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All right. We got the sports dad in the house, Phil Mackie. And this is Slagon House here to go over some of the highlights from Media Day yesterday, where everyone's in the best shape of their life. Everyone feels great as they shed no international play for the most part of the summer, which I know makes the sports dad very happy.
No huge trade. So not yet anyway. Well, but the media day a year ago, so I want to say the town straight to the next day down on Friday, right? Media Day was Monday.
If you don't call it, it wasn't official yet. And so I came in and he's doing his preseason press conference and he can't talk about it. And then the players were, you know, not surprisingly, the players were super weird, too. It was like really uncomfortable because the amp was sort of like, his head was spinning from it.
So that is probably the most unusual, uncomfortable, uninformative media day I've ever seen. It was wild. They're all kind of dodge, but they're also kind of talking around. But they know that the trade's happening.
So yeah, a lot should be a lot more settled. I know they like to keep an eye on their walker. And they're trying to figure out their second unit. But we're going to do a bunch of highlights and react from it.
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We can deliver that for you. Let's start with Anthony Edwards updates off of yesterday's Wolves Media Day. First of all, Guy looks great. He looks cut.
He looks happy. He looks like he's ready to maybe take another step. So Tim Connolly, and this is a great summary here from Zone coverage, but there's a tweet summarizing the three main points from Tim Connolly talking about Anthony Edwards. He's become really addicted to the film room in this off season.
His work ethic has always been great, but this year it was on a whole other level. Love that. If you cross reference this with the to-do list that we here on Flagon House, deliver it to Anthony Edwards. Listen to the sports ad, listen to me, and we said, figuring out how to more quickly and effectively dissect some of these defensive looks, the double teams, the hedges off screens, how does he, the blitzing that he faces, how do you just take advantage of that stuff in a quicker fashion?
So he's been studying film. His body, quote, his body is in unbelievable shape. And just like the sports ad, no questions like this. And also much like the sports ad, Tim Connolly says, quote, we think he can become one of the greatest of all time.
So what Tim Connolly, setting these bars for Anthony Edwards, and I don't think it's like some motivational text. Sometimes you might get a coach or a front office guy. And I think they've done this with Anne before, where they publicly set a bar to motivate him to get there. And I think maybe there's a little bit of that, but it also feels like Anthony Edwards has a ton of intrinsic motivation, where he wants to conquer the SDA's and the Lucas, et cetera.
I feel like I'm good at sort of sussing out. Is that the right term? When a guy needs to have his ass kicked. Like a talented guy, and it's like, OK, we got to take his ass in.
So let's put push, push, push. I don't think that's the case here. There are some things that Anthony Edwards does. I think that we can definitely question critique, criticize.
But do his credit. I don't think work ethic is ever one. He's never come back soft. He's never come back where it's been like, well, Anthony, he was not seeing the gym all summer long.
We don't know what he's doing. So this is, I think that Tim Connolly is reacting to what he sees. As opposed to saying, we're hands crossed, I have to do more to get more from him. And the film room thing I absolutely love.
I do think that there was a, if this makes sense. I do think Anthony Edwards, not surprisingly previously, because it was H. I do think that there was an immaturity and his ability of how to improve. I think there was always a want.
But if you don't know about film or heck, I mean, we've heard guys talk about watching film and until they're taught how to watch it. I'm just like, watch the game. I feel like with Anne, what we're seeing is a progression of maturing of how to be a pro. And not to be a pro, but be a star.
So I guess I'm very complimentary of what I see, not as him being pushed by management or him not having a want to be great. But I think he needed some direction on how to be great. It feels like every year, the Olympics. Which by the way, just be clear, just sign off on that.
That was a good experience for him. I don't like it when old guys go and play for their country and they get beat down. But when you put Anne around to rant and just an all-star team, and now this year, how do you watch film? I think he's all good times.
Yeah, I love it too. Well, actually I'll bring this one to the table because I think it's a good overarching message from Anthony Edwards about his summer. He said, quote, greatness is boring. There's a lot of boring days this summer in the gym, just working on my wonderful pull-ups.
And I love this man, like, he's not out. I'm sure he went out of vacation or something. At some point, he's having some fun too. He's a 25 year old, filthy rich NBA superstar.
But the fact that the majority of the summer seems to have been spent grinding in the gym and working on his mid-range game, and we'll get to when talking about that, and watching film and dissecting defenses, I think it's awesome that he isn't looking at back-to-back Western Conference Finals. Because if he was looking at back-to-back Western Conference Finals and scoring 28 points a game and on a max contract and thinking, you know what? I've made it. My life is pretty damn good.
And if we happen to get a little further, that'd be great. But it's not always easy in the NBA. And guys start to rationalize. He's not.
He is clearly, even though he puts on this kind of fun-loving exterior and he's this extroverted personality. There's a fire that clearly burns within him to be even better than he's been so far in the first few years. And I don't think it's fake. Greatest is boring.
It's a great comment. That's an awesome comment. Because it's 100% right. Your energy, probably a lot of times, by yourself, working on things, and it's like, I could go out and do something else.
I could go to the beach. I don't know, right? But instead, you're working on these mundane tasks when they're done alone, but when they're done with 18,000 people and someone defending you. And now you have found some type of way to be better than your opponent, the reward comes.
But I feel like a lot of athletes, including talented ones, and a lot of young athletes in particular, that's probably hard to digest because it's July 6th, right? You can go with your friend. You can be out doing something fun. And instead, you dedicate yourself to doing something that's completely mundane.
I love that comment. Again, this goes back to, has there been maturity issues with him? 100%. I'm not saying that he hasn't had them.
But as far as what he wants, I don't ask him all, there's a lot more to like than not to like. You think he's got some practice mechanism in place with white technicals? Like he's in the gym alone. He pays them on that at a random time.
He's run and insult me and I will react as a Zen master. If sports head was to work with him in the gym, show up in sports head mesh shorts and work with Ann. The one thing that I would say is this, and we talked about it I think last week is, okay, the jump shot improving, the short range, the post up is incredibly important, but this is where you were going to draw fouls. Because the whole thing is, what drives me nuts is because he's so built, he's so strong, he drives the lane and doesn't get the shake calls.
But look at Shay, Shay's a slight little dude. Like he's not heavy. And so Shay gets hit, he's a feather. He goes down and referee's like, that's a foul.
But if Ann finds a way to post guys up, he's going to get fouls, I think I'll call those. So that's what I would say. But yeah, that's what you're using too. You're too important here to be getting technical suspensions because you feel like you got jobs.
In which by the way, I'll let you guys get you out. It's not just you. I'm the post up thing. So Anthony Edwards said, he received advice from Michael Jordan.
So there was a report that came out last week that he had been studying tape of Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant in those 90s, early 2000s vintage post up fade away games. Yep. A lot of players are trying to sort of emulate that. KG was great at it too, as a big man.
But those are not necessarily efficient shots in today's NBA. If you base your game around those shots, it's going to be really hard to hit those at a high enough clip. But I think there's, like if Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant played in 2025, that would be an element of their game, but it wouldn't be like half of their bag as it was for Jordan the last few years in Kobe, because he got to make some more threes. But as an element of his game, when needed three or four times a game late, it's the game is bogging down.
And so he revealed that he got some personal advice from Michael Jordan about that fade away, that little mid-range game. Quote, I think the best tip he gave me is that most people lean on defenders in the post with their ass, and Michael did it with the top part of his back. So I think I learned that a little tip from him. And if you think back to the end, there's been some clips circulating around old school, Michael Jordan.
And yeah, there's a lot of just iconic, I used to be, I have family from Chicago, so the wolves were always my favorite team, but the bulls were like my Eastern Conference team as a kid. And there's all these clips of like Michael, kind of crouch or like leaning back with the ball up by his chest, and he's kind of pushing the defender with his shoulder blades. And then from there, he can quick just release off of it. So how long have the numbers deployed, some of the things he's been working on studying Michael Jordan?
I don't want it to dominate his game. No, stop shooting 10 threes a game at a 40% clip. Can he mix it in a little bit with you? All right, so here's my question as well, going into the season off of what we saw a year ago.
So a year ago in summer, he worked his ass off on his threes and clearly improved in a huge way. But it felt like the mid-range game regressed. So a very simple question. Can he keep it all together?
Can he take the entire packaging instead of this one piece and keep it all together? Because I think that's where he becomes unstoppable. If his mid-range game in 2024, 25 hadn't gone backwards a bit, he's that much more effective. So can you hit the 10 or can you take the 10 threes, hit a majority of those?
But also that your point, Phil, late in games, posted a guy up and scored that way. Can you put it? Can we get it all to fit together in one knee package? Yeah, because I don't think it's going to be, hey, he's got a mid-range game.
Now he's shooting 30% from three. I don't think that's going to happen. But obviously, you never want to make that sacrifice where the three-point volume effect of this was down. There's another thing that he worked on that he revealed, kind of a minutia portion of his game that's going to be important.
But other anecdotes from Anthony Edwards, Chris Finch has challenged him to become an every night player, not to be disappearing in the first half of a game against a bad team. And it's kind of admitted that over the course of 82 games, yeah, sometimes he gets bored against the wizards on a Tuesday night, which is kind of wild to me, that he is a professional high-end basketball player, but he's not the first superstar that deals with that. So his goal in some of the lower-key games, he's to hunt for the scoring title. He said that he's going to look at just like a second of your high-end points, I don't know.
So hopefully it's not the detriment of the team. But whatever, hey, if he needs to find 10 of these 10 Doug games that you're going to play, or your little energy gets back-to-back and you're traveling to Utah or something, whatever gets you excited for the next two and a half hours, if it's, I'm going to hunt for a 50-point game. Okay, and that helps the intervals win, just fine. That's where we're going to go.
Yeah, it's like- There's a lot of nights, it feels like, I mean, every player is going to have an 80-game season off nights, for sure, but it feels like they're with Ant for his talent, there are too many of those games. So it's not like you're not, he's not going to play 82 games, great. Don't expect that. But like, can you just like, can you cut the number of nights that you're not as efficient as you should be down to like a handful?
Yeah, he also, another thing Chris Finch is challenging him on is just finding some go-to efficient moves at the end of games. Those clutch time dual drums that the Wolves ran into. And to reveal anything, but he said he's been working on a couple things. He will unveil when the time comes, so we'll see.
And then this one, I love this one too. This is like really in the weeds. But Anthony Edwards said, his physical therapist gave him ball handling gloves. Quote, I was always the person that never wanted to work on ball handling because I have a bad low back.
And it used to bother me all the time working on ball handling because he was doing all these crouch over drills. And I think that was the best idea. He's ever had to give me these ball handling gloves. We work on ball handling all summer and I've never been able to handle the ball this good in my life.
So that's always been a little bit of a thing with him if you really want to be the best player in the NBA, tight handed out that handled it. Julius Randall could probably use those ball handling gloves too. Maybe we can lend them to Jules for the next few weeks. So this is the improvement of point and I take it.
Yeah, I mean, hell, like 100%. And by the way, Conley's 38 and we'll get to it now about Conley. And Rob Dillingham is not fully trustworthy yet. So in the absence of someone else having in their bone Tyler or something, you're going to see more point and probably throughout 2026, 2526.
Yep. I will say this, I did not know that he had a bad lower back. I didn't know what that mean. He definitely has like the heating pack on it throughout games.
Steve has played 17 years with a bad lower back. Okay. It sounds like it's like being a center in the NFL where you're like leveraging every play, but there's definitely ways basketball players can heat up their back and play a long career. Steve Nash would literally like every time he was out of a game, even in his prime, with laid out in the corner, he wouldn't sit on the bench, he would like lay down with this whole setup.
Yeah. I think that's it for the, a lot of really good Anthony Edwards and others there. So just a lot of good stuff coming out of the summer for him. It's pretty much everything that you would hope would happen with him.
Go in the gym, just shut the lights off, study, work on your handles, et cetera. Shoot the dark. Shoot the dark or do like mindfulness exercises like Bill Jackson, he's going to make his teams do where they literally had no ball, no lights practices, and you're just like feeling the aura and the energy of the room. Yeah.
It's the latest Timmerwalls news. Let's, before we get to, there's some Julius Randall stuff in here and some other nuggets, Jalen Clark got a great quote off of a media day yesterday. Well, turn the board, I hope they did some team bonding. Anthony Edwards did say that as you look at the main ingredients for teams that are better than the Timmerwalls and the championships, being together, being a team, going to each other's camps in the Aussies and he said, we still have work to do on just like being more connected.
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And he's just in a much different spot than he was a year ago when he was traded from New York. So his last year was the next, even the last couple of years. I think his second to last year, they had won a playoff series. But he was like 35 or 37 percent from the field and kind of struggling.
And then he got hurt his last year in New York. And the team kind of took off without him. And Jalen Brunson became the centerpiece and star of the team. And they had all the success without Julius Randall.
And fans started poking at him over the years. And from this athletic article, the isolation and the narrative of his last year in New York took him to a dark place. He self-medicated with marijuana. He withdrew from those around him.
Depression, anger and anxiety started to suffocate Julius Randall. Quote from Julius. At the end of that time in New York, I was kind of at my darkest moment, just miserable. Like in a way where I was not having any fun going to work every single day.
There were strains on both work and at home. He would return to the apartment from rehabing his shoulder to a private room away from his family, following in his own misery. Quote, I would just be in there watching TV in a dark room. I didn't want to show my face.
I kind of just wanted to be left alone in hiding. Just very frustrated, very angry. All these different emotions. It wasn't a good place to be in.
And now it just feels very settled here a year later. I would say even the summer leading up to the season is probably the happiest I've been in a really long time as far as my career, family and everything. Interesting. So this was at the end of the time with the Knicks then.
Yes. Not the trade itself. That is intriguing. Now, just aside from that, which sounds brutal, I think it's fair to say as well that everyone involved in that trade is probably at some sort of peace now compared to like you.
They were literally uprooted on the even train camp. So like the struggles that Julius had that Dante had didn't surprise me. But yeah, that's a really dark place. And it seems like it would have helped him and did ultimately to be dealt here.
So that's great. But I'm very curious now to see not just Julius, but Dante as well. I'm very curious now to see with a full year coming into training camp and things are set, what those two can do. And Julius, you know, once he came back from the injury played pretty damn well a lot of the time, I'm more curious about Dante.
Because Dvincenzo, you know, to go back to our conversations, you know, his year with the Knicks is really, really good. There was some of that, but not enough. I think he's the guy that has even greater chance to step up and show us that Dante, Dvincenzo that we saw with the Knicks before last season. Yeah.
And I'll give you a Dvincenzo health update here in just a second. But just to put him on the Julius part of the conversation, it really, you could tell it wasn't like the trade unlocked this, this heaviness that he felt. He got traded. Was probably happy to be somewhere else, but also wasn't sure because it's the last year of his contract.
And him and his wife said that they didn't even unpack a lot of the boxes at their place in the Twin Cities because they weren't sure. And hell, we sat on the show for the first two or three months of the season and it looked clunky. And him and go bare were clearly not seeing eye to eye on the court. And it just, it felt like Julius's vibes were off from the rest of the team.
And so it felt like they had to trade him for something before his contract expired. So it just, everything was wanting from the outside. And they were trying to trade him before the deadline. And this is like part two.
They're going to flip him for some value or something. But then something clicked, man. Like once he came back, they decided not to trade him and he came back from that injury, the hamstring or whatever it was he was out for a few weeks. And he went from, and some of this was Finch and the team realizing that they needed something different.
He went from being a guy that was kind of in score mode all the time and just the team would kind of go through their things and all of a sudden to be Julius's turn. And it just didn't, it was like he was playing a different song from the rest of the band. And he became more of a facilitator down the stretch who could also score and played really well in a couple of those playoffs series too. So the second half of the season, he fit in tennis UIs.
He fit in as a player. And I'm really curious to see how that evolves going into this season because Kat and Rudy had a really hard time jelling their first year and there was some obvious tension with Go Bear. Yeah. And then the second year it all clicked from the get-go.
And it was, and then they went on to win like 60 games or almost 60 games in the regular season. So it does it, does it click immediately? And they hit the ground running kind of like year two of Go Bear with Karly at the time. I'm curious to see that.
If I'm not a second two, I believe when Julius was out that he had a conversation early in the time that he missed, I think it was with Mike Conley who again off the court does a ton. And I think it was Conley who basically said, sell down and watch this and see how you fit in. And so we came back and that's what he did. He fit in really, really well.
I mean, it's weird to say, but I think the Julius injury might have saved him here. Like as far as, okay, there's a path for him to be happy and for the Timberwolves to now have a player who, what you were saying, feel benefits them as opposed to Go. Because you're right. Julius would get the ball and it would sort of be like, okay, clear out.
I'm going to do it. No, that's not how this works. So I do think that that timeout was probably one of the crucial things in him getting a path to stay here and be productive here. Yeah.
Yeah. Just be a little more engaged and just try to be friends with people. Why? Yeah.
And he's clearly an introspective, more introverted natural personality. And he's probably just, it takes him a little bit to trust and to, to feel like he's part of something. But he clearly has an Anthony Edwards has done a good job as a leader of the team agreement. So on D.V.
Chenzo. So he missed time last year with that turf toe and he played the rest of the season with a plate in his shoe when he returned. Then over the summer, there was some concern because he withdrew from the Italian national team as a precaution his campus saying, he said yesterday he's a hundred ten percent ready to go for the season. Quote, I had the option to get surgery.
I elected not to surgery would put me out. I think five or six months. We put a plate in the shoe to restrict mobility of my toe because now the season ended. I pulled up, I pulled the plate out of my shoe.
I want to get back to being my normal self. So it's all precautionary. There's nothing to worry about to start the season. So I can't tell if he's like playing with a plate in the shoe or not.
Makes me a little nervous when athletes have the option to get surgery and they're like, not to everything. So that's clearly something. He's optimistic, but that's clearly something to keep an eye on. Right.
So a plate is akin to an orthotics then, right? Like that type of orthotic. Like, because I think of like a steel like some type of steel plate, but I'm sure it's something to think. Like, praise your toe.
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He was, he showed flashes of it in the playoffs. He was borderline unplayable at times just in terms of his on court impact or negative impact, I guess. But you saw some flashes. He is an excellent spot of three point shooter and they're really going to need that from him because Nikki Alexander Walker was was one of your best three point shooters and corner three point shooters last year.
And I don't think they want to stick jade McDonald's in the corners as often or if they do, he's hopefully going to take it all out and just be active with it. But you really need to be gentle to be now by the end of the year, he was shooting 40% on seven attempts per game. But the first two months, it was like really, really inconsistent and inefficient. And he's going to have some sweetness to him.
And again, like they don't have someone you fully trust as a as a point guard in bulk because Mike on these, he's probably going to start the season, but he's not going to play 30 minutes or even 20 minutes. If the only ham takes a step, boom, problem solved, right? But they were trying to even change it as a point guard and some of those lineups and he's not a great ball handler. But what does his I'd love for him to be off ball just hunting for threes and being a pass to, but we'll have to see what that looks like to start the season.
But if ants gloves help him, then that becomes a little bit less of a problem. I do not think you're going to get, I'm not going to run. I don't think you're going to maximize what you want from David Chen so if he has to bring the ball before. Yeah.
getting open, catch and shoot threes, feels like the sweet spot for his game. Great. Anybody got any two rules, news? Got some more for you.
That's right. One of the main focuses from Chris Finch yesterday. Wolves defense without Rudy Gobert. What does that look like?
Can it be better when Rudy was on the court last year, even a diminished version of Rudy. He's definitely passed his prime. His rebounding percentages have gone down and his shop locking has gone down. And he's like, in his mid 30s now, so he's not going to be the same guy.
He was when he was 26 or even when the wolves acquired him when he was 29, think 30. But when he was on the court, even a diminished version of Gobert, the wolves had the third best defensive rating in the NBA last year. When he was off the court, the wolves had the 18th ranked defensive rating in the NBA. So how can they be better without Rudy Gobert on the floor defensively?
Nas Reed actually kind of raised his hand and said, a lot of it's on me because I'm out there a lot coming up the bench with that second unit without Gobert. And I need to be better at just navigating through screens and different matchups. I would also add to that just my own personal opinion. I think the combination of TJ Shannon and Jalen Clark, those guys speaking yesterday, very much aware that defense is going to be a huge priority.
You're not just out there. Jalen Clark was drafted in the second round because of defense. He was the defensive player of the year in college. And then I don't, early in the season, it's probably too early to expect Yuan be around Jay to contribute.
But that's a seven foot great athlete that you drafted in the first round. They can block shot. He blocked like three shots in the first minute of his first summer league game back in July. So could he be deployed a little bit?
And Jalen Clark, I'll give you the quote from him. How can he find increased minutes? He said, quote, I think if I shoot 40% from three and guard the best player every night, I'll be out there quite a bit. Yeah, that would do it.
Yep. I mean, I love that game. As far as defensively, he's a complete pass. He's really good.
I think I really impressed me about him a year ago. He signed with the wolves coming off the knee injury, didn't play at all in what would have been his work season, then got some playing time, although limited last year. Really impressed me, though, is he's a guy that you watch play and nothing's perfect, but he didn't look like a rookie. Yeah.
He looked like he belonged. And that and his confidence on defense to me was absolutely great. Like if that translates now to a second year, you are looking at a guy that's going to cause some real, real problems for clones. Yeah.
He's also just Jack, man. Like he's he's got a good physique, but he's up there, man. Yesterday. And he's clearly pulled up a little bit, put some work in the, in the way room.
Oh, here's one more, one more Jalen Clark, not get from Dean Moore. He mentioned to the assembled media that he spent time throughout the summer watching NFL defensive tape, NFL defensive tape, and he singled out Patrick Sertan, the Broncos cornerback as an example. Oh, just, he's looking at how NFL cornerbacks stick with receivers running routes in a one on one's edge. The oily hips.
Yeah. Well, and it's plastic coverage, right? Like plastic coverage. Yeah.
And if you think about how, so let's just take this and have some fun with it. When you think about how he defends guys in your mind, go back and look and think about a mental image of Clark defending guys. He does have some football technique. Like he gets into them.
He's low. He doesn't follow them. Like it's not his defensive strategy. I think it's really pretty refined for his age.
He also, he jumps routes too. Like he's, how many times does he pick in someone's pocket off an inbound pass in his younger? He jumps around. He's then mingling people.
And then just one more. There's plenty more of this came from. We were going to hit the ground run in here over the next few weeks with more flag and house episodes. But one more thing on Mike Conley.
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There's 38 in professional sports, injuries happen, attrition happens, your body breaks down. So I don't think this means that you're just turning back to clock five years on him, but if you can give you a little juice, 18, 20 minutes of juice, and now you're only trying to figure out 30 minutes on the other end of that with Dillingham or Point Anter, even Chenzo, then, okay. If you go from limited Conley to like no Conley, that creates a huge problem for this team. So if you can give you just 18 better minutes, start five minutes, come out of the game.
Okay, that builds your bridge to whatever is next. What do you like to show up just one time and say, I'm sold, I'm sold, I'm sold, I'm sold, I'm sold. Wait, do I feel good? Do you feel good?
Cause I don't feel that good. Look at this, look at my foot. Is this gout? What's happening here?
Jase, Chris, hi, come here. What is wrong with me? I don't know. I mean, I'm 38 years old.
Why would I feel good? Today, my hip broke. Or at least I heard a creak, I think. There's a ringing in my ear.
I don't know. It started back in like June. So seasonal allergies are just killing me these days. I never had them when I was 25.
I have a family doctor here. Who's got a suggestion? I love Tipperworld's news. So do we, Judd.
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