This is one of the best defenses ever.
The Minnesota Timberwolves have assembled one of the greatest defenses in NBA history, thanks to the extraordinary efforts of Rudy Gobert, Anthony Edwards, Jaden McDaniels, Nickeil-Alexander Walker, Karl-Anthony Towns, Naz Reid and more. Let’s dive into how they’ve built such a special defense and specifically, how they’ve shut down Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray and the Denver Nuggets.
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If i were to counter this i would havr jokic set a phantom pick at the 3 line and then jamal pass it to him for those high efficiency floaters
With great perimeter defense with the Wolves' 3 headed Cerberus: Edwards, Mcdaniels and Alexander-Walker, Denver had to solely rely on Jokic to become their main scorer. That meant he had to hustle himself on offense, then sprint himself back to defense. Wouldn't be a problem but Denver doesn't have a bench or a man to help him out, so he got exhausted by trying to work a 7-footer and 2 brickhouse forwards, gangly guards and an offensive, mid-range assassin who splits defenses like Kobe in his prime. Tough break for Denver.
Smothering Defense
The “Twin Towers” approach to stopping Jokic and the Nuggets didn’t come out of the blue with the Wolves. When was the last time Denver was beaten in the playoffs with Jamal Murray—and thus the Murray/Joker two-man game—active? 2020 Western Conference Finals to the Bubble Lakers. Who did that team have? DWIGHT HOWARD, who was still huge and competent enough as a Jokic shock-absorber to let Anthony Davis play PF roamer a la Gobert. Of the many, many acts of LA self-sabotage to squander its title window—dumping KCP and Caruso and Kuzma for Westbrook; then choosing DLo over Mike Conley in the tortuously long-awaited Westbrook divorce—an underrated one was underestimating Denver and thus never realizing the importance of low-usage, high-impact lineups featuring another legit big man to play next to AD. Christian Wood and Rudy Hachimura ain’t cutting it.
Well said, damn good video.
Let's hope Timberwolves is bringing back the old school 90's ball games. 🙂 I cannot describe how much I hate a big man shooting threes. I don't have issues with Jokic. He seems a genuinely good guy, but I just don't like his playing style. Bring back the defense and mid-range jumper.
A very high IQ basketball breakdown video. You earned another subscriber. 👍
I don’t think it can quite be equal, but try to convince me defense of this caliber isn’t just as fun to watch as offense of the same caliber.
You're witnessing the beginning of a new Dynasty. Wolves are the 2024 champs.
This Wolves team could very well beat the Durant Ws champions. For sure they can beat the bubble Lakers fake championship and the 2022 and 2015 Ws champs.
Twolves winning it all baby 💙🤍🔥🏆 no one can stop us
0:01 This is what keeps Devin Booker up at night.
Jamal Murray is making a push for biggest whiny B in the league. Be careful Devin Booker you have some competition now.
This T Wolves would lock up 2018 Warriors with KD, Curry, Klay.
No way Warriors gonna survive this suffocating defense
Like watching the Harlem Globetrotters
I place this D as better than the '04 Pistons because they're doing it during an era with tons of 3s and scoring, a spaced out floor, etc. It's way harder to shut down teams like this now than it was back then when the scoring totals were way lower on average.
Bro how did I not know slow-mo has a 7”3 wing span that is crazy💀
McDaniels navigating that double screen was actually fucking insane. Dude is the best we've seen in a long time.
that defense by the Wolves was Monster. you cannot even imagine it when you did not see the full game, I did see the full game. The Nuggets got locked down.
We might be seeing something great with this twolves team
Now you guys still believe that Howard on is prime would bullied joker all day look how naz locked him
gobert and kat are the most disrespected players in the league. while the same clowns glorifying anthony davis defence and lebron 1 chase down block every 18 months as “he is a great defender when he locks in” 😂😂😂. or draymond is a great defender can defend all 5, no he doesnt. he is willing to switch to everyone but he doesnt defend all of them equally well in fact he always got rinsed in certain situations.
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Minnesota plays team basketball like no other NBA team this year. Everyone knows his role and plays it very well. It’s going to be hard to stop them from winning a championship tis year.
Suffocating defense
This video is so much better than having yo hear these guys take a shot at America Ferrera unnecessarily
Kobe would be proud
7:07 Man it looks like a poor fly being surrounded by two huntsman spiders, the length and speed of the Wolves are terrifying.
This is how the game of basketball is supposed to be played. If you play the game correctly with intensity, you may end up winning a championship.
He doesn’t ask for the like, so i give him the like 👍👍