Chris Finch on Jaden McDaniels: “He talked all series and he backed it up all series. That’s called legitimate tough”
he hit the iso midrange jumper to ice the game
then stole Jokic’s pass
then hit both free throws
then walked up to initiate the handshake with Jokic at the end
that’s just who he is
you have to flush the toilet after you carpet bomb it
You gotta grease the pole before you ride it
I got a lot of respect for guys who will fight a war on the floor but still shake hands when things are said and done
and tbh I didn’t know Jaden was that guy
very impressed by him
Way easier to do when you are on the winning side tbh. Still props to Jaden tho
End of the day it’s just a game and most stuff done on the court and build up for the game are mental things.
I’m gonna talk shit because it gives me a reason to push myself, I’m not shy of the moment, I won’t fold under pressure so now it’s up to my opposition to do the same. Separate the wolf from the sheep, and reveal who’s a sheep in wolves in clothing.
You have to be Legitimate Tough to do this shit.
Respect
Played dirty against Jokic and pushed limits entire series on defence with his aggressiveness, played schoolyard mind games to get Jokic off his game and even tried to start fights with him. A good defender whose game is unfortunately stained by his antics and shithousery on and off the floor.
Good on Jokic for still showing great sportsmanship and congratulating him and the Wolves on their win.
Rudy, on the other hand, is a real defender’s defender whose game is clean, who has respect for the game of basketball and the opponent, especially Jokic. Shame none of it rubbed off on Daniels.
Who ran across the court to start yelling at who? Come on dude I get you’re a nugget but don’t be a /i nugget
The guy obviously felt guilty disrespecting Jokic personally and for letting his unprofessional, unsportsmanlike side get the better of him in high tension moments, especially since Jokic didn’t stoop to his level and trade jabs with him, call him out for dumb stuff etc. It was partly mind games but still very immature.
He rushed to Jokic after the game in a sign of deference as he is still, like it or not, one of the best players in the history of NBA and one of the nicest guys around. It was his way of showing respect and making amends. You certainly don’t do that if you hate the guy.
And it’s very telling that even a guy like McDaniels, who at times acted like a brat and goaded Jokic, still has more respect for him than a mouth breather like you.
This is hilarious. It has to be satire, right?
Has to be. Nobody can be this dense and/or delusional.
Lmao dude, are the dirty plays in the room with us right now?
Also if we are comparing Rudy to Jaden - Rudy is way closer to dirty than Jaden.
Just gonna come in here, lie, and insult him. And you can’t even get his name right 😂
What a sore loser
Compared to Jokic he’s a nobody. Nobody outside Minnesota even knew his name before he started talking smack about Jokic and being a nuisance on and off the court.
He peaked here as a player but showed embarrassing professional deficiencies toward the opponent and overall lack of sportsmanship. Why would I bother learning his name?
I’ll remember him as that dirty loudmouth and hatchet man from that Denver’s disaster class in the playoffs 2026. Well deserved.
If he goes on to perform at the same level against the Spurs I might even consider learning his name but something tells me we’ve already seen the best of him and that it’s only downhill from here on out.
Damn, so Jokic got shut down by a “nobody”. Showing some respect for him would actually make the loss easier to asborb.
I know you’re having a rough time right now in light of what’s coming down the pike, but I promise everything will be all right.
This dude might just be racist and not a troll
Wrong
Incredible butt hurt here. Wow
This is the funniest shit I’ve ever read. If you’re trolling, congrats, you got me. If you’re being serious, I’d like to know what your Mom was smoking while you were in the womb.
Legitimate tough
Adelman you better listen to the podcast, you’ll have a lot of time now anyways
Adelman’s job gonna be posted on indeed in T minus 12 hours
Please god
Bro said “That mf a DAWG” in coach speak
I think we just found his new nickname, since seatbelt didn’t stick
Randle said tonight that they do call him Slim.
Darth Ball is the new name came up in this series
Don’t think this will stick but I love it
Jaden so tough
Adelman’s new favorite term
For really tough
Print tha tshirt
that shit goes so hard 😭
Put it on a shirt
Finch has his guys backs and that is worth a lot. The Fire Finch crowd awfully quiet tonight
Why would we get rid of him. We are literally in the Golden Age of Timberwolves Basketball.
Ant Likes him also lol
Do you wanna go back to the Early 2010s when Derick Williams running the floor and people literally traded cans of vegetables for Wolves tickets😭
traded cans of vegetables for Wolves tickets
oh my god you weren’t lying
https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2011/3/29/2079316/minnesota-timberwolves-tickets-promotion-cans-vegetables
Yeah my Cousin got tickets from doing that back in the day lol
We been through hard times gang. lol
The etsy witches were working overtime on us this series.
OMG this is wild
And I bet most people regretted making that trade.
New age Twolves fans man lol we had to pray just to win 30 games a season. I remember seeing something about how we would need like 10 82 win seasons in a row to get our all time record to .500 lmao
Yeah I don’t understand at all. He’s easilly the best coach in Timberwolves history. Flip couldn’t get out of the first round without Sam Cassel and Sprewell. 1⁄8 trips got out of the first round with KG as your best player is brutal. I know they got fucked losing draft picks but I mean, he couldn’t win a first round series. I understand the West was loaded but man, those years were agonizing.
Probably like my uncle that believes every Minnesota coach should win a championship with whatever roster, and every team underperforms every year (according to him).
No disrespect to your Uncle but how can you be a Minnesota sports fan and still have those expectations
Part of the problem is outside of the post KG years Wolves and some years with the Twins, our teams have never been truly bad. So the other franchises don’t get a chance to draft generational talents and we aren’t exactly top free agent destinations.
Our misery has typically began in the postseason.
Alcohol, and lots of it
Some people just really enjoy getting mad at sports, I don’t know how else to explain it. It’s not a legitimate expectation, it’s just something to complain about.
In part as a defense mechanism, and in part because they know the feeling of righteous indignation is a rich well to draw from when watching Minnesota sports teams.
I’ve sat by people at Vikings games that sat with their arms crossed dead silent when things were going well lol
Finally forced to play Shannon 20+ minutes
Him calling out Shannon’s defense publicly was pretty good motivation too
they need a offensive system or more structure tho. i dont know why he doesnt run more high post action or 3 man game stuff. dude still ran the corner offense in NOLA and just got the MIN job and said “roll the balls out” offense
Jaden is Denver and Jokic father
Jaden took a massive Braun all over the Nuggets
Potato potato
LMAO
Swaggy p just had a orgasm that Jokic lost
Whole Nuggets father.
Don’t forget Devin Booker
Jaden is Murray’s father.
Jokic’s second father is Gobert
This all couldve been avoided had they just lost to the spurs.
I knew we were gonna win the Series. A 12 Win Streak doesn’t mean anything lol
I remember they were hyping up all their regular season wins over us lmao
(Not just Nuggets fans, it was this whole entire subreddit)
Good lesson in assuming nothing from regular season matchup records, they really don’t mean anything!
Lesson learned lmao
The Timberwolves have confused me more than I’ve ever been confused this series. In a good way - they played amazing; but also I feel like I have no idea what kind of surprises they might have in store from here out… like for all I know their best player might be getting called up from the G League right now
Finch develops players man. Thats something the Fire Finch crowd refuses to accept
You don’t have to convince me brother - Ayo was enough, but tonight put it in new territory
Ayo just came over at the trade deadline
Yeah I just never saw him score 43pts in a Chicago, let alone in a playoff game, so I figured there was some kind of magic happening with the Wolves
Ayo been a hooper! Blame Billy Donovan
Fair. He did put up like 20⁄10 against my Knicks this year - but I’ve legit never heard of him scoring 40 before
The Wolves were the perfect fit for him in all honesty. Everything he does, they pretty much needed: a PG that can defend, shoot, playmake and take some offensive pressure off everyone else.
He’s also just one of those players that’s a plus for any team because of intangible crap, too. He’s kind of clutch and has been that way since his rookie year. (He was also jokingly referred to as the Trae Young Killer when he was with the Bulls because he basically shut-down/outplayed Trae every time they met while being practically or entirely undefeated in all their games, even had a game winner or two IIRC).
He was putting up a good number of 20+ point games this year before being traded and had 51/45/85 shooting splits with the Bulls. So, yeah, it looked like he was finally rounding out his game before he got traded.
Since he’s been with the Wolves he actually had something like 52/41/92 shooting splits for the remainder of the regular season. Which is actually kind of ridiculous. His TS% for the whole year between both teams was also 63% - that’s insanely good.
Granted, he mostly does all of that on low-volume scoring. But, that 40+pt game was just waiting to happen against the right team. Ayo has been a pretty damn good player for almost the entire season and he’s just getting into his prime (he’s 26). He just needs to stop getting injured.
If there’s anybody left in that crowd they’re hiding tonight. We won’t forget who doesn’t know ball though
what if I told you we are cloning Rudy Gobert in a more athletic French man named JOAN BERINGER
Sssstttt keep our secret for now… Don’t let them know also that jingles has been injected by super soldier serum
We keep sending that monster down to the g-league, but he just kills everyone and has to come back in like a week or two.
I was pretty sure I saw Rocco with a jersey on tonight but it was cause he was rocking a donte jersey, but they have some guys in the pipeline that could be Wemby stoppers in a couple seasons
Nuggets sub imploding right now 😂
Delicious.
I’ve seen the “wolves just won their game 7” comment a few times already. Like exactly what happened last time we beat them.
And ironically, them saying that really does make it feel more like a game 7.
We’re ruining their GOAT’s legacy in his prime years. Let them cope.
One of ‘em had to come here to vent.
Can’t wait for Jaden to tell me what was going through his mind on the next podcast
The Legitimate Tough podcast
Prepare for 120 minutes of dead silence while Jaden sits next to the mic not saying anything while hiding in his hoodie…
iconic performance
He’s always been a good player but this is the kind of series where it’s like, you probably can’t ever let him leave Minnesota.
Elite on-ball defender, elite non-big rim protector, offensive game that has always scaled well when they need him to play a premier role in the offense, one of the most competitive players in the league and a fearless shit talker, only 25. If the Ant-era wolves ever bring home a championship, Jaden is undoubtedly one of the core players for that team.
Ant, Naz, and Jaden staying for life. They’re Cerberus.
Was really hoping Jaden would just yam it with a second left on the clock. But they all showed good sportsmanship at the end.
They were downright lovey-dovey I was kinda shocked but it was nice lol
They all bad defenders!
They all bad shooters.
They all bad dads.
They all bad sons.
They all bad.
Crazy part is chasing small guards is literally Jaden’s weakest part of his game lol but he was attached to Murray like a straight jacket all series
Jaden mfn’ McDaniels
Trencherous
Generational aura gain for Jaden
Yeah he’s kind of the fucking best
LEGITIMATE TOUGH™️
Okay you heard him, we call that Legitimate Tough now
anti fake tough
Someone was the better coach as well. Pretty sure Adleman is out
JD Mcdaniels RESPECT
Chris Finch “he valid”
Thats Darth Treacherous doing his work. Walking the talk
Absolute dawg.
Jaden McDaniels doesn’t care
Murray is cooked
The Thunder will fuck them like last year if they get to the wcf. All this is pointless
Naaa, tough is shutting the fuck up and just doing the job.
Yappers are kids.