Calinks wrote:I do favor the Lakers if we have a series but personally, I'd like to be the team that knocks them out of the first round. I think it would be fantastic to get revenge on Luka AND be the guys who shut down the Lakers hype train.
Yeah. Obviously Lebron always inspires fear (the basketball gods always seem to smile on him), and Luka completely shredding Jaden/Rudy in pick & roll last year still gives me nightmares. I think guarding Lebron on-ball is pretty easy these days, but if we put Randle/Naz on him, I worry more about Lebron's off-ball attack.
But we're pretty equipped to bomb their conservative defense from 3, and hurt them on the offensive glass a bit. The Wolves have shown a willingness to really jack from 3 if teams want to dare us to. This whole Luka-era of the Lakers has been defined by them daring teams to shoot and living/dying from the shooting luck. They got good shooting luck for a while, and looked like an elite defense. Then the shooting luck swung, and their defense looked like nothing.
Their defense is really similar to Dallas, but without the elite rim protection. It's like a defense made out of lesser-PJ Washingtons.
