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00:02 - So I'll tell you what, another big win
00:06 for the locker room here and morale.
00:08 The Minnesota Timberwolves won 13,
00:10 the Indiana Pacers won 11.
00:11 This game does stay under the total,
00:13 but the Minnesota Timberwolves with an outboy victory here
00:16 as a slight underdog.
00:17 You take a look at it and it's just so simple to say,
00:20 Anthony Edwards is a beast out on the court.
00:22 39 minutes played, 18 of 35 from the field with 44 points
00:28 and a massive block at the end of the ball game.
00:31 All is not lost in Minnesota here, Davis.
00:34 That's a nice win over the Pacers.
00:36 - It is, it's an incredibly nice win.
00:39 I mean, you have to think that probably
00:42 it was a pretty good time in the locker room yesterday
00:45 for the Minnesota Timberwolves.
00:46 It is also one of those things like,
00:48 there's always kind of been friction
00:50 with Carl Anthony Towns and his teammates
00:52 throughout the years, you know?
00:53 Like just like guys have complained about them,
00:55 guy guys have left the team and not, you know,
00:57 Jimmy Butler very famously did that,
01:00 sit down with Rachel Nichols and was like,
01:02 these guys don't wanna win.
01:03 They don't wanna go hard enough in practice.
01:05 I'm like bullying them.
01:07 So just kind of interesting to see
01:08 what those dynamics might be.
01:11 Nikhil Alexander Walker, I thought was phenomenal
01:14 in this game.
01:15 He has sort of reinvented himself as like,
01:18 kind of like a modern day Jason Terry style guy.
01:21 Just like, all he does is shoot three pointers
01:24 and just like tries incredibly hard on defense.
01:27 You do have to think though,
01:30 probably not a super sustainable way to play basketball.
01:32 Having Anthony Edwards shoot 35 times, right?
01:35 It's kind of the same problem that the Mavericks run into,
01:37 which is like, if Luka Doncic shows up
01:39 and his ankle's feeling a little creaky
01:41 or maybe he didn't sleep right the night before,
01:43 you know, Luka was joking at the beginning of the season
01:45 about he just had a child.
01:47 And so he was readjusting to not getting a ton of sleep.
01:51 Like, who else is making buckets on this team?
01:54 You don't want Rudy Gobert put the ball on the floor.
01:56 You don't, I mean, Mike Connelly's 36 years old.
01:58 I guess it would be Nikhil Alexander Walker
02:01 trying to cook off the,
02:03 they just don't, they don't have a secondary guy
02:05 to start possessions and that seems problematic.
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02:11 (bells chiming)
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