Talk about a dominant win in game three game currently still going on but right now It's looking like the wolves are gonna win by 40 plus and a game three victory This is what happens when this team plays a full four quarters of basketball 34 points in the first 38 in the second 35 in the third and 36 in the fourth I think the key to this one was pretty simple man Minnesota did not let off the gas the second that shot started to fall and got involved in the game early And it was kind of over from the get go. What was your takeaway from tonight trip? Yeah, I think ultimately You know, they showed out with energy, right? I mean, it's as simple as that.
They showed up tonight The first two games they had no energy, you know, the performance was poor, but Ultimately, they showed up like they want to win the basketball game, right? I mean, what are your thoughts? Yeah? Do I think to start it out initially?
I kind of already touched on it briefly getting Anthony Edwards to set the tone to start this game Is just what was completely different than any other game and getting involved having 16 points in the first quarter five rebounds to assist a steal Plus 20 in the first quarter shooting 75% three for five from three only ones are over so and getting involved It's just when your star player is playing at this level It just opens up the court for everybody else because you see it and table to get downhill and plays aggressive on defense It just it gets him in he's hyped up. He's ready He's ready even just locked in for the whole game and it's just it's so strange because one and you just you see the emotion when he plays With emotion he's a better player when he's getting heights, but yeah, kind of what I was saying with just getting the floor open He had six assists tonight guys were hitting their shots. We shot 50% from three I don't I don't know how to handle that is but if we can get these looks and shots are falling and if shots were falling in games one And if they fell a little bit more in game too, we could be having a completely different conversation right now Something else that I want to touch on Julius Randall absolutely huge bounce back game after being mentioned the fourth quarter Man 24 points for rebounds three assists and when ant was off the floor the dude was amazing plus 38 in the box score 60% from the field No turnovers for Julius Randall, which think about juice game tonight? I mean he was who we trade for right?
You know, you kind of look at the pace. It was Nick series zero. They're down. You know, paces are up to 0 And a lot of that has to do with cat, you know struggling in certain spots, you know tips mentioned him Um for a bit Yeah, a lot to be excited about about Julius Randall.
Um, he did everything that you would hope he would do when you trade for him tonight Defantively offensively. There's there's just there's nothing to be upset about literally right and I feel like with that trade that like you're talking about Julius Randall just exceeds and spots that cat didn't and where we needed cat to be good last year in the western conference Finals, he just couldn't get a shot off like anytime cat would drive in you guys remember it I know you remember you get the flail and hey you get all that you don't get that with Julius Randall Like Julius Randall might be one of the if not the strongest player in the league. So Julius can just bully just about anybody. He's got He's got his little patent a little half spin a way weird thingy.
It works. I've never seen A unique move, but Julius has mastered it He's figured it out and then he can also just be the hub of your offense when ants having an off night It's a little bit harder against this. Okay, c team just considering that they're a generational defense They are probably one of the 10 best defenses the NBA has ever seen um, dare I say top five So it's a little bit different for Julius in this series because you saw in the LA series and really in the golden state series You get him the ball right there at the nail. He's a great facilitator.
He can flick it to a corner He's like I said one of the strongest players in the league and take it at anybody and there's a decent shot So just having Julius Randall play at this level. Um, obviously we knew last game. It was a fluke It was a playoff low bad games still happening with playoffs bad games are gonna happen. Yeah, um But yeah, kind of just moving down.
Um, I feel like a lot of a lot of fans are excited to talk about this guy A lot of people have been calling for his name mr Terrence Shannon 15 points two rebounds and assists in a steel and only 13 Man, you seem like you've got some stuff to say about TJ So what do you think of his game tonight and how awesome is it? Round of applause as a man who went to texas tech university myself with terence jannon. I love t sj That's my guy. I'm so fired up.
Um, I you know, I tweeted it the other night I'm like this guy, you know at this point. What do you have to lose throw him out there? Like you need a spark get him and I said the same thing about daily hand to be transparent It's like, you know, I mean you're getting your ass kicked game one and game two What do you have to lose by throwing terence? Sharon out there and the same can be said about about daily hand but beside one to your question.
Um, You know t sj is you know a guy who at elinoy was, you know, probably the you could argue the best You know player in nca basketball a year ago. I would agree So you have nothing to lose throw him out there, you know, get some shots in let him do his thing And he he delivered and that's who he was that's who he's been he is an elite defender at nothing else If you were to say, you know what? Yeah, you can't score blah blah blah. He had a bad night off until he doesn't matter He is who you thought he was defensively tonight.
You know, he can he's an elite defender But tonight he showed up offensively and so to my point I would say Um t sj like man like that's a guy that in game four I want to see him out there on a consistent basis I want to see him play 20 plus minutes in the next game You know you could argue that he could take nause minutes if nause struggles take him out If if Dante continues to be able to you know, not make shots pull him t sj can step in and play that role Um, so you know t sj is a guy that you know, obviously is a long term You know kind of it's a word i'm looking for a long term He's a guy that's going to make a major impact long term for the temples But in the short term, um, if nause struggles if Dante struggles, you throw him out there You saw what he could be tonight. Yeah, absolutely. Um, the thing that I've been waiting for with terence shane Like you said the defense it's there, you know, and I feel like that's what separates tarrant shannon and rob dillingham right now He's just tarrant shane is a grown ass man dude tarrant shane is older than anthony edwards. He's 24 years old I believe rob's still a kid, you know So tarrant shane is NBA ready he has the grown man body you saw tonight the second he got in the game too The pace changed immediately tarrant shannon gets one bucket going downhill boom the confidence skyrockets and one right after that I believe he got a little jumper or something like that and then he hit a three as well So once tarrant shannon gets a going man.
He is He is a force to be reckoned with um what we need to you know just with how tough this okay c defense is Uh, we struggled to get inside the paint. Uh julias. We've seen him get ripped We've seen really get ripped but that shit happens all the time we've seen ant get ripped It's happened, but when you can get a dominant force like t sj run in a hundred miles an hour straight at you I know they're professionals. They're gonna take a charge But it's gonna make you think twice and you just saw it tonight what happens when an opportunity has given to you tarrant shannon sees this moment Um, I would like to say that tarrant shannon is gonna get minutes for the remainder of the playoffs But it's hard to tell three games into the western conference finals.
It's worked This much so far how much do you really want to change your lineup? You know, I feel like it's pretty clear that tarrants does need to come in whenever we do need a quick scoring boost or anything like that But um, I'm definitely i'm interested to see how we're gonna utilize tarrant shannon in game four Um, but yeah, somebody else I want to talk about who's definitely struggled over the last few weeks I would say it's not as read and he had a bounce back game. Um in the playoffs It's very clear that role players play better at home. Um if this series doesn't tell you anything I don't know what those we saw Alex karusso come down in games one and two and shoot like in transition threes When does Alex karusso ever do that never never you just saw naz he was struggling don't say diencenzo It was just allergic to making shots in game one the keel struggled game one But then you get back home role players play so much better naz four for six tonight tarrant shannon five or eight Jada mcdaniels he kind of struggled shooting the ball, but he still got his own 10 points nakeel 55 from the field He shot five for nine with 12 points dante he didn't necessarily do as much But I don't think that I was complaining that the tv once for what dante did tonight He shot a hundred percent from the field.
He only had six points a rebound and three assists But he was still a plus 24 and not they were super impactful So when you get your role players to play like this, this is when minnesota is at its best This is one of the benefits of having as deep of a team as we do You can go extend the roster to nine deep i would even dare say 10 deep with jaylin clark if we really need to press that sos button So um, yeah, I've just been with this game. I don't know man I knew minnesota was gonna come out with energy but 41 points I don't know if anybody could have saw that coming We're gonna continue the show here in just a minute But we are going to hop on and add read real quick for Heather from north star reality It's playoff time in minnesota the energy is electric the stakes are high and every move counts You can feel it right the momentum the nerves that is this really happening buds The spring real estate market in the twin cities has the same kind of energy headlines are flying out about interest rates the economy and what's coming next It's exciting. Yes, but also confusing and a little bit overwhelming whether you're thinking about buying selling or just Wondering if that zest admit is lying to you don't overthink it go to wolves realtor.com and connect with Heather She's not just a fan in the sands. She's on the court every day with exit north star realty Reading plays adjusting the strategy and helping people make confident moves not panic ones Even if you're just curious or unsure about the next step wolves realtor.com is where you start No pressure just real talk real answers and a game plan that actually works because when it comes to real estate Just like basketball having the right coach makes all the difference go check out wolves realtor.com and tell him matt from the daily wolves sent you Alright, so we've talked a lot about our team on the offensive side of the ball But something else that I want to look at tonight is how well we played defensively I feel like tonight jay looked so uncomfortable.
This is by far the lowest scoring game He's had in the playoffs or just in quite some times a matter of fact He had 28 minutes 14 points shot 30 percent from the field four for 13 and he was a minus 32 in the box score four turnovers and two files per Shay, so I feel like you know Nico Harrison actually said this man, but defense wins championships, you know And we saw tonight light swarming and just playing competitive and aggressive defense is so important Especially when it's a team like okay. See you take shay out of the game. You make him uncomfortable You don't let him get to his spots We kind of took him out of the paint, you know, I didn't see shay at the line tongue this game either tonight Um, so yeah, I feel like if minnesota is gonna want to take game four Though absolute one thing that needs to carry over from tonight going into monday is the defensive intensity has to say the same If not somehow get better because shots are gonna fall out at some point if they're open We have antine Edwards. We have Julius Randall.
Those are two guys that are gonna go get their shots But the defense is that's kind of just been what it's been this series, you know, that's where we struggled It's been shay just eating us alive getting whatever he wants We just would not we refuse to double team him and games went into which is kind of beneath me But tonight he didn't get anything so um just kind of like based on like the defensive performance Is there anything that like stood out to you any individual players with a team defense? What did you see from the guys tonight? Yeah, I would say for me personally, I think it was just like the all-out effort I don't think anything stood out beyond like hey, there was nothing defensively that said like oh my god Rudy go bare like you dominated or you know, it wasn't like oh my god every three point or we took one in It truly was for me like you know the effort from the start you could you could kind of tell early on like oh Like these guys showed up right you know what i'm saying that so um I'm looking for that in game four. Um, I want to see guys who show up the second that the ball is tipped Whether you win the tip or not like I want guys to be dominating energy I don't care about you know, if you miss a shot, that's okay If you if you you know you miss a rebound, that's okay as well.
Um ideally you you get your boards you make your shots You know, of course, but um tonight what I saw was a group that just showed They said you know what fuck this we're down to uh we look we have looked like a fucking college program And uh, they showed up tonight in a way that like you couldn't have dreamt of right? I thought we were I know to be transparent with you man. I thought you know, we're gonna go down 3-0 and this series is over It's the allis all over. We might get one sucker w.
You know barely just like last year you think oh We'll pull off like a w just to like, you know, say hey, we didn't get swept but um What I saw tonight was incredibly encouraging in the sense that um Energy wins games man like look she's the best player in the end. There's no doubt and you could argue and I would argue But you can argue shays the second best player in the league and you know, they're gonna win games Right, but what I saw tonight was a team that said you know what We got our asses kicked the first two games and it was fucking embarrassing And they showed up and they said not again not in front of the target center and they delivered and I'm looking for the same thing in game For yeah, you've nailed it right there. I'm looking for the exact same thing game for and I feel like something that um Kind of worried me a little bit is throughout the regular season. We were just a better team on the road Right, we weren't necessarily as great of a team at home in the regular season, but in the playoffs We went to against um LA in Minnesota and then we lost the first one against golden state We got the one in Minnesota two in golden state another one in Minnesota and another one in Minnesota So we have only lost one game in the target center so far on the playoffs and you're kind of like, hey, man Like wouldn't this be awesome if it was like last year we had the home court advantage one too And like I know the thunder the onesie, but I'm just kind of blabbering but um, yeah, man Defensive intensity it wins you games.
No doubt. No doubt about it. Um something else that I thought was super cool. Um Not doesn't really pertain to the game at time, but it was awesome to see Leonard miller at the end of the game I don't know if you necessarily saw it just because it was kind of quote-unquote garbage time But when he finished with 11 points 83 percent from the field five for six and he made a three Uh, just yeah, like he doesn't get a ton of time.
That was that was super cool to see Um, but yeah going into game four bringing it back on track We kind of already nailed down on the defensive intensity That is something that has to carry over into game four if you even want to shot at this Um I remember what i was gonna say earlier now bring i'm bringing this all over the place But uh, you referenced your points. Uh, oh shit. Is this gonna be Dallas all over again? Right and I feel like it was all over the news and the guys heard it, you know The wolves are down too.
Oh, are the thunder gonna I think the thunder are gonna come out in sweet minnesota This does not look like the team, you know, like they hear that kind of stuff, you know, it's everywhere It's all around the news and tonight. You just saw a team you saw a team that wanted it You saw a team that didn't want to give up and you just saw a team that was like a like a championship level team And I know i'm getting a little bit ahead of myself there, but you know it gives you hope and I know this is minnesota sports ladies and gentlemen But coming down and beating the best team in the mba By 20 points in the first quarter and not letting off the gas is not an easy thing to do Not an easy thing to do at all and now bringing it back to my point going into game four Offensively and defensively. Um, what are you looking for on the offensive side of the ball and then specifically? How do we stop shay again defensively?
Is it we do what we did tonight is that we throw more doubles at him and we force jaylin williams and force jet home green to beat us Because obviously shay is gonna go out there. He's not gonna score 14 points again It's probably gonna come out score like say we played defense like we did tonight If we could hold him to 20 if we can hold shay to anything under 20. Um, I feel like that's right Where you want to be if you're in a soda? You can only you can only contain the leagues best players down so long but going into game four What are you looking for offensively and how do we stop shay?
Yeah, I think offensively it's a culmination of what you saw tonight, which was you know julius rando and antonya Edwards did their job, right? I mean ant made his shots julius made his shots, you know, you call your spot You're not gonna be perfect, but you make your shots right? Um from that standpoint I think those are the two guys that if they can do what they did tonight you win game four Ultimately beyond that, you know two guys can't win you a series just like you saw the first two games You know julius had his moments and had his moments in the first two games and we got our asses get so beyond that I think you know you do need a terence jannon who tonight. I was very grateful to see you get minutes You know you need guys like that jade mcdanos make your shots who tonight jade mcdanos that seemed like made every shot You know that was that was given to him.
Um, you need your you know your counterparts beyond You know, I think you need julius and ant to have a strong start out of the gate, which is very feasible But beyond that, I think you need you know your complimentary guys to make shots and that doesn't mean they have to make all of them, you know But um if things you know for for julius and ant aren't perfect you need your guys to make shots and that means You know dante has to continue just you know dante's he's been a struggle, but tonight He had a great night. He needs to step up those types of players need to step up to win game four That's the reality of you know kind of of what we're dealing with Um from that perspective and then you know to not kind of blow it I think to your point, um lander miller, you know those types of guys I think you could argue have a role um in the next game defensively, you know strictly from a length perspective, you know Rudy stepped up um Guys like that you have to you have to leverage the length that you have at your fingertips to make stops and kind of deliver right I mean j dub he's been a stud she obviously is we as his MVP Chet you have to find a way to contest those guys the ability to make shots And I think that starts with your length, you know whether it is uh Leonard miller, you know, which sounds crazy But you know he did it tonight Um terence shannon you have to you have to let those guys do their thing because guess what game wanted to those guys didn't see the court And guess what we got our asses kicked. Why not? Right.
Yeah, absolutely and I think going into game for what we're gonna be looking for, you know, like you said role players They just play better at home. I'm expecting another big game from the keel. I'm expecting don't they to probably have a better game more offensive of volume More shots. Um, I'm expecting I'm still waiting.
Um, I was kind of quote unquote not necessarily dogganon Nas Reed But just kind of questioning. Hey, are you worth the money that you're asking for? You know and Nas Reed came out and played solid tonight and I would like to say you know Say Nas Reed continues to play solid throughout these playoffs He is, you know, but I'm still waiting for that big Nas explosion game where he ends up taking over a game like game one in l. A when he came out and shot like what was it like six of eight from three something ridiculous like that?
Like we have not had a good Nas Reed game since game one of like l.a. It feels like and tonight he comes out bounces back and it's just I've said it a million times and I sound like a broken record But your role players are we're gonna are what is gonna win you games and they just play better at home? With that being said, um, I think we are gonna wrap up tonight show so we appreciate everybody tuning in trip So joy having you on as always my friend pre-shages are happening tonight We are going to be going live game for monday night. I believe it is monday night.
Yes monday night We will be live again. Um, i'll be here. Evan will be here trip gonna be here monday night. Maybe yes, sir All right, obviously we'll be running it monday night I think Andrew is going to be covering the game at target center so I don't know if he is going to be on But if he is that'd be a pleasant surprise but as always guys go wolves