The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Jace Frederick from the Pioneer Press to discuss how this version of the Wolves is built in a way that should be able to withstand a Karl-Anthony Towns injury — at least significantly more than previous rosters have been. Dane and Jace walk through the Wolves rotation players player-by-player to discuss how they may be impacted by Towns’s absence. What players might stand to gain more freedom in a temporarily Towns-less roster? What players will be most hurt by Towns’s absence?— Why this Wolves roster is built in a way that should be able to withstand a KAT injury— What stylistic changes, outside of more pick and roll, might be enacted in KAT’s absence— Going through the roster player-by-player, discussing how KAT’s absence might impact them on an individual basis— What if things get significantly better in KAT’s absence? What then?Sign up today for a 14-day free trial of Aura’s digital security at Aura.com/DaneUse Code Dane25 to get 25% off- https://trylgc.com/Dane #ad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to discuss the Jekyll and Hyde nature of the Wolves first quarter of the season. Plus some conversation on what life might look like in at least temporary absence of Karl-Anthony Towns. A lot of the focus of the episode is on the underlying issues that have held the Wolves back from being the best version of themselves, outside of the win over Indiana— How the compilation of players on the roster have not led to on-court chemistry— How the Wolves might function without Towns for the next few weeks— What can be developed in the “Rudy Only” lineups while Towns is out?— What schematic changes might be coming from Chris Finch, and how might those ideas be put into action quicker after the Towns injury?Sign up today for a 14-day free trial of Aura’s digital security at Aura.com/DaneUse Code Dane25 to get 25% off- https://trylgc.com/Dane #ad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Chris Hine of the Star Tribune to discuss the frustrations mounting surrounding some of the issues with the Karl-Anthony Towns and Rudy Gobert frontcourt pairing. For a team that is no longer in the early stages of the Towns-Gobert pairing, stamping out issues and leaning into strengths is beginning to feel like an immediate need. Related topics include...— Teams attacking KAT and Gobert’s ability to run the floor— Not only needing to get back in transition, but the importance of finding specific matchups when getting back on defense— Being able to punish opponents with size more than the size is getting taken advantage of— The team’s identity 20 games into the seasonSign up today for a 14-day free trial of Aura’s digital security at Aura.com/DaneUse Code Dane25 to get 25% off- https://trylgc.com/Dane #ad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige to what went into the Wolves five-game winning streak and what snapped it in Charlotte on Friday night. While the Charlotte loss felt a lot like the beginning of the season, that doesn’t mean the five-game winning streak didn’t happen — so we look for differences. Dane and Kyle also discuss the Wolves catching their first case of the injury bug, and how the rotation might shift to react to those injuries— What was different in the five-game winning streak compared to the first 13 games of the season?— What didn’t carry-over from the winning streak to Charlotte on Friday?— What level of play can reasonably be expected going forward— How the rotation might shift in Taurean Prince’s injury absence (and Jordan McLaughlin’s, if his injury lingers)?Sign up today for a 14-day free trial of Aura’s digital security at Aura.com/DaneUse Code Dane25 to get 25% off- https://trylgc.com/Dane #ad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Jace Frederick from the Pioneer Press to discuss the Wolves 4-game winning streak and the themes from that streak that will need to carry over (or be removed) for the Wolves to continue winning at a high level. In addition to that, Dane asks Jace about the booing at Target Center and how the players publicly responded to that in the locker room postgame. Topics include...— Ant’s Big Offensive Quarters/Games Correlating With Poor Defense— Playing Against Zone D – Will This Become a Tactic To Slow The Wolves Offense?— Can Jordan McLaughlin’s Shooting Translate? Does It Need To?— Edwards and Gobert Asking Fans To Stop Booing— Needing Jaden McDaniels’ recent play to carry overSign up today for a 14-day free trial of Aura’s digital security at Aura.com/DaneUse Code Dane25 to get 25% off- https://trylgc.com/Dane #ad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On today’s show, Dane begins with a solo recap of Monday night’s 4-point Wolves win over the Miami Heat that extended the Wolves current winning streak to four games. After digging into five themes from the win over Miami, Dane is joined by Tony East who covers the Indiana Pacers for SportsIllsutrated.com to preview Wednesday night’s matchup in Indiana. Topics include...— What went in to Rudy Gobert taking zero shots from the field against Miami— The point guard play from D’Angelo Russell and Jordan McLaughlin, focusing in on Jordan McLaughlin’s 3-point shot making a bounce back— Karl-Anthony Towns propelling the Wolves in the first half and then picking up five fouls in the second half and fouling out for the third time this season— Anthony Edwards waking up in the second half and driving the Wolves comeback— Previewing the Indiana matchup, focusing on the Edwards and McDaniels against Haliburton and Mathurin matchup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Chris of the Star Tribune to discuss the Wolves recent winning streak that has served as litmus test for optimism or pessimism, given that their opponents over the streak have not been at full strength and due to the fact that late-game execution has remained an issue. Dane and Chris all discuss the idea of sacrifice in the starting lineup, and how winning, despite some of the flaws in the wins, may be able to foster that necessary sacrifice sinking into the group.— The mood of the Wolves’ locker room after the win in Philadelphia— Glass half full: Something to be said about just getting a win— Glass half empty: The win in Philadelphia came with an “avalanche of mistakes” in the fourth quarter, said Chris Finch— The factors that fuel making sacrifice a difficult concept in the NBA— Do the recent wins coming against teams not at full strength cheapen the merit of those wins?Sign up today for a 14-day free trial of Aura’s digital security at Aura.com/DaneUse Code Dane25 to get 25% off- https://trylgc.com/Dane #ad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige for an episode that focuses on the context, for better or worse, that applies to the beginning of the Rudy Gobert experience in Minnesota. Through a Gobert lens, Dane and Kyle focus on Saturday’s matchup against the Philadelphia 76ers and Joel Embiid on Sunday, and how the Wolves now have Gobert to throw at the Embiid matchup. A portion of the episode also focuses on anecdotes from Kyle’s interview with Jim Petersen on the Flagrant Howls podcast.— How the Wolves might go about countering Embiid with Gobert— What we learned from Embiid’s 59-point performance earlier in the week that could help the Wolves in their game plan for the Sixers— Where the Wolves can best utilize Gobert offensively— Some context to the tweet about Edwards not passing to GobertSign up today for a 14-day free trial of Aura’s digital security at Aura.com/DaneUse Code Dane25 to get 25% off- https://trylgc.com/Dane #ad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to discuss bright spots that have materialized for the Wolves over their two wins thus far this week. In that, a lot of the early focus of the episode is on Anthony Edwards and D’Angelo Russell, who traded off having big games in the wins, and then also Rudy Gobert, who seems to slowly be finding himself. Dane and Britt also get into a few of the questions Britt answered in his mailbag column over at MinnPost.— Gobert beginning to fit in on both sides of the ball— What stood out from big performances from Ant and DLo, outside of their scoring output— Finch beginning to make some schematic changes— How the Wolves are navigating the leadership void left by Patrick Beverley— If DLo were to be traded, in what ways might that be an empty scapegoating— The job Tim Connelly has in front of himSign up today for a 14-day free trial of Aura’s digital security at Aura.com/DaneUse Code Dane25 to get 25% off- https://trylgc.com/Dane #ad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Jace Frederick from the Pioneer Press to look into the numbers behind the first 14 games of the Karl-Anthony Towns and Rudy Gobert experiment. Dane and Jace look at how Towns and Gobert have thus far graded out on both the offensive and defensive sides of the ball analytically, and discuss how fair those catch-all metrics have been to the still relatively small sample size. Before Jace joins, Dane starts the episode with a solo film review of Kyle Anderson’s recent play.— Kyle Anderson film review— What is going into KAT grading out as a 26th percentile defender thus far this season?— What is going into KAT grading out as a 94th percentile offensive player thus far this season?— What is going into Gobert grading out as a 65th percentile defender thus far this season?— What is going into Gobert grading out as a 66th percentile offensive player thus far this season?— What might crunch time offense look like once the Wolves start finding themselves in crunch time situationsSign up today for a 14-day free trial of Aura’s digital security at Aura.com/DaneUse Code Dane25 to get 25% off- https://trylgc.com/Dane #ad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.