https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/page/40/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/this-season-is-a-reminder-that-players-are-unique-and-complicated-individuals-r27228/If things went as well as they possibly could have for the Minnesota Timberwolves last season, then this year was the karmic reversal that we should have all seen coming. The basketball gods don’t impart goodness upon the Timberwolves without serious consequences to follow. That’s not how this wor...27228Fri, 14 Apr 2023 13:30:32 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/will-a-banged-up-gobert-be-able-to-go-hard-in-the-paint-r27227/It’s not good for the mentals of a Minnesota sports fan to live in the past, and especially bad to play the what-if game. What if the Vikings ever had a competent kicker in the playoffs? What if Sam Cassell didn’t break his hip doing the big balls dance before the 2004 Western Conference Finals? A...27227Fri, 14 Apr 2023 10:30:11 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/why-did-minnesotas-offense-stall-out-at-the-end-of-the-lakers-game-r27226/One of the Minnesota Timberwolves’ largest concerns of the Chris Finch era lingered in their loss to the Los Angeles Lakers in the 7-8 play-in game. Minnesota was largely in control through the first three-quarters of play despite being down Rudy Gobert, Jaden McDaniels, and Naz Reid. Much of this...27226Thu, 13 Apr 2023 10:30:04 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/the-lakers-matchup-poses-some-unique-challenges-r27222/Following a high-intensity Game 82 on Sunday afternoon, the Minnesota Timberwolves finally punched their ticket into the postseason. Heading into the year, the expectation was to make a championship run while finishing at least top five in the Western Conference. However, they didn’t meet those go...27222Tue, 11 Apr 2023 09:00:28 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/what-do-we-know-about-the-kat-gobert-pairing-after-25-games-r27216/Karl-Anthony Towns’ injury and the long adjustment period with Rudy Gobert have been detrimental to this year’s Minnesota Timberwolves team. But KAT is back, and he’s averaged 19 points per game on 44.8/36.7/88 splits in six games. It has been turbulent, though. He had a big impact in the Golden S...27216Thu, 06 Apr 2023 10:30:36 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/how-much-is-finch-to-blame-for-minnesotas-struggles-r27215/Everything in Minnesota Timberwolves world is once again upside down in a season seemingly determined to teach us that the only thing we can certainly expect is uncertainty. After winning four games in a row, capped off by a victory over the third-seeded Sacramento Kings, the Wolves went on a thre...27215Wed, 05 Apr 2023 10:30:37 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/was-there-a-clear-cut-winner-in-the-mike-conley-trade-r27212/Tim Connelly has acted aggressively since the Minnesota Timberwolves hired him as their President of Basketball Operations in late May. Roughly two months after he agreed to join Minnesota’s front office on a five-year, $40 million deal, Connelly made the franchise-shifting trade for Rudy Gobert....27212Tue, 04 Apr 2023 10:30:22 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/minnesotas-link-to-los-angeles-sets-up-a-future-of-regret-r27211/The playoff chase in the Western Conference is as exciting as it has been in a long time. Regardless of whether or not you think the play-in tournament is a good and fair idea, the close standings between seeds 4 to 12 have made each and every game watchable. The Minnesota Timberwolves’ recent 4-g...27211Sat, 01 Apr 2023 12:30:11 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/simmons-is-buying-back-into-the-wolves-r27210/Bill Simmons may have called the Rudy Gobert trade the worst in 30 years and been desperately wrong about Jaden McDaniels. But he says he’s watching the Minnesota Timberwolves more now that D’Angelo Russell is gone, and he seems to buying in on them. On his latest podcast, he and Rob Mahoney were...27210Sat, 01 Apr 2023 06:00:04 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/the-timberwolves-have-the-best-7-man-rotation-in-the-nba-r27209/After eight months of national hand-wringing over the Rudy Gobert trade, the Minnesota Timberwolves are finally seeing positive results from their big experiment. The Wolves had to endure a sub-par start to the season, 52 games without Karl-Anthony Towns, the D’Angelo Russell trade, and plenty of...27209Fri, 31 Mar 2023 10:30:28 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/the-fully-healthy-wolves-still-have-a-lot-of-room-for-adjustment-r27208/The Minnesota Timberwolves’ form in the last month has been impressive when you consider the vital players that have been in and out of the lineup. The past month has been rocky. They had a three-game win streak, won one of their next six, and finally finished it off by winning four straight games...27208Thu, 30 Mar 2023 10:30:46 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/what-has-jaden-mcdaniels-added-to-his-offensive-bag-r27207/On Monday night, the Minnesota Timberwolves won a huge game over the third-seeded Sacramento Kings on the second night of a back to back, lifting themselves temporarily out of the play-in tournament and into the sixth seed at 39-37. That only lasted until the Golden State Warriors won on Tuesday n...27207Wed, 29 Mar 2023 15:00:39 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/where-would-the-wolves-be-without-mike-conley-r27206/When the trade was initially announced back on Feb. 8 that the Minnesota Timberwolves were shipping D’Angelo Russell to the Los Angeles Lakers and receiving the 36-year-old Mike Conley Jr., I entered a funk – asking myself over and over again, did that just happen? Like many people, I wasn’t sure...27206Wed, 29 Mar 2023 10:30:56 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/slomo-still-plays-a-vital-role-for-the-full-strength-wolves-r27205/Karl-Anthony Towns is finally back after a nearly four-month absence following his calf injury in late November. And now that Anthony Edwards has returned from an injury scare, this Wolves team finally appears to be at full strength just in the nick of time with the playoffs around the corner. The...27205Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:12:18 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/whats-naz-reids-role-going-forward-r27203/The Minnesota Timberwolves signed Naz Reid as an undrafted free agent in 2019, and he’s been stuck in an understudy role from the get-go. During his rookie campaign, Reid only played in 30 games for Minnesota while spending 16 games with the Iowa Wolves in the G-League. Reid showed flashes on the...27203Sun, 26 Mar 2023 06:30:53 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/how-does-naw-fit-in-on-a-fully-healthy-wolves-squad-r27202/Nickeil Alexander-Walker arrived in the Twin Cities as an add-on to the Mike Conley trade. However, the Minnesota Timberwolves have put him in a scoring role after trading D’Angelo Russell to the Los Angeles Lakers. Alexander-Walker has been traded four times in his four years in the league. The d...27202Sat, 25 Mar 2023 06:30:09 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/minnesotas-2020-draft-class-could-go-down-in-history-r27201/This may come as a bit of a shock, but there are a lot of things that the Minnesota Timberwolves have done wrong in the 33 years since basketball returned to the Twin Cities. I probably don’t need to rehash all of the foolish stuff this organization has done over the years, but a lot of the pain a...27201Fri, 24 Mar 2023 10:30:19 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/taurean-prince-is-minnesotas-slump-buster-r27199/On Monday night, the Minnesota Timberwolves got a much-needed win without their injured stars in a nerve-racking game against the New York Knicks. The Wolves played with good ball movement all night, racking up 34 assists en route to 140 points. They shot 61.4% from the field and an incredible 58....27199Wed, 22 Mar 2023 10:30:50 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/be-like-mike-r27195/The Minnesota Timberwolves drastically reversed course when they traded D’Angelo Russell and brought in Mike Conley at the trade deadline. Russell, 27, is entering his prime; Conley, 35, has exited his. Russell considers himself a combo guard; Conley is a pass-first point guard. And while Russell...27195Sun, 19 Mar 2023 06:30:23 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/do-the-wolves-still-have-time-to-develop-consistency-r27194/[Insert Spongebob narrator voice] Ah yes, the regular season’s end has rolled around again. Typically the top teams in each conference can use this 10- to-15 game stretch as somewhat of a cooldown period before the playoffs kick off in mid-April. However, for both the Eastern and Western conferen...27194Thu, 16 Mar 2023 10:30:10 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/luka-garza-deserves-a-bigger-role-down-the-stretch-r27193/Luka Garza is one of those basketball players. You know the type. Always playing a little too hard. Seems annoying. Probably a coach’s kid. And all of a sudden you look up, he has 25 points and 10 rebounds, and his team is beating you by 30. Garza built his persona at Iowa in the Christian Laettne...27193Fri, 17 Mar 2023 10:30:59 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/minnesotas-offensive-success-starts-with-ball-movement-r27192/On Monday night, the Minnesota Timberwolves got a decisive 136-115 win over the Atlanta Hawks. Anthony Edwards dropped 32 points in his hometown. He also made a huge impact on defense, getting 1 steal, 2 emphatic blocks and 8 defensive rebounds. Mike Conley had a big scoring night, putting up 21 p...27192Wed, 15 Mar 2023 10:30:10 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/kevin-durants-2019-calf-injury-is-why-the-wolves-shouldnt-rush-kat-back-r27187/When Karl-Anthony Towns originally went down with a right calf strain in late November, many outlets reported that Towns avoided serious injury. His timeline for a potential return was just about four to six weeks – placing him back in the lineup “sometime during January,” and signaling his calf s...27187Fri, 10 Mar 2023 10:30:39 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/the-silver-lining-to-minnesotas-jekyll-and-hyde-season-r27186/On March 6, Chris Finch described the Minnesota Timberwolves season as Jekyll and Hyde. “You go through stretches of good and bad, Jekyll and Hyde,” Finch said. With all its ups and downs, this Timberwolves season is a perfect parallel to The Curious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The story that...27186Sat, 11 Mar 2023 06:30:53 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/where-is-minnesotas-post-dlo-three-point-shooting-coming-from-r27183/After sending D’Angelo Russell to the Los Angeles Lakers at the trade deadline, the Minnesota Timberwolves had to figure out who was going to fill his three-point volume. DLo attempted 7 threes a night this season, which accounted for a significant chunk of the 33.4 threes that the Wolves attempte...27183Thu, 09 Mar 2023 10:30:50 +0000