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The Wolves start back up this week, opening up at Portland on Wednesday night. (Eds note: Nothing like a 9 p.m. tip-off on a school night to shock our sleep cycles back into NBA rhythm.) Like so much of the…
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“The Minnesota Timberwolves have morphed into the most tortured franchise in professional basketball. Unlike the Clippers (a perennial laughingstock until recently), the Suns (a classic came-oh-so-close team), the Cavaliers (not even the second-most tortured franchise in their own city) and…
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On Sunday, the Timberwolves played their final game of the 2024-25 regular season. They beat a depleted Utah Jazz team, the last of many such late-season matchups where the Wolves needed to win, and the opponent did not. The win…
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As of this writing on Saturday morning, the Timberwolves have 29 wins and 23 losses. They sit 6th in the largely jammed-together Western Conference, just 4 games from the 3-seed and 3.5 games ahead of the 11th spot. If we…
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When people discuss the “modern NBA” — more specifically, what is wrong with the modern NBA — one issue that comes up is the number of games sat out by the best players. The increased DNP frequency seems related to…
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If you type “mediocre” into thesaurus.com, the main results include “inferior, middling, second-rate,” and “uninspired.” Another result is “decent.” If you click on “decent,” there are multiple different usages. One of them is “as in respectable, appropriate.” Another is ”…
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There are two good rules to follow when freaking out about the struggles of your favorite professional basketball team. First is to avoid getting so entrenched in your own opinions that you lose sight of everything else. Second is to…
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There’s something funny about point guards in professional basketball. The best ones in history are, in some order, Magic Johnson, Steph Curry, and Oscar Robertson. And yet, none of them really represents a good example of a “classic” or “prototype”…
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Two concepts today. The first is specific to the recent Wolves performance. The second is more general, but has Wolves involvement. The 8-Man Rotation, continued First, right back to Chris Finch’s eight-man rotation. It’s probably the most interesting quirk of…
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Two wins and one loss feels right. The Timberwolves’ first two games were on the West Coast, facing full-strength opponents that will be contending for playoff berths in April. After that, they came home to face the Toronto Raptors. Toronto,…