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He hit five of them.

You're going to live with that.

But so many other games where he's 0 for 3, 0 for 4, and teams are going to dare him to shoot.

I mean, you've got to try.

You're trying to take away Jokic.

You're trying to slow Jamal Murray.

That's going to leave somebody open.

And Christian Brown is out there for defensive purposes, and he's a good player, and he's a winner.

But he's going to have to knock these down with some consistency if he's left alone.

But back to the Wolves.

The big difference between this rivalry of these previous seasons, they didn't have these two guys in the twin turbos.

And they could be an X-factor in Io DeSumo and sort of Bones Highland here.

These guys, they give them another jolt, a boost off the bench there.

Especially Io, who's been great since joining Minnesota.

14 points per game, shooting 41% from deep.

He just gets that ability to get out in transition and, again, sort of give a little punch to the offense when they maybe get Ant to rest or go away from him a little bit.

But also I'd include Bones in there too because they sort of both play that way, that energetic way, especially at home that can, like, ignite a crowd and stuff like that.

You can rip off the 8-0 run and suddenly you're back in a game or blow open a game.

So I look at them as the Wolves X-Factors.

Yeah, I like Io as an X factor and Bones as maybe a Z factor.