All Things 2025-2026 Minnesota Timberwolves In-Season Thread

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For the moment, Wolves jump to the 4th seed with Denver's loss to Memphis.
Lakers and Rockets are in a close one.
 

Trade Ant...build around Pullin.

I really hope they keep Dosunmu in the starting lineup when Ant returns and move the frustratingly inconsistent DDV to the bench as one of the first guys in with Naz.
 


Slim Tubby said:
Trade Ant...build around Pullin.

I really hope they keep Dosunmu in the starting lineup when Ant returns and move the frustratingly inconsistent DDV to the bench as one of the first guys in with Naz.
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Ayo gets to the rim a lot more than I would have assumed. So quick.
I realize the Jazz are actively trying to lose, but the ball movement last night was outstanding.
 



Lakers play again tonight at Miami.
The Suns are the Spurs.

Lakers win and get a little more separation.
 
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Need a win tonight against Portland.
Edwards of course out and Reid listed as day to day.

Rockets at home against the Hawks as are the Nuggets against the Raptors
 


They just can't, and I mean can't, let me stress can't rebound. 20 second chance points tonight. It never ends and never will with this crew.

The wolves were up with under a minute to go and Portland misses, but they get the offensive rebound, they miss again and get the offensive rebound.......grant then buries the 3

They are just slow on their feet to rebound or get to the ball off the boards. It's not fixable and what holds them back.
 
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I don't normally hyperventilate like Kevin but.....seeing Randle casually jog three steps behind Grant on the last Portland action and then allow himself to be picked off by a Clingen nothing screen, giving Grant an easy look for the corner three, makes me want to start bold typing words.

Ten percent chance Julius is on the 26-27 roster.
 



TSJ looked to be blossoming into a player last year, but whether it's injury or whatever, he's gone backwards. Randle didn't do dick until the last few minutes and Rudy and his stone hands got outworked by Clingan and Williams. There should have been minutes for Beringer, but Finch refuses to play young guys, even when the guys on the floor aren't getting it done.
 



Breakin' The Plane said:
TSJ looked to be blossoming into a player last year, but whether it's injury or whatever, he's gone backwards. Randle didn't do dick until the last few minutes and Rudy and his stone hands got outworked by Clingan and Williams. There should have been minutes for Beringer, but Finch refuses to play young guys, even when the guys on the floor aren't getting it done.
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Beringer would have been destroyed by Clingan and Williams. They are selling the hell out of upside on Beringer but I haven't seen any actual momentum toward that upside this year, either in the occasional real minutes or garbage time. Given that the Randle/Naz pairing is a defensive open floodgate, if Finch thought Beringer would help at all he'd give him some minutes.
 


jamiche said:
I gave it 10% because Finch loves the guy and Randle might have diminished his market so much that it might not even be addition by subtraction. Gotta go karma on the 90%.
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Finch's job isn't safe either.

Randle isn't making that much money, they'll be able to dump him.
 

jamiche said:
Beringer would have been destroyed by Clingan and Williams. They are selling the hell out of upside on Beringer but I haven't seen any actual momentum toward that upside this year, either in the occasional real minutes or garbage time. Given that the Randle/Naz pairing is a defensive open floodgate, if Finch thought Beringer would help at all he'd give him some minutes.
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We were destroyed by them anyway.

Did you see the first half. It was a damn cakewalk to the rim. Absolutely embarrassing. Another one of those where you can't believe what your own eyes are seeing. Dunk after dunk after dunk with layup after layup in between.

Beringer would have at least tried. He would have at least contested.

Beringer should have absolutely entered the game in the first half. I was screaming to put him in there.
 

Finch talking about Randle and lack of rebounding, “…… Julius has three defensive rebounds. That’s not good enough. It’s just not good enough.”
 


kg21 said:
We were destroyed by them anyway.

Did you see the first half. It was a damn cakewalk to the rim. Absolutely embarrassing. Another one of those where you can't believe what your own eyes are seeing. Dunk after dunk after dunk with layup after layup in between.

Beringer would have at least tried. He would have at least contested.

Beringer should have absolutely entered the game in the first half. I was screaming to put him in there.
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TBH, I wasn't able to turn on the game until halftime. I didn't see the first half but I've seen them play plenty of bullshit defense this year. Having said that, Beringer is a boy playing against men at the moment. There's no doubt that he would try a helluva a lot harder than Randle and Jaden when he's in one of his moods. However, at the moment that translates into four fouls in eight minutes because he has no idea what he's doing. Hopefully, that changes before Rudy has lost it. He's Connelly's second "I'm smarter than the rest of the league" pick in a row.
 
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jamiche said:
Based on the career numbers, it would be a step up.
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Really?

That’s not what Jon K thinks/write in his column. It seems to me, the only reason they have a chance this year is because of Rudy’s D and that’s also why they made it to the conference finals the last two seasons.

Saying that the the four time DPOY doesn’t have more value than a overpaid SG is hilarious. See the bolded below from Jon’s article.

www.nytimes.com

One Timberwolves priority before the playoffs: Get Rudy Gobert involved on offense

Gobert's shaky hands make teammates reluctant to throw him the ball. But they need to learn to live with some mistakes.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com

Gobert is far too important to the Timberwolves’ hopes of finding another level in the playoffs to ignore. As Finch has said, he is a walking top-five defense unto himself, and the numbers have borne that out this season. When he is on the floor, the Wolves give up a staggering 11.8 fewer points per 100 possessions than when he is off, per Cleaning The Glass.

The Wolves also score 3.6 more points per 100 on offense when he is on the floor, which is not bad. His screening and offensive rebounding are additive properties to the offense, but they come with a ceiling that needs raising.
 

Gopher_In_NYC said:
Really?

That’s not what Jon K thinks/write in his column. It seems to me, the only reason they have a chance this year is because of Rudy’s D and that’s also why they made it to the conference finals the last two seasons.

Saying that the the four time DPOY doesn’t have more value than a overpaid SG is hilarious. See the bolded below from Jon’s article.

www.nytimes.com

One Timberwolves priority before the playoffs: Get Rudy Gobert involved on offense

Gobert's shaky hands make teammates reluctant to throw him the ball. But they need to learn to live with some mistakes.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com

Gobert is far too important to the Timberwolves’ hopes of finding another level in the playoffs to ignore. As Finch has said, he is a walking top-five defense unto himself, and the numbers have borne that out this season. When he is on the floor, the Wolves give up a staggering 11.8 fewer points per 100 possessions than when he is off, per Cleaning The Glass.

The Wolves also score 3.6 more points per 100 on offense when he is on the floor, which is not bad. His screening and offensive rebounding are additive properties to the offense, but they come with a ceiling that needs raising.
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The Wolves go as Rudy goes. This team is barely a play-in team without him Imo.
 



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