Timberwolves Coach Chris Finch Talks Game Three Strategy

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00:00Here's Chris Finch, the head coach of the Timberwolves.

00:04Basically nothing went right last night.

00:07Nothing.

00:07I thought, again, we didn't close the half very well.

00:11I thought if we close the half better, you know,

00:13then we don't put ourselves on such a razor edge in the third.

00:18Excuse me.

00:18We only had six turnovers at halftime.

00:21We had a few more in the third quarter.

00:23You know, missed some shots.

00:26You know, didn't finish at the basket.

00:28And then, you know, led to a bunch of stuff in early attack mode for them.

00:34With the way these two games have played out,

00:35just what do you have to say to your guys?

00:37What are you looking for going back home?

00:40Every minute in a series is a chance to find something.

00:44You know, so we're going to go back home.

00:46This is a good team, good team at home.

00:48So we're going to go home and, you know, fight for game three.

00:51I mean, heads up and look at the tape and get ready for game three.

00:56I think they'll go home.

00:57And what I think I'll see, believe it or not,

00:59is they're going to pour in threes in that game three at the target center.

01:04They shoot better there.

01:06They play better there.

01:08Like all teams, for the most part, play better in their building.

01:11With their sight lines and everything else,

01:13they know where their comfort spots are,

01:15and they get to their spaces, and they knock down shots.

01:18I guarantee you they will go off in that third game because really they have no alternative.

01:25If they don't, they're going to get swept.

01:29And it's, you know, if they go down three, it's like humiliating.

01:33It really is.

01:33Like most teams, like remember the Leafs, they won the two,

01:37and then Florida went home and they won the two games.

01:39So go down, you know, to your building and get it done.

01:47You know, win the game, whatever it takes.

01:49In fact, I would play dirty as well because that Thunder team runs,

01:55and they get out, and they get going.

01:58And you know what?

01:59Where I come from, you got to get to a point where you're like,

02:02we're just done with this.

02:03We're not having all this running and breaking out and numbers and,

02:07you know, advantages.

02:09We're going to take some people out.

02:11You're not running up the court.

02:13I'll trip you.

02:14You're not going anywhere.

02:15I will elbow you in the nose.

02:17Oh, was that not the greatest thing you ever saw in your life last night?

02:20Scott Foster breaking his nose.

02:22Was that not the greatest thing you've ever seen with him gushing blood

02:26the first minute of the game when he got jacked on that jump ball on his nose?

02:30I enjoyed every minute of that.

02:32But I find him painful.

02:34He's real painful.

02:35What I found painful was two things about that.

02:38One, like we stopped the game for like five minutes to fix it.

02:42Like, let's go.

02:43Scrape him up.

02:44Get him out.

02:44Put someone else in if he's taking that long to get ready.

02:47And two, did they need to go to the, you know, their dopey rules official?

02:53Jake Javis or whatever his name is.

02:54They just have to find ways to wedge these people into the game somehow.

03:00The ref gets a bloody nose.

03:02Let's bring in our rules official to find out what happens in these situations.

03:07Well, what happens, Dave?

03:08Well, they clean him up and they stuff paper up his nose.

03:11They tried about a guy.

03:12You see the guy cut his eye one year and had seven stitches.

03:15Oh, my goodness.

03:17It doesn't end.

03:18These ref people that they put on.

03:21Okay.

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