Author: Andy Grimsrud
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It is often said that the Timberwolves playoff run to the Western Conference Finals in 2004 was the franchise’s apex, and the moment listed by most fans as their favorite in team history. While technically true that it was the…
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“I’m tough on players that I think have a chance to be very special. At one time everyone thought I wasn’t tough enough on Garnett. I couldn’t be tough on him because he did everything I always asked him to…
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In case you missed it, the Timberwolves are struggling. They have a 5-31 record, no quality veteran players who are healthy and motivated enough to play well, and are riding a 15-game losing streak. (!) Inevitably, then, some of us…
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I haven’t been doing game wraps this season because, ever since Rubio, Pekovic and Martin went down, the game outcomes took on very little meaning. Very shortly after Ricky’s injury was that horrific weekend on the road where the Wolves…
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Andy G: First off, happy new year to all Punch-Drunk readers. 2014 was an eventful one for Wolves fans. Last January, we were watching the team hover disappointingly around .500 — clearly not good enough for Western Conference Playoffs eligibility…
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Greetings from San Francisco where I’ve been the past couple days, and will be tonight (well, technically Oakland) to watch the Timberwolves play at Oracle against the Warriors. Since I last wrote here, the Wolves have played three times, losing…
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Andrew Wiggins, Gorgui Dieng and Shabazz Muhammad share the distinction of being the only Timberwolves who have played in all 25 games of the 2014-15 season. They also constitute the closest thing this Wolves team has to a young core…
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Don’t corporations do quarterly reports? I’ve never prepared one or even worked for a corporation, but I think that they do. (Googling) Okay, yeah, quarterly finance reports are a thing. I didn’t dream that up. According to Wiki, they are…
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Since he was drafted in June 2013, Shabazz Muhammad has been the most interesting player on the Timberwolves. This is true for many reasons, including but not limited to the following: Shabazz was the number one rated high school prospect…
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Monday’s game was another blowout against a Western Conference contender and another game I didn’t feel up to recapping. The Wolves had a great first quarter on offense, led by Gorgui Dieng’s 5 assists and all sorts of fun ball…
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I’m not a big fan of the offense that the Timberwolves are running. They don’t spread the floor very wide. They don’t shoot many threes. They don’t run much pick-and-roll action. Instead, a lot of energy is wasted with non-ball…
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Forgive me for putting a temporary freeze on the game wraps. In the absence of Rubio, Martin and Pekovic, the games have not been very meaningful as competitions. For the time being, I’d rather focus on emerging themes and trends…
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Surgery to repair Kevin Martin's wrist with screw chosen in hope of getting him back on court within six weeks — Jerry Zgoda (@JerryZgoda) November 25, 2014 Jerry Zgoda of the Star Tribune is reporting that Kevin Martin will undergo…
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From Zach Lowe’s Tuesday Column, in his 10 Things I Like and Don’t Like: 4. Andrew Wiggins’s Step-back Jumper This baby is gorgeous. Again, it’s not an ideal analytics-era shot, but it’s handy to have in your bag with the…
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“[I]f you want to call it a form of socialism, as some do, in terms of how sports leagues operate, I would say from an economic standpoint, we’re a single enterprise. We’re trying to create competition among teams. And that’s…
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The downside to the Ricky Rubio ankle sprain injury is as obvious as it is significant: Instead of playing competitive basketball that is fun to watch, the Wolves would instead struggle to win and sometimes look really bad when nobody…
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Let’s begin with an assertion that I have no way of backing up with real evidence: Had Ricky Rubio not sprained his ankle in the second quarter of last night’s game, the Wolves would’ve beaten the Magic. Probably by a…
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First off, I just made up that title, and I don’t even know if this will be a series. But given the attention that we all pay to Wolves rookie Andrew Wiggins when he takes the floor, it makes sense…
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Least favorite Wolves set in 1.75-game sample size has to be the pin down screens for K-Mart. — Punch-Drunk Wolves (@PDWolves) October 31, 2014 Forming Early Impressions of the 2014-15 Timberwolves It was important to get a win last night.…
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Very fun game, all things considered. Grizzlies top guns played well and Wolves nearly pulled it off anyway. — Punch-Drunk Wolves (@PDWolves) October 30, 2014 That is admittedly some veteran Minnesota Moral Victory speaking. — Punch-Drunk Wolves (@PDWolves) October 30,…