[Bleacher Report] Will Your Favorite NBA Team Be Better or Worse In 2023-24?
July 30, 2023
[Bleacher Report] Will Your Favorite NBA Team Be Better or Worse In 2023-24?
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“Wholesale concerns persist for the Minnesota Timberwolves. Their big man dynamic is at best untested, at worst a sham.
Paying Naz Reid only complicates their defining curiosity. He has a viable floor game and did a better job stretching the floor by the end of last season, but Minnesota was a decided negative whenever he shared the floor with Rudy Gobert or Karl-Anthony Towns.
Those samples aren’t nearly large enough to be deemed telltale. Really, that describes this entire roster.
Gobert and Towns played in only 27 regular-season games together. The Timberwolves’ projected best five-man unit—Gobert, Towns, Mike Conley, Anthony Edwards, Jaden McDaniels—has a whopping seven appearances under its belt.
Additional time together will improve Minnesota’s outlook. And it continues to have “boom” potential.
Edwards is tracking toward All-NBA consideration. His growth on offense both as a scoring and playmaking engine is terrifying. Not enough was made of how much McDaniels expanded his offense. Ditto for Reid. Nickeil Alexander-Walker looked good after coming over from Utah. Taurean Prince mattered, and Troy Brown Jr. is worse. But NAW played tons of 3 in Minnesota. Shake Milton upgrades the bench’s backcourt.
This team is more than its speculative headlines.”
I ask an ai.
Why do Timberwolves continue to fail in playoffs?
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>*The Minnesota Timberwolves have had a difficult time in the playoffs. They have been one of the unluckiest teams due to suspensions, injuries and COVID-related problems at the start of their campaign1. However, their recent four-game win-streak shows what they would have been capable of if they had some luck on their side during the season1.* > >*According to an article by The Guardian, successful NBA teams aren’t math but science. The theory that teams are just a sum of their parts – and thus the higher profile and more talented the parts, the better the team – has been disproved time and time again. Sure, having a superstar or two is incredibly helpful (and maybe even necessary) for summiting the highest heights of NBA success, but it’s not a the-more-All-Stars-the-merrier proposition. One needs look no further than the smoldering pile of rubble that was the hopes for a championship of the Big Three in Brooklyn, or last year’s disastrous Los Angeles Lakers, for evidence that more isn’t always more when it comes to superstar talent. And yet, despite its definitively unsatisfactory track record, teams seem to try this method time and time again. The most recent example of this insanity-borne-out can be found in the frozen tundra of Minneapolis. The Minnesota Timberwolves have been, to put it mildly, a historically underwhelming franchise2.* > >*I hope this helps!*
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“Wholesale concerns persist for the Minnesota Timberwolves. Their big man dynamic is at best untested, at worst a sham.
Paying Naz Reid only complicates their defining curiosity. He has a viable floor game and did a better job stretching the floor by the end of last season, but Minnesota was a decided negative whenever he shared the floor with Rudy Gobert or Karl-Anthony Towns.
Those samples aren’t nearly large enough to be deemed telltale. Really, that describes this entire roster.
Gobert and Towns played in only 27 regular-season games together. The Timberwolves’ projected best five-man unit—Gobert, Towns, Mike Conley, Anthony Edwards, Jaden McDaniels—has a whopping seven appearances under its belt.
Additional time together will improve Minnesota’s outlook. And it continues to have “boom” potential.
Edwards is tracking toward All-NBA consideration. His growth on offense both as a scoring and playmaking engine is terrifying. Not enough was made of how much McDaniels expanded his offense. Ditto for Reid. Nickeil Alexander-Walker looked good after coming over from Utah. Taurean Prince mattered, and Troy Brown Jr. is worse. But NAW played tons of 3 in Minnesota. Shake Milton upgrades the bench’s backcourt.
This team is more than its speculative headlines.”
I ask an ai.
Why do Timberwolves continue to fail in playoffs?
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>*The Minnesota Timberwolves have had a difficult time in the playoffs. They have been one of the unluckiest teams due to suspensions, injuries and COVID-related problems at the start of their campaign1. However, their recent four-game win-streak shows what they would have been capable of if they had some luck on their side during the season1.*
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>*According to an article by The Guardian, successful NBA teams aren’t math but science. The theory that teams are just a sum of their parts – and thus the higher profile and more talented the parts, the better the team – has been disproved time and time again. Sure, having a superstar or two is incredibly helpful (and maybe even necessary) for summiting the highest heights of NBA success, but it’s not a the-more-All-Stars-the-merrier proposition. One needs look no further than the smoldering pile of rubble that was the hopes for a championship of the Big Three in Brooklyn, or last year’s disastrous Los Angeles Lakers, for evidence that more isn’t always more when it comes to superstar talent. And yet, despite its definitively unsatisfactory track record, teams seem to try this method time and time again. The most recent example of this insanity-borne-out can be found in the frozen tundra of Minneapolis. The Minnesota Timberwolves have been, to put it mildly, a historically underwhelming franchise2.*
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>*I hope this helps!*
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I hope this helps!