The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Wolves beat writer Jace Frederick from the Pioneer Press to discuss a Wolves offense that is desperately in need of the somewhat ambiguously absent Karl-Anthony Towns. Dane and Jace start the episode by talking about how the Wolves didn’t have the firepower to keep pace with Joel Embiid on Tuesday night before getting into KAT and his absence. Topics today includ...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Wolves beat writer, Chris Hine from the Star Tribune . Chris was on the road with the Wolves for the Wolves’ California road trip, so he shares some of the sights and sounds from the Wolves road trip. And then Dane and Chris get into Chris’ feature story on Jaylen Nowell and his “basketball whisperer,” Spencer Levy, who has been helping Nowell through a contract...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige from SKORNorth to discuss the Wolves beating the Kings on Saturday night to extend their recent winning streak to three games. Now eight games into the post-DLo era of the Wolves, Dane and Kyle review the trade and take a look at how the pre-trade Wolves compare to the post-trade Wolves. Topics today include... — Recapping the Wolves’ California road...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to focus on discussing the ascension of Jaden McDaniels this season. After focusing on McDaniels for the first half of the pod, Dane and Britt get into the Mike Conley and Rudy Gobert, and how Gobert punished the Clippers for going small. Then the episode is finished off with some discussion about the NBA standings at large — from the b...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Jace Frederick from the St. Paul Pioneer Press to discuss the Wolves bouncing back from a rough start out of the break with a win in Los Angeles over the Clippers. Topics today include... — How it’s feeling like success for this Wolves team starts with Anthony Edwards and Jaden McDaniels, at least in this KAT-less period — Finch opting to pair all of Rudy Gobert’...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to discuss a Wolves team that is in a bit of a free fall coming out of the All-Star break. Dane and Britt dive into the factors that have contributed to the recent demise. Some of those topics include... — How much of the blame this season falls on Chris Finch and how much is unfair to put on Finch? — The Wolves youth not being an excus...

On today's show, Dane is joined by Dan Bowling of the Genesis Company to discuss what Wolves fans should be expecting from new Wolves owner Marc Lore. Bowling had the chance to sit down with Lore prior to the episode's recording to better understand Lore's background in business, so as to have an idea of what Lore's vision for the organization might functionally look like. Lots of discussion on th...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige from SKORNorth to discuss where the Wolves sit at the All-Star break, starting the episode by taking a look at the Wolves loss to the Wizards on Thursday night and then by reflecting on the first 61 games as a whole. Topics today include... — The Wolves letting go of the rope against the Wizards, leading to a disappointing loss entering the All-Star b...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Wolves beat writer Jace Frederick from the Pioneer Press to discuss how the Wolves might close games in a post-DLo world. Dane and Jace use the Dallas matchup on Monday, and Kyle Anderson’s play specifically, to get into what late-game offense and defense might look like once the Wolves are back at full strength. Topics today include... — What stood out from Mike...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to discuss the Wolves win in Dallas on Monday night. A win that hinted at both the additional ways the Wolves can maximize Rudy Gobert and the idea that sometimes not playing him can be okay too. An array of topics in today’s show... — Gobert shows, at least for a game, that he can contribute to the Wolves’ fly-around identity — How Dal...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Wolves beat writer Chris Hine from the Star Tribune , who has been on the road with the Wolves since the acquisition of Mike Conley, to discuss what Chris has gathered from his interactions with Conley thus far. Dane and Chris discuss, on and off the floor, what the roster shift from D’Angelo Russell to Conley might look like. Topics include... — Initial reaction...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to react to the Wolves’ activity at the trade deadline and to how the Western Conference power shifted at the deadline — for this season and beyond. Topics today include... — How the style of play might change in D’Angelo Russell’s absence, and who on the roster could benefit most from that change — If Patrick Beverley is bought out by...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige from SKORNorth to give initial reactions to the D’Angelo Russell for Mike Conley, Nickeil Alexander-Walker and three second-round picks trade that went down Wednesday evening. Plenty of discussion on the motivations for the move. And then the Wolves also played a game Wednesday night in Utah, so Dane and Kyle got into that as well. — Detailing what th...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Timberwolves beat writer, Jace Frederick of the Pioneer Press to discuss the Wolves’ debacle of a 34-point loss in Denver on Tuesday night. And then Dane and Jace take one more stab at the trade deadline, discussing what the team needs might be down the stretch run of the season and whether or not it is wise to invest resources to acquire that need. — What led to...

On today’s show, Dane takes a final look at the three Wolves players whose names have been most floating around the trade deadline rumor mill, in D’Angelo Russell, Naz Reid and Jaylen Nowell. Dane takes a look at what the future for those three players might look like from not only a trade standpoint but also from the standpoint of a potential contract extension. — Does keeping Nowell on the team...

On today’s show, Dane is joined in Denver by the DNVR Nuggets crew to discuss how the Wolves and Nuggets are matching up in this back-to-back and how they might matchup if they draw each other in the playoffs. But before Wolves-Nuggets talk, Dane starts solo, discussing the return of Jordan McLaughlin and how JMac being back in the rotation might change some things. Topics include... — How the Wol...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige from SKORNorth to discuss Anthony Edwards not being chosen as a Western Conference All-Star and to get into the Wolves’ win over the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday night. Much of the focus from the win against the Warriors is dedicated to Naz Reid, which naturally leads to a conversation about what his future with the Wolves might be as the trade...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Timberwolves beat writer Jace Frederick from the Pioneer Press to look at the Wolves through the lens of how they matchup against the other expected Western Conference playoff teams. Dane and Jace also get into the latest on Karl-Anthony Towns’s injury timetable and discuss the one fly in the ointment left in Anthony Edwards’s offensive game. Topics include... —...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to talk about how the Wolves’s defense was exposed by the Kings’s 5-out offense in overtime on Monday night, all while acknowledging that result came in the backdrop of a marvelous January. A marvelous January specifically fueled by the now-unambiguous leap of Anthony Edwards. Topics today range from... — Detailing how the Kings’s 5-out...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Timberwolves beat writer Chris Hine from the StarTribune to discuss the Wolves winning weekend over both Memphis and Sacramento. Dane and Chris get into some themes from the Wolves most-recent 3-game winning. Some of those topics include... — All-Star or not, Anthony Edwards’s game keeps elevating — Is the Wolves playing two bigs together more often recently some...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige from SKORNorth to take another look at Anthony Edwards’ complicated case to becoming an All Star. Then Dane and Kyle go through the rest of the current starting lineup, looking not only at the impact Gobert, Anderson, McDaniels and Russell had in the win against New Orleans but how those four players have been impacting winning of late. — Ant’s All St...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Timberwolves beat writer Jace Frederick of the Pioneer Press to take a look at how the Wolves’ (difficult) schedule the rest of the way could tie into the trade deadline. Dane and Jace also take a look at the upcoming schedule against teams who could very well be their first round playoff opponent, and discuss which team the Wolves might matchup best against. — V...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to take a bigger picture look at who the Wolves have been over the last few weeks. Now 28 games into KAT’s absence, the KAT-less identity has broadly been defined, so Dane and Britt try to take what they have (or have not) seen in that time and connect it to what that might look like when KAT returns. Topics include... — Might the Wolve...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Chris of the StarTribune to discuss not only Anthony Edwards 44-point performance on Saturday night but also his growing ability to set the tone as a leader. Dane and Chris describe the cascading impact, on both sides of the ball, of Ant playing more consistently here in his third season. Additional topics include... — Ant setting the tone as a leader — Edwards g...

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige to discuss the Wolves’ back-to-back against Denver and Toronto — specifically the difference in the Wolves’ play in the fourth quarter. Topics today include... — The energy and effort in the fourth against Toronto, after having landed in Minnesota at 4am that morning — Anthony Edwards being able to slow down Pascal Siakam and the value that provided i...