https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/page/23/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/timberwolves-mailbag-can-gorgui-dieng-and-karl-anthony-towns-play-together-r26089/Mailbag time! If you have future mailbag questions, you can email them to Dmoore@zonecoverage.com or to @DaneMooreNBA on Twitter. We’ll do this on Wednesdays going forward.   What about starting Gorgui Dieng at the center spot and Karl-Anthony Towns at the 4? I feel G has been a really good cen...26089Wed, 08 Jan 2020 01:09:49 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/looking-back-at-the-timberwolves-shabazz-napier-vs-tyus-jones-decision-r26088/To Minnesota Timberwolves fans, Jeff Teague will always be connected to Ricky Rubio. This is because during the summer of 2017, Tom Thibodeau was getting the band back together. On that reunion tour, Thibodeau traded Zach LaVine, Kris Dunn and Lauri Markkanen for his former lead-man, Jimmy Butler...26088Tue, 07 Jan 2020 01:48:41 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/how-will-the-timberwolves-sustain-success-when-karl-anthony-towns-and-andrew-wiggins-return-r26086/As they board the team plane headed for Cleveland, it’s fair to argue that the Minnesota Timberwolves are coming off their best three-game run of the season since the first three games of the season. Way back then, the Wolves went 3-0 riding the coattails of Karl-Anthony Towns, who scored 96 point...26086Sat, 04 Jan 2020 15:45:52 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/with-karl-anthony-towns-sidelined-the-timberwolves-defense-is-thriving-r26084/Statistically speaking, the Minnesota Timberwolves have been a more effective defensive team every season of Karl-Anthony Towns’ career when Towns is on the bench than when he is on the floor. That disparity has never been more jarring than it is this year. In 33 games this season, the Wolves hav...26084Thu, 02 Jan 2020 04:17:41 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/the-timberwolves-holiday-shopping-spree-for-kids-matters-%E2%80%94-i-know-because-i-was-once-one-of-those-kids-r26079/Attending the annual shopping spree event that the Minnesota Timberwolves host each holiday season is always a weird experience for me — now that I’m on the “adult side.” Driving out to the event on Tuesday night, my adult brain started kicking in. I found myself thinking about how the Wolves pla...26079Wed, 18 Dec 2019 00:14:01 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/its-time-for-another-dangelo-russell-to-the-minnesota-timberwolves-conversation-r26076/December 15th was always going to re-open the D’Angelo Russell to the Minnesota Timberwolves conversation. Prior to the 15th, as was the case for every player who inked a new contract this past summer, there was a restriction on Russell’s new contract that prevented him from being traded. This mea...26076Mon, 16 Dec 2019 01:09:37 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/how-the-other-timberwolves-fit-around-karl-anthony-towns-r26074/Against a starting frontline of JaVale McGee, Anthony Davis and LeBron James, Sunday evening’s matchup in Los Angeles was the Minnesota Timberwolves’ biggest test of their new, small-ball offensive and defensive systems installed this season. It was a test they failed almost immediately. In just...26074Mon, 09 Dec 2019 14:37:36 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/%E2%80%98hes-getting-more-mature-andrew-wiggins-is-changing-everything-r26073/DALLAS — Andrew Wiggins finding his way is the single best thing that could have happened to the Minnesota Timberwolves this season. Karl-Anthony Towns converting 3-point attempts at his typically elite rate, now at a near-Steph Curry volume is, of course, a welcome development. So is the cultural...26073Thu, 05 Dec 2019 13:53:34 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/%E2%80%98trying-to-get-wig-to-be-wig-the-rationale-behind-moving-jeff-teague-to-the-timberwolves-bench-r26071/ATLANTA — Jeff Teague is an open gym lurker. “He’ll stay in the gym at the practice facility, just walk around, shoot and dribble the ball for an hour,” says Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Ryan Saunders. Since Teague returned to the Wolves lineup on Nov. 13 after missing four games with an ill...26071Tue, 26 Nov 2019 01:56:03 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/a-quote-a-shot-and-a-thought-on-the-timberwolves-discombobulated-starting-five-r26069/ATLANTA — You wouldn’t know it from checking the 16 box scores the Minnesota Timberwolves have compiled this season, but Ryan Saunders does have a preferred starting five. That group is Jeff Teague, Andrew Wiggins, Treveon Graham, Robert Covington and Karl-Anthony Towns. It was that five-man grou...26069Mon, 25 Nov 2019 07:04:29 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/the-best-could-be-yet-to-come-for-andrew-wiggins-and-the-minnesota-timberwolves-r26065/The numbers have always been the story with Andrew Wiggins. The highs, the lows, and the lingering aftertaste of how much did those 20 points even help? But the numbers are not the story this season. At a minimum, Wiggins’ productivity spike is not the only story — and, quite frankly, that’s what...26065Wed, 13 Nov 2019 02:11:17 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/%E2%80%98you-cant-catch-every-raindrop-the-timberwolves-leaky-defense-is-a-work-in-progress-r26063/When D’Angelo Russell dropped 52 points against Ryan Saunders’s Timberwolves on November 8th, Saunders knew he had been playing with fire. Russell’s 52-point performance was the second time in just the first eight games of the season that the Wolves had managed to win while surrendering 50 points...26063Mon, 18 Nov 2019 03:18:15 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/%E2%80%98this-kid-can-flat-out-play-andrew-wiggins-is-finding-his-right-situation-r26062/D’Angelo Russell to the Minnesota Timberwolves did not happen this summer. Still, the pursuit of Russell was the player-specific Wolves storyline that defined the intermediate months. It wasn’t Karl-Anthony Towns taking the step. And it wasn’t Robert Covington returning from injury. If anything, t...26062Sat, 09 Nov 2019 02:50:23 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/%E2%80%98the-system-works-karl-anthony-towns-on-the-timberwolves-new-schemes-r26060/Karl-Anthony Towns used the past two games to assess what is working and what is not working for his Minnesota Timberwolves. Sidelined as punishment for his altercation with Joel Embiid, Towns had a different perspective watching those games from his hotel room. “I’m just a highly-educated fan wa...26060Wed, 06 Nov 2019 01:24:59 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/how-the-timberwolves-thrived-without-karl-anthony-towns-r26058/The Minnesota Timberwolves entered their Saturday evening game in Washington with a massive hole to fill. On a per-36 minutes basis — which corrects for Karl-Anthony Towns, um, “missing” the second half of the Philadelphia game — the deleted Towns chasm to be filled in was 31.7 points, 13.4 reboun...26058Sun, 03 Nov 2019 01:00:55 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/what-weve-learned-about-these-timberwolves-r26056/This version of the Minnesota Timberwolves was always going to be a puzzle. When the Wolves hired Gersson Rosas to take over the basketball operations department this past spring, a box full of puzzle pieces was cracked open. Those pieces began to fall out of the box when Rosas proclaimed that Min...26056Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:57 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/karl-anthony-towns-is-leading-the-timberwolves-with-a-little-help-r26054/CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Karl-Anthony Towns sprinted from the Minnesota Timberwolves’ bench to snatch the game ball from the referee when the clock hit zeroes at Spectrum Center on Friday evening. Towns had 37 points, 15 rebounds, eight assists, four steals, two blocks and four made 3-pointers in the gam...26054Fri, 25 Oct 2019 23:41:09 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/the-timberwolves-vision-comes-into-focus-in-brooklyn-r26052/BROOKLYN — Before there was Kevin Durant, and before there was Kyrie Irving, the Brooklyn Nets sat where the Minnesota Timberwolves sit today. In the middle of the 2015-16 season, Brooklyn fired Lionel Hollins and sputtered their way through the final 45 games of the year with an interim coach in...26052Thu, 24 Oct 2019 07:00:51 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/what-is-the-opportunity-cost-of-the-timberwolves-new-fast-paced-offense-r26051/This is the system Ryan Saunders always knew he wanted to implement if he was ever given the reigns to coach a NBA team. Free-flowing in nature, definitively positionless, bombing from 3-point range and, if everything goes to plan, faster than any other team in the NBA. In ten years of assistant...26051Wed, 23 Oct 2019 07:00:17 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/karl-anthony-towns-is-honing-his-step-back-3-point-move-r26047/At just 23 years old, Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns already has a wide array of basketball moves in his bag. He’s fast enough to pump fake and blow past opposing bigs off of the dribble. He’s got a soft-as-feathers hook shoot that he leans on when operating out of the post. He...26047Thu, 17 Oct 2019 07:56:28 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/five-observations-from-the-timberwolves-preseason-opener-r26044/Good ol’ preseason basketball. Yes, the result literally means nothing. The Timberwolves lost to the Suns 111 to 106, by the way. But it’s hard to not take at least something from basketball actually being played. And for the Wolves, who have replaced eight of the 15 roster spots with new faces th...26044Wed, 09 Oct 2019 01:45:35 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/karl-anthony-towns-has-become-the-quarterback-of-the-minnesota-timberwolves-r26043/Karl-Anthony Towns has 31,650,600 reasons to enter this season with an edge. Despite averaging 24.4 points, 12.4 boards and 3.4 assists last season while shooting 40 percent from 3-point land, Towns was not voted onto one of the three All-NBA teams last season. Receiving the honor at the center p...26043Tue, 15 Oct 2019 12:36:31 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/the-%E2%80%98big-questions-from-timberwolves-media-day-r26038/Point-blank, Robert Covington said, “no” when asked if he has any concerns about how the (now-much-smaller) 2019-20 Minnesota Timberwolves are going to be able to match up with the bigger teams in the NBA. It’s a wildly important and fascinating existential question for a franchise in the midst of...26038Tue, 01 Oct 2019 07:00:05 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/minnesota-timberwolves-preseason-guide-2019-20-r26036/It has nearly been six full months since the Minnesota Timberwolves have played a regular season basketball game. But it’s not as if it has been a quiet half-year. Gersson Rosas was hired to steer the Wolves ship as the new president of basketball operations on May 1st, and since then the majority...26036Thu, 10 Oct 2019 04:00:07 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/timberwolves-preseason-guide-andrew-wiggins-r26035/“There is a zero percent chance it gets worse next year,” an Eastern Conference executive told me earlier this summer when the inevitable So… What about Wiggins? question came up. Everyone that follows the Timberwolves knows how it works: Andrew Wiggins questions infiltrate every Wolves-centric co...26035Fri, 27 Sep 2019 07:00:55 +0000