Leigh Ellis

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105 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard May 2025 last heard 16 Jan

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No Dunks · Thunder Big 3 Take Game 4, Quiet Ant Night & John Haliburton Is Free! · 27 May 2025 podcast

Yeah, I thought Cason Wallace was important in this game. When there's two broken plays and it's just a scenario where Cason Wallace gets the ball, I mean, he has to be the break in Cason of emergency. He has to be, and he did. That's what exactly he was multiple times and offensive boards. He was just that perfect throw that guy out there. He can be the fifth guy on a championship team.

He just was that exactly in this case. Well, on the other side, yeah, we can go through all the things. I thought Chris Finch putting Dante DiVincenzo on Shea in that first half was a mistake. Shea loves that matchup, and he went away from it in the second half, and it was just Nikhil Alexander-Walker, who was the best defender on Shea, even though there's not really an answer for Shea.

Nikhil Alexander-Walker... He will be mentioned again and again and again that he is his cousin. He does know him.

Yeah, everybody complaining. But listen, Nikhil Alexander-Walker does his game of his career in the postseason. That was awesome to be able to do that. He was really good. I thought DiVincenzo was, even though he hit those threes, He was sloppy. And so they're looking for another point guard.

That's what this Minnesota Timberwolves will be looking at in a couple months when we're looking at who they are and what they are. They got to the conference finals last year. They need somebody to replace Mike Conley, in all honesty. They needed a ball handler to be able to do something to get into the lane. And Jane McDaniels was chipping in. Kiel Alexander was their backup point guard.

And I guess that's what the Rob Dillingham trade-up for him in the draft to get him was for. It was. That was what they were hoping.

Yeah, well, it was the extra possessions, really, that got them in that big hole. These offensive boards. Even after misses. Even after they were able to play good possessions. You'd look at Rudy Gobert's numbers. He only had two defensive rebounds. Is that Rudy's fault? Nah, it's not really Rudy's fault. He had to go out onto the perimeter to guard guys. But...

There was a hunger level that was needed. And I think sometimes it just comes from your best star being that guy who forces things a little bit. He needed to go and say, hey, referees, call something. I'm bumping into these guys. Because those guys were swarming on him, there's no doubt. But he just was a little reluctant. And yeah, it...

It carried over onto the defensive end, mainly with offensive glass. You just can't give extra shots. I mean, that's what that first half was. They got into this hole. And, yeah, you got miraculous performances from three guys to get 66 combined from Jane McDaniels, Dante DiVincenzo, and Na. That's a lot of freaking points. They needed to force a little bit more from their lead guys.

Their bench hit 12 threes.

Dagnott made the calculation. Let's face guard them, and that would allow the corner threes to be totally open because you face guard them, you can pick them towards the middle, and then those guys in the corners were wide open. And they... Obviously came through, but they just got in such a deficit. This Minnesota team loves to get down.

That's what they did throughout the regular season, and that's when they fight back. And that's the characteristic of some people out there. It's my character trait. I love getting pushed to the wall. That's when I act. That's when I react. Maybe Minnesota wins game five. I wouldn't be surprised if they won game five, but to win three in a row, come on.

That's way too hard against this team that's found their way.

It's Wednesday.

That's probably... I don't know. I just will never count out this whole scene. I'm counting them out from winning the series. It's too hard. It's too hard to overcome. You had it here. You had it. You can lose both games in OKC, but you had to come through in game four. And the guys did. The role players play better at home. God, they did.

They were so good, but their top two guys were not quite there.

Yeah, it's going deep in the textbook.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. I will say, Doris, we skipped over game three.

in terms of analyzing it just because it was on saturday night but she was bringing it in that game too i did think there was an offensive rebound where rudy grabbed the ball and she said rudy doesn't have good hands like to come out and say that she doesn't usually go that way she's usually extremely positive so she literally said rudy doesn't have good hands that was kind of surprising anyway uh yeah the the whole french german thing that was weird just weird

Yeah. Well, one thing I was impressed by and why you got to watch the in-game arena stuff. I thought their intro video was awesome. I thought the Wolves intro video, the cut, the edit, the pace of it. It's good color. They put on it. It's Kendrick Lamar. So the music is just good. That adds to it.

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