On today’s show, Dane is joined by Jace Frederick of The Pioneer Press to take stock of where the Wolves stack up at the halfway point of the season. Now, 41 games into the season, where do the Wolves rank on the offensive and defensive sides of the floor? Dane and Jace look at the margins of where this team could take a step forward and what areas have a chance to take a step back in the second half of the year. Topics today include...

— Where the Wolves rank on the offensive side of the ball

— Where the Wolves rank on the defensive side of the ball

— How the return of Karl-Anthony Towns might impact how the Wolves numbers evolve in the second half of the season

— A look at some individual player numbers at the halfway point

— What archetype of player would be best to add at the trade deadline and/or in the buyout market?

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On today’s show, Dane is joined by Timberwolves beat writer Chris Hine from the Star Tribune, who was on site in Houston Sunday night, to discuss the Wolves win over the Rockets. Topics today include...

— The scene in Houston after the Wolves fourth consecutive win

— Rudy Gobert being a tone-setter, and his teammates needing that from him

— Falling down by 20 in the first half due to the same issues of rebounding, turnovers and effort, but bouncing back in the second half

— What is the value of having had veterans around Anthony Edwards and Jaden McDaniels for the entirety of their young careers? Would McDaniels or Edwards have developed differently if raised in a young environment like Houston?

— Taking a look at the jam-packed Western Conference standings

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On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige from SKORNorth to discuss a handful of different topics that have materialized for the Wolves over the course of this now 3-game winning streak that followed the Wolves 6-game losing streak and low point of the season. Topics for this episode include...

— What went into Rudy Gobert’s 25 and 21 performance against the Clippers

— Comparing the time it took Conley and Gobert to find chemistry to the time it’s taking Gobert and his new teammates to find chemistry

— Kyle Anderson’s near-perfect fit on this roster

— Austin Rivers on what went into re-working his shot mechanics over the summer

— Guarantee dates coming up for Reid, Nowell, Rivers and Knight

— D’Angelo Russell’s shooting number over the past eight weeks

— What’s the status of Anthony Edwards’ hip injury that kept him out of the second half on Friday night?

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On today’s show, Dane is joined at Falling Knife Brewing Company by Britt Robson of MinnPost to do a live show. The conversation begins by discussing the new level Anthony Edwards has seemed to reach over these last six weeks in the absence of Karl-Anthony Towns. Dane and Britt also get into Jaden McDaniels’ seemingly underrated value and some general takeaways from the past few games before bringing in a third mic for listeners to come ask questions.

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On today’s show, Dane is joined by Timberwolves beat writer Jace Frederick from the Pioneer Press to discuss what went into the Wolves win over Denver on Monday and what from that game could sustain going forward. Specific topics include...

— What went into better ball movement against Denver and the importance of keeping that movement going forward

— Nowell and the bench group of Garza/Knight/Ryan/Rivers stole important minutes. What from that group can sustain?

— Putting Kyle Anderson on Nikola Jokic and playing Rudy Gobert in a spy role off a non-shooter

— Can they play “Spy Rudy” when D’Angelo Russell is in the lineup?

— What will Taurean Prince’s return to the rotation mean for the group?

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On today’s show, Dane is joined by Wolves beat writer Chris Hine from the Star Tribune to help paint the picture of the Wolves’ players-only meeting that followed the loss to the Detroit Pistons on Saturday night, their sixth consecutive loss. Dane and Chris describe the scene in the locker room after the game and play audio clips from the locker room from Rudy Gobert, Naz Reid and Chris Finch.

— Describing the postgame scene after the loss to Detroit

— Playing the audio of some of the viral quotes that surfaced from the locker room so as to provide context of tone

— Finch suggesting the possibility of major role changes to shake things up

— Where the Wolves go from here

— If the Wolves were going to make a major move, what even are the options?

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On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige from SKORNorth to make bold calls for the Wolves in the new year, and to recap the Wolves loss in Milwaukee on Friday night. The bold predictions segment includes recapping how our bold predictions from the preseason have fared, and then of course includes what our new bold predictions for the rest of the season will be. The conversation about the Bucks loss naturally revolves around the lack of rebounding in that game and how that remains a constant issue for this Wolves team.

— Recapping our bold predictions for the season from September

— New bold predictions for the 2023 portion of the season

— The tale of two halves in the Bucks loss

— What might be behind the Wolves defensive rebounding issues when Anthony Edwards is on the floor even though his individual rebounding numbers are way up over the last month

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On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to discuss the Wolves loss in New Orleans on Wednesday night and the four-game losing streak the team currently finds itself on. Topics on the episode include...

— The ways Rudy Gobert is actually the same player he was in Utah

— Is the fit around Gobert proving to be corrosive?

— A more impressive all around effort in New Orleans than in Miami, yet the same result

— How the Wolves guarded Zion Williamson

— If the roster was healthy, who would be in the rotation?

— Being both a talented team and a team with little margin for error

— How concerned should the Wolves be with where they are in the Western Conference standings

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On today’s show, Dane is joined by Jace Frederick of the Pioneer Press to put together a list of things we didn’t expect coming into the season. In other words, what has played out in the first 34 games that we did not have on our 2022-23 bingo cards entering the season. Some of the answers include...

— Rudy Gobert’s most natural individual fit in the starting lineup being Karl-Anthony Towns

— Naz Reid’s game elevating to another level when it was unclear whether or not he would even be in the rotation

— Anthony Edwards showing the ability to initiate the Wolves offense at a high level as the point guard

— How infrequent pick and roll has been for this team

— Austin Rivers being this impactful

— The defensive rebounding being worse than last season

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On today’s show, Dane is joined by Chris Hine from the Star Tribune to discuss the Wolves’ recent losses to Boston and Miami. Dane and Chris dive into some of the season-long problems that particularly plagued the Wolves against the Celtics and Heat this week — turnovers, defensive rebounding, execution in high leverage situations. Additionally, they discuss the recent play of Naz Reid and Jaylen Nowell, two players who have been thrust into bigger roles over the last month as injuries have begun to pile up.

— What is behind the Wolves’ persistent rebounding and turnover issues?

— Seeing more and more of the Naz Reid and Rudy Gobert pairing on the floor together

— Playing crunch time games teams that have been there before, like Dallas, Boston and Miami

— Has Jaylen Nowell begun pressing in a contract year?

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