Julius Randle had 24 points and 11 to lead the Minnesota Timberwolves to a win over the Warriors. Dave DuFour, Zena Keita, and Marcus Thompson react to the Wolves win, the absence of Playoff Jimmy Butler, and Jonathan Kuminga’s opportunity.Host: Dave DuFourWith: Zena Keita & Marcus ThompsonExecutive Producer: Andrew SchlechtAudio Producer: Grayson Moody Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily. Coming up, Marcus Thompson's here with me and Zena. We're going to talk about the Warriors' loss, what Jimmy Butler needs to do to hopefully win Game 3, and Jonathan Kaminga's potential impact on the rest of the series. All right, well, we've got Marcus Thompson, Zena Kata here, the Warriors crew, we're going to call it.
Not much of a game for the Warriors. You know, no Steph Curry is kind of how we expected it to go. Timberwolves win 117-93. Marcus, did you learn anything from this game?
I learned you disrespected a run that cut it to seven. Like, come on. Yeah. What? You didn't see Jonathan Kamenga dunk on Rudy Gobert? I did see him dunk on Rudy Gobert. Nah. They were cooked. This offense is just really, really impotent. And... They have to find some way to get some buckets, right?
Oddly enough, it's probably going to be with two of their, you know, kind of, they're going to have to dust off a couple of guys that they kind of thought were, you know, out of the mix in Jonathan Kaminga and Trey Jackson-Davis. But it just shows just like how Steph is the solar system. Because with him not in there, like everything changes. Even the players that work, that look pretty good.
You're like, oh, no, he's a good player. Just simply not as good without Steph. So they've got to rethink this whole thing. This is Jimmy's team now. What does it take for Jimmy to be good? And that's probably going to be different players.
Yeah, I think that that was like the main focus I had tonight. And I mentioned this on my social media. And I know a lot of people had comments around this. And you asked this question to Jimmy in the postgame presser about the weight and the expectation around playoff Jimmy. But I think that everyone thinks of playoff Jimmy and they only think of points produced.
They think about the 50 point game. They think about the three triple doubles in his playoff career, the 20 double doubles. But.
What it seems that the Warriors need right now out of Jimmy isn't tons of point production as much as it is better decision making within the offensive flow of the half court, clock management, understanding communication about what he's about to do and how that might open up things for other teammates.
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