From Anthony Edwards to Vit Krejci, breaking down Timberwolves roster as camp looms
Bigs
Starters: PF
Karl-Anthony Towns, C Rudy Gobert
Bench: Naz Reid,
Luka Garza (two-way),
Leonard Miller
Moneymakers: Why waste any time beating around the bush when we can get right to the crux of this team’s roster construction? The Timberwolves made the audacious decision in 2022 to move Towns from center to power forward and acquire Gobert to form a two-big lineup with the vision of a bully-ball style approach. Gobert was supposed to address the defensive and rebounding weaknesses that doomed Minnesota in a playoff loss to Memphis in 2022. But Towns missed 52 games because of injury and Gobert was not the game-changing force in his first season in Minnesota that he was in Utah.
The hope in Year 2 is that the Wolves are more familiar with how to play around Gobert to make it easier for him to be impactful on both ends of the court. Fresh off Towns’ strong performance with the Dominican Republic in the World Cup, the Wolves know they are getting a healthy and fresh player from the outset of training camp after he missed most of it last year with an infection. Gobert also was slowed with a sore knee coming off of a run to the EuroBasket finals with France.
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Position by position, it is a roster that appears, on the surface, to be as deep as any the Wolves have had in recent seasons.
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