Minnesota's Strategy for Improved Team Performance

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00:00What does Minnesota do?

00:02Pray.

00:03Okay.

00:04All right, but now that we've left the chapel.

00:06What do they do?

00:08We talked about this briefly at the Open.

00:10What they do is, obviously, Randall's coming off of a terrible game.

00:14And Randall's been fantastic the entire playoffs.

00:16Yeah.

00:17Coming off a terrible game.

00:19They need to get consistent production,

00:23and I mean the bare-bones minimum consistent production

00:26out of Nas Reed, DiVincenzo, NAW, Mike Conley, and Rudy Gobert

00:31all at the same game.

00:34Again, we talked about Conley and Gobert are non-threats on all.

00:37They're negatives.

00:39They're negatives.

00:40So in order to get you to be like, hey, Mike Conley,

00:43you're not going out there and scoring 20 points,

00:44but if you give us seven and Gobert, you give us eight,

00:47and NAW off the bench, you give us, he's not going to have 17,

00:50but he give us nine, and DiVincenzo give us eight.

00:52Then we have a shot.

00:53And it has to be a, you know, the rising tide lifts all ships kind of thing.

00:56A little bit from everyone.

00:57See, and I see your point, but to me, I have to go with their big three

01:02have to all play well at the same time.

01:05Who's the three?

01:07I'm going to say McDaniels has got to be the third.

01:09Yeah.

01:10Because he was not good in game one.

01:11He was better in game two.

01:12Randall was terrible in game two.

01:14Right?

01:14And has put up numbers,

01:17but they also haven't been really efficient shooting numbers.

01:20Nor consistent.

01:21Right, or consistent.

01:21So, what I'm saying is, is you probably need,

01:24I'm going to throw out there, between the three of them,

01:28I'm going to say about 70 points you need by the three of them,

01:31and then hope that you get 40 from everybody else.

01:35And the problem is, even if you get that and get the 110,

01:38that still may not be enough to beat OKC.

01:41Because you need OKC to also kind of struggle-ish

01:44in order for all these pieces to fall together at the same time.

01:47So, there's, I think Jada McDaniels has to stop guarding SGA.

01:58I think, listen, Chris Finch is, I want to just be very obvious

02:01because I'm about to correct everything I think he's doing.

02:04Chris Finch is an NBA head coach, has had so far a great start to his career,

02:08and I'm sitting here at the desk.

02:09And with that said, cut it out with a Jada McDaniels guards everyone's best player,

02:13and that's all he's there for thing.

02:15Enough.

02:15OK?

02:16Let Jada McDaniels try and shut off J-Dub's water.

02:19We saw that happen last series.

02:21That Jalen Williams, as much as I love the player, I'm sure you guys as well,

02:25Jada McDaniels could have some success there.

02:28He can't guard SGA.

02:29So, let's do that.

02:31How do we guard SGA?

02:32You can't guard him.

02:33Isn't that obvious?

02:34Start Conley on him or Dante.

02:36I don't care.

02:38And then send help, specifically Ant, with the athleticism and size off of Dort.

02:43If Dort makes five threes, who I took for two plus, great.

02:46So be it.

02:47Amazing.

02:48Doubt it.

02:48Let's find out.

02:49So, it's the mindset of, as a coach, I get exactly going.

02:54When I used to go against dominant players, right,

02:57that everyone was complimented and could shoot the ball and do some things.

03:00You have one of two choices.

03:02It's option A, let everybody else cook, lock down the leading scorer, or reverse.

03:07The problem is, and I think with not only the fact that I think McDaniels could do a good job on Jada, Kevin,

03:14I think it's the fact that it could also give him more opportunities to unlock himself offensively.

03:19Because I think as much as you need him to play defense, Tom, you need him to score.

03:24And if he's running around with SGA all over the place, one, he may get cooked.

03:30Two, we may not have enough left to go ahead and score is what they need him to do as well.

03:34And it may be a combination of, like, the mental ease of, like, I don't need to stop SGA.

03:41Where so physically he's not running around, he's not picking up fouls, he's not – and then the mental side is like,

03:45hey, I'm not worried about that.

03:46I just got to play good defense against someone else, and I have to do enough scoring to help out the team.

03:52It may be a combination of both of those things.

03:54And it's the same situation – you know, we're kind of talking about the Knicks.

03:57It's like the Timberwolves have to try something different.

03:59And if it's switching defensively, switching defensive assignments because it's not working for them,

04:03that's the case.

04:04Like, the team's down 0-2.

04:07Be free with the experimenting because there's – you're not at a spot where, like,

04:10hey, we're going to throw away a series lead if we mess things up.

04:13It's like, you're already down.

04:14Get out there and try.

04:14Bye.

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