Andrew Dukowitz
@adukeMN • 8,711 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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Anthony Edwards on where he feels the Wolves are with one week until the season starts “I feel great, I feel like tonight was great for us, watch some film, see how we can relieve the pressure. I think that’s the main thing from tonight. Watch the film, see how we can pass, get it back, screen, see how Dip(LaMelo Ball) likes to be screened, because we got to get them off him, because he a great passer man, if he don’t got no advantage, then we don’t got an advantage. So we need him to have the ball in his hands all game, and we need to create advantages for him”
Andrew Dukowitz181,434 Aufrufe • vor 4 Tagen
Anthony Edwards on how the speed the Wolves are going to play with is going for him “Ah, I’ll be like KAT, you know KAT used to trail in the play at the end? (Laughing) I already told dip(LaMelo?) you, Jaden, and JK, y’all gonna be running, gone, laying the ball up shooting threes, but as soon as y’all get cut off I’m trailing in for a three. So I’m like the old man on the team(laughing)”
Andrew Dukowitz565,064 Aufrufe • vor 15 Tagen
Jonathan Kuminga on what Chris Finch told him his role would be “We haven’t spoke as much…he wants me to come here and be myself, rebound, defend at the highest level… focus on those two, just rebound and defense, I think that’ll help the team and that will help me”
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Napheesa Collier on the WNBA’s history of being welcoming and inclusive to everyone “We’ve always prided ourselves in being so inclusive to everyone. No matter what you look like, what your background is, religious, sexuality(motions to Courtney Williams)” “Gay, you pointed at me(laughing) gay” -Williams “Not every work place is like that, where you can still be yourself no matter what that looks like and still accepted for that… and empowered to do that, and celebrated. It allows you to be the best version of yourself”
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Chris Finch on if the Wolves coach flopping “We don’t teach flopping here. We don’t teach embellishment. We never have. It probably shows up in Anthony’s free throw rate at times that he doesn’t flop or embellish. But we just don’t teach it here and that’s not the way we play. Maybe we should. Hopefully the league cleans up this crap, because nobody wants to watch it. That’s what they said was the feedback from the fans, is they’re tired of watching the flopping. And we know that i’ts been rewarded at too high of a level, so just stop rewarding the flopping”
Andrew Dukowitz254,958 Aufrufe • vor 18 Tagen
Rudy Gobert picks his Pokemon lineup… how did he do?
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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 Dukowitz1,439,778 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
Anthony Edwards on who’s impressed him at training camp this year “Cody Williams, I just love his defensive instincts. I think he could be really good in the NBA. His care factor has to go up a little more, just showing it, like everybody knows he cares but just showing it. Like you get a stop, let somebody know about it… other than that he brings intensity every day, his defense is incredible”
Andrew Dukowitz198,552 Aufrufe • vor 15 Tagen
LaMelo Ball on building a chemistry with Rudy Gobert “I mean, he’s played basketball a long time, I have too, so it’s kind of easy. He’s just a big and in a little for real” On if he’s played with a player like Gobert before “I mean, he’s hall of fame for sure so that’s tough to say, but, I play a lot of 2K, you just play a lot of basketball, basketball is the same from a video game to on court to real life, On Gobert off the court “Rudy is funny as hell, great dude”
Andrew Dukowitz200,853 Aufrufe • vor 18 Tagen
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 Dukowitz1,894,617 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
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 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten
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.”
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Moment of silence before the Lynx season tip off for Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
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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”
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Jonathan Kuminga on what Wolves fans should know about him off the court “I don’t do much actually, I’m a down to earth type of person, I’ll try anything… I love riding bikes, back when I was in California I rode a lot of bikes. I’m not so much of a video game. I’m trying to ask my teammates what games to really get into… my family, and that’s about it, like I said I’m a down to earth kind of person. Some people are going to see me on the street walking by myself, and that’s the kind of type of person that I am”
Andrew Dukowitz71,844 Aufrufe • vor 15 Tagen
Cheryl Reeve on what Kayla McBride resigning with the Lynx meant to her and their relationship “Macs words will(pauses with emotion)” (Heart hands symbol from McBride in the audience) “She said “I don’t know what lies ahead but I’m here for it, whatever it is, here with you” and that’s why we do this. I don’t know why you feel so strongly and believe in it but it’s appreciated and pouring into you, is one of my greatest joys in my life as a coach and seeing you play the best basketball of your career this season, because you believed in being here, that’s not an accident”
Andrew Dukowitz84,506 Aufrufe • vor 20 Tagen
