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Post by levine on Dec 28, 2023 12:23:16 GMT -6
Minnesota QUESTIONABLE:
Karl-Anthony Towns (left knee soreness)
OUT:
Jaylen Clark (right achilles tendon rupture rehab) Leonard Miller (G-League assignment) Wendell Moore Jr. (G-League assignment)
Dallas (Not yet submitted. They don’t have to submit an official report until 1 PM CT since Dallas played in Cleveland on Wednesday). This is their status report from last night: QUESTIONABLE:
Luka Dončić (left quad soreness) Josh Green (right elbow sprain) Tim Hardaway Jr. (illness)
OUT:
Kyrie Irving (right heel contusion) Maxi Kleber (right small toe dislocation) Greg Brown III (G-League assignment) Dexter Dennis (G-League assignment)
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Post by levine on Dec 28, 2023 13:15:10 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2023 13:24:54 GMT -6
Well this makes it less fun. I’d rest Kat.
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Post by wunderwolf on Dec 28, 2023 16:42:12 GMT -6
Maybe the NBA needs to stop scheduling back-to-backs all together... Especially if the team is on the road for the back-to-back
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2023 16:54:04 GMT -6
66 games is the only way to get the most out of guys. It has to be a risk to Mav's for Luka to sit, even if he's dinged up a bit.
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Post by Nick K on Dec 28, 2023 19:23:34 GMT -6
This could be fun tonight boys! :)
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Post by Nick K on Dec 28, 2023 21:21:50 GMT -6
Up by 11 with 4 min to go. It shouldn't have been this close. Wolves reverting back to old habits a little bit. Not good. Finch needs to clamp down and run defensive drills till they puke. That'll wake em up.
Ant has been on fire. 41 on 12 of 20 so far. 11 of 15 from the line.
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Post by Scorched on Dec 28, 2023 21:40:53 GMT -6
Absolute stinker of a game by Kat. Apparently ant needs to get in his ear again.
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Post by Nick K on Dec 28, 2023 22:02:44 GMT -6
We pull it out but Finch isn't happy.
Finch....We're going places where there's no where to go. Everybody wants to get it for themselves and no team play. We have to grow up offensively. Finch was brutal. And it was good.
This is different from last year.
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Post by Nick K on Dec 28, 2023 22:05:05 GMT -6
Absolute stinker of a game by Kat. Apparently ant needs to get in his ear again. Yep. I defend Kat but not tonight. He has to get his head out of his azz. He had 2 calls that were deserved but on the whole the officials are brutal on him. Other bigs don't get called for what he does.
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Post by levine on Dec 28, 2023 22:58:39 GMT -6
Chris Finch was frustrated postgame about the Wolves offense.
He said "everyone at times is too worried about getting their own offense going" and that "other people, if they haven't touched the ball for a little while, they can't just decide that they're gonna put their head down and go to the hoop or that they're gonna jack it because they haven't shot it for a little while."
Finch continued to say, it's time for the offense to grow up: "I thought at the end of the second quarter, in particular, we all were having a pity party for ourselves offensively. There's a lot of ways to be immature. And generally, this team has been very mature. But we gotta grow up offensively. It's time."
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2023 10:43:57 GMT -6
What can Finch do to improve the offense? Or is it back to nothing again?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2023 10:56:51 GMT -6
If Mike is the only one that can "get us into things" and is an "extension of Finch," seems like we need a second guy to act as that, no?
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Post by wunderwolf on Dec 29, 2023 12:10:03 GMT -6
Glad Finch is speaking up and calling guys (especially KAT) out.
Watching the game early on, I told my son that KAT and Ant are stat padding ("trying to get theirs") because the are playing a weak opponent. It was obvious.
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Post by kingsxman on Dec 29, 2023 19:52:37 GMT -6
66 games is the only way to get the most out of guys. It has to be a risk to Mav's for Luka to sit, even if he's dinged up a bit. I'm convinced that if the League did that...teams would still find a way to rest players. At this point its becoming a status symbol to some of these clowns.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2023 20:18:06 GMT -6
But the key is if they miss, it’s a much bigger risk to drop a game intentionally over 66 games.
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Post by kingsxman on Dec 30, 2023 9:59:15 GMT -6
Chris Finch was frustrated postgame about the Wolves offense. He said "everyone at times is too worried about getting their own offense going" and that "other people, if they haven't touched the ball for a little while, they can't just decide that they're gonna put their head down and go to the hoop or that they're gonna jack it because they haven't shot it for a little while." Finch continued to say, it's time for the offense to grow up: "I thought at the end of the second quarter, in particular, we all were having a pity party for ourselves offensively. There's a lot of ways to be immature. And generally, this team has been very mature. But we gotta grow up offensively. It's time." THis is so true. And its well past time that this happens. We still have too much hero ball going on and it gets contageous with others once it starts happening. Granted, Ant gets more leeway than others..but it just needs to get way better from Ant to begin with.
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Post by kingsxman on Dec 30, 2023 10:00:12 GMT -6
If Mike is the only one that can "get us into things" and is an "extension of Finch," seems like we need a second guy to act as that, no? We have him in Jmac. But Finch wont play him because of his lack of shooting. I say...lets at least try. I'm sure part of the issue is Kyle and Jmac on the floor at the same time from an offensive standpoint. But I've seen Jmac make enough runners and floaters and hits "almost" enough at a 3 point clip to keep the defense honest. The ball moves. The overall flow of the offense should be important enough to give this more run.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2023 17:00:13 GMT -6
Finch isn’t going to play J-Mac because he can’t shoot. That “extension” as if he has anything to do with it needs to be someone like Tyus. Left to their own devices, Finch, Ant, and Kat don’t seem to be able to handle it.
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