Don’t Compare Rudy Gobert’s Timberwolves To The Utah Jazz …

Don’t Compare Rudy Gobert’s Timberwolves To The Utah Jazz …

Welcome to another hows and grows breakdown today we’re talking about Minnesota’s best in the league defense again but more importantly we’re talking about how their roster construction makes Rudy goar’s impact something totally different to what he had in Utah and ultimately what made him exposable in Utah now the Jazz were obviously a

Fantastic team when goar was paired up with Donovan Mitchell but we saw how their lack of perimeter defense ERS left go unprotected on so many occasions the most famous being the Clippers series when his reputation as an exposable Defender was cemented that’s why it was so intriguing to watch The Wolves

Suffocate this new and improved version of the Clippers with go at the middle of it all go is clearly going to do his thing every night defensively but without his teammates providing him help he’s not going to be able to do everything that’s where this wolves team

From the Jazz they have Elite Defenders scattered through their roster and they enhance goar’s strengths and limit his weaknesses we saw it all in this game against a really good Clippers team but I think the second half was the best defense we’ve seen all season so we see

Here to begin with if McDaniels doesn’t cut off this original cut from Paul George go is stuck here in drop having to get out and contest a potential three so that’s the first Danger shut down so the Clippers are going to cycle through their offense and they obviously have a

Ton of threats to go to it gets back to harden and now it’s go getting up here and making his rotation to shut down a drive so it swings to Kawaii and Edwards is here closing out to stop that shot and staying with him to stop him from

Getting downhill and forcing goar to deal with that Superstar at The Rim go is going to do a ton every night just like he did in Utah but having McDaniel and Edwards prevent some of those actions by doing their own work is a godsend and something he hasn’t really

Had before again Edwards is going to stick with PG on this curling Ivers and cut through here to stop the first option on the play but when George goes into the post and then pops off this down screen Edwards is going to do enough to allow go bear a simple

Rotation here while Edwards helps him again by veering back into the body of T and getting a defensive rebound it’s a symbiotic relationship the Wolves help prevent do from being overworked and Dober helps the defense by being the League’s best rim protector so Conley gets screened here and McDaniels is so

Alert on this quick show out to allow Conley to recover if he isn’t then Harden has this Lane into Rudy waiting down here and that’s tough to stop so McDaniels gets himself back to Kawai before he can gain an advantage he and Anthony Edwards contain the Kawaii PG Corner action and stop

Anything perilous from happening there eventually it’s pick and roll Edwards digs in here to tag the roll man but he switched on to get out to PG up the top here as well because if he blows by the defense go is in trouble trying to get

Down here to stop that drive so ant stays in front forces George to kick it out and towns is doing the helping on the perimeter here to get a hand up in Harden’s face and help Force the miss this is high high level defense and the entire team is there helping insulate go

And when you get stops like that it helps Kickstart offense and all of a sudden Minnesota is turning that defensive Brilliance into run out points at the other end again McDaniels is out on the perimeter in a place where nobody wants to be with kawhai Leonard but the

Way he hassles him it extends The Possession allows towns to come up here and trap him and now it’s Go’s turn to come up and force Westbrook to pass out of fear and then get back and force T into a tough follow away look and for good measure he blocks Westbrook’s shot

At The Rim after the offensive rebound sometimes it’s just as simple as getting through screens and forcing scorers away from the paint to help go bear Kyle Anderson gets through this screen if he doesn’t George is curling around it and he’s AF Freight train rumbling at a stationary go bear in the

Paint instead it’s a bricked jumper because Anderson stays on his hip throughout the entire possession and when Minnesota do make a mistake teams need to capitalize on it an calls this switch here and they blow it that’s the kind of thing that leaves goar exposed trying to get back here and cover Harden

On that back cut but Ali missed that opportunity so now it’s Edwards locking up Leonard that means go can come here here and help with the double team McDaniel stops him from being punished for that double team by digging in here and then the Wolves complete the

Possession with a hard and fast close out Anderson comes up here to harden and then McDaniels is sprinting back out to the corner to get a really strong contest up on PG’s three-point attempt go might be the League’s best defender but defense only works if you have Five

Guys on a string like this everybody is helping each other and even a team with the Firepower that the Clippers have are going to have to make tough shots if that’s the case and this is another perfect example of that Anthony Edwards is the first helper stopping the pal

Drive here then McDaniels is here Fanning out to help the corner when Kawai gets past that close out go is helping on the drive he has to pass it out so Kyle Anderson has to come up here and stunt between two players at the top there’s no shot there so go bear digs

Back down into the middle to stop Harden’s Drive they force the pass again and McDaniels is back out here on kaai there’s still no shot available so goar steps up again to take Leonard on the drive and eventually finish off a ridiculous possession with a ridiculous Block it’s helpers helping helpers

Helping helpers that’s why the Timberwolves are the best defense in the league and that’s why they can’t be compared to the defenses of go Utah Jazz days and even when go is out where he doesn’t want to be on a perimeter Island it’s a different team around him Harden

Has him in a pickle here but Anderson steps over in gap help to stop this drive that forces the offense away from that go bear mismatch and he has never ever had someone who can make 20 foot Closeouts the way Jaden McDaniels can with his length and his foot speed in

The past that’s a wide open look but Daniels makes it a contested three and it ends up in a miss and look anything can happen between now and the end of the season and anything can happen in the playoffs as well but it’s unfair to paint Rudy Gober with the same brush

That he’s been painted with for all these years in Utah because he simply isn’t playing with the same level of defensive Talent this version of the Timberwolves isn’t just relying on him to clean up mistakes all night long their for misses themselves and covering for go when he happens to make a mistake

Or be pulled out of position by the offense that’s the difference and that’s why I think the wolves have a chance to break some playoff curses if they are able to stay healthy thanks again for watching another how and grows breakdown Please Subscribe for more Timberwolves content

This is a whole new ball game with a whole new set of defenders.