It\u2019s been quite a while since a preseason storyline completely hijacked the fanbase quite like the Timberwolves\u2019 backup point guard conundrum.<\/p>\n
Our SBNation Reacts question this week was supposed to be a simple poll. A fun little barbershop debate. Donte DiVincenzo? Rob Dillingham? Bones Hyland? Who\u2019s gonna matter most as the non-Mike-Conley adult in the room?<\/p>\n
Then Chris Finch just said, \u201cPlot twist \u2014 what if Mike Conley isn\u2019t even the starter?\u201d like he was Shyamalan re-writing the script at the final table read.<\/p>\n
And now we\u2019re two games into the season and, yeah, the point guard spot is officially a Five-Alarm Situation.<\/p>\n
Little did we know Finch wasn\u2019t just dipping his toe into experimentation. He cannonballed into it like a middle-schooler at a hotel pool.<\/p>\n
Two games in, here\u2019s where we are<\/p>\n
What\u2019s the real takeaway?<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t solved. At all.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s terrifying if you\u2019re a Wolves fan with title aspirations.<\/p>\n
The Wolves have 80 games left, a card up their sleeve in GM in Tim Connelly, and a legitimate title window that shuts if there isn\u2019t a capable ballhandler on the team. If they don\u2019t figure this out internally, they will go hunting.<\/p>\n
We hope DiVincenzo stabilizes.<\/p>\n
We pray Conley finds the Fountain of Youth.<\/p>\n
We watch Bones like a stock about to either 5x or go to zero.<\/p>\n
We wait for Dillingham to eventually\u2026 well, play basketball.<\/p>\n
And we enter every fourth quarter holding our collective breath.<\/p>\n
This is the ride. Buckle in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been quite a while since a preseason storyline completely hijacked the fanbase quite like the Timberwolves\u2019 backup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[7,307,152,3954,6,308,11376],"class_list":{"0":"post-366628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-timberwolves","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","11":"tag-minnesotatimberwolves","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-timberwolves","14":"tag-timberwolves-analysis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115436283819921563","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366628","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=366628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}