 Watch the word, y'all. After watching Go Bear, you're outplayed by rookie center on a two-way contract. The Timberwolves have asked themselves, if the Go Bear they got in the trade with the Jazz is a shadow of the player who was such a force in his years in Utah. Whoa, today's supposed to be an off day. I ain't playing on making no videos. I want the chill, relax, and then this hit the timeline. And I'm here to talk about it because I didn't watch this game live, Miami Heat versus the Minnesota Timberwolves because in my mind, there's a layup for the Wolves. Of course, they're missing Karthin Towns. They were also missing Cal Anderson and some rotational players, but the heat were missing Jimmy Buller and Bam on a bio. That should be a win in a lot of cases. So I didn't watch this game, but after wrapped up, I got so many tweets, Kenny, you got to go watch your boy. You've been a Rudy Go Bear backer for as long as you've been in league. You got to go watch your boy because this is bad. So you know what I did last night? I watched those minutes and I watched specifically the Rudy Go Bear minutes and I'm disappointed. And so to see this tweet come out, this is the perfect time to start talking about all things Rudy Go Bear because it's what? 30 plus games into this experiment and things are ugly. Now I made a video on November 29th, 2022 where it was a 14 minute video. Actually, I can just show you videos right here. November 29th, as you can see, zero views, zero comments unlisted in the name of it is Kenny Timberwolves. Now there wasn't going to be the name of the video, but in this video, I spent 13 minutes and 14 seconds just talking about how disappointed I was in Minnesota Timbers. I went over some film and stuff like that. The reason I didn't publish this video is because it was the same day that Carnegie Towns got injured and it felt like it was just add an insult to injury literally. Why I didn't want to talk bad about the organization while they were missing their guy. And as you notice, if you go through every video on this channel, I've very rarely talked about the Minnesota Timbers because it's been impossible for me to kind of gauge the stuff that's going on. But yesterday when I went through and watched these minutes, I think it's time, it is time because whether Carnegie Towns is on the floor or if he's not on the floor, one thing should have been consistent this season and that is Rudy Go Bear playing good defense. Now this has also got a lot of people to come out the woods and say, oh, he been tricking y'all for years and years and years. I don't believe that is the case. When I watched this version of Rudy Go Bear, it is dramatically different than the version that we got in the regular season in the years that he won defensive play of the year. Once we get to the postseason, I know everybody got their own different opinions about Rudy Go Bear, whatever. But I mean when it comes to doing the things to win basketball games in the regular season, Rudy Go Bear was king on the defensive side of the ball. And so far this season, it has fallen off. And I want to show you some of the moments because Orlando, or not Orlando Johnson, Orlando Robinson legitimately may Rudy Go Bear look bad. So bad that the last five and a half minutes in a closed game, Chris Finn said, hey, we gave a five first round picks, 17 rotational players, and we don't want to play him in the last minutes because he has become a liability. What? If you've never watched the basketball game, he had no history. And I put this game on and said, one of these players is a max player and one of them is a G-leaguer. You would have thought Rudy Go Bear was a G-leaguer. Legitimately. So shout out to Orlando because he looked amazing last night. Remember, I'm the guy that has defended Rudy Go Bear for the entirety of his career, but I'm not a jackass. I'm a call to spade to spade. And so far this season, 27 has not been the 27 that we've seen over previous seasons. And we go dive into that in a second. So here's one of the plays where Orlando Johnson just, I think a lot of what Orlando Johnson was doing was a lot of heart and hustle. Rudy Go Bear's stone hands, maybe got hit in the face, whatever, a rebound for Orlando. Drop coverage from Rudy Go Bear tries to get a contest. I don't see this as a Rudy Go Bear thing because he's there for the contest and causes a miss. This is Anthony Edwards gotta get down into the nitty gritty and box number 25 out. And you can even see Rudy Go Bear look at Anthony Edwards. And one thing I will say, the entirety of the season for Rudy Go Bear and the Minnesota Timbers body language has been terrible. And that's one of the things I mentioned in November 29th in that video where anytime there's a defensive lapse, whether it be from Rudy, whether it be from Ant, from Austin River, whoever the hell is on the court. Everybody is like, what a hell? Like the body language is crazy. They always pointing at the next guy. Oh, you supposed to do this. You supposed to, it's been two and a half months. I know every basketball's evolving and we always learn it but bro, we gotta get snappy with it, bro. It's not like we got an entire season to figure it out. Rudy Go Bear's always been a good rebounder so far this season the Minnesota Timbers can't rebound a damn thing. What a poor box out of temp from Rudy Go Bear. And even Austin Rivers, I mentioned body language. I didn't even realize that when I first watched his clip. Even Austin Rivers is pissed off at Rudy Go Bear allowing this two-way rookie to out hustle him and out heart him for offensive board in a close game. And right here, this is one of the last clips we'll see of Rudy Go Bear. Cause like I mentioned, he was played off the court for the last five or so minutes. Shout out to Orlando. He was a dog last night. Like I mentioned, there are a lot of people coming out the World War. They say, hey, he's been like this entire career. This is just who he is. And I don't see that as the case. I think that there legitimately has been regression here. And you can argue that regression is starting at a 30 year old center who uses his athleticism and things like that to be effective. I can see that. But overall, I'm just extremely disappointed when people do remember that at the height of Rudy Go Bear like two season ago, thinking basketball is dropping videos as Rudy Go Bear defense make him a superstar. The answer to that was no, even in the moment. But that's just how impactful he was defensively. And you want to know the crazy part about Rudy Go Bear's defense this season? His rim deterrence is as good this season as any other season of his career. When he is on the court, people don't go to the rim. I know everybody can say they're not afraid of him. Even Anthony Edwards, his own teammate before they traded for him said, hey, I got no fear in this man. It's apparent that there's at least a little bit of hesitancy when Rudy Go Bear's under the basket to go with him. I know we had the series. Again, we can talk playoffs all be won. I'm not even talking playoffs success or nothing. I'm legitimately talking about the regular season. Cause once you get to the playoffs and hold different monster, but like I thought that there was going to be a world where like they saw Tarrant's man hit a million three pointers and that once there's gets to clippers in an occasion to leave. We saw Richie Jackson going to the chest to Rudy Go Bear. And then the year after that, Maxi Cleveland hit a million three point shots in their series in Jalen Brunson. Damn, they got a max contract after dogging them boys that a lot of people see Rudy Go Bear and still just just test him, test him, test him. They still don't, they still don't test them. But one thing that this is again, just me just spitballing. One thing that has been consistent with Rudy Go Bear's career is to drop coverage. It's always has been a thing because his job is to protect the rim. Teams are just shooting. They're just shooting and they're hitting shots. A crazy stat that I just looked into. Ridiculous. When Rudy Go Bear is on the floor, the opposing teams accuracy in the mid range area is in the 1% tile. I'm sorry for the team, it's in a 99% tile. Means that when Rudy Go Bear is on the court, teams are shooting 10% better from the mid range area. That sounds like some fake ass numbers. But it's a fact. And Rudy being the drop coverage big, there's not a lot of contests on those mid range. There's not a lot of contests on those three point shots. And at Utah, they kind of lived by like, hey, we're gonna allow you to shoot the threes on the pick and roll and we just gonna assume that you gonna miss because it's hard to shoot off the dribble. Now it's the mid range. It's a little bit easier to hit that shot. So I'm extremely disappointed by the play of Rudy Go Bear. And I know that Minnesota Timbers fans feel the exact same way. But like we gave up all of this and he's not performing nearly as good as we want. But I also still wanna give them the benefit of the doubt in a way. Mostly because this hasn't even been 45 games or so. We haven't even got halfway through the season with this experiment. And about a month of it is without the other player. And I know it wasn't good with the other player in the towns. But still, it's just a weird ass situation. Oh, it's weird to look at these stats to see that he's giving up a bunch of offensive rebounds. And I'd say that we just saw a bunch of clips of Orlando getting a bunch of boards on him. So anyway, quick hit a Rudy Go Bear, be better. Simple, is that crazy? Be better, be better. All right.