All Things 2023-2024 Minnesota Timberwolves In-Season Thread

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GopherWeatherGuy said:
So what’s your fixation on needing a PG then? Do you not understand how today’s basketball functions?

I’m a prick to those who are full of shit, and never admit when you’re wrong. You have a long, proven track record of that.
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Well, I don't know if you've noticed, but when the ball is in all of these other guys hands as the ball handler, we turn it over at a disturbing rate.
 


Kyle Anderson should not have been starting this game. Yes Rudy is out. but Reid should have started over Anderson. Finch screw that one up.
 

gophersfan said:
Kyle Anderson should not have been starting this game. Yes Rudy is out. but Reid should have started over Anderson. Finch screw that one up.
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Nets 45 Wolves 42 at the Half. Game is damn near unwatchable.

Guess the thought was that with Rudy out, if you start Reid with Towns then you have no Center left to play off the bench.

Which happened when Reid limped off the court with a bad ankle after only bringing able to play 11 minutes in the Half.

The bench has again been awful. Providing all of 4pts. Morris has been decent. The rest, along with McDaniels, have been brutal. It's also another game where nobody wants to shoot the ball.
 

Per Shooter:

It still looks like the $1.5 billion sale of the Timberwolves and Lynx will happen. But up until at least last week, there was an awkward silence on behalf of the buyers.

The initial deadline for the sale to Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore was Dec. 31. Another deadline granted by owner Glen Taylor had been pushed back until this Thursday, presumably for Rodriguez and Lore to acquire more capital.

Don’t be surprised if yet another deadline is granted beyond Thursday.

Word is the buyers still need $600 million to close the deal. For a transaction of this magnitude, a lack of correspondence between the buyers and seller has been puzzling.

Taylor hadn’t heard from the buyers in at least a month, but he has remained patient. At age 82 he’s already a double-billionaire and hardly in need of cash.

— Rodriguez and Lore are in the process of bringing new partners into the deal, but those have been unknown, even to Taylor, who if he’s to become a 20 percent partner, as initially was planned, would like to know the conditions. Taylor’s group on Jan. 3 requested pertinent information from the buyers without response.

Taylor remains the Timberwolves-Lynx owner and oversees all transactions. It’s been under his final say and direction that the Wolves have become the Western Conference’s co-leader.

— What’s especially interesting about the sale is that although Rodriguez and Lore plan to be majority owners, they’re not expected to own more than 24 percent of the team. The NBA requires only 15 percent, which is surprising.

There’s whispering that an outside equity firm is going to invest $300 million in the deal, but it won’t have decision-making rights. It would have investment value in a league where the average team now is worth an estimated $2.7 billion. Besides the equity firm, five limited investors are expected to join for a total 10 percent.

— Of note is that if Rodriguez and Lore were to buy Taylor out entirely, there is language in the sales agreement that the deal would be worth more than the original $1.5 billion price.

www.twincities.com

Charley Walters: Timberwolves buyers may need another extension

It still looks like the $1.5 billion sale of the Timberwolves and Lynx will happen. But up until at least last week, there was an awkward silence on behalf of the buyers. The initial deadline for t…
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Howl Wolves!!
 


As much shit as Karl took for years about his whining, Edwards has somehow blown by him and left him in the rear view mirror.
 

Mike Conley hit a 3 pointer and Dennis Schröder didn't like it and shove Conley.
 

gophersfan said:
Mike Conley hit a 3 pointer and Dennis Schröder didn't like it and shove Conley.
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Just an idiotic move on Schroder's part. The Wolves let the play clock run down to a second or two and fired up a shot, but there was still 23 seconds left in the game. That's not running up the score!
 

A pretty bad game with Towns keeping the Wolves in it for 3 Quarters but a good 4th Quarter from the whole starting five, including McDaniels (!) put the game away. Now the Wolves just have to watch out for those upcoming back-to-backs.

Hopefully Gobert and Reid can be healthy for those and the bench can contribute something.

Timberwolves bounce back with blowout victory over Nets​

The Wolves held a reeling Brooklyn team that was playing its second game under interim coach Kevin Ollie, to 34% shooting, 17% from three-point range.

With Rudy Gobert out because of a sore ankle, the Timberwolves' defense didn't skip a beat in Saturday's matchup against the Nets while the team's offense continued its struggles from the night before in a loss to Milwaukee.

That meant Saturday turned into a brick-fest, but it was one that'll count in the win column for the Wolves after they eventually took down the Nets 101-86.

Karl-Anthony Towns provided enough offense for the Wolves throughout the night with 28 points on 8-for-17 as the team shot 43% overall. But the Wolves held a reeling Brooklyn team that was playing its second game under interim coach Kevin Ollie, to 34%, 17% from three-point range.

Anthony Edwards finished strong with 29 points on 11-for-23 as he still searched for a rhythm coming out of the All-Star break. He found a bit of it in the fourth. Edwards hit a pair of buckets in four minutes that helped the Wolves put the game away with a 93-81 lead late. Then his reverse layup through traffic got the crowd to its feet with 1:52 to play.

There was some controversy late after Mike Conley hit a three with 22.5 seconds left, and Brooklyn's Dennis Schroder took exception to Conley attempting the shot with the game out of reach. Jaden McDaniels shoved Schroder and it took time for tempers to settle. Upon review, officials handed out technicals to Schroder, McDaniels, Dorian Finney-Smith and Nickeil Alexander-Walker to cap the night..

www.startribune.com

Timberwolves bounce back with blowout victory over Nets

The Wolves held a reeling Brooklyn team that was playing its second game under interim coach Kevin Ollie, to 34% shooting, 17% from three-point range.
www.startribune.com www.startribune.com
 




BleedGopher said:
Per Shooter:

It still looks like the $1.5 billion sale of the Timberwolves and Lynx will happen. But up until at least last week, there was an awkward silence on behalf of the buyers.

The initial deadline for the sale to Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore was Dec. 31. Another deadline granted by owner Glen Taylor had been pushed back until this Thursday, presumably for Rodriguez and Lore to acquire more capital.

Don’t be surprised if yet another deadline is granted beyond Thursday.

Word is the buyers still need $600 million to close the deal. For a transaction of this magnitude, a lack of correspondence between the buyers and seller has been puzzling.

Taylor hadn’t heard from the buyers in at least a month, but he has remained patient. At age 82 he’s already a double-billionaire and hardly in need of cash.

— Rodriguez and Lore are in the process of bringing new partners into the deal, but those have been unknown, even to Taylor, who if he’s to become a 20 percent partner, as initially was planned, would like to know the conditions. Taylor’s group on Jan. 3 requested pertinent information from the buyers without response.

Taylor remains the Timberwolves-Lynx owner and oversees all transactions. It’s been under his final say and direction that the Wolves have become the Western Conference’s co-leader.

— What’s especially interesting about the sale is that although Rodriguez and Lore plan to be majority owners, they’re not expected to own more than 24 percent of the team. The NBA requires only 15 percent, which is surprising.

There’s whispering that an outside equity firm is going to invest $300 million in the deal, but it won’t have decision-making rights. It would have investment value in a league where the average team now is worth an estimated $2.7 billion. Besides the equity firm, five limited investors are expected to join for a total 10 percent.

— Of note is that if Rodriguez and Lore were to buy Taylor out entirely, there is language in the sales agreement that the deal would be worth more than the original $1.5 billion price.

www.twincities.com

Charley Walters: Timberwolves buyers may need another extension

It still looks like the $1.5 billion sale of the Timberwolves and Lynx will happen. But up until at least last week, there was an awkward silence on behalf of the buyers. The initial deadline for t…
www.twincities.com www.twincities.com

Howl Wolves!!
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As usual, Shooter isn't entirely accurate. Lore and ARod had until the end of December to give notice of their intent to exercise their option to make the final payment, which they did. My understanding is that 2/29 is the funding date, which it appears they are going to miss.

The rest of Shooter's article seems consistent with the WSJ article that reported that ARod and Lore are scrambling for funding.
 

GopherWeatherGuy said:
So what’s your fixation on needing a PG then? Do you not understand how today’s basketball functions?

I’m a prick to those who are full of shit, and never admit when you’re wrong. You have a long, proven track record of that.
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You announced Ant (ast/to ratio 1.6:1) was your pg. Now you've announced that there's no need for a pg.
 

Breakin' The Plane said:
As much shit as Karl took for years about his whining, Edwards has somehow blown by him and left him in the rear view mirror.
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There's some number of techs that gets a player suspended for a game. Ant has to be getting close to it. He's not going to get calls when he drives one on four and he's not going to get calls when he waves his arms after every play. He's lucky he didn't get tossed last night when he kept complaining after the first T.
 



jamiche said:
There's some number of techs that gets a player suspended for a game. Ant has to be getting close to it. He's not going to get calls when he drives one on four and he's not going to get calls when he waves his arms after every play. He's lucky he didn't get tossed last night when he kept complaining after the first T.
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You get suspended one (1) game for your 16th TF and the suspension increases by one (1) game for every two (2) after that.

Ant - 10
Jaden - 5
Rudy - 4
Naz - 4

I didn't see a single one for KAT which says a lot about him being able to control his emotions better this year. He should give a copy of that manual to Ant. He should've got tossed last night and someone should've punched Shroeder in the face.
 

Breakin' The Plane said:
As much shit as Karl took for years about his whining, Edwards has somehow blown by him and left him in the rear view mirror.
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He's bitching and moaning all the time so he never gets back on defense.

It's disturbing and hurting the team.
 


OKC beat Houston. Seemed to get better as the game went on. They play each other again on Tuesday in OKC
 

fan of Ray Williams said:
OKC beat Houston. Seemed to get better as the game went on. They play each other again on Tuesday in OKC
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Saw that Houston was ahead at the Half, but didn't check-in after that.

Wolves host the Spurs Tuesday night and then host Memphis on Wednesday. The 2nd of three back-back games in 7 days.
 
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All those percentages still leave room for teams ranked 1 to fail...We're a MN team so naturally...
 

Refs gift wrap a victory to a team again last night. This time it was the Knicks who got the benefit of it and Donte DiVencenzo was involved, again. The only surprising thing was the refs admitted their mistake. After the game of course.

NEW YORK -- After the Knicks escaped with a 113-111 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Monday night -- in large part because of an obvious missed call with 8.5 seconds left when New York guard Donte DiVincenzo plowed into Detroit forward Ausar Thompson -- Pistons coach Monty Williams delivered a tirade over what he deemed a season's worth of mistreatment from the officials.

"The absolute worst call of the season," Williams said a few minutes after the game. He arrived in the media room before any reporters could get there and did not answer any questions after issuing his statement about the game's final sequence. "No call, and enough's enough. We've done it the right way. We've called the league. We've sent in clips. We're sick of hearing the same stuff over and over again..

Referee James Williams, the crew chief, was standing right on top of the play, which occurred during a frenetic closing sequence, and admitted in a pool report after the game that it should have been called a foul.

"Upon postgame review, we determined that Thompson gets to the ball first and then was deprived of the opportunity to gain possession of the ball," James Williams said. "Therefore, a loose ball foul should have been whistled on New York's Donte DiVincenzo..


www.espn.com

Referee admits a missed foul as 'livid' Pistons lose

A season's worth of frustration seemed to pour out of Pistons coach Monty Williams on Monday after Detroit dropped a 113-111 decision to the Knicks in a game that included an obvious missed foul call on New York's Donte DiVincenzo with 8.5 seconds left.
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Showing Towns as a GTD for tonight.
Reading a good friend of his passed away.
 
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Those two injuries made me nervous, particularly with the Wolves playing again tomorrow night. Though nice to see the bench contribute tonight too.

That said, Wembanyama, if he stays healthy and they get him some help, may end-up being an all time great.
 
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