Wolves Vs OKC

[Q-is-here]

Wild stat on Dane Moore Podcast today

The nuggets in game 4-5-6-7

Were 6-46 from the corner three.

Holy crap, if Denver had just made a third of those corners, they win games 4 and 5 and we're getting ready to play them in the finals. OkC chose to double Jokic and leave those shots open, and Westbrook, Porter Jr., the bench for the most part, and even Braun complied. If Ju gets the ball in the paint and they double him, he'll find the open man...and we're not going to miss 40 out of 46 shots.

Yeah, I don't see Julius getting doubled as much or it may be very quick swipe-downs, but not hard doubles where they can't recover to shooters. OKC is very good at scrambling and closing out, so I just don't see a lot of wide open 3's being generated. It may have been more of a strategy against Denver to give some of those up in order to slow down Jokic (and it worked).

[60WinTim]

So here is an interesting take: NAZ has a LOT of money riding on this series. He needs a good series to have a chance at a decent contract extension. Otherwise, I would not be surprised if TC chooses to move on from NAZ.

Here is an interesting financial observation: if Randle is signed starting at his player option, 31 mil, and they let NAZ walk, they could draft a couple of bigs and sign a FA (Lopez?) and actually get under the luxury tax, let alone both aprons. At some point, the Wolves need to get under the luxury tax to avoid being a tax repeater. This offseason might be that time.

Of course, this all assumes Randle continues justifying his extension...

[Wolvesfan21]

The series line with my book is OKC -330, Wolves +265

They aren't giving us much of a chance

Zero respect for the Wolves. OKC is a massive favorite to win it all. Wolves are 3rd in the odds.