Andrew Dukowitz
@adukeMN • 8,351 subscribers
Credentialed Timberwolves/Lynx/GophersWBB/WWE beat writer for Timberwolves OnSI and @ZoneCoverageMN, Pods with @hittinghardwood and hoops contributor at @Fox9
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Cheryl Reeve on the physicality the Dream and Valkyries played with “We have to toughen up, and we have to exploit the physicality, we aren’t exploiting it. We are being guarded in a way that should be illegal, but we are not putting the referees in a position that they see it. So you can’t fade away, you have to have a power, way about you right? You got to go with force wherever you are going. If you’re able to do that, you’re able to play against physicality and have success. So these two games were good for us for sure.”
Andrew Dukowitz408,058 views • 3 days ago
Cheryl Reeve on the trans sports bans from her perspective of being a leader in women’s sports “Of course it weighs on me, the attacks on trans people, the attacks that they’ve gone through… it seems like it’s got way more aggressive, it’s sort of sickening when the issues they are trying to tackle are really not issues, the number of transgender athletes they are now making laws for and creating a problem, to get elected…what I’m hopeful for is that people have gotten themselves more educated and they understand that, that’s not actually a problem… exclusion is never the answer, separate isn’t equal, and trans lives matter, so to take away something that’s so valuable that sports brings to young people in particular and what it does, as I have a youngster, encourages you to be part of a team and what it gives you in terms of teamwork, leadership, competitiveness, all the things, they have every right to that as well”
Andrew Dukowitz1,437,180 views • 1 month ago
Cheryl Reeve on the loss to Atlanta “I think it’s a good look at what playoffs are going to be. Freedom of movement is a thing on the first game of the year, it doesn’t become a thing in the playoffs. Physicality and reaching and grabbing, players cutting and chucking them and all that. Thats going to be the norm, whether they say that’s going to be the case, it’s going to be the case, it’s the playoffs. This was a good game for us to sort of go “alight, this is what it’s going to be”.
Andrew Dukowitz67,191 views • 3 days ago
Mike Conley on if he was trying to start trouble at the end of the game passing it up to Jaden McDaniels “(Laughs) nah that was a slip up, that’s all on me I take the blame… as soon as I threw it I looked and I was like “ah it’s Jaden” I almost put my hands on my head and I was like “maybe he won’t” and then as soon as I saw him when the ball kind of bounced a couple times “it’s over man” you can even see me like lower my head”
Andrew Dukowitz1,894,128 views • 4 months ago
Anthony Edwards on eliminating the step on his free throw (spoiler it’s Mark Cuban’s fault) “Some famous guy went on Instagram or went on a podcast and was talking about my free throws and he brought it to the attention of everybody so I had to change it” On changing a free throw form mid career “It’s hard but like as much as I be in the gym it shouldn’t be that hard so like I try to shoot like 200 free throws a day”
Andrew Dukowitz3,325,661 views • 9 months ago
Moment of silence before the Lynx season tip off for Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
Andrew Dukowitz933,566 views • 3 months ago
Kayla McBride on her “I’m going to be so open” comments to Cheryl Reeve after Olivia Miles was drafted “The last time I played with a true point guard it was Courtney Vandersloot and it was some of the best, most fun basketball I played. It’s not that I haven’t had amazing moments with Court, but it’s just something about playing with a true PG, that’s just, you know you get that ball with the laces and that velocity, it’s just like oh, kid in a candy story truly”
Andrew Dukowitz136,844 views • 24 days ago
Cheryl Reeve on her conversation with Sophie Cunningham pre-game, and the importance of having conversations with people who have different views “I think it’s great, I think both of us understand that we have platforms and we both talked about more than anything wanting to educate and there’s some things we have in common and maybe some things you differ on, just like any issues. I think it’s how you handle things and so it was nice to be in person for sure”
Andrew Dukowitz174,784 views • 1 month ago
Donte DiVincenzo on what he did in Minnesota outside of basketball all summer “Got out on the boat a lot on the lack’s, (went to) a bunch of different restaurants and coffee shops. Just trying to be outside as much as possible because(laughs) during the season you don’t get to enjoy it as much. Ever sense we got here my family has been hearing about how beautiful the summertimes are and it definitely lived up to it”
Andrew Dukowitz1,918,054 views • 10 months ago
Cheryl Reeve on if her son Oliver and her have some squishy hunting on the horizon in Vegas. “It’s been done, and what a success story, we landed a mega dumpling as well as a super squeezey cake, some sort of super squeezey. Vegas was good to us, we added to an already great collection”
Andrew Dukowitz92,679 views • 18 days ago
Napheesa Collier on the what the biggest adjustment for her has been since she returned 11 games ago “I think the biggest adjustment had been Liv, like I’ve never played with a player like her before… the way that Liv plays, she can attack in so many different ways, her passing ability, I’ve never played with a player like that. So that is an adjustment, it’s a really fun adjustment but it’s just something I’ve never done before”
Andrew Dukowitz33,708 views • 6 days ago
Maya Caldwell on the toughest guard to guard in the league “Kelsey Mitchell”-Caldwell “By far”-Nia Coffey “I don’t feel like we give her enough flowers”-Caldwell “No, she doesn’t, she doesn’t get enough recognition at all”-Coffey “She’s like unguardable…”-Caldwel
Andrew Dukowitz125,235 views • 27 days ago
Jaden McDaniels saying good bye to his soon as he leaves the press room “Bye bye bruh” McDaniels on being a father “Ah, it’s been fun. The road trip is like my away time. It’s just like to myself. But I’ll be ready to get back home sometimes just to see him run around and just get into everything as y’all see. He just does what he wants, doesn’t listen, but it’s pretty fun. At first I didn’t think it would be this cool to be a dad, but it’s pretty fun, just seeing him learn, seeing how smart babies are, how strong they are, how bad they are. But it’s pretty cool though.”
Andrew Dukowitz484,322 views • 3 months ago
Lindsay Whalen on retired WNBA players receiving money based off of years of service thanks to the new CBA. “I guess dinners on me then(smiles)… 100k for 15 years so.. I got expensive dogs, so they eat expensive food, that money can go to the next vet bill that they run up or the next round of golf… I highly highly appreciate that”
Andrew Dukowitz530,926 views • 4 months ago
Cheryl Reeve on what they identified in scouting to see Olivia Miles as one of the two players that the Lynx identified having a “generational skill” “What I said on draft night is that there were two players that had generational skills, I would now classify her(Miles) as a generational talent… I think it’s really easy to identify great passing because there’s not a lot of players that are great at it so instinctually so. And then with Azzi(Fudd) the quick release her actions and scoring the basketball, you know, incredibly valuable… I think in the scouting process when you can repeat something over and over and over again and has been doing so in Livs case for a long time, it’s just a matter of can you figure out the pro game in terms of pace and physicality and all the stuff that goes with it, and that’s the part you don’t know… we thought for sure she’d be a really good back up point guard(laughing)”
Andrew Dukowitz328,989 views • 2 months ago
Cheryl Reeve on how she coach’s Olivia Miles to make reads “I don’t coach, a lot of times she’ll say “what do you want me to look for” and I say “whatever your instincts tell you” I don’t coach her passing at all. I try to stay out of the way of that, we try to play call to feature some of things we know she is going to find. She just has an incredible incredible gift…”
Andrew Dukowitz317,159 views • 2 months ago