All Things 2023-2024 Minnesota Timberwolves In-Season Thread

[Slim Tubby]

Curry officially out tonight. We should abuse them tonight.

This should allow us to put McDaniels on Klay after chasing Steph around on Sunday.

We should win but I worry about the Wolves relaxing a bit with this news. Kuminga has been terrific this year but was horrific last game. He's due to put up some #'s tonight.

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

Watching NBA Tip Off before SA and OKC game and they were talking about how Ant is playing at an All NBA level, ala first team.

 

[Slim Tubby]

With MN sports as it is, Saric and Podz will probably combine for 50 tonight.

 

[Rex]

Fireworks early

 

[stocker08]

Wow. McDaniels and Thompson ejected for getting into a tussle less than two minutes into the game. Dirtbag Draymond also gets ejected for putting Gobert into a headlock.

 

[7Gopher7]

Green is a bum

 

[Iceland12]

All three ejections took place when the score was zero to zero. Looked like Green just wanted to get the hell out of the arena.

 

[stocker08]

We got good KAT tonight.

 

[7Gopher7]

Saw a video of the choke hold by Green. He should be suspended 10 games minimum for that.

 

[tikited]

Green is a bum

He and Thompson didn't want to play. The rest of the team wants it a lot more than the Wolves do.

 

[Frink]

Really odd that on a night like tonight KAT is the one staying calm and focused.

 

[tikited]

Really odd that on a night like tonight KAT is the one staying calm and focused.

You were saying...

 

[Frink]

You were saying...

Ha. I stand by it though. Haven't seen him committing stupid fouls then shrieking at the ref

 

[BleedGopher]

Wow this was an impressive win! Even with GSW having its stars out, this is absolutely a game we'd lose by double digits in any other year.

This team is different.

Howl Wolves!!

 

[atsgopher]

I'm actually surprised there isn't more chatter in this thread considering we're MN sports fans who constantly deal with failure and the Wolves are .5 games back of leading the west right now and have wins over 2 of the best teams in the NBA and a road win vs Golden State.

Can’t chatter still holding breath.

 

[BleedGopher]

Howl Wolves!!

 

[BleedGopher]

Howl Wolves!!

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

All three ejections took place when the score was zero to zero.

First time that’s happened in 25 years per ESPN.

Reminds me a bit of the Stars playoff game where they dropped the gloves at the face off against Boston (IIRC), and even Neal Broten was scraping.

You gotta show them, bully ball doesn’t work & won’t be tolerated!

Looked like Green just wanted to get the hell out of the arena.

 

[kg21]

 

[Iceland12]

In a win made possible by KAT's play, the Wolves beat the Warrior's 104-101. If the NBA actually has a Commissioner he will suspend Draymond Green for a week or so and make sure that the Warriors don't reimburse him for the lost days. The game itself was an interesting and pretty unwatchable one. Maybe that's why Bally's kept cutting us out.

Wolves won their 7th straight and play the Suns in Phoenix tonight at 8:00

 

[kg21]

All three ejections took place when the score was zero to zero. Looked like Green just wanted to get the hell out of the arena.

Green is now 44-72 while playing with Curry out of the lineup.

Steph has carried his ass for years. Green plays hard, sets huge screens, and gives his all, but if heplayed for Detroit all these years, you'd barely know he exists. He is basically unguarded when the playoffs come.

 

[Blizzard]

I predict that Green will be broke and will eventually land in prison after his NBA career is over.

 

[Iceland12]

One other note on the Warriors. Brandin Podziemski seems to be the real deal.

 

[Iceland12]

In a win made possible by KAT's play, the Wolves beat the Warrior's 104-101. If the NBA actually has a Commissioner he will suspend Draymond Green for a week or so and make sure that the Warriors don't reimburse him for the lost days. The game itself was an interesting and pretty unwatchable one. Maybe that's why Bally's kept cutting us out.

Wolves won their 7th straight and play the Suns in Phoenix tonight at 8:00

The Suns should have their Big Three, Durant, Booker and Beal, together for the time tonight against the Wolves.

Big 3: What to watch for in Suns' debut of Devin Booker, Kevin Durant, Bradley Beal

Devin Booker, Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal have yet to play a regular season game together for the Phoenix Suns (4-6).

www.azcentral.com

 

[kg21]

Look at these 3 ass clowns. It is all McDaniels and Goeberts fault. Skip is actually right here.

The comments below the video are just mocking these clowns.

 

[Iceland12]

Look at these 3 ass clowns. It is all McDaniels and Goeberts fault. Skip is actually right here.

The comments below the video are just mocking these clowns.

It sure is. They're just protecting their access to players with higher profile.

But bless the commenters. They saw right through it.

 

[Ski U Mah Gopher]

It sure is. They're just protecting their access to platers with higher profile.

But bless the commenters. They saw right through it.

Notice ESPN, FS1, etc. showed only Kerr.

The only place to see Finch was his post-gamer on Bally's.

 

[tmvander]

Meh big deal what those guys all think...Draymond is an irrelevant moron in this league and GS as a team are becoming an irrelevant mess. They played a nice game last night without their stars but they will struggle this year and if Curry is banged up at all they'll lose to any team they play.

 

[7Gopher7]

Look at these 3 ass clowns. It is all McDaniels and Goeberts fault. Skip is actually right here.

The comments below the video are just mocking these clowns.

It was really funny when they were trying to say McDaniels threw a punch and even tried showing Skip where the “punch” was thrown.

 

[Iceland12]

ESPN Weekly Power Rankings

5. Minnesota Timberwolves
2023-24 record: 8-2

• Previous ranking: 6
  
• Next games PHX (Nov. 15), @ NO (Nov. 18), vs. NY (Nov. 20)

The Timberwolves begin the week with the NBA's top-ranked defense, leading the league in defensive rating, opponent field goal percentage and 3-point percentage, led by center Rudy Gobert, who looks like a Defensive Player of the Year candidate once again. All-star center Karl-Anthony Towns is emerging from an early-season fog, averaging 21 points, 9 rebounds and 43% from 3, over his past five games. Minnesota is in the midst of a five-game road trip, finishing up the week with matchups against the Suns and Pelicans before returning home to host the Knicks next week. -- Jamal Collier

NBA Power Rankings: Mavs climb the ranks, while OKC and Wolves assert themselves in top 10

We're almost a month into the 2023-24 NBA season, and a lot has unfolded in just a few weeks, including a rapid rise for the Mavericks and a Warriors drop.

www.espn.com