Magic have a crazy good bench, which makes them very difficult to prepare for in regular season. You tweak your defensive scheme to stop Franz and Paolo, but you have Mo Wagner and Cole Anthony giving you 30 from the bench. I remember I was at the game when Bamba fought Austin Rivers - Magic starters were pretty bad and Wolves got 10-12 points early lead, but Magic bench scored 60-70 points in that game and won it for them.

Lauri got there averaging 24 on worse efficiency playing worse defense on a worse team, so I would not be surprised. KAT will get to averaging 24 in a couple of weeks if he keeps it up, first 6 games really drag his averages down.

Since the Boston game:

KAT: 25.4/8.6/3.1/1.1/1 on 58/50/90

Ant: 24.6/5.4/5.4/1.9/0.5 on 43/34/86

KAT has been more clutch as well with big shots against the Warriors and the Pelicans.

KAT came to the league and changed the game so Brook Lopez can brick 12 threes now.

(I’m only half joking, I actually think the emergence of KAT and other 3pt shooting centers convinced coaches to allow guys like Brook and Vucevic take a lot of 3s).

We also allowed 101, 101, and 100 points this season. The defense is real.

To all the Warriors fans who thought Wolves cannot develop players - THIS is how he looked before the trade, and that’s why Wolves had to attach 1st round pick to get rid of Wiggins and acquire Dlo. The difference is he was giving you 40 points once in a month and you thought we might have finally unlocked him and win it all.