Jon Krawczynski

And so the right play probably was to send it over to Jaden, who had a little bit cleaner look.

But the Suns, man, I give them credit.

Jordan Ott has them playing their tails off defensively.

hustling, you know, just they are a team that is playing better than the sum of their parts.

And the Wolves are a team that has, you know, not played up to the sum of its parts yet.

And so you just saw a team that was gritty and played the right way and concentrated on the right things and made it hard on Anthony Edwards at the end of the game because everyone knew with 40 points that he was going to be the one that tried to win that game.

You know, I one thing that surprised me this season so far about the West is I thought it was going to be.

one through 11, 12, like just a slobber knocker that way.

And we have seen some of those teams fall off in the bottom part of the conference.

And so I don't think it's as deep quite as I thought it was going to be.

So I think, you know, right in that six range is probably

deserved for the wolves and at the start of this season if i would have said the sixth seed i would have said man that's really good because this this conference is a nightmare but i think it's actually more of a left-handed compliment than it is anything else right now because they are a team that does have a lot of individual talent

You're seeing a breakout season from Jaden McDaniels.

Anthony Edwards has really played well for the most part, especially offensively.

And so they've gotten some really good things.

Julius Randle was great at the start of the year.

He's kind of tailed off just a little bit.

But...

collectively yet they have not coalesced and they have not come together and we thought that with all of the continuity that they had they didn't make any major moves over the summer that that they were going to get off to a faster start because everyone was together and everyone knew each other so well but it just has not come around that way and it feels more like they've underachieved right now at 15 and 9 and yet

They're still 15 and nine and still in the sixth seed and, you know, a couple of games back from the four seed.