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As the Minnesota Timberwolves seek to temporarily reinvent themselves in the wake of a knee surgery that has sidelined their star, Anthony Edwards, for up to two months, one reassuring phenomenon has come to the fore.
The Dosunmu Dash.
The most delectable example of the Dash is when Ayo Dosunmu becomes a one-man fast break, usually by stealing the ball, or, as happened Wednesday night when the Wolves upset the first-place Houston Rockets, outrunning the rest of the players and snatching a rolling loose ball in stride en route to a court-length layup. On these thrilling occasions, his path to the hoop is a torrid beeline, as clinically determined as a bolt from a crossbow.
Last spring, after a game against the Celtics in Boston, I asked Ayo if hours of practice on the playground was responsible ...
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