The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Jace Frederick from the Pioneer Press to discuss what needs to change in Game 2 for the Wolves. Dane and Jace focus on specific tweaks to the offense and rotation. Topics today include... — The Wolves needing to come in more prepared — Finding ways to weaponize Rudy Gobert, on both sides of the ball — Making more shots so as to be caught in transition defense les...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Chris Hine from the Star Tribune to discuss what happened in the Wolves Game 1 loss in Denver. This episode is split into three parts: offensive subplots from Game 1; the defensive subplots; and then Tim Connelly’s comments to media pregame. Specific topics today include... — As ineffective as the Wolves offense has been all season — How the double big look slowe...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to preview the Wolves and Nuggets first round matchup. Naturally, this episode also includes plenty of discussion of the Wolves play-in win over the Thunder as well. As we sprint into the postseason, Dane and Britt try and cover all the bases. Sign up today for a 14-day free trial of Aura’s digital security at Aura.com/Dane Learn more a...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige from SKORNorth to discuss the Wolves officially making the playoffs. Dane and Kyle get into what went into the Wolves 25-point win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Friday night before looking ahead to the matchup against Denver — which somehow begins in like 36 hours. Topics today include... — The Wolves actually tapping into their big identity to ta...

On today’s show, Dane previews the matchup against the Oklahoma City Thunder by first giving updates from Thursday’s practice on the health of Rudy Gobert and Anthony Edwards before bringing in Andrew Schlecht who covers the Thunder for The Athletic to get some of the Thunder perspective. Topics today include... — Rudy Gobert talks about his back injury and availability for Friday — The balance be...

On today’s show, Dane is joined in LA by Wolves beat writer Chris Hine from the Star Tribune to discuss the Wolves losing the play-in game to the Lakers on Tuesday night. Despite being short-handed, it felt, at least for three quarters, that the Wolves had enough to win. Dane and Chris breakdown how the Wolves built the lead and then ultimately let it slip away. Topics today include... — The offen...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost after the Wolves final game of the regular season. Obviously no shortage of items to get to from the beating the Wolves gave themselves in the first half and the beating they handed out to the Pelicans in the second half. Topics today include... — Is McDaniels a more consequential loss than Gobert? — With McDaniels’ season over, some di...

On today’s show, Dane gets into the Wolves’ “active hands” against the New Orleans Pelicans in Game 82 and tries to apply some context on what went down between Rudy Gobert and Kyle Anderson, and how they’re going to need to move forward through the altercation and without Jaden McDaniels. Because Chris Hine got stranded on the road after the Wolves’ win over the Spurs, Dane goes solo on this one....

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson and Kyle Theige live from Falling Knife Brewing Company to discuss where the Wolves sit 80 games into the season at 40-40. Dane, Kyle and Britt start by discussing Britt’s most recent column about the Wolves consistently being .500 this season, and whether or not that can change here in the final week of the season and into the play-in/playoffs. Then...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Wolves beat writer Jace Frederick from the Pioneer Press to discuss what went into the Wolves win in Brooklyn on Tuesday night. The episode starts by focusing on how the Wolves closed the game, with Rudy Gobert on the bench, and how it worked. From there, most of the focus was Karl-Anthony Towns and his bounce back game after only having eight points on three sho...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Chris Hine from the Star Tribune to discuss a loss so bad to the Portland Trailblazers that you can’t help but deeply question the trajectory of this team as currently constructed. With that, topics today include... — Were the 52 games the Wolves played without Karl-Anthony Towns at all relevant to solving the puzzle at hand? — Why this season has made conversati...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige from SKORNorth to discuss the Wolves’ bizarre loss against the Lakers on Friday night and the role the illness this team is dealing with is making it very difficult to understand what they are (or are not). Topics today include... — Was that the October Wolves or are they just sick? — Where we’ve most seen the impact of the flu going around the team —...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to discuss the Wolves loss in Phoenix on Wednesday night and the outrage surrounding NBA officiating that has taken over the NBA. After covering the loss and the postgame comments from Chris Finch and Rudy Gobert on the officiating, Dane and Britt dive into the Wolves’ overall play since the return of Karl-Anthony Towns. Topics today in...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Wolves beat writer Jace Frederick from the St. Paul Pioneer Press to discuss what the Wolves’ recipe is for winning basketball. As the roster has gotten back to full-strength, the identity is coming together, making it clearer what ingredients are required for winning. Topics discussed today include... — Driving down the frequency of mistakes on both sides of the...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige from  SKORNorth  to discuss the Wolves peaking at a perfect time to save their season. With consecutive wins over New York, Atlanta, Golden State and now Sacramento the Wolves appear to have an identity coming together that makes you believe they’re in the mix as any team of the Western Conference’s large middle class. Topics discussed by Dane and Kyl...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Wolves beat writer Chris Hine from The Star Tribune to discuss the Wolves’ biggest win of the season, a 3-point Sunday night win over the Golden State Warriors. The focus of today’s episode is on how the Wolves used a high-level defense performance to beat the Warriors, fueled offensively by Naz Reid, who led the Wolves in scoring for the second consecutive game....

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to recap a wild week in Wolves World. From the Anthony Edwards injury in Chicago to the return of Karl-Anthony Towns and the Wolves apparent commitment to thinking big. Topics for today’s show include... — How Finch is thinking “big” more than he ever has — The importance of Kyle Anderson and Mike Conley as safety blankets — How Naz Rei...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige from SKORNorth to discuss the return of Karl-Anthony Towns and how the Wolves went big to beat Atlanta on Wednesday night. The focus of today’s episode is on KAT, not only in how he looked individually but in the grand scheme of the Wolves’ new roster. Topics today include... — What stood out from KAT individually — How playing this personnel should c...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Wolves beat writer Jace Frederick from the Pioneer Press to discuss what we are looking for in Karl-Anthony Towns’s return to play on Wednesday night and going forward. Dane and Jace rattle off five things they’re specifically looking to track in KAT’s return to play. Topics today include... — First, will both KAT and Ant play on Wednesday? — What will transition...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige from SKORNorth to discuss one of the Wolves more impressive wins of the season, in New York on Monday night. After recapping what stood out in the Wolves Ant and KAT-less win, Dane and Kyle discuss the imminent return of Anthony Edwards and Karl-Anthony Towns (probably on Wednesday) and what that could mean for the Wolves’s positioning in the Western...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Chris Hine from the StarTribune to discuss Anthony Edwards’s injury and how the Wolves are going about replacing his production in the meantime. The Wolves have now lost their last three games and five of their six, so Dane and Chris also get into the impact this skid is having on momentum with just 10 games left in the season. Topics today include... — The Antho...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to discuss Britt’s most-recent column on the reffing disaster against Boston on Wednesday, the consistently-.500 Wolves and Rudy Gobert’s play of late. Discussion today starts with the Boston game but extends to really a big picture discussion of the Wolves 70 games into the season. Topics include... — How the refs lost control of the B...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Wolves beat writer Jace Frederick from the Pioneer Press to discuss Kyle Anderson and what went into the Wolves’ 21-point win in Atlanta on Monday night. Dane and Jace discuss Anderson’s second triple-double of the season and how Anderson has become an invaluable part of this Wolves team. Additional topics today include... — Does Kyle Anderson still close games o...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Wolves beat writer Chris Hine from the Star Tribune , who is in Atlanta for Wolves-Hawks on Monday. Dane and Chris get into the Wolves’ maddening relationship with being consistently inconsistent and how it feel like that lack of consistency needs to die to salvage the opportunity for this season to not feel like a let down. As always, the specter of the return o...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to discuss Karl-Anthony Towns returning to live action at Wolves practice on Thursday and how that might impact the rest of the season. As always, Dane and Britt bounce quite a bit. But today’s show’s primary topics include... — What Chris Finch said at practice on Thursday about what KAT is able to do at practice right now — Does it ma...