The Minnesota Timberwolves at the top of the west with the NBA’s highest rated defense. This detailed film breakdown explores why Minnesota’s defense is better in 2024, what’s changed with Karl-Anthony Towns and Anthony Edwards, their effective zone, big wings, and Rudy Gobert’s underrated mobility as a candidate for Defensive Player of the Year.
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The city of Minnesota lmao
Shoutout to all the frauds who thought Jokic was better than Embiid this season lol
Ben delete this my nuggets don’t need this anti propaganda
my joel baby still dropped 51
An early Christmas gift that I never knew I wanted 🎁
Joel embiid doesn’t mind 🤷🏼♂️
Im just not a believer of Gobert in the playoffs when he needs to play away from the rim
Didn’t embiid expose their offense, they have horrible spacing combined with little plays
Gobert gobblers taking a victory lap after a good twenty game stretch in the regular season 😂. They traded five first round picks for this dude, it's still probably the worst trade of all time. Let's see if they can make a conference finals first before we start reevaluating this lol
Emiid just showed you what gobert will look like in the playoffs… this team will not succeed… he been in the league long enough to know what he is… a great regular season paint defender… literally just show how he is isolated in the playoffs😂
I will not stand for this spread of rudy gobert misinformation… he is hot ass.. will never touch a finals with him on the roster😂
How do your “best” defender become a liability in the playoffs 🤣
Always have been a defender of GOBERTs skills even if the nba slanders him in utah
I didn't like it when it first happened either but Rudy is sweet
Gobert should come off the bench and start naz and kat
This improvement of KAT's commitment on D and defensive reads is crazy
One the Big 3 Celtics really screwed the league up with is big trades and super teams need to work immediately to be considered successful. Even LeBrons Heatles took a season to figure it out.
People in the comments still talking crazy like it's last season. Minnesota got a good chance to go the finals this year.
this the video we been waiting for 😮💨