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Father. Husband. Friend. Work in public education and watch the Timberwolves, not always in that order and usually not at the same time. Opinions are my own, and not espoused in the classroom. Teach how to think, not what to think.
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I think this team really reaches new heights if Ant can make the growth to point guard like James harden. You put naw Jaden and naz with him and Rudy in the middle and you beat the snot out of people. He hasn’t shown he could do it in long stretches yet but that’s what I want to see.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Great wolves win. Convincing. Defense was first and offense was much better than against the clippers. Still easier to beat up on teams trending down like these lakers on a back to back. But the energy was great, vibes are strong. Can’t write it all off to circumstance you still gotta show up

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Effort was good last night and defense was fly around and great. Is it gonna bum people out though if I say we probably lose that game against half the teams in the league cause we didn’t score enough? Still liked the effort… 🫣

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Bruce Brown and Kelly Olynyk are dressed like an oil tycoon and his silicon valley angel investor

submitted 86 days ago • 12 comments

I get the wolves fans panic, they aren’t good yet this year. The locker room quotes aren’t really that special though. Teams that are supposed to be good and lose 4 in a row should sound pissed off. If they don’t, you got a bigger problem.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

It was all a long con to bring him home to purple

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

The goat is back; and this time I ain’t talking about Kevin Durant

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

That throw to swift was incredible. Maybe best play we’ll see all week

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

@lowlevellistening.bsky.social my boy

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

The loss was bad. I feel like maybe in the minority of people who think it was really dumb not to feed Rudy under the basket there. Everything Rudy did after that: inexcusable. But as much as we like to talk about Rudy’s bad hands, a deep seal under the basket like that is 2pt or FTs 85% of the time

submitted 92 days ago • 3 comments

Gotta be one of the dumber challenges I’ve seen. I get it’s Al horford and you want to show him respect but the replay video team should be ashamed telling mazzula to challenge that. Fouled him 3 times before the “clean” block

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A lot of people forgot about Randle’s buzzer beater to end the second quarter yesterday. In retrospect that was just a huge 3 points. End the half on a positive, down 10 instead of 13. Possibly set the stage for the late game heroics, everything could’ve been different without it.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Nice to see DVV go off for a flurry too. Man the first one he made took that huge bounce off the rim and still got the shooters roll. Anyone who’s played or watched a lot of ball knows a make like that can get a heat check guy off to the races, and he didn’t disappoint.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Julius not as good on ball defense as Ant, but defensive strengths and weaknesses are similar in my opinion. Both much better on ball and sometimes lose focus and lose their guy when off ball. I hope Randle can keep getting better, showing more effort as he gets more confident in his assignment.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t put a whole ton of stock in “figuring stuff out at practice” during the regular season cause it’s such a grind. But if ever that would be relevant a 3 day break might be the time.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

A couple wolves wins this weekend helps my psyche a lot… probably helps theirs too. Three days off is a lot, coming off losses sleep might be hard to come by.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Been purging the list of people I follow of anyone I don’t know who doesn’t also follow me. If we’re going to be stranger friends, we need to listen to each other.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

I think team identify for this wolves squad if they’re gonna be good this year has to be the beautiful game stuff on offense. The times this team has looked good are when they all move without the ball and there’s 5 passes before each shot. It’s when they seem the most alive

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

The more I get my sky thoughts out the better my sky feelings feel.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Well my deni avdija appreciation tweet certainly looking timely if nothing else tonight I can take that as a win. “Freeing him” was sending him to the bench apparently, Big Shot Billups a genius

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

I traded Kat for Julius Randle and some pieces in 2k the summer that the Gobert trade happened—suffice to say, I’m an expert on the move. Early returns were up and down in 2022, but we caught a rhythm. 💣🧨💣

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Really glad my first ever post on this platform was Bruce Brown in that cowboy hat… you only get one first 🔥🔥🔥

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

I want to know if we can save Deni Avdija somehow, because it turns out the Portland Trailblazers aren’t unlocking him like we all assumed they would.

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment