Danette (Paul Pabst)

I do.

I do.

I'm with you because, look, we've been killing him.

But you know what?

Two years ago, when the Timberwolves eliminated the Nuggets the first time, Rudy Gobert was playing like a Hall of Famer against Joker.

He's the one guy that really makes him work, play in and play out for sure.

Yes, and I would say I think the problem I had with Rudy Gobert is he wasn't one of the top five players in basketball, but this is when we had positions for first team, second team, third team.

So that's not his fault.

I'm blaming the NBA for kind of putting him up on a platform that he doesn't belong.

He's a good player.

He's a good defensive player.

And he did really well against Joker.

But then they got rid of the positions.

Now we have positionless, and then he'll never make an all-NBA team, certainly first team.

But he did play well in this series against Joker.

And if this was LeBron, three-time MVP, winner of one NBA title, bowing out the way Joker did, we'd be crushing LeBron.

Here is Joker after the loss, the elimination against Minnesota.

How far away or not far away do you feel like you guys are from being a championship?

If it was Serbia, everybody gets fired.

They are far away.