https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/page/25/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/timberwolves-decision-time-the-transactions-of-scott-layden-general-manager-r25977/The only way to justify retaining Scott Layden as the Minnesota Timberwolves general manager is if he was at the complete mercy of Tom Thibodeau over the two-and-a-half seasons the duo crafted the Wolves current roster. Every major roster construction issue this team faces going forward — the cont...25977Wed, 10 Apr 2019 20:23:01 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/the-jimmy-butler-experience-what-is-professionalism-r25974/Jimmy Butler was wearing Philadelphia 76ers sweatpants Saturday morning. For those who frequent Minnesota Timberwolves practices and shootarounds, this was a noticeable departure from the exclusively Jordan brand garb Butler wore at practices during the 10 games he played with the Wolves this seas...25974Sun, 31 Mar 2019 06:55:51 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/why-are-the-timberwolves-playing-slower-shooting-fewer-3s-under-ryan-saunders-than-under-tom-thibodeau-r25972/Ryan Saunders had to have a meeting with his assistant coaches before his team’s most recent four-game homestand against the Clippers, Warriors, Sixers and Blazers. The meeting was inspired by how Karl-Anthony Towns had been playing over the past month and how his dominance was, well, sort of thro...25972Thu, 04 Apr 2019 06:42:23 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/bleed-out-or-show-up-a-warriors-and-sixers-weekend-for-the-timberwolves-r25971/Before Jimmy Butler and Joel Embiid strut into Target Center Saturday evening, Karl-Anthony Towns and crew will, yet again, be reminded that they just can’t have nice things. Well, easy things, at least. As if it weren’t enough for the two most nuclear pieces of KAT kryptonite (Butler and Embiid)...25971Thu, 28 Mar 2019 07:38:11 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/the-minnesota-timberwolves-and-their-league-worst-3-point-defense-r25969/To say the 2018-19 Minnesota Timberwolves struggle to defend the 3-point line would be a massive understatement — and admittance of not having watched the last handful of games. After the Houston Rockets sprinkled 21 green dots of triple dust on the Wolves Sunday evening, the Golden State Warrior...25969Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:24:17 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/time-to-tank-the-timberwolves-past-points-to-a-strategy-for-productive-losses-r25967/Andrew Wiggins was getting to the free throw line at will. In back-to-back 29-point performances on April 8 and April 10 of 2015 — game 78 and 79 of the 2014-15 season — Wiggins shot a combined 26 free throws in the two games. This was emblematic of what had become a trend: in addition to his pa...25967Thu, 14 Mar 2019 07:07:48 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/karl-anthony-towns-all-nba-play-puts-the-timberwolves-in-a-tricky-spot-r25966/Before Karl-Anthony Towns hobbled to the Minnesota Timberwolves bench Saturday evening with the grace of The Wizard of Oz’s Tin Man, the Wolves big man had done it again: A 13th consecutive game with 24-plus points while shooting at least 50 percent from the field. Word around the team Sunday is...25966Mon, 11 Mar 2019 07:15:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/what-robert-covingtons-return-will-change-r25964/There’s something that feels a lot like apathy sinking in around the 2018-19 Minnesota Timberwolves season. The genesis of this emotion, I believe, is born out of the notion that it just doesn’t really feel like anything is changing. It’s been two months since Tom Thibodeau was fired and while thi...25964Thu, 07 Mar 2019 06:19:24 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/broken-pick-and-roll-defense-a-tale-as-old-as-thibs-r25961/It’s been the bane of the Minnesota Timberwolves defense three years running. If you’re playing the Wolves, have a point guard with distribution abilities off the attack and can flank him with a formidable rim-rolling big man, you might as well run high pick-and-rolls all day. Time and again, for...25961Thu, 28 Feb 2019 08:08:23 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/surviving-without-karl-anthony-towns-r25959/There was shoo-ing happening in the Minnesota Timberwolves locker room. Yo, go shower! … Put your socks on! … The Chick-fil-A will be on the plane!!! The last thing anyone on the Minnesota Timberwolves wanted was to get stuck in a Milwaukee snowstorm after falling to the Bucks 140-128. Time was...25959Sun, 24 Feb 2019 07:21:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/exploring-the-whys-of-timberwolves-trade-deadline-week-r25956/The Minnesota Timberwolves entered Trade Deadline Week with their chests as inflated as a 25-27 team could. What exactly general manager Scott Layden, would do at the deadline — buy, sell, stand pat — remained ambiguous, but the message from all levels was that this team was pushing for the playof...25956Sun, 10 Feb 2019 07:00:38 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/the-timberwolves-already-made-their-trade-months-ago-r25954/Jimmy Butler hummed a country music ditty as he strolled past the visitor’s locker room on Jan. 15. The Minnesota Timberwolves were in town to face The General and his new Philadelphian soldiers that evening. It had been just over two months since Butler had left a Minnesota ship taking water and...25954Thu, 07 Feb 2019 08:04:14 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/ryan-saunders-and-rejuvenating-a-stalled-timberwolves-defense-r25951/The Minnesota Timberwolves spent a chunk of Tuesday afternoon’s practice, before their victory Wednesday over the Memphis Grizzlies, specifically focusing on their pick-and-roll defense. They broke into 2-on-2 and 3-on-3 drills that focused specifically on any type of high ball-screen action that...25951Thu, 31 Jan 2019 07:46:46 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/point-andrew-wiggins-expands-timberwolves-%E2%80%98identity-r25949/At halftime of the Minnesota Timberwolves nationally televised matchup against the Los Angeles Lakers, TNT‘s Kenny Smith skipped a step. Smith didn’t even bother going to his big board to breakdown film from the first 24 minutes of the Wolves-Lakers game. Neither the Timberwolves nor the Lakers we...25949Fri, 25 Jan 2019 07:46:18 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/does-karl-anthony-towns-deserve-an-all-star-nod-r25948/Everyone’s voice is heard when it comes to assembling the NBA’s All-Star teams — it’s like a local town hall meeting of esteemed basketball minds. First, representing a swath of concerned townspeople, NBA fans make their personal convictions known by voting for their favorite players. Then, corpo...25948Fri, 25 Jan 2019 07:53:59 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/is-it-time-for-karl-anthony-towns-and-the-timberwolves-to-get-bigger-r25947/The Minnesota Timberwolves past week — which included losses to Philadelphia and San Antonio along with a pair of wins against Phoenix — was bookended by massive blowouts. First, it was a 42-point bruising at the hands of Philadelphia’s 7-foot-2 Joel Embiid, 250-pound Ben Simmons and (like him or...25947Wed, 23 Jan 2019 07:57:12 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/timberwolves-lost-their-%E2%80%98head-to-jimmy-butler-and-the-sixers-r25945/PHILADELPHIA — Ben Simmons was rummaging through his locker looking for a pair of shoes he misplaced before Tuesday night’s matchup against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Eventually, he gave up and handed the duty over to an equipment manager. In what appeared to be boredom, Simmons cleared the diame...25945Wed, 16 Jan 2019 07:37:40 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/ryan-saunders-isnt-flip-but-makes-minnesota-believe-because-he-could-be-r25942/If you’re a Minnesota Timberwolves fan and Ryan Saunders’ age (32) or younger, the Flip Saunders Era of Timberwolves basketball is a bit murky. Sure, the names like Rasho Nesterovic stick out and the memory of KG hopping on the scorer’s table after Game 7 against Sacramento is unforgettable — even...25942Sun, 13 Jan 2019 08:06:50 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/tom-thibodeau-left-the-minnesota-timberwolves-with-a-core-that-can-win-r25938/In February of 2016, four days before the All-Star Game, the Minnesota Timberwolves released a video called the “Rising Wolves Courtside Chat” in an effort to promote their young core. Karl-Anthony Towns, Andrew Wiggins and Zach LaVine sat side by side in the team’s new practice facility discussin...25938Mon, 07 Jan 2019 16:59:38 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/video-ryan-saunders-derrick-rose-and-karl-anthony-towns-react-to-the-tom-thibodeau-news-r25937/Everyone outside of a small circle of decision makers in the Minnesota Timberwolves organization were caught off-guard by the team’s decision to relieve Tom Thibodeau of his duties as president and head coach. For Ryan Saunders, 32, it’s an opportunity to coach the team that his father, Flip, was...25937Mon, 07 Jan 2019 14:38:31 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/tom-thibodeaus-ousting-allows-timberwolves-to-reconnect-to-youth-r25935/The morning after the Minnesota Timberwolves franchise officially broke their 14-season playoff drought in a 104-101 loss to the Houston Rockets in Game 1 of the 2018 playoffs, the Wolves had a Monday morning practice at Rice University. The small, hot college gymnasium was a short bus ride away...25935Mon, 07 Jan 2019 08:33:16 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/tom-thibodeau-fired-as-timberwolves-players-discuss-a-night-out-at-top-golf-r25934/In a shocking turn of events that followed back-to-back blowout victories by the Minnesota Timberwolves over the weekend, Tom Thibodeau has been fired as head coach, per The Athletic. For many fans of the franchise who had become fatigued during the Thibodeau-era, this news comes with a special g...25934Sun, 06 Jan 2019 18:57:36 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/the-minnesota-timberwolves-2019-financial-picture-r25932/The turn of a new year triggers the need to dust off a tool those who follow the Minnesota Timberwolves closely are all too familiar with: The dual lens. Twenty losses in the 2018 calendar year and a 21st Wednesday against the Boston Celtics means it is time to begin looking ahead at 2019 without...25932Thu, 03 Jan 2019 08:15:15 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/chicago-remains-enamored-by-and-%E2%80%98forever-proud-of-derrick-rose-r25929/CHICAGO — He’s just a guy you want to watch hoop. No, Derrick Rose isn’t for everybody, but for many, and certainly so much of Chicago, D-Rose embodies what a basketball fan wants to witness in-person. It’s the shimmy; the cross; the seemingly impossible changing of directions that baffles not onl...25929Thu, 27 Dec 2018 08:38:28 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/boarding-the-3-point-%E2%80%98bus-with-vintage-derrick-rose-r25926/Prior to Detroit’s 129-123 overtime victory over the Timberwolves Wednesday night at Target Center, the last time Derrick Rose and Blake Griffin faced off and both scored over 20 points in a game was Dec. 30, 2011. That night at the Staples Center, Griffin led the Los Angeles Clippers in scoring...25926Thu, 20 Dec 2018 08:06:06 +0000