Tag: Minnesota Timberwolves
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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 ”…
-
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…
-
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”…
-
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,…
-
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…
-
It’s easy to forget details about last year’s regular season, because of all the fun and excitement of last year’s playoffs. The Wolves had some mild swings throughout the 82-game slog, but were pretty much just a great team from…
-
The KAT trade is now completed, with each team’s announcement of the deal. With that, Julius Randle and Donte DiVincenzo will enter Timberwolves training camp, and Coach Chris Finch will begin to incorporate each into his lineups and greater plans…
-
The preseason kicks off on Monday. While no Wolves team is exactly like another, this one had more roster continuity and a clearer understanding of its strengths and weaknesses than most. To preview the 2024-25 season for the Minnesota Timberwolves…
-
A lot has changed in Timberwolves Land since mid-May. It was then that the organization was informed that Kevin Love planned to opt out and leave the franchise — per his contractual rights — in the summer of 2015. From…
-
Questions greatly outnumber answers as we enter closing hours of Preseason and begin the real thing. Here are five of mine pertaining to tonight’s opening tilt versus the Kings of Sacramento: 1) Does a Timberwolf shooting guard steal the show?…
-
Marc Stein has released his first Power Rankings of the 2012-13 season. A quick scan down to the middle teams shows support for something that I have been thinking to be true about this Western Conference playoff landscape: There will…
-
It strikes me that even if Hassan Whiteside becomes a Timberwolf in the coming days, the playing roster is probably complete. It also strikes me that there is far from a clear-cut starting lineup, or even playing rotation. Rick Adelman…
-
Well, that was interesting. I had planned on doing a special post that analyzed the Love-Griffin matchup, breaking down each possession where they guarded one another. Since I did the work (the few times the matchup occurred) I’ll post the…
-
Nobody quite knew what to predict for Minny’s first game of the season without its best player. In fact, PJ published two separate posts in anticipation and speculation on exactly how this should shake out. While the Kings are pretty…
-
The early season narrative for the TWolves has been that Ricky Rubio and Kevin Love are amazing players who need some help. Other starting players, most notably Wesley Johnson and Darko Milicic, have failed to provide meaningful production or consistent…