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We're on to just baseball, WNBA, that's all that's happening right now. The sports stop sports seem like they want them to this time of summer, but throughout the summer, Fandil's hooking up all customers with a boost or a bonus daily. That's right. There's something for everyone. Every day, all summer long, visit Fandil.com to get started. Happy Monday, everybody, and hopefully had a fantastic weekend. The Tim Roles are 2-0 in Las Vegas, Summer League, a couple of impressive wins, and it's weird. Usually, Summer League, well, we'll get into it. It certainly is disjointed at time because it is after all, Summer League, but a lot of positives for the Tim Roles, for the first two games. That's what we're going to do today. It's kind of unpack both together, not a typical post-game pod that we do during the season. We're not going to go blow by blow or do real studs and does necessarily at this point because I'm covering two games at once. I just want to give overall observations. I guess maybe we do, maybe I don't know that I'll use this stud in dead language, but I'll talk about specific skills in players that impress me the most, the best things about the first two games, and then a couple of things that like to be a little bit better over the final two to four games depending on when they end up playing in Vegas. We'll get to all that here today. A big thank you off the top for making Lockdown Wolves your first listen every day. Of course, this show is free and available everywhere. That includes YouTube as well as all of your favorite audio platforms wherever you like to listen to podcasts. You can find Lockdown Wolves. You can also watch on the Lockdown Sports Minnesota app on Roku and Amazon Fire TV and you can follow on X at Lockdown T Wolves and also at B Beacon with two B's, two E's, C-K-E-N. All right, so in Vegas, the Timberwolves played on Friday afternoon and they beat the New Orleans Pelicans by seven points, 81 to 74 on Sunday afternoon. They beat the Pacers by 11. Both these games were pretty back and forth. They were close. Each team led by right around 10 to 12 points and then the wolves ended up pulling away at the end in both cases and like I said a minute ago, what I'll do today is we'll just kind of look at the body of work, if you will, over the two games and what really stands out the most. And really it's pretty much going to end up, I'm pretty much going to end up going player by player because I think that's the best way to evaluate Summer League. Overall, I would say that the most impressive team thing, which again is a little bit weird because we're talking about this group of what, like 10 guys that are playing in each game. Yeah, 10 guys have seen the four in each game, the same 10 guys. They get a week of practice together and this is the only time these 10 guys are ever going to play together. And like in contrast to last season, we talked about this last week, last year the Timberwolves, there was hardly anybody playing in Summer League that was going to, there was nobody that was going to play rotation minutes for the wolves. We saw Leonard Miller last summer, we saw Josh Minot, we saw Wendell Moore Jr. last season, of course he was traded this off season. So, but it was nobody that was going to see rotation minutes for the Timberwolves. It was just a bunch of undrafted guys, a bunch of Glee guys. Now this year, the starting lineup in G league are five guys who are going to be on the Timberwolves roster this year. And at least two, if not three of them, are going to be rotation players. Obviously, Rob Dillingham, the wolves traded up and picked him at eight. He's going to be in the rotation. Both Terrence Shannon and Josh Minot have a shot. We talked about this last week, both have a shot at being called the 10th man in the rotation. I think they've both made a pretty solid case and by the way, so is Jalen Clark. We'll get to him too. So that's just the starting lineup, and then off the bench, you have Jalen Clark, who's a draft pick, who has a shot at a rotation spot, and you know, so you've got, oh, and also Jesse Edwards, who's a two-way player. So you have seven out of the 10 guys that are going to be on this team's training camp roster, barring something completely unexpected, which is a ton of actual roster players to be played in the summer league. Complete contrast to last year. Usually it's somewhere in between where you've got one or two draft picks, maybe a two-way guy. The wolves have seven guys, which speaks to a couple of things. Number one, the young talent that is so deep on this roster, and I wouldn't like, I wouldn't say it's overall roster depth for the 10 wolves, because for the most part, these guys don't have a ton of NBA experience. But it speaks to what they're trying to do from a player development standpoint, seven of the top eight rotation players from last year are back, and Joe Ingle slots into that eighth spot. And now you're talking about who are those final couple of rotation spots? Well, one's going to be Rob Dillingham. The other's likely going to be Terrence Shannon Jr., the other first try and pick from this year, Josh Beinat, or Jalen Clark's got a shot at it. But the point is they know, like the Kellogg's Interwalker almost is for sure gone next year. He's going to be a free agent. He's going to make more than $4 million next year, barring something completely unexpected. And down the road, the roster may need to be shuffled a little bit, whether it's somebody in the rotation may need to be traded because of salary issues. You've also only got a couple of years left of Nas Reed if you don't trade him. And maybe you try and re-sign him, but then you got to trade it like looking down the road. We don't have to deal with all this now, we're not going to. But I say all that because it's important that there's this much talent, young talent, that isn't necessarily going to have to more than two of these guys aren't going to have to play tomorrow for the Timberwolves. They're not going to have to play in October in a regular season game for the Timberwolves. But the Wolves need to bring them along for when it is time. Like Nas Reed's a great example. He started as a undrafted, summarily exciting, then a two-way, then converted into a partially guaranteed contract. And now he's got a big contract. Jordan McLaughlin, who's of course no longer with the organization, signed with the Kings last week. He's another example of somebody who got his start with the Wolves in the Summer League. So, these things can develop. And those guys were both undrafted. I mean, obviously, Terence Shannon and Rob Dillon have been first round picks, but Leonard Miller a second round pick, mine out a second round pick, Jalen Clark a second round pick. So all that to say, that's what's so impressive. Like you look at some of these other rosters, that Pelican's roster that the Wolves faced on Friday, there wasn't much on that roster in terms of, you know, besides Jordan Hawkins of like legit NBA talent or at least guys that when you look at the rotation during the game, like, oh, I know that guys, there wasn't a whole lot of that, wasn't a whole lot of it from the Pacers or either, frankly, on Sunday, I like Enrique Freeman a lot off the bench for them. And of course, Johnny Furphy, their first rounder who I thought the Wolves, there was a chance the Wolves would take Furphy actually know that he ended up being an early second rounder. I think he wasn't an early second rounder anyway. All that to say, the Timberwolves should do well in this tournament. And I said last week, I thought that there were a couple of guys in particular, Terence Shannon being one of them. And I think I said to Deere Heifie, the French, what is he, 20, 21 years old? French Algerian, you know, guard who has just caught from the French national team that I spent a lot of time last week talking about him. I thought those two were suited really well for Summer League and they are. But what we're already seen from this Timberwolves team is far more effort defensively than I remember ever seen from any Summer League team. And Chris Finch said in the press conference after, you know, when they were introducing the rookies about how Vegas Summer League is some of the toughest, what did he call it? Toughest competition level or not level, toughest competition or tightly contested, something like that. Because all these guys are playing for their NBA lives except for the Wolves have seven guys who are on the roster. Like they wouldn't necessarily like, obviously they want to put their best foot forward and like Jesse Edwards is trying to show that, hey, I could play in the league. You know, there's a reason you gave me a two way. And you know, Josh Mine is trying to win a rotation spot, but these guys have a spot on a team. You look at a lot of the guys on the Pelicans and the Pacers and even some of the guys on the Wolves at the end of their Summer League rotation who are trying to prove that they could stick in the league. So of course, it's going to be tough competition. Even if it's not the smoothest basketball in the half court is very sloppy and, you know, there's a lot of broken transition plays and a lot of fouls, a ton of fouls on Sunday's game or in Sunday's game, the, the, it's still going to be tightly contested basketball. And that's the point here. And, and the Tim rules are, are proving that defensively. I don't remember seeing defense, not just effort level, but also the technique and the actual execution of the defense like this is Summer League ever really. And the Wolves are doing that. They're putting their best foot forward defensively, looking every bit like the actual Tim rules from the, from the playoffs from, you know, Tim Legler sent it in the ESPN broadcast in Friday's game against the Pelicans. It looks like game two of the Denver Nuggets series with the Wolves absolutely shut down Denver and Denver took control of that series initially. Of course, Denver came all the way back, but that's what this looked like for stretches, both on, on in game one and game two of Summer League. Very impressive. All right. Let's get into some individual players. We'll of course talk about all those seven guys I just mentioned, that'll be where the focus is. We'll talk a little, especially about, uh, Nideer Heifie, I want to talk about him as well. So we'll get to all that here next. 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I think he'll be really good defensively, but if he doesn't look great on either end of the floor, we have to give him some grace. The dude hasn't played in 14 months. He tore his Achilles. He hasn't played pro basketball at all other than some G league practices at the end of the season this year. But he was just cleared for full contact over the weekend, like a week ago before, before practice for this and for stretches, certainly on Sunday in game two against, uh, against the Pacers, Jalen Clark looked like the best player on the floor legitimately and, and, and, and I know he didn't shoot the ball well in game one. Um, but, but like that's, that's to be expected. He wasn't an offensive player at UCLA either. The, the, the offense came along here in game two. I'm not expecting anything on a Jalen Clark offensively. Like if you go back and look at what I said about him after the draft, actually think I have it. Uh, see if I can find it real quick. Um, yeah. So what I said about Jalen Clark after the draft is he was, um, there were some similarities to a guard version of Josh Minot defensively as it knows for the ball outstanding off and on the ball. Uh, he was the best point of attack defender in the NCAA that year, um, and he's not an outstanding athlete. Not as athletic as Minot, uh, but he's Polish defensively mine and I know I'm comparing the two, but that's just because that's the type of player that it looks like Tim Collins looking for in the second round. But Jalen Clark as a, as a guard, as a wing, six, five with a six-time wingspan. He's a fantastic rebounder. His defensive IQ is awesome. His shot doesn't look great. He didn't have a good free throw percentage in college. There's some concern about what he could do offensively. Um, I wasn't even sure coming out of college that he was going to be as good. I, I was, I threw in my like post when they drafted him Scott in a port. I wasn't sure he'd be much better offensively than Josh and Kogi. Now we've seen him play for two, and again, just comparing it to another former Timberwolves player was an outstanding defender. By the way, got a nice contract for Phoenix after playing on a minimum. He just got a two year seven, 14 million, I think, dollar deal, uh, with the Phoenix. So Kogi did, but now we're only two, some really games in, but like if he plays like he did against the Pacers, I mean, like that's great. He had one three point attempt. It was a wide open catch and shoot corner three, knocked it down four or five shooting, got out in transition, uh, ended up scoring, uh, excuse me, nine points, nine points, six steals on Sunday for Jalen Clark, two rebounds and an assist and a block. In the first game of summer league, Jalen Clark was only one of nine shooting and had two points, but he had four rebounds and three steals missed his two three point attempts. So that's exactly, I was his first pro game ever, first game period in 14, 16 something like that months and he was one of nine. But then he turns around next game out four or five on Sunday defensively though nine steals across two games and only, you know, there were a couple that were kind of gambling, but I don't think he ever gambled and missed. I did. I never noticed him gambling and missing over the course of these two games. It was like a quarterback, perfectly baiting a quarterback in football, knowing exactly the cushion to give, shooting the gap, getting the steel, heading back the other way. And he on, on ball steel, too, we saw on ball steals, we saw block shots again, uh, a block on Monday. Um, I'm surprised he only had one actually. I think a couple of those were effectively blocks and steals and they went down to steals because he was just stripping the ball from guys. Uh, he had some weak side steals where he stuck up on guys. He stuck up on a big who is trying to do a dribble hand off at the, at the, uh, you know, uh, the top of the arc. He did it in every way. I was endlessly impressed with Jalen Clark and he looked every bit the part of an NBA rotation player. I think he's going to get some shots early on this season as a 10th 11th guy, you know, end of quarter situation. We need another point of attack defender out there, but if he plays like this, and I'm not at all suggesting he's going to average four and a half steals if given significant run at the NBA level, but if he plays like this at the NBA level, you cannot keep him off the floor legitimately on Sunday. He was the best player on the floor in the game against the pazers for, for long stretches in the game. Very, very impressive. And of any player, like if I were to look at this at the Wolf's Summer League roster and say what skills on this roster, uh, translate to the NBA, I would say Jalen Clark's defense is number one and then Dillingham's ability to get a shot off slash handles clearly next and then I'd probably say turn Shannon transition slash getting to the, getting to the free through line. Those things are all NBA skill NBA ready skills that are plug and play and again, I go back to my first point on today's show. It's very rare you have plug and play NBA skills in summer league because the whole point is you're developing guys that aren't ready to play at the NBA level and all three of those guys are going to see rotation level minutes this season. So Jalen Clark to me, most impressive, uh, before we get to the rookies, we'll do that next. I want to give some love to Dacia Nix. I think overall I was maybe most impressed and I have to, I have to, I don't take back anything I said about Dacia Nix last week, I before they resigned him to a two way I talked about like, I don't know why they would do it other than vibes. He's a high volume scorer, uh, but, but not super efficient. And then when they did resign him and I was previewing summer league last week, I said basically the same thing, but I gave some of his G league numbers last year. He shot under 40% in the G league last year from the field, not from three, uh, inconsistent defensively and I just other than vibes and the fact that he's a big guard. I wasn't really sure what the thought process was with bringing him back and he's been really good in summer league. Now he should be. He's bigger than most of the guys out there. He's got more experience. The dude played, I mean, he started some games for the Rockets for two straight years. He played a ton of pro basketball at the NBA level, uh, probably is, but as much actual NBA game experience as, as almost anybody, at least anybody playing significant minutes in this Vegas summer league. So he should be doing well, but I've been very impressed withation next at times. He's a little, uh, I don't want to say shot happy. He's, I mean, the deer, the deer hyphy is, is, uh, the most shot happy guy that people talk about him, but like, I don't know, I've been impressed with the next in the first game he had 14, five and four shot, four, seven, one or two outside the arc, five to six at the line. He's got more deals in game one against the pelicans, game two, he had 16 points, seven rebounds, six assists, four of nine shooting, seven of 12 at the line. He got the line 12 times one of three outside the arc. So it's a little bit more of the high, I mean, like game one, I guess four of seven is pretty efficient as it turns out, 14 points on seven shots is very efficient. Game two, 16 points at nine shots. That's fine, but he also missed five free throws. So it's, uh, exactly what you'd expect, maybe a little bit more efficient. And I think the size helps him quite a bit, but I think for the most part he's pushing the right buttons. He's pushing and pulling, uh, on the pace at the right time. And, uh, maybe a little bit on the aggressive side, but it's summer league and the wolves have been, you know, clearly harping on wanting to play faster. Chris Finch said it on the broadcast on, uh, I think it was Friday's game. He said we wanted to get faster. Our team speed is what we wanted to address. Obviously dealing with him does that Terrence Shannon does that. They should nix doesn't look like a track star out there, but he can push the pace and he's happy to play fast. Um, I don't know, like he doesn't, he's obviously not a rotation player. I've said this before he played one game in the rotation last year when Conley was out and, uh, I think what golf one was out there. They were very short handed. It was at Utah, I believe other than that, they never bothered to really activate him or when they did play him, even when they were short handed. But I mean, Hey, this version of day should nix and the way he plays is just kind of like I'm going to throw all my cares out the window and I'm just going to go out there and like there's value in that. It can be a little careless at times, but he's talented enough as a score and a big enough body that I like, I was really impressed. And so I got to give kudos to day should nix for being as good as he has been through the first two games and I don't want to take anything away from him. He's, and I want to qualify it with a well, he should and I wanted to set it up with like he should, but that doesn't take anything away from him because if he, it doesn't play well, then we're like, well, he's got to be better and so really good. If he does, it can't be just because it's summer league, you got to, you know, it's just like playing bad teams. You got to play who's in front of you. This is the opportunity to nation nix has been given and he's been really, really good through two games, love to see him put together a complete summer league and you know, have a shot at the all Vegas team or whatever they call it at the end of it. Like he's been, he's been really, really impressive. I think the decision make he's been good. All right. Let's close by talking. Dillingham. Terrence shaded jr. A couple other quick thoughts, but we'll have some more time on Tuesday show the wolves don't play again until Tuesday, Tuesday evening, I believe. 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He had 25 points in Friday's game nine to 14 shooting one of four outside the arc six of eight at the line, three rebounds, two blocks and a lot of the damage was done early. He was done in transition, he had the poster dunk early and that was super impressive. I'm going to pull up my notes specifically from Friday's game. But the poster dunk early was awesome. His understanding in transition, I talked about that being one of the, I talked about this last week and then again already today, one of the primary reasons why Terrence Shannon was such a good pick for Minnesota and why they went after him was because of his ability in transition. Oh, also early in the game one on Friday, he had a really nice catch and shoot three which is a skill set that's going to be super important and he was more of a volume three point shooter. The percentage was around what would be league average at the NBA level. So it was fine. He's not, I'm not, he's not like, when I say volume, it's not in a bad way. It's a little bit like Anthony Edwards, Ants three point percentage isn't outstanding. He's just really good off the dribble compared to others shooting off the dribble. It's a tough shot to make. He's good off the dribble, get his shot off from anywhere on limited range and his, he shoots a ton of threes and does, although he shot less this year, but the percentage is fine. It's not, he's not a sharpshooter. He's not cat. Right. Terrence Shannon is kind of similar in that regard where he's going to shoot a lot of threes and he'll make enough that he has to, you have to, he's keeping the defense honest. You have to respect it. So hitting a catch at three shot early in his first pro game was, was nice to see. Yeah, the poster dunk had a really nice block right after that. One of his two blocks was early on there and then as the game went on, he had to pick six at one point. He had one steal that turned into, I think, a dunk or lay up for him. Just really impressive all the way around and looked the part. I mean, the first thing I've been saying when asked about Terrence Shannon, I've said it on the show a couple of times. I did it. I said it when I talked last week to, to lock down a line. I said it when I talked on locked in NBA a couple of weeks ago is he's NBA is NBA body or he has an NBA ready body. He looks the part, Chris Finch said it in his on air interview during the game Friday that he hits first on offense. He runs into the defense and forces them to foul him and that's a skill. His finishing through contact will need a little bit of work, even though he's got the NBA body that's touch at the rim. So one of the things I mentioned as a concern for him as a prospect when I was evaluating him before the draft was his, his percentage at the rim is not outstanding, but it's because he's looking to draw contact and there's a balance there. And, and part of that is like he's already good at it because he's a five year college player and he's got the NBA body, but he's going to continue to improve his touch at the rim. He's a good enough shooter from everywhere else that he should be able to improve that and also understand like, when do I not need to try and draw contact to just finish? Just make the shot that they found me. They found me. If not, I'm going to make my layup or make my dunk. And when is the time to go directly into the body, the defender and draw a file? That's a skill he's going to need to grow on. I thought his second game was almost every bit as impressive. He started a little bit more slowly offensively, but as the game went on, he was drawing files left and right. Nineteen points on six of eleven shooting, seven of eight at the line, only, only a one three point attempt that he missed it, four rebounds, three blocks, two steals, two assists in the game. So combined, he had five stocks on Sunday. He had three on Friday, so eight stocks across the two games, Jalen Clark by the head, nine steals across two games. But Terrence Shannon, like, very impressed with what he was doing. There were a couple instances where he tried a little too hard, but that's Summer League. That's these guys get the ball in their hands. That's what this turns into is ISO, just Jack the three, whatever. And for the most part, the Wolves did a pretty good job of avoiding some of that. And Terrence Shannon, really, really good. So between the two games, 25 points on 14 shots on Friday, 19 points on 11 shots on Sunday. And like just again, clearly, somebody with more experience, five years of experience at the collegiate level, NBA body can do a little bit of everything. And I was impressed with his half court scoring as well, which is not something he's going to be asked to do a ton of with the Wolves, but he could do it. Very impressed with Terrence Shannon, and we'll talk a lot more about him as the week goes on. Rob Dillingham, the efficiency was not there for Dillingham, but I wasn't concerned. And I said this, actually on Friday's show, I said, let's not be concerned either way with Rob Dillingham. We know what he could do. On Friday, he shot just two to 12, oh, of five outside the arc. He did a five assist in zero turnovers. That's important to point out. He had five rebounds as well. In Sunday's game, Dillingham had 14 points, but it took him 14 shots to do it. He started hot. He scored eight points in the first couple minutes of the game, two of four outside the arc. And one of those makes was early. One was a little bit later. He had a couple nice shots off the dribble, eight assists, only two turnovers, two rebounds. The feel for Rob Dillingham for me was really important. And I talked about this in the wake of them trading for him on draft night was some of the Scottie reports out there talked about how they weren't sure about his passing skill for a point guard for somebody who's barely six one and 164 pounds or whatever. I had no concern with that. I thought he was an underrated passer in college. If guys make the shots that when he passed the ball to him, he would have more assists. He also came off the bench for Kentucky, so that didn't necessarily help there. I think he's a great passer and he that that is what stuck out to me across these first two games. I'm more, I'm more excited about that, more positive about that than I would be concerned about the shooting across the two games, 13 assists, only two turnovers. That's going to play for a backup point guard at the NBA level. The shooting, we know he could shoot. He did it. 38% of catching shoot threes last year on almost 90 attempts at Kentucky. The dude's going to be able to shoot. They may tell him to dial back some of the crazy shot attempts, but not in summer league. Like this is his time to to really be comfortable. Jamal Crawford said something on Sunday's broadcast about him. You can immediately tell he could get wherever he wants on the floor. And that's that's his number one skill. And he showed that he just didn't make the shots. And again, the feel and pick and roll the a couple nice passes to Jesse Edwards for dunks were very nice on Sunday, a couple hit ahead passes in transition. Some leave behind transition passes where he slowed it down and hit a hit Shannon. I think it was the first game on Friday for a dunk. Very impressed overall with Dillingham's feel and what he did with the ball in his hands. The shots will fall. I'm not super worried about that. We'll get to some of the other guys on Tuesday. I'm running out of time here today. But those are the four guys I really wanted to highlight because I was most impressed. Clark Dix, Dillingham and Shannon. I want to talk more about my not and because he had a nice line on Sunday. He was a little bit less active or I should say less efficient. He wasn't less active, a little less efficient on Friday. I want to talk about what he's done so far on Tuesday. I want to talk about Jesse Edwards, the two way signee for the wolves. And then let's talk about Nadir Heifie. Nadir Heifie is the guy who I talked up last week as the one non roster guy I was most intrigued by. And man, he has been like, he looked like the best player on the floor. If you had just seen his first half of Friday's game, you'd have been like, oh, this Heifie guy. He's a first round pick, right? Legitimately. He was that good. And then all of a sudden, he was jacking up, contested, like push shots from 18 feet. And it was like, am I watching like a U game right now? It was just complete swing, which is what it's to be expected from somebody who's this, you know, this young and a pro basketball player who's trying to find his way. It was just cut from team, I said, yeah, team France. So anyway, I want to talk about Heifie on on a Tuesday show. I want to talk about Jesse Edwards. We'll talk a little bit about some of the other guys. Well, we'll talk about Leonard Miller, Josh might as well. So we'll get to all those guys and we'll peek ahead to what to look for for Tuesday's show or Tuesday's game as well as Thursday's game. The wolves play Tuesday. They play Thursday. They're guaranteed at least a fourth, a fifth game, excuse me. But if they go for no, they're pretty much guaranteed to spot the semifinals would start next Sunday. And that would mean they'd get two more games for a total of six in Vegas. We'll talk more about that on Tuesday. Otherwise, that's all we have for you today on the show, a big take you for making lockdown wolves. 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Minnesota Timberwolves rookies Rob Dillingham and Terrence Shannon Jr., along with other young Wolves players, impressed in their first pro action as the Wolves went 2-0 to start Las Vegas Summer League.
