Game 59: Minnesota @ Oklahoma City (7PM CT)
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The group that played most of the last 8 minutes of the 4th and OT (Rob, NAW, TJ, Jaden, and Naz) found huge success in pushing the pace and attacking before the Thunder defense got set. That's one of my biggest disappointments with the Ant/Julius centered offensive flow in that they slow everything down and end up having to beat a set half court defense way more than is ideal.
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That was one of the best games of Jaden's career, and might be the first time he was the main guy on offense (largely resposible for carrying the team to a huge win).
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wolves_89 wrote:The group that played most of the last 8 minutes of the 4th and OT (Rob, NAW, TJ, Jaden, and Naz) found huge success in pushing the pace and attacking before the Thunder defense got set. That's one of my biggest disappointments with the Ant/Julius centered offensive flow in that they slow everything down and end up having to beat a set half court defense way more than is ideal.
Agree. Tonight Finch do what good coach do. Let the hot guys on the field even if it mean sitting ANT, Mike. Playing with the young guys won't works well every night but tonight it was near perfect.
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Winning this game, we are the team that is one game behind the sixth spots and have a good chance to get it. A loss would had put us fighting for the last spot. Feels like we will missing the play-in. Just Amazing how one game could change so much of the perception.
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So I went to bed starting the 4th quarter not feeling well. Just now seeing we won? Crazy
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Wolves went 14-14 from the line in the 4th and 8-8 in OT.
Mostly on the backs of Jaden, Naz and Shannon relentlessly attacking the basket.
That needs to be much more of our identity. Hopefully Ant got a good look at it on the bench - and hopefully Randle won't foul that all up when he gets back.
Mostly on the backs of Jaden, Naz and Shannon relentlessly attacking the basket.
That needs to be much more of our identity. Hopefully Ant got a good look at it on the bench - and hopefully Randle won't foul that all up when he gets back.
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TimberKat wrote:OKC's shots looked so easy and effortless. Everything from Wolves looked hard and I needed to say a prayer on everyone of them. Only bright spot is JMcD reinventing his game and is now our best mid range scorer.
I guess my prayers got answered last night with the 22 for 22 FTs in the 4th and OT. I just wish my money prayers are as effective

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Wow that was a pretty amazing comeback.
OKC missed a LOT of open shots in the 4th quarter and OT, law of averages coming into play after making like 7 consecutive threes the previous night.
I don't know if it's fair to make a lot of judgements since OKC played basically the last 30 minutes without a real big on the floor, but the young guys really took it to the basket hard and Jaden and TJ were absolute wrecking balls, against some pretty elite defenders like Dort, Caruso, and Wallace. Attacking quickly in transition is a key ingredient to success against OKC.
Jaden is thriving more and more as a modern 4 slashing and attacking the basket.
Going to really suck when Randle and Gobert come back and suck all the pace and spacing out of the offense.
It just absolutely sucks that we traded away KAT and a ton of draft picks for Julius Randle and Gobert who are the antithesis of the exciting style of play we all saw last night against the best team in the West, instead of having the patience to let Jaden grow into this kind of player.
We will have like half our cap tied up in 2 absolute dinosaurs next year.
OKC missed a LOT of open shots in the 4th quarter and OT, law of averages coming into play after making like 7 consecutive threes the previous night.
I don't know if it's fair to make a lot of judgements since OKC played basically the last 30 minutes without a real big on the floor, but the young guys really took it to the basket hard and Jaden and TJ were absolute wrecking balls, against some pretty elite defenders like Dort, Caruso, and Wallace. Attacking quickly in transition is a key ingredient to success against OKC.
Jaden is thriving more and more as a modern 4 slashing and attacking the basket.
Going to really suck when Randle and Gobert come back and suck all the pace and spacing out of the offense.
It just absolutely sucks that we traded away KAT and a ton of draft picks for Julius Randle and Gobert who are the antithesis of the exciting style of play we all saw last night against the best team in the West, instead of having the patience to let Jaden grow into this kind of player.
We will have like half our cap tied up in 2 absolute dinosaurs next year.
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It's also interesting to see just how good the on court chemistry is with this group of guys versus how bad it has been with the highly paid veterans.
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