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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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.

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

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

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

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… 🫣

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Most consistent I think with a bullet

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Justesbaraheni @justesbaraheni.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

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

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I appreciate your commitment to trying to emphasize the nuance… I keep trying to say if he was his usual happy go lucky “everything is fine” we’d have a bigger problem on our hands. Everything is not fine but that’s a long way from “this is all broken and we can’t fix it”

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Couldn’t agree more. Blanch fresh green beans not canned. But definitely use the canned soup. Thin it a little bit with some heavy cream and garlic and a lot of red chili flake and then use 14 boxes of Frenchs fried onions and you’re all set.

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

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.

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

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

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This would never happen but what if the luxury tax got spread amongst smaller market teams contingent upon them using it for payroll somehow… give big market teams the opportunity to spend to retain or recruit while also adding some salary to lower earning teams…

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

A salary cap would make it better, I think it’s time.

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Going back to 2015, when we saw the Royals beat the Mets, (13th ranked payroll to 18th) there are often as many small market teams going deep as big. notably coming to mind, the diamondbacks making it all the way before losing last year. Always fun when the payroll giants get taken down in October.

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

While I might agree with the premise that salary cap might increase peril, I disagree with the idea that spending the most money has consistently yielded winning teams, in fact we have a lot of evidence that these teams that buy their teams often fall short, many times not even making the playoffs.

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

He still deserves all the hate for the way he handled it though. But the premise that he was also stupid to think he should’ve gotten the ball is just wrong imo.

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Hahaha 😂 I appreciate the engagement back and forth. Stand by my opinion though. The clunky hands are UGLY when they show up, we can agree on that.

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

AND i think it’s a stretch to say “Julius Randle was being smart thinking Rudy wouldn’t catch that entry pass.” Nah he got an iso called for him and wanted to make a play and so he didn’t make the correct read. Selfish by both players. Shit that losing teams do.

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Again, I just think that’s more of a reputation thing than an actual playing the numbers and percentages truth. We remember him dropping easy passes. Percentage-wise that was the high efficiency smart play to make, he’s going to most often just get wrapped up and get 2 free throws.

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

That being said, the 3 seconds the foul, the pouting, all just garbage from a guy we need to lead. After that moment it was clearly a loss even with 5 minutes left

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

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

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

You’re so tight. Why are you the only person who consistently talks about this shit without being scared. 🫡

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

It reads just like one of his weird quite whispery monologues in criminal intent, where the punchline is that he’s actually accusing the pig. And the pig actually committed all the murders we’ve been trying to solve for 44 minutes.

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

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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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

What is writing if you’re not writing about “politics”? “Politics” is intersectional to everything affecting the human condition. Apolitical writing is like soulless art without inspiration, what would be the purpose?

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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.

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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.

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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.

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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.

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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.

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

How many people did he just bounce off of smh

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

You ever watch the wolves on DVR? Helps keep the rhythm of the game. If you start the wolves at 3:15-3:30 right when the vikes finish you can fast forward through commercials and catch up with live by the 4th quarters 😏 pro tip

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

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.

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

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

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Ha, literally the same 4 words I replied.

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Gotta be naw right? with how consistent and dialed in he’s looked on both ends all year? No wrong answer, we got 15 starters.

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

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

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

What’s it called. A sky thought?

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

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

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

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. 💣🧨💣

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I know, hopefully they're still just working out the kinks.

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

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

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Michael Athorn @michaelathorn.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

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.

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