Dane Moore
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Asked Rudy Gobert what he's learned about screening for LaMelo Ball. "The main thing I tell him is to just slow down with me. You don't need to go fast, because I'm going to give you an advantage. I told him to watch some clips of me and Joe Ingles pick and rolls. You don't need to go fast, I'm going to give you an advantage. You can walk."
Dane Moore760,048 views • 5 days ago
With the Wolves getting knocked out by Oklahoma City and San Antonio these last two seasons, asked Naz Reid about what they need to do to be able to catch those teams. "Probably just the moodiness. You look at both of those teams and they're playing for one another, they're excited to be on the floor with one another, they're a team where they're selfless... I think we have more than enough talent... But just being less moody. I think that's just the name of the game for us, just being less moody and more selfless."
Dane Moore3,176,403 views • 5 months ago
Asked Rudy Gobert what surprised him about Victor Wembanyama when they were teammates during the Olympics. "A few weeks ago he asked me what kind of filter I had in my house for water. It just tells you how his mind is. I try to talk to the young guys here about the food they eat and stuff like that. But I don't get those type of questions." Ant hasn't asked you about water filters? "Never. Not yet. I pray for that day."
Dane Moore3,431,885 views • 5 months ago
Pretty much the entirety of Anthony Edwards's postgame media was him talking about his frustration with the way teams are putting two on him, taking away his opportunities to be a scorer and forcing him to get off the ball. "It's not how I want to play, of course. I'm only 23, I don't wanna just be passing the ball all night... But the way they're guarding me, I think I have to." How hard is it to stay engaged when they do that? "Super hard, super hard, super hard, super hard. Because I'm wired to score the ball."
Dane Moore8,491,138 views • 1 year ago
Asked Anthony Edwards what's different for him when he's on the floor with LaMelo Ball vs. when he's on the floor without Ball. "I think when I'm not with him, I gotta start getting back on the ball a little bit more. Because I'm so used to playing with him now, I just run to the corner. And if I get it, I get it, if I don't, I don't. I think when he off the floor, I gotta get everybody involved and get back to my point guard skills."
Dane Moore36,506 views • 3 days ago
Here's Chris Finch talking about how not all turnovers are created equally, when asked about LaMelo Ball's passing. "Yeah, there are good turnovers... We've been a high turnover team historically. But if we're trying to do the right thing sometimes I think it's overblown. I'l say, turnovers are overrated sometimes."
Dane Moore35,225 views • 4 days ago
Chris Finch said he thinks it's a joke that Rudy Gobert was not even named as a finalist for Defensive Player of the Year this season. Gobert was asked after the game if that snub gave him more juice in tonight's game. "No extra juice. I know who I am. Not the first time I get disrespected, probably not the last. I'm gonna keep being myself. If they wanna disrespect greatness, take it for granted, whatever, sooner or later they'll realize the impact."
Dane Moore1,541,800 views • 6 months ago
Denver was sending a second defender at Anthony Edwards when he crossed court in today's game. Asked Ant, who used to be really frustrated by that look, about playing through that type of aggressive coverage. "I'm not mad at all because, at the end of the day, my 4 is better than they 3. We're playing 4 on 3."
Dane Moore1,506,386 views • 7 months ago
Chris Finch said after Game 5 that Terrence Shannon Jr.'s minutes were limited in Game 5 due to gameplan mistakes. Finch was asked at practice today how he goes about helping Shannon clean that up. "I don't clean that up. He cleans it up. It starts with gotta be ready, he's gotta be engaged, he's gotta be fully committed to that side of the ball... The only way I can clean him up is to sit him on the bench, right? That's the only way I can clean it up. He knows what we need from him right now. So he's gotta be ready, and he's gotta be ready to execute defensively. There's no reason that he shouldn't be a good defender with his body type, with his athleticism, and he's a pretty smart player."
Dane Moore860,270 views • 5 months ago
Here's Ayo Dosunmu talking about what he's reading in pick and roll coverage and why he's taking more midrange shots in Minnesota after those were prohibited in Chicago. "In Chicago, midrange shots was really prohibited. It was 3s and layups, no midrange shots unless it's the end of the shot clock. Here, we got Rudy, he's setting big screens. So if you can set up pick and roll, you come off Rudy, you open." Dosunmu took 4 "long" midrange shots in 45 games in Chicago this season before being traded to Minnesota. And he's taken 12 in 15 games for the Wolves. Dosunmu has also nearly doubled the frequency in which he's taking shots from floater range. Dosunmu took 86% of his shots in Chicago at the rim or from 3. In Minnesota, he's becoming a three-level scorer. And his eFG% has stayed almost exactly the same.
Dane Moore933,437 views • 7 months ago
Here's Chris Finch when asked about Micah Nori's contract in Portland being for just one guaranteed season. "The first thing I would like to say about that is I thought it was a shame that a lot of the story about Micah's great opportunity was overshadowed by the nature of the deal that he signed. That's a personal decision. That's a business decision. That's between him the team and the agent...." "I just know this: There's 30 of these jobs. They're hard to get...." "I also know that you gotta bet on yourself in this world. And especially when you're an outsider. We consider ourselves a little bit of outsiders. We weren't raised in the game. We didn't play at North Carolina or Duke. So sometimes your path is just different and you gotta take chances along the way."
Dane Moore473,773 views • 3 months ago
If the Wolves were able to have a cap space team (maybe Brooklyn or Chicago) absorb Julius Randle's contract next season ($33M), that would open up three interesting roster building tools I want to highlight. I think this is relevant because the Wolves front office has a history of kind of stringing together transactions -- even over the course of multiple transaction windows (offseason and trade deadline). The Randle trade would be Randle + draft compensation for say Brooklyn to absorb the contract - maybe: Randle + No. 28 for a future 2nd (Adjust compensation as you see fit. Not the point of this exercise. Obviously if this would cost a bunch, they wouldn't do it. Or maybe they'd have to move to using Gobert's salary as the salary moved into another team's cap space.) Shedding Randle's salary would drop the Wolves well below the *1st* apron (about $52M). And while beneath the 1st apron, the Wolves would open up the ability to three additional roster building tools for spending that $52M... (If Ayo Dosunmu were to sign for $17M, that would be $35M in room below the 1st apron. And need to make sure to get the roster to 14 players.) 1. The non-taxpayer midlevel exception ($15M) - The "big MLE" is a $15M gift card for teams to spend above the salary cap but below the 1st apron. So if the Wolves were to use this, they would be hard-capped at the 1st apron ($13M below 2nd apron). If a team is over the 1st apron, they only have access to the taxpayer or "mini MLE", which is $6M next season - Could go out and sign a free agent for up to $15M in starting salary - Could also use this $15M as a trade exception and trade for a player who makes up to $15M 2. The trade exception generated in the Mike Conley salary dump trade to Chicago ($10.77M) - A trade exception allows a team to trade for a player without sending back matching salary for up to the amount of the trade exception - So with access to this trade exception, the Wolves could trade for a player making up to $10.77M - Using a trade exception also hard caps a team at the 1st apron ($13M below 2nd apron) 3. Making a Randle trade to a team who absorbs his contract into cap space would also create another trade exception (up to $33M) - The size of that trade exception would be Randle's $33M, minus whatever the Wolves took back in the trade - Might not need that for spending this summer. But doesn't expire for 365 days. The downside of working below the 1st apron as opposed to the 2nd apron is it restricts overall spending power by $13M -- because that's the gap between the two aprons.
Dane Moore510,118 views • 4 months ago
JJ Redick joked in his pregame media about how Chris Finch told him he was taking too many midrange shots when Finch was a coach of Redick's in New Orleans -- despite Redick telling Finch he had a "top 5 midrange efficiency for 8 seasons in a row". I asked Finch about that and, more broadly, about coaching shot selection. (His answer starts out as a joke, but I thought also had some good nuggets in there about teaching shot selection -- referencing the value of the midrange showing up with Ant's game-sealing shot in Portland on Wednesday.)
Dane Moore1,269,311 views • 11 months ago
The Wolves are clearly playing faster since acquiring Ayo Dosunmu. Asked Anthony Edwards about the impact Dosunmu has had on the pace the Wolves are playing with lately. "I'm not a fan of playing fast. But when I'm in with them, I don't have a choice because I want the ball, and they gone. The only way I can get the ball is to be next to them... They super fast with the rock."
Dane Moore760,871 views • 7 months ago