see another win. Now the difficult 16 game schedule starts. Hope we get Ant, JMcD, and JMcL back.

[Klomp]

Did everybody leave? I'm posting by myself.

The IST got me out of the normal groove of things...forgot to check my fantasy lineup until 6...of course the one guy out had a 6 o'clock tip ugh

[younggunsmn]

Good win. Much crisper on offense and totally dominated with defense and rebounding.

Rudy, wow, the confidence and aggressiveness is night and day between this season and last year.
Took last year's DPOY Jaren Jackson and totally made him his b-word, dominating him 20-2 on the glass including 9 offensive.
KAT did a great job guarding him straight up and let Rudy roam like a monster in the paint.

He is just a beast right now. We are using him so much better on offense as a screener and he is playing so much smarter on that end than earlier in the season. Much smarter and more selective about rolling to the rim, sniffing out screen opportunities within the offense, moving the ball quicker, finding offensive rebounding opportunities.
There's still the odd offensive foul, bad shot, or turnover, but there is so much more good to offset that now

There has been a growing trend where KAT defends the best offensive big on the other team and Rudy defends the rim, and it's been a good gameplan in many games. It works really, really well when you have perimeter defenders who can stay in front and keep their guy out of the paint. Of course Memphis was missing Ja tonight so they really didn't have that element.

And NAW, wow he worked his butt off locking down Bane who could only get 13 shots off, a game after scoring 49 points.
Such a huge contrast to be able to watch him in the same game as Nowell, who was a huge liability out there for Memphis.
Even when NAW has a bad offensive game, his defense and rebounding are a big plus.
When his shot is falling like tonight he's a double plus.
He evenly matched a max contract 25-5-5 player in Bane tonight, and that was the difference when our own superstar guard was out.

TBJ with a huge offensive game.

Mike with another master class in running the team.

Shake showing some life and hopefully starting to shake off his shooting slump.
Naz still with 10 and 9 on a night his outside shot was not falling.

This team just has so much more quality depth than i can ever remember.
I wish we had locked Brown and NAW up for 3 or 4 years in the offseason, those contracts are absolute bargains.

Re-signing Mike Conley is looking like an absolute must this offseason, and with the way he has been playing and shooting, I don't know how realistic it is that we get the sweetheart deal/ old man discount we are all hoping for.

Ant, man get him right. I don't care if he has to sit out until new year's.

Glad to hear Jmac is healthy and available again, hopefully that will allow us to dial back Mike's minutes into the high 20's to keep him fresh and healthy.

I also really like how Finch put Slo-mo and Shake, 2 guys who are struggling, out there with the scrubs for the final 3 minutes of garbage time to help them find a rythym, because we are going to need them to be the guys they were last year if we want our bench unit to be able to hold the leads our starters are going to build.

[Nick K]

Taking care of business. 4 of 4 against the sub 500 teams. God I love this version of the Wolves.

Before these four games, I said I needed to see us win 3-of-4 to be a true believer. Yeah, we beat good teams last year too, but we’d lose to teams like this. I wanted to see that we were different.

4 of 4! I’m all in on this team!

Not me. I was all in last year. This year I'm keeping my big mouth shut so I don' t jinx us.

[wolves_89]

One thing that is a bit surprising to me is that Troy Brown Jr is only 24. It seems like he's been around forever, but in reality he hasn't even made it to his prime yet.

[Clav]

Warriors and Thunder in OT. Thunder up 3. Come on Warriors.
SGA might be the best basketball player on the planet.

Thunder are my other team, gritty win vs. the Warriors, I'd prefer OKC and Minny in the WCF

SGA is awesome though so smooth, that game was great.

[Klomp]

One thing that is a bit surprising to me is that Troy Brown Jr is only 24. It seems like he's been around forever, but in reality he hasn't even made it to his prime yet.

He was in the Doncic/Young draft

[winforlose]

Guys, how deep is our bench? I mean honestly. When is the last time we dropped 127 without 2 starters. Especially when one is our top scorer. All 5 of our bench rotation guys Shake, NAW, TBJ, Kyle, and Naz can all drop 20 on a good night. Even on a night where Kyle couldn’t find the basket <maybe literally:( > we still pull out a double digit win. KAT was in first half foul trouble, didn’t matter. This is truly the deepest Wolves team ever, and the best bench in the NBA. Rudy is playing at MVP level, Mike is making bite bite mean bite on the fake and I bite you with the make. KAT can drop 20+ and we barely notice because TBJ or NAW or Naz is doing it too. This is just incredible.

[Neeva]

I still feel like Connelly will do some deadline all in type of moves to improve the bench more. We need a reliable backup pg for playoffs. Lets go all out for this 2024 playoff run.

[Klomp]

Guys, how deep is our bench? I mean honestly. When is the last time we dropped 127 without 2 starters. Especially when one is our top scorer. All 5 of our bench rotation guys Shake, NAW, TBJ, Kyle, and Naz can all drop 20 on a good night. Even on a night where Kyle couldn’t find the basket <maybe literally:( > we still pull out a double digit win. KAT was in first half foul trouble, didn’t matter. This is truly the deepest Wolves team ever, and the best bench in the NBA. Rudy is playing at MVP level, Mike is making bite bite mean bite on the fake and I bite you with the make. KAT can drop 20+ and we barely notice because TBJ or NAW or Naz is doing it too. This is just incredible.

And Josh and Leonard were with Iowa...

[winforlose]

Guys, how deep is our bench? I mean honestly. When is the last time we dropped 127 without 2 starters. Especially when one is our top scorer. All 5 of our bench rotation guys Shake, NAW, TBJ, Kyle, and Naz can all drop 20 on a good night. Even on a night where Kyle couldn’t find the basket <maybe literally:( > we still pull out a double digit win. KAT was in first half foul trouble, didn’t matter. This is truly the deepest Wolves team ever, and the best bench in the NBA. Rudy is playing at MVP level, Mike is making bite bite mean bite on the fake and I bite you with the make. KAT can drop 20+ and we barely notice because TBJ or NAW or Naz is doing it too. This is just incredible.

And Josh and Leonard were with Iowa...

Minott had a decent game, Nix went nuts, Dropped 32.