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00:00Next up here on the docket, that's the Suns and the Timberwolves, and I said from the
00:06get-go, I liked it.
00:08My best bet on our pick six from Friday was the Minnesota Timberwolves at minus two in
00:12game number one against the Phoenix Suns.
00:14That final score, 120, Minnesota, Phoenix, 95.
00:18They pounded the Phoenix Suns because for me, Davis, I just don't know if I can trust
00:23the Phoenix Suns, and after getting waxed by 25 points, I still don't know if I can
00:28trust the Phoenix Suns.
00:3031 points out of Kevin Durant, 18 points out of Devin Booker.
00:33Bradley Beal goes for 15, but you had a team coming off the bench with the Timberwolves
00:38that was getting a lot of points to help out their starters when maybe you weren't getting
00:42so much here from the Phoenix Suns' B players, which included Grayson Allen.
00:4725 minutes, 0 of 3 from the field, which is 0 of 3 from three-point range, only four free
00:52throws made.
00:53You just got four years, $70 million, Grayson.
00:56You got to step up to the plate, but what we saw yesterday was the Minnesota Timberwolves
01:00being the better basketball team here.
01:03The Timberwolves are the much better team.
01:05I don't even know if, I don't really think anyone would argue that at this point.
01:09The thing that you would argue is that Durant is the best player in the series, but if you're,
01:14you know, if the guys contributing are Grayson Allen and Royce O'Neal and Drew Eubanks and
01:19Eric Gordon, you know, what do you really have there?
01:22And it is getting late early for the Phoenix Suns.
01:26They do not have the draft assets to add here due to the new changes to the NBA Collective
01:30Bargaining Agreement.
01:31Their tools to be able to improve the roster are very thin.
01:36You know, again, we talked about it a little bit last week, but, you know, the new cap
01:39rules mean you're not adding guys' salaries in together when you're spending as much as
01:43the Phoenix Suns.
01:44You got a 35-year-old Kevin Durant.
01:46You've got a, you know, really the only guy who's in the prime of their career is Devin
01:49Booker.
01:50He was not particularly strong here.
01:52I thought the best moment of the first round was Anthony Edwards pounding his chest, looking
01:58in Kevin Durant's face, being like, bro, I am him, pretty, pretty him-like performance
02:04from Anthony Edwards here, who after the game was like, you know, Kevin Durant, that's my
02:07favorite player.
02:08I grew up watching him, which is always so funny when you've got these, you know, 23-year-old
02:12guys in the NBA who literally in middle school was watching Kevin Durant on the Oklahoma
02:17City Thunder.
02:18Like, it's just so funny how those things, I think people kind of forget that Kevin
02:22Durant is as old as he is because he doesn't, it's actually LeBron's presence that makes
02:27Kevin Durant feel young because Kevin Durant was like the next big thing when LeBron was
02:32already established, which is just, I mean, you know, it is just so funny.
02:35But the Timberwolves are a great team and looking forward, you know, forecasting what's
02:42going to happen for the rest of the way.
02:44They are the one team that you would say has a chance, I think, of limiting Nikola Jokic.
02:50Maybe not the only team that has a chance of beating the Nuggets because I do think
02:53the Thunder, I mean, they were very good against the Nuggets in the regular season.
02:57But the fact that they can play, they figured it out on offense playing Rudy Gobert and
03:02Karl-Anthony Towns together, so you've got two seven-footers in there.
03:05And not that Towns is this great defensive player because he's not, but he's just big.
03:10Just a guy who can like physically take up the space that Jokic likes to occupy.
03:15I think it is pretty interesting to imagine what that eventual series might be like.