 What's the word y'all? I'm about to do something that most youtubers would tell me not to do and let's talk about the Minnesota Timberwolves And I don't mean that isn't like man other youtubers hate the wolves But it's like when it comes to the YouTube algorithm They're one of those teams that when you talk about them the numbers are less but I'm not in this for the numbers right now I'm in this for the love of the game and right now. I'm loving the Minnesota Timberwolves yesterday they played against the Boston Celtics and I said on the Kenny Beats and podcast link is under the Description that this was going to be the game of the day because a the Boston Celtics are completely undefeated going into it and the Minnesota Timberwolves have not lost the game at home And they've been looking pretty good recently So this is going to be a battle and it was and went to overtime and the Edwards end up taking over and the Minnesota Timbers end up beating the Boston Celtics the Celtics are 5-1 the Denver Nuggets are 7-1 and What do those teams have in common? Their one loss is both to the Minnesota Timberwolves y'all So I gotta react and slash overreact to the wolves made a video this offseason about how they were one of the most intriguing teams of Basketball and I gave you the blueprint to why I believe the Minnesota Timbers should be better this season part of it was continuity Right, we had to figure out what was going on with Rudy Gobert and Carthen and towns Can they coexist part of it was health and part of it was buy-in from everybody involved and as of right now Those three pillars of things for success are all lit up I guess but what do pillars do they're looking good in all fronts now when I when I talk about overreact It's part of our job as NBA fans to look at the numbers slash the games that we're presented with especially this early in the season And try to figure out what's sustainable and what isn't for example Right now the Sacramento Kings are the 26th ranked offense in basketball If I was taking SFH's value, I would say oh the kings You're not a good offensive team But you have to count for the fact of Diera Fox missing a couple games and that it's all you really need to know So these numbers aren't real. So it's about what numbers are real versus what numbers aren't and this The Minnesota Timber was being the best offensive team involved by three points feels real Now I don't know if they're gonna end game 82 with the number one offense But as far as them being a high level offense top I'm sorry defense top level defense that seems to be pretty real And I think part of that has to do with the buy-in from everybody everybody involved Rudy go Bears always going to be a good defender It just has been his his whole brand and that's the reason why he gets paid so much money because of the defensive side Cartoon towns is not known as a defensive player though We're going to talk about country towns of his woes and everything I think he's bought into the defensive side of the ball Anthony Edwards told us last year that he wanted to make an all defensive team He didn't end up he didn't end up doing that But you can tell from the early parts of the season that that's one of his goals And then Jada McDaniels was snuffed from the all defensive team last year So they have the players that will be good defenders And now again going on the the sample size that we have them being relatively healthy And that's what Jada McDaniels missing the first couple games of the season The defense is like that the boss himself has went into last night's game averaging like 128 points per game The game went into overtime and they ended up only scoring 109 That's what extra minutes accounted for that is elite level defense Last night they scored 99.1 points per 100 possession Which is the lowest output of the boss's results this entire year They got a pretty good amount of room pressure in his game But didn't shoot the ball very effectively and part of that is Rudy de gobert Because he's a one-piece fan You check his bio and part of that is the other bigs as well Carthony towns not as read but we have to talk about Anthony Edwards Because most of us agree that Anthony Edwards is a star and he's just breaking out You know I'm saying last year was a good year his first all-star appearance If you look at all the projections as far as ESPN's projection Bleach reports projection majority of people that have in tune with the game We're saying that this is going to be the Anthony Edwards breakout season Where he's widely renowned as a top 15 player in the league and we're starting to see that The game that we saw last night of him hitting three back-to-back-to-back shots in the clutch Is an example of that But there's a couple different things that we Desperately need to talk about when it comes to Anthony Edwards right now This is one of my favorite possessions of the entire season so far The Minnesota Timbers are down by two and over time This is Jason Tatum if you didn't know he is an MVP candidate right now He is killing the game and again the boss is so to undefeated Anthony Edwards at this point in time has five fouls and he said I want to guard Jason Tatum This is what five fouls the aggression now you can look at it and say hey Maybe it wasn't the smartest thing considering you have five fouls and you might have tore that man up and might have been called for a foul, but That is what you you want in your star player. What about this level of effort from him? Hold on. Give me that my connolly three-pointer bang That's all created off of Anthony Edwards. Next. He's Al Horford on the island said hold up Pull up jump shot bang and shout out to Rob Perez. This is his video If he stitched it all together, but it wasn't ending there with two minutes left This is the very next possession pull up three early in the clock did not matter These are the clutch shots you're seeing from Anthony Edwards. He's loving it. They're loving it and as a neutral NBA fan I'm loving it as well time out his car. He comes out of the time out There's a screen from Cal Anderson. He gets to switch on to chris s brazilians. They're bringing more people Guess what? I do not care I do not care. That's a star That's a star and and one of the things that in my mind differentiates A star versus a very good player is being able to create something out of nothing And ethny Edwards is one of the kings in the league when it comes to that Do you want to see a disgusting offensive possession that ends in the bucket for anthony Edwards? Well, here you go Anthony Edwards gets the ball trailing him is is jailing brown. Look at the spacing here He dribbles and literally dribbles into car anthony towns on this play And guess what didn't matter rise above everybody high off the glass I'm just realizing this light. Is that bothering y'all? Oh, man, you got to deal with it I I I got to get this video now the elephant in the room when you talk about the minnesota symbols is car anthony towns yesterday he had 7.7 turn over six files Uh super max player So it's like he hasn't been able to find his footing just yet and again, they're foreign to again I don't want to act like they're 22 and five or something But they're foreign to and car anthony towns has not found his footing as an individual player But it's not hindering the success of the team Here are the on-off numbers for rooty go baron car anthony towns So when they're on the court together, they are a net rating of 8.39 last year. This was a little bit above one So they're significantly better this year than last year when they're both playing together And now the split minutes look good too Would rooty go bear on the floor no car anthony towns a plus 10 with car anthony towns on the floor No rooty go bear it's a plus 10 when they're both off. It is a minus 8.11 last year was When rooty was on the floor by himself in no car anthony towns The defense was elite the offense was the worst in the league when car anthony towns was on the court by himself When no rooty go bear the offense was great and the defense wasn't good But now you're seeing a balance where one of them can coexist at a time and you're not losing any value Okay, well, that's not necessarily true, but they're both maintaining when I say that they're definitely losing some value Or like with no car anthony towns suggests rooty the offense is going to be worse objectively But the defense is so much better that it balances itself out when car anthony towns is on the court No, rooty go bear the defense will be worse, but the offense is so much better So it's not like it's tanking one way or another because they can maintain on the part that they're struggling at And when they're together the fact that this is an 8.39 is an amazing Thing if you're a minnesota timbulist fan, we're gonna always look at the rooty go bear trade as that right Walker kessler, uh jerry vander, but all of the pieces plus all the cap and be like man rooty go bear is not worth that and listen even now I'm saying that as a rooty go bear fan that that Was an overpay but if these guys can coexist now and anthony erich is turning into the star We know he can be you look at those things. Are you not feeling too bad about it? Maybe I don't know I can't speak for minnesota timbulist fans, but um That's how I would feel if I was a fan of team in the moment Now you might feel it in three years when maybe rooty's not as good as he is now or vice versa But the conversation has been over the last couple weeks is like, okay, uh car anthony towns Who are we trading them to you know, who is he getting traded to he's not fitting right now Boom-a-boom. He's struggling whatever the numbers are saying. Yes. He is individually struggling But he is good enough to at least become a threat where they're still good To play devil's advocate you could say well If you replace him with somebody that may be playing a little bit better than maybe the numbers are better I don't know But I can't talk about the minnesota timbulist without mentioning anaz read who is maybe the front runner for For six man of the year. There's not a shot that he don't like and guess why he's hitting all of them The connection between cow Anderson and rooty go bear is really good Especially after the scuffle that they had last year So things are clicking right now And I just wonder how long they can maintain this because we've seen stresses of time last year Where they go on a nice little run and be like, oh my god And they come in and then they just don't or they will have a game or they're up by 20 points Like earlier in the season versus the elena hawks and they'll fumble the game completely So i'm not saying that this is a contending team right now But i'm just saying if you're not watching timbulist games You're missing out on some really really good defense and a superstar player Guy that's playing to a superstar caliber and anthony erwards and you should be tuned in a little bit more Do you let me know how good could the timbulist be are they good enough to Stay outside of the playing do you trust them that much or is this too small of a sample sass for you? 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