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<\/p>\nThe Wolves\u2019 Point Guard Conundrum: Welcome to the Quietest Panic in Minnesota<\/p>\n
Here we are. The slowest, most mind-numbing stretch on the NBA calendar. The Draft is done. Summer League is over. Free agency has been picked over like the bread aisle during a snowstorm warning.<\/p>\n
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For the Timberwolves, most of the big questions are already answered. Naz Reid? Back. Julius Randle? Back. Joe Ingles? Back (and probably stretching as we speak). Tim Connelly has locked in the core, kept the Wolves out of second-apron prison, and somehow balanced a roster that\u2019s good enough to contend right now without completely mortgaging the future. It\u2019s been a borderline masterclass of team-building.<\/p>\n
Except for one glaring problem.<\/p>\n
The Wolves have a hole at point guard big enough to drive the Target Center renovation plans through.<\/p>\n
Father Time vs. Baby Face<\/p>\n
Mike Conley has been nothing short of a godsend since arriving in what Wolves fans still calls The Mona Lisa Trade (a.k.a. shipping out D\u2019Angelo Russell for Conley and NAW). His steady hand and calming presence have been the perfect counterweight to Anthony Edwards\u2019 \u201cI might dunk on an aircraft carrier\u201d energy.<\/p>\n
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But Conley\u2019s 37. The decline in the 2024\u201325 season was noticeable, and unless Mike is secretly on the Tom Brady avocado ice cream plan, it\u2019s hard to imagine those minutes going back up. He\u2019s still valuable, still smart, still capable of winning you a playoff game or two. He\u2019s just not a \u201c30+ minutes a night, 82 games plus playoffs\u201d guy anymore. He\u2019s more like a really good band on a reunion tour\u2014you want them on stage for an hour, not three.<\/p>\n
Behind him? Rob Dillingham. Second-year guard. Occasional flashes of brilliance. Occasional \u201cthis is going to end in a turnover\u201d moments. And while Dillingham getting real reps is great for the long-term, are you ready to hand him the keys to a team that\u2019s been to back-to-back Western Conference Finals? Yeah, me neither.<\/p>\n
And then there\u2019s Donte DiVincenzo. Love his energy. Love his \u201crandomly hits five threes and swings a game in February\u201d potential. But running an offense? Not his thing. We saw how that movie ends against OKC in the playoffs, and it wasn\u2019t exactly Shawshank Redemption.<\/p>\n
The Free Agent Desert<\/p>\n
Minnesota\u2019s cap sheet is tighter than Sydney Sweeney\u2019s blue jeans. After re-signing Randle and Reid, the Wolves were always going to be scraping the veteran minimum barrel for a backup guard.<\/p>\n
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The names still floating around: Malcolm Brogdon. Amir Coffey. Monte Morris. Cameron Payne.<\/p>\n
None of these guys are going to send the Wolves surging up the power rankings, but they\u2019re also not useless. You just need one of them to come in, give you 15 minutes a night, and not steer the car into a ditch when Conley sits.<\/p>\n
So why hasn\u2019t Connelly made a move yet? Simple: leverage. None of these guys are going anywhere fast. The Wolves can afford to wait until camp. Maybe someone better shakes loose. Maybe a veteran gets bought out. Or maybe\u2014and here\u2019s the fun one\u2014maybe Kyle \u201cSlo-Mo\u201d Anderson makes his return.<\/p>\n
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2024 NBA Playoffs – Minnesota Timberwolves v Dallas Mavericks<\/p>\n
The Slo-Mo Reunion Tour?<\/p>\n
Hear me out.<\/p>\n
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Kyle Anderson\u2019s had a whirlwind year. Left Minnesota for Golden State. Got shipped to Miami in the Jimmy Butler trade. Ended up in Utah as part of a three-team deal. Now he\u2019s sitting on a tanking Jazz roster like a high-end wine at a frat party. He doesn\u2019t fit their timeline, and a buyout feels inevitable.<\/p>\n
And if that happens? The Wolves make the call.<\/p>\n
Is Anderson a true point guard? No. But he knows Finch\u2019s system. He can handle the ball in stretches. He\u2019s a versatile defender who can guard multiple positions, which is huge in the playoffs. He loved his time in Minnesota, and the locker room loved him back. For a team that needs a stabilizer behind Conley and isn\u2019t going to find a savior on the free agent market, bringing Slo-Mo back is about as logical as it gets.<\/p>\n
The Bigger Picture<\/p>\n
At the end of the day, this is the last piece of the puzzle. The Wolves are in rarefied air right now: a legit contender with a young superstar in Anthony Edwards, a deep core, and a GM who actually knows what he\u2019s doing. It\u2019s weird to type that sentence about the Minnesota Timberwolves, but here we are.<\/p>\n
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All that\u2019s missing is one more steady hand at point guard to bridge the gap between \u201caging Mike Conley\u201d and \u201cnot-quite-ready Rob Dillingham.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whether it\u2019s Brogdon, Monte, Slo-Mo, or some veteran buyout we haven\u2019t even thought of yet, Connelly\u2019s next move could be the one that locks this roster into place. If he gets it right, the Wolves won\u2019t just be chasing another Western Conference Finals appearance \u2014 they\u2019ll be sitting squarely in the conversation for something even bigger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wolves\u2019 Point Guard Conundrum: Welcome to the Quietest Panic in Minnesota Here we are. The slowest, most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[4040,375,7,4987,372,423,313,1441,376,2870,2729,295,371,307,152,3954,4499,520,6,4163,977,3687,3994,308,3460],"class_list":{"0":"post-208685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-timberwolves","8":"tag-amir-coffey","9":"tag-anthony-edwards","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-cameron-payne","12":"tag-donte-divincenzo","13":"tag-jazz","14":"tag-jimmy-butler","15":"tag-joe-ingles","16":"tag-julius-randle","17":"tag-kyle-anderson","18":"tag-malcolm-brogdon","19":"tag-miami","20":"tag-mike-conley","21":"tag-minnesota","22":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","23":"tag-minnesotatimberwolves","24":"tag-monte-morris","25":"tag-naz-reid","26":"tag-nba","27":"tag-point-guard","28":"tag-rob-dillingham","29":"tag-the-wolves","30":"tag-tim-connelly","31":"tag-timberwolves","32":"tag-western-conference-finals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114958361183025950","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}