Chris Finch: “I just told them [Timberwolves] we just got punked”
It was 29-5 fast break points. That’s the game right there
Spurs were sprinting while Wolves were jogging.
Wolves were also just giving them the ball. You can’t win a playoff game by missing shots and turning the ball over constantly. Shit happens, but you’re not going to win giving up the ball so much. Not at this level. Spurs suffer the same fate when they can’t seem to land shots.
KJ had 10 rebounds.
3 of those were me-bounds, but that’s a crazy stat considering Minnys size
That was a big reason they won game 1. They had less turnovers. When they were playing against the nuggets, they kept committing so many bonehead turnovers and was surprised we didn’t force more till the end of the game.
10 vs 22 tonight in turnovers
Spurs had 16 TOs, but the point still stands.
That’s what happens when u have to play g7 and then attack downhill all of g1
The Wolves beat the Nuggets in 6 though.
Maybe he’s talking about Spurs, at this point we should trust his grasp on reality
make it 29-29 and the wolves win by -14
Couldn’t stop our transition scoring last game too. It’s a real pain point for their defence.
Yeah, that’s why the wolves seem “built” to beat Denver.
Denver relies on slower half court offense with Jokic and Murray. But if you let Gobert get settled in the paint and McDaniels get in position at the POA, it’s a nightmare to score.
Transition offense is the Wolves kryptonite.
And why OKC got you guys last year.
The Spurs are very similar to OKC; if they give the ball to their guards for quick transitions, it’s game over.
No Donte/no Ayo/injured Ant cuts the Wolves median speed in half, too. Just a brutal matchup.
If the Spurs are smart, they’ll tell Wemby to stay on defense and their guards will destroy this team in transition; it only took one game for them to figured out
4-1 or 4-2
If the Spurs win Game 3, Id love to see this tried out in Game 4.
I’m just hoping it goes 6 because I want to see Wemby live again but can’t this weekend.
Nuggets Game 6 was great to close the year on (attendance wise) if the Spurs back door sweep us tho
Your entire team is so athletic. I used to think OKC were high intense but the spurs have length and athleticism.
Wolves got punker. 2 seed played like the 2 seed. If any Wolves fans makes any excuses or copes I don’t claim them.
Same. Even our most diehard fans in other social media platforms are basically saying we got destroyed. I’m not gonna cry about it. We’re charlie brown trying to kick the ball.
That’s such a Minnesotan response, I love it. We got belt-to-ass tonight. Goal was always to steal one on the road.
Yeah, it happens.I’m just hoping the Spurs don’t get too ahead of themselves from this one beatdown. Y’all already stole home court and, even banged up, can’t be taken lightly.
People were worried about wemby coming out sluggish and tired but it was the wolves all along
I swear we have an iconic press conference after every game this run, win or lose
Ant and Jaden dgaf about media training so they’re always good for a banger quote and Finchy is entertaining love him or hate him
Finch may complain but he’s a great coach who cares about his players and is always entertaining. I think he’s awesome
Exactly right. Their identity as a team is so strong
Crying about refs is not iconic bro
I’m just glad he’s not injured this playoffs
One of the fights in the last series you could see Finchy running away so he didn’t fuck up his knee again lol.
Where can one watch these post game interviews?
ESPN the ocho! Only 45.99 for 2 week subscription
You’re telling me I can watch and bet on dodgeball, AND get my post game NBA content. Premium price for a premium service
Don’t forget about squirrels water skiing
No I lost a lot of money on that and want to forget
The last time I remember espn doing their Ocho week, there was some random lumberjack shit
Was lowkey kind of interesting to watch
I hate it here bruh lmao
Haha ur kidding right
https://www.youtube.com/live/0qE0Xdkje_8?si=rxc3J8EBD_c81C2_
This is the live stream. You can rewind it to see which players/coaches you wanted to hear from.
The teams often post them in full on YouTube after a few hours.
Pretty sure they livestream them on YouTube
NBA.com used to have every single one aftwr the game for free if you had internet, always remembered Phil Jackson’s presses and how calm and tranquil he was after wins or losses
Sportsurge
Bro took a page out of the Ime Udoka quote book
Adelman would have said “shots didn’t fall.” He’s back next year, league has been warned 😎
facts
Pedro Pascal could play Chris Finch.
I think he’s a twin of Jeff Daniels.
love to see it
A graphic for that quote would do numbers
Prankster Finch back at it again
This year’s playoffs have had close series’ but the matches themselves have been rather bad. So many big blowouts, not fun
This comment section is horrible
Like your team played
Flair up lil bro
Dude, that account is 9 years old. So this is a grown adult acting like a child.
Some people are just sad, man.
Punked is putting it mildly 😭
I feel like “we got fucked like a three dollar whore” is also a way to put it
Fair😂
Man some Spurs fans got a serious obsession wwith missed goaltends up in here. Y’all just got a blowout win. Maybe try to enjoy it, life is short.
Yeah the Wolves sucked ass in basically every facet tonight. See you for Game 3 when the score is 0-0.
Wolves need to just throw this one in the garbage. They got humbled which can be a good thing. They got one on the road which is huge. Now they just gotta take care of business at home. I still got Wolves taking this one.
Take that for data
I assume it was also because of the refs no?
You could tell by the crying after winning by 2 that minnesota was shook & you can also tell who okc fans are afraid of by the game thread lol spurs in 5
Finch: we’re down 40? Must’ve been the wemby goaltends 💀
The guy called out legitimate bad calls after Game 1 and after this one ripped his own guys to shreds. You’re just making shit up because you don’t have anything real to be mad at.
This dude doesn’t know what that word means…
But what about the refs?
Oh, it wasn’t the fouling or goal tending like he stated last game, huh.
🤦🏾♂️
Yes. There were 3-4 Foul/GT first gam that weren’t called.
WTF he’s honest here and it’s not good enough for you.
We’ve got.a lot of folks who are still pissy about it from game 1. Hopefully everyone will hurry up and get tf over it. Being thin-skinned instead of celebrating a 40-point win is not a good look.
They should ask him how many of the Spurs points were goaltending
Is there a reason you spurs fans are so sensitive about that getting called out? I feel like there is
Tell your coach to stop whining like a bitch, especially after the game they won. He focused too much on goaltending he forgot the transition defense tonight and lost by 40.
ooo touchy subject I see
That’s because of the uncalled goaltending I guess
Don’t act like your boy didn’t have a few uncalled in game 1 lol
There was actually only one. Full breakdown of all his blocks here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaWvamd_Zd4&t=238s
I know this is gonna sound biased but bballbreakdown is VERY pro ref as most of his NBA guest stars tend to be current or retired NBA refs.
I think only 2 of his blocks were bad 1 goaltend and 1 foul, but we got away with some stuff too
bballbreakdown is VERY pro ref as most of his NBA guest stars tend to be current or retired NBA refs.
Fair and maybe some of the replayed blocks could be called as fouls if you interpret the rules slightly differently or call it more tightly (it’s the playoffs so they will call less soft fouls).
But on the goaltends, there’s really no interpretations to be had, the replays they showed clearly show there is only a clear one. And the narrative that some people started claiming that a big part of his blocks were goaltends is annoying.
he had 1 man i’m tired of the exaggerations game 1 produced
He definitely did. But was it really an anomaly over 12 blocks? This stuff happens every game.
Eat that 38 point loss
There was 1, which means you would’ve won by 4 points instead of 2. Definitely worth whining like a bitch about, since it would’ve changed NOTHING if it had been called. Finch is a fucking loser lol.
woahhh Hesh? Ruben? you guys been friends for years…
There was only one I saw that was obviously a goaltend. Your coach was being dramatic and trying to diminish one of the greatest individual defensive performances in modern playoff history. Of course fans are going to be annoyed.
That really bothers you huh lol
probably not as much as a 38 point loss.
More spurs fans complaining about goaltending than everyone else
Terrible goaltendings make you lose by 38, right?
Wasn’t any goaltending today what u mean
Oh really? Sorry but your pussy ass coach kept talking about goaltends even after game 1 was over (a game they won).
He kept talking and talking about it like the spurs depends on them to win. Eat that 38 points loss chrissy boy!
Talked abt it once on an interview how u gna make up a fantasy and then get yourself mad about it 😭
Was definitely more than once over the course of multiple days. wtf you on about.
Are you functionally braindead or were you born this way. Why are you dumb enough to think something that happened in game 1 applies to game 2?
as a fellow spurs fan seeing people make salty comments esp after winning is cringe af.
Used to respect spurs and their fan but holy shit you guys are so annoying now
Yall lost by 40 and embarrassed on live TV of course you’re gonna be mad.
lol they fire back at one bit of criticism and now they’re annoying. the expectations for fans of winning teams are sky high
I only represent myself not everyone else…
And to be fair the comment made by Finch were stupid and disrespectful it’s not the Timberwolves as a whole just him.
What he said was factually accurate
He said there were 4 goaltends. That’s not factually accurate, it’s a subjective assessment. And there are breakdown videos already showcasing them. There was like 1 clear goaltend and 1 or 2 that were pretty much tossups
Ok bud
You said it was factually accurate. Then got called out by the objective provable point that there are no video clips from that game that show there were four goaltends. Take the L.
No tf it wasn’t
It was uncalled for. This kind of stuff happens every game and of course over 12 blocks refs will make a couple mistakes. Sometimes it goes the other way too.
OK bud
The missed fouls were uncalled for us* you are correct.
Not sure why there are dozens of you crying about it days later when nothing was said about it lmfao.
I mean yeah obviously game 1 was a fluke lol Finch seems like a great guy but he can’t coach a championship caliber team
He coached a great game 1, honestly. Great game plan executed really well. I’m nervous about what adjustments he’ll make leading into game 3.
His gameplan only worked cause fox and wemby went 0/1million now the spurs have neutralized ae
And you don’t think a defensive game plan can affect a player’s shooting percentage?
Turns out all the people who were doing victory laps over this series being a sweep because the Spurs lost by 2 points in the first game were a bit premature, who knew?
Who was doing that? Legitimately, who? Fans can celebrate a game and having fun but that’s not victory lapping
People are creating narratives to justify their victim complex lol
Kendrick Perkins, Nick Wright, Bill Simmons, etc
No one said they were gonna sweep
Perk said it but that was it. And he was immediately called out for going too far too
Before game 1 most people were saying Wolves would get swept or lose in 5. It’s the circle jerk and anti circle jerk, reaction to the overreactions
Perk said they could sweep which… Yeah I guess anything is possible bud. If there’s anything worse than being a hot take artist it’s being a noncommittal dipshit. Might as well say a pair of giant meteors could crush San Antonio and Minneapolis at the same time
Can’t speak for the others (though Nick Wright was on Simmons’ show at the time and sure didn’t say it then) but Simmons didn’t say there’d be a sweep. He literally said, “Gun to my head, I think I would pick [the Wolves].”
No need to make stuff up, big guy. Your team had a hell of a game!
Ya like we randomly got this massive bandwagon of all the worst people the last few days.
Hasn’t Minnesota been through enough this year? Can’t we just enjoy wherever these Wolves go in peace?
The worst of them was Gilbert Arenas, he said we had no chance in this series
Edina from the top rope
Proof?
I like making up scenarios that didn’t happen in my head too
source: I made it up
Literally who was doing that lmao. Not even the most optimistic Wolves fans were.
These guys are really fucking good.
Source: Uh, last week
Hey everyone, check out the strawman this guy constructed.
No whining about the refs tonight eh Chrissy Boy?
I don’t quite get your point:
What do y’all want?
He’s a notorious whiner, always trying to paint the narrative the refs are against his team and his team alone.
He does this as a message to the players that they don’t need to complain because he will stick up for them and do the complaining. There’s been less techs and crashing out since he’s done this. It’s also part gamesmanship. Many head coaches will try and work the refs. He usually does this games 1-2 but not later
This guy never watched Pop’s post game interviews.
I’m a lady lol
You misunderstood me. I meant the guy you were responding to never watched Pop if he’s complaining about about Finch’s interviews.
And yet the players still constantly complain to the refs lmao
Because he didn’t mention the blown travel call the refs missed on mcdaniels or the moving screens by Rudy 😂
Because he’s the Wolves coach and he wants the refs to pay closer attention to potential Spurs fouls or goaltends but not potential Wolves fouls.
Are you dumb? Why would any coach do that? Explain it to us. Go look at the clips from game 1, wemby had multiple blocks with video evidence that should have been goal tending. It’s the coaches job to call that out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaWvamd_Zd4&t=238s
Here’s someone actually trying video analysis. Nothing close to what Finch claimed.
So more than 1. Got it. Literally starts off talking about half as if the 4 comment from finch is the same as saying half of 12. My lord what a dumbass link.
Like walking into a math class titled 2x2 = 6 and thinking boy this sounds promising.
You do realise that Finch said at least 4 were goaltends and mentions fouls right? And the video talks about illegal blocks, not simply the alleged goaltends? Funny comment considering the lack of comprehension displayed.
Yeah, Finch’s a whiner.
So…..more than 1.
They agreed definitely on one block. Not even close to Finch’s 4+.
So yeah, like most people said, a whiner. Delusional.
Yeah people who think 4 is the same as 6 and is half of 12 is definitely my go to for factual information.
How do you not get his point? He constantly whines about the refs win or lose
He didn’t just complain, he puts pressure on the refs with clear exaggerations. Not cool when players do it, same for coaches like Finch.
It sounds like he’s doing a good job as a coach with that because, exaggeration or not, they’ll be looking closer at Wembys blocks.
Pressuring refs into getting favourable calls is weak shit, regardless of who does it. Plenty of HoF coaches did it and it was never good, it quite literally makes it even harder for refs to perform properly, not the other way around.
Just shows he doesn’t really care about objectiveness.
Would you ever expect a coach of a team in a playoff series to be objective or unbiased? No, of course not.
Finch can, and should, put pressure on the refs if he feels they are not doing something fairly in a way that disadvantages his team. The Spurs coach should do the same, as should every other playoff coach.
You can call it weak if you want, but if it’s not against the rules and it could help your team you should 100% do it. In fact I’d be disappointed if Finch didn’t do it because he thought it’d make him look soft.
What do you think about players flopping and whatnot?
I hate watching it but I don’t really blame the floppers. If that gets them a better chance of winning they should do it. Especially in the playoffs. Flopping is a huge problem but I blame the NBA more than the players.
Fair enough. I think coaches doing what we are discussing is similar.
He put pressure on them to call goaltended
By bullshitting instead of keeping it a buck, that’s my point. At least 4 were goaltends, right? Absurd.
He complained after a win, did he want to win even harder? How stupid do you have to be to not get this?
He complained about ONE missed goaltend and said it was 4. Mulitple people have broken down the film. It was ONE definitive goal tend.
Then, tonight? He and the entire wolves team were complaining to the refs for a long time this game.
You do realize NBA teams have access to more film than random redditors or YouTube content creators, right?
Someone looking at one angle from the TV copy likely can’t actually see what happens on every single play.
..that he watched.. immediately after after the game, to come up with the “4 or 5” number? That he didn’t challenge during the games? At all?
You don’t like random youtube content creators or redditors? Fine. Here’s Kevin O Connor, a guy who makes his living writing about sports, breaking down the film and coming to the same conclusion.
Finch lied to create a narrative, and the circlejerks saw an opportunity for new jerk material and ran with it. Reality is 11 of those blocks were legit, and it straight up had the wolves SHOOK. They just refused to attack him tonight.
Finch made the comments about “at least 4” the day after the game, not the day of.
You also can’t challenge a goal-tend.
Like, if you’re going to try to do a “gotcha” at least try to have a semblance of understanding first.
But the opinion of complete random redditors don’t matter. You made that perfectly clear, so why even comment on that portion of my response?
Why completely ignore the person who makes their living talking about the game pointing out there was only 1? Why ignore the countless films shared with you breaking it down from people involved with the game pointing out that it was only 1? It’s not because it directly contradicts your narrative that Victor isn’t really some defensive deity, he just gets away with stuff.
The team all but said in their performance tonight, straight up SHOOK when trying to attack the paint and it led to an ass whoopin. Hopefully they figure something out at the target center lmao
Brother, he said there were 4 maybe 5 goaltends and there simply werent.
You cannot claim “objectively bad calls” when he’s that far away from reality.
Idc about him gaming the officials but lets be real about it.
5 is a stretch for sure, but 4 was pretty reasonable to say. And pointing that out is pretty objectively a good job for a coach to do even if it comes of as whining because I guarantee the refs will be taking a closer look at that for the rest of the series.
Will Wembys blocks/goaltend calls decide the series? Probably not. But doesn’t hurt to take whatever you can get.
Again thats his job. When he said 3 the night before I had no problem. Going up to 4 maybe 5 after film study was silly. But again it’s his job to game the officials so Ill let him be.
Film suggets its at most 2 but likely 1.
The only thing I’m objecting to here is your framing. He’s gaming the officials not crusading for justice.
We agree thats his job. I doubt we’re gunna agree on the amount of goaltends.
I heavily disagree. Watching back, 3 looked like clear goaltends, 1 looked like it was probably a goaltend, and 1 could have gone either way (but I’m down to call it a block without any evidence either way). But of course I’m a biased Wolves fan and you’re a biased Spurs fan so you’re right. Probably no agreement.
That said, you’re right he’s gaming the officials. And so long as he’s not breaking any rules he should do that each and every chance he can get.
Well I have unbiased folks on my side including a college ref, which is why I’m even willing to argue it.
Two separate video breakdowns came to the same conclusion. 1 perhaps 2.
Regardless I’ve made my point. We can agree to disagree from here. Good luck the rest of the way!
Multiple people broke down the film and there was only 1 definitive goaltend that was missed. Tell Finch and the team to stop complaining to the refs all game and maybe they don’t run into the issues they did tonight.
If you watched back all Wembys blocks and only saw that one was a goaltend there’s not gonna be much discussion to be had here. We just live in different worlds lol.
Here ya go buddy. Finch was wrong. There was only 1 definitive missed call.
Victor Wembyhamas had 12 gold tends!
He said 4, no reason to lie.
Then he changed it to 5. Ol’ Chris just can’t keep his story straight.
Great, so a dumbass thinks 4 or 5 is the same as 12. Even if you’re that incredibly dumb and added that together it’s still not 12.
It’s gonna be ok, slugger.
Yeah, I’m not dumb enough to think it’s 12. It will definitely be okay for me lmfao.
I think they lost tonight by 40 because of the game 1 goaltends.
Right chrissy boy?
Is Chrissy boy some like….southern hillbilly insult or something? It’s really cringey lol.
Thats just maximillion pegasus calling it like he sees it
Chris Finch is cringey so he deserves it.
Okay, are you just unable to answer the question that was asked because you don’t know or you’re not able to comprehend a question mark?
I didn’t know that was such an important question in your mind. I honestly just called him that cuz it sounds silly.
He’s a winner
Not tonight he wasn’t. Lmao!
Sure, but that’s the nature of coaching. Bro has the Timberwolves as a contending team multiple years in a row. When was the last time that was a reality?
“He’s a whiner” - fixed it for you
Bro why are you all over this thread. You’re a chud irl
Can’t sleep off the 40 point loss? Drink some premium gasoline