Category: Timberwolves
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One of the great things about basketball is the tension between the potential impact of a great individual player, and the fundamental reality that each team gets to play five at a time, meaning that it’s really the sum of…
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Every NBA fan views the game through his own lens, and organizes the experience to her own preferences and desires. Some have season tickets and attend the actual event; some subscribe to League Pass and watch as much ball as…
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We’re just past the halfway point of the ’25-26 season, 43 games in. At the literal halfway point the Wolves boasted an impressive 27-14 record, pacing for 54 wins. That end point would leave them 4.5 wins beyond their preseason…
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The headline narrative surrounding the Timberwolves is that they have piled up a bunch of wins versus weak opposition, but struggled against good teams. Against a relatively soft early-season schedule, the Wolves are now 15-8 after beating the LA Clippers…
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The Wolves devastating collapse at Phoenix on Friday night was both a new type of 2025-26 Timberwolves performance, and also one that fits the early-season pattern. It was new because, for the first time all season, they did not either…
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The Wolves played four times since last week’s post, and trends and themes largely continued. Facing bad teams like the Kings and Jazz, the Wolves rolled. They won a road back-to-back on Sunday and Monday, blowing out Douglas Dale Christie’s…
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On a recent episode of The Bill Simmons Podcast, Bill and his guest Joe House discussed some early-season hypothetical NBA trades. Before doing so, however, they lamented the current rules governing NBA trade transactions. They were pointing out how difficult…
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I watched TAXI DRIVER the other night. I’ve seen it before, at least a couple of times, but it had been a while and in the world of endless-but-mostly-bad streaming options, I’m finding it more satisfying to choose a reliable…
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“Well good luck, sonny. Hate to tell you but the only time ‘real’ comes into it is when they’re shooting at you. In practice, ‘real’ means dead—-anything else, there’s always room for some conversation.” —Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon And we’re…
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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,…
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The NBA season starts on Tuesday, and your very own Minnesota Timberwolves earned a spot in the league’s opening-night doubleheader. After the Thibs & KAT 2.0 debut (Knicks-Celtics, 6:30 CT, TNT), the Wolves tip off at LA where they face…