Jon Krawczynski
Appearances
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
They ran out of guys and Jonathan Kaminga actually got on the, Steve Kerr looked on the bench like, Is Bogan available?
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
Oh, my God. Six. I'm going to do the LeBron flex on that one.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
Is this segment from 2021?
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
I'm going to get up like this and do the doc where I just bend over at a completely right angle. How does he do that? I can't even do it properly.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
I'm doing great, man. Great to be on the new version of The Great Show. Let's do this, man.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
Right down the road.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
We did do that. That's for sure.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
Yeah, you're right. It's been hard to get a handle on it. What I've looked at in the first two games is if... the Lakers are not going to score a hundred in the game. The wolves are going to win the series. Like, I think that's where they want to live. But the big question is going to be for me on the wolf side of things is, can they keep their composure enough against Luca and LeBron and
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
To stay in these games and and not let them get away. I thought that actually game two was pretty impressive for the Wolves to come back the way that they did. And they really played poorly offensively. And so if they can find a way to just, you know, they don't have to shoot the lights out like they did in game one, but they just have to.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
be more composed more organized than they were in game two and they should be in good shape but man when you are facing lebron and aluka in a series it is a torture chamber and so i i don't know what's going to happen in the series right now but i do think that the wolves feel confident with how they played defensively out of these first two games that that they'll be okay here
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
Yeah, it was a big conversation point after the game. I thought Anthony Edwards had a very interesting answer about it. He said that he felt what he was seeing in front of him was the Lakers going to almost a pseudo zone where he would see things right in front of him and then they would shift into a little bit of a zone. And
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
What we have seen from the Timberwolves this season is zone defense's death. We saw it in the Milwaukee game. They gave up a 24-point lead in the fourth quarter because the Bucs went zone.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
Yes, please, please. It was a disaster of epic proportions.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
In the fourth quarter, 10 minutes ago.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
Yes, I was there. It was inexplicable to me. it was a circus of like, I have never seen either at this 21st season on the beat. And you know, Zach, I've seen some really bad basketball teams in Minnesota over the years. And that was as bad as I have ever seen any team play for any extended stretch. And, and so I do think that is,
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
a little bit of a concern for the Wolves in this series in terms of if they're seeing a little zone and don't know what to do with it. Mike Conley does not have a great matchup in this series. And so his minutes are limited and his production is limited. And when he is not...
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
a factor offensively, you said it, Zach, the, the, the wolves deep or the wolves offense becomes mindless in, in, in a way. And, you know, if they hit a bunch of threes, if and is getting downhill, it can work, but that is the big, uh, Just Achilles' heel for them is if you make them think through a stretch of offensive game, it usually goes poorly for the Wolves.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
And so that's what we saw in game two is you just saw them not be able to get a handle on where they were supposed to go, how they were supposed to move, and it resulted in awful shots, awful shot selection, and letting a game go that they very easily could have won. You hold a team to 94 points on the road, you should win that game. And they just... They were never really in it.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
Incredible goaltend. He was absolutely furious. He couldn't believe the call. It's the most obvious goaltend I've ever seen.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
Yeah, and I think that especially, Zach, the most disappointing thing to the Timberwolves was they took 25 threes in the game. Now, they didn't shoot well at the start, but what they needed to do was move the ball a little bit and keep shooting threes like they do. They're one of the best three-point shooting teams in the entire league. And so to go away from that...
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
it looked like they all just wanted to attack to the middle of the zone and do something that was beyond their capabilities. And, and so I think they got into a mental game of, okay, we have to take this control back some other way when they just make the easy play. And they just did not do that over and over again, passed up three pointers. You know, what, what,
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
passed up the easy matchups that were out there and, and made it harder on themselves. And that's why they were just, you know, what they shoot. Yeah. 38%, 20% from three. It was, it was grueling to watch.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
Absolutely drives me crazy. There was one play in game two where Luka got Rudy in the ISO, made a really creative, crafty move, comes down to the baseline, hits an unbelievable shot. It was really, really fun. It was really impressive. And social media lights up. Oh, he caught a body. Oh, yeah. but he was one for four against Rudy in that game.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
And I honestly thought Zach that in the fourth quarter, in the second half, one of the reasons that the wolves were able to cut into that lead is because Luca did seem kind of hell bent on. I'm going to embarrass this dude. Like I'm going to put him in one-on-one. I'm going to cross him over. I'm going to step back. I'm going to go buy him.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
And I am going to put this guy on the sports center top 10. And, and it really kind of, bogged down the Laker offense for a little while. And, and so I do think that Rudy has done a really good job in that matchup. And for, you know, anyone to say otherwise, because Luca gets him once or twice. I mean, that's just disingenuous. It's ridiculous.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
you are a hundred percent correct on the offensive side of things. And I will say this on Rudy and defensively, he's got to grab more rebounds, man. There's been a few times. It's just, they've glanced off his fingers. He hasn't been able to get his hands on it and end the possession. He's just got to do a better job there. But one-on-one against Luca, he's been fine. And yeah,
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
offensively, one of the reasons I was optimistic about the Timberwolves going into this series is in the last month or so leading into the playoffs, they had really done a good job with Rudy getting him involved. Julius Randall, little, little drop lobs to him. Even Ant was finding him a little bit more. And Rudy was consistently 15, 17, 19 points, like really being a factor.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
Now he's playing terrible defenses, but, but you thought that maybe they could build on that and they haven't done that in the first two games. And so if he is going to be out there, if you're not just going to go with the Nas Randall front court, he does have to be more of a factor. He has to catch the ball cleaner. He has to, they have to find little lobs out of the dunker for him.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
He's got to get on the offensive glass better and create more second chances. That's the way that you hurt the Lakers. by going big with Rudy. And he has not done enough of that so far in these first two games.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
Yeah, absolutely. I think that it is no coincidence that the wolves were terrible offensively in game two and Nas Reed and Dante DiVincenzo were both in foul trouble early because what you, what we have seen from this wolves team all season long is, has been they generally start slow. They did in game one. They were down seven in the first quarter.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
Game one, I think they had 21 points in the first quarter. That starting group typically does not play well offensively at the start of games and digs themselves a hole. When the Wolves start to get control of the game is when they go to the bench and DiVincenzo and Reed and Nikhil Alexander-Walker all step in and the ball flies around.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
and they shoot threes and they move and they get out in transition. And when Reed went out early and when even Chenzo went out early, it took way too really of their most important offensive players. And so then it became a lot more of Julius Randall. I so, you know, he did well, like I give him credit against it.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
Yeah, he played really well. Here's the thing about that, though, too, Zach, is he did his job. And I think he recognized, hey, we got no other options. So I'm going to do this. I'm going to be a little more assertive. But when we have seen the Wolves at their worst is when it's Ant heavy ISO, it's Julius heavy ISO, and everyone stops and just watches. And
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
when they are at their best is when the ball is moving, when it's driving kick. And there was just a lot less of that because it was Randall going to work. And so it did sort of work for them because they shaved a 22 point deficit down to nine in the fourth quarter.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
But it also was really, it's hard to sustain that level of offense and really get yourself on any extended run when you're kind of going about it that way. So I think if I'm the Lakers, I want to invite that style of offense from the Timberwolves. And if I'm the Wolves, I want to avoid that.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
So game three will be important to reestablish some kind of flow, some kind of ball movement, drive and kick and get open threes and let them fly. And that's just what was not happening in game two. In part, because I will say this, Zach, Luka and LeBron were both just so much more active with their feet defensively. And I think that was, you know, they were very physical.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
They got their hands on people and they did all that, but they moved their feet a lot better and just made it harder for the wolves to generate some of that.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
Unbelievable. Two hands and got fouled, didn't get called. But like the force that he put, you know, I've seen every day, Aunt Dunk, that in his career, and he has had some unbelievable one. That's right up near the top. It was in traffic. It was against the big. It was two hands right on his head.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
John Collins. There's the Watanabe. Yeah. He had one in Phoenix in the Phoenix series that kind of ended the sons in the fourth quarter as they were burying him. He's had, you know, and he just had one towards the end of the season. Was it Utah or Brooklyn? I can't remember, but. just coming out of nowhere and throwing down as much as he does. Yeah.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
So he, I mean, he scrapes his knuckles on the ceiling. Like he, he can, and he throws it down. What did he say?
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
What did he get fined for? What did he say?
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
He was talking to a fan and the fan was chirping at Rudy and Rudy and, and aunt said, Rudy got 200 million. And Rudy said, no, actually I have 300 million. Rudy has 300 million and I have a bigger fan. blank than you and grabbed his crotch as he walked away. The first part was fine. The second part, probably don't need to be doing that.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
He was the 15th pick in the draft.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
He doesn't care. No, he cares not at all. I do think what the league is trying to do is say, Ant, man, you are the next guy. LeBron and Steph and KD are only going to be here for a little longer. We need you. to be right up there with Tatum, right up there with Luka, right up there with a few of the other guys to take the mantle.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
And so this was, I think, more of a, you know, kind of a career achievement award fine than like for this specific thing here. And so I think that was the crackdown. But I agree with you, Zach. Like, was I offended by that? No, I wasn't. I've seen and heard way worse things than that. But I think this is the league trying to, to make a statement and reign him in.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
A hundred percent. Yeah. I mean, I think like that was, but I understand I do why so many people pick the Lakers. You have Luca, you have LeBron, you have all this, but like, I really do think a lot of people who are Lakers and five, you know, even Lakers and six, we're not looking at the Wolves' numbers. 17-4 down the stretch, top 10 offense, top 10 defense, net rating in the top five.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
All of that stuff tells you that there is talent here if it's harnessed and plays the right way. My concern right now for them, Zach, is they typically have not been the greatest team at home. Like you think, oh, they split on the road. You go home, Target Center is going to be on fire. And believe me, Target Center is going to be ridiculous on Friday night.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
Like it's going to be on, you know, people thought crypto was loud. Nah. Wait until you get there for this, for the Lakers. It's going to be insane. But they were last year after the Phoenix series, they were one in five at home in the playoffs. They have had some of their ugliest performances at home this season, losing to the wizards, losing to a few other teams at home. So yeah,
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
they have to figure out something to get playing better there. But if they do, it's right there for them. I, they're deeper than the Lakers. They have, they have the ability to win this series and not only this series, but next series as well. So all of it is right there for them, but they have to get out of their own way to do that. And, and that's going to be the key composure and,
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
execution, organization. If they do that, they have the pieces to make this big run. But we do, we kind of have to see it happen first before you really believe that, yeah, this is actually happening.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
Lions Pub. The Lions Pub. Anytime, man. I'm just happy you're back. The league is better with you back here, Zach. And I'll buy next time we go to the Lions Pub. So come on in.
The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
Welcome to the Zach Lowe Show. It's Thursday morning. Three more playoff games in the books. I was up till 1, 1.30 watching film. I'm on no sleep. Let's go, Kurt Goldsberry.