Rudy Gobert had 27 points and 24 rebounds to lift the Minnesota Timberwolves to a series clinching win over the Los Angeles Lakers. Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni are joined by Anthony Slater to breakdown the Houston Rockets big win and how the Warriors bounce back in game 6. Then, Dave and Es discuss Gobert’s huge game, the Lakers biggest concerns going into the offseason, and who the Wolves should want to face next.Host: Dave DuFourWith: Es Baraheni & Anthony SlaterExecutive Producer: Andrew SchlechtAudio Producer: Grayson Moody Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How did the Warriors perform in Game 5?
Yeah. You know, they played them well this year, they're three in one, they had the tiebreaker. Um, and the games were like the bad version of the warriors played them well and this year. Like Dennis Schroeder went in there and his second game was like the Dennis Schroeder warriors. What a stint and beat him. I remember there was another game in Minnesota.
Again, while the warriors are in like this nosedive down the standings, they went into Minnesota, had no dream on no coming and no Kyle Anderson who was on the team at the time. So they had no front court. Quentin post was in the G league at the time. And with that, they started G Santos at power forward, I believe. And beat the Wolves who had Randall and Gobert and Nasri.
Warriors went out to a 21-1 lead and hung on. It's a lot of... They seem to, in the matchups I've seen this year, do all their off-ball stuff. And Minnesota gets scattered. It's worked. They defend well. They...
exploited go bear but you know again that's regular season basketball is different times tough to compare yeah yeah i mean i mean i don't know if you're aware rudy gobert had was like 27 points and 24 rebounds i mean he absolutely looked like prime shack against the lakers so yeah in a series huh
I mean, that is something like, look, I don't want to get ahead, but man, that I've got that pinned on the board because that's going to be something. I mean, the defensive battle, honestly, between those two guys, like two of the guys that are the best of this era. I really do want to look forward to that outside of, you know, what is Draymond going to potentially do to Rudy?
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of, like, denser history between the two teams, too, including, you know, obviously you go back to Steph, right? Minnesota passing on Steph twice. Jimmy Butler's Minnesota tenure. You have the Andrew Wiggins trade, which came with the draft pick that became Kaminga.
That, you know, also, if you, you know, kind of keep spinning it forward, it gets them Jimmy Butler because of Andrew Wiggins' contract, which was D'Angelo Russell's contract.
And they didn't really like Anthony Edwards.
That was what I was going to get to where they could have. They were at two at Wiseman and they could have moved up to one with the next year. Minnesota lottery pick. They had added that into the deal, which would become Kaminga. but instead they didn't go up to one. Now people will say, you didn't go up to one and get Anthony Edwards.
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