What grade would you give the Timberwolves 2025 draft?

What grade would you give the Timberwolves 2025 draft?

  • A

    Votes: 4 21.1%

  • B

    Votes: 1 5.3%

  • C

    Votes: 9 47.4%

  • D

    Votes: 4 21.1%

  • F

    Votes: 1 5.3%
  • Total voters
    19
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What grade would you give the Timberwolves 2025 draft?
 

Not taking Walter Clayton, Jr. makes this draft an F.
 

I would like to hear from the “A” voters - don’t be shy.

I’m a C, as neither are likely to make significant contributions in the next couple seasons.
 

The only way it's a good grade is if the assignment was to not spend any money on new players. These players will not make next year's roster. We could have easily added needed scoring talent, instead we have two projects, both rim protecters that can't score and have trouble making free throws. The NBA continues to move heavily to a three-point shooters game, and we picked players that can't shoot.
 





I gave it a C only because there was no C+.

Overpay for sure. He doesn't play a lick of defense. And 5 years is one too many, but I get they kind of had to...

I'd rather have Naz than Randle.
 

GopherWeatherGuy said:
When you've lost in back to back WCF, a rookie isn't going to be the person that puts you over the top.
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Due to the salary cap, the draft was one of the few ways they could improve the roster for next year. They chose not to do that.

When you tell me that 17th picks don't play rotational minutes, plug it into one of the AI apps. There are at least twenty examples that contradict that statement.

For the folks who think Connelly is a draft master, for every Jokic and TSJ there's a Wendell Moore and a Rob Dillingham. It's very hit or miss. That's why at least one of the picks should have been with next year in mind.

The real draft master was Gersos.
 



jamiche said:
Due to the salary cap, the draft was one of the few ways they could improve the roster for next year. They chose not to do that.

When you tell me that 17th picks don't play rotational minutes, plug it into one of the AI apps. There are at least twenty examples that contradict that statement.

For the folks who think Connelly is a draft master, for every Jokic and TSJ there's a Wendell Moore and a Rob Dillingham. It's very hit or miss. That's why at least one of the picks should have been with next year in mind.

The real draft master was Gersos.
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The odds of the Wolves running it back with the same roster next year are near zero. They didn't make the KAT trade until Oct 3rd last year. There's plenty of time to make a move.

The Wolves have 3 guys that barely played in the playoffs would likely play ahead of whoever they drafted at 17, TSJ, Clark, and Dillingham. And already writing off Rob Dillingham, who was the 8th pick last year and is only 20, is dumb.
 

GopherWeatherGuy said:
The odds of the Wolves running it back with the same roster next year are near zero. They didn't make the KAT trade until Oct 3rd last year. There's plenty of time to make a move.

The Wolves have 3 guys that barely played in the playoffs would likely play ahead of whoever they drafted at 17, TSJ, Clark, and Dillingham. And already writing off Rob Dillingham, who was the 8th pick last year and is only 20, is dumb.
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Then Finch is dumb or at least not as smart as you. He played Rob 500 minutes last year, probably around 400 of those minutes were in garbage time. This was after TC announced they wer going to throw him in there no matter what. Playing ahead of him was a 37 year old who barely cracked the top 30 at the spot for the season and three guys who aren’t pg’s. The other young guys who didn’t play were slotted at positions that were loaded.
 

tikited said:
I gave it a C only because there was no C+.

Overpay for sure. He doesn't play a lick of defense. And 5 years is one too many, but I get they kind of had to...

I'd rather have Naz than Randle.
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Wrong thread?
 

jamiche said:
Then Finch is dumb or at least not as smart as you. He played Rob 500 minutes last year, probably around 400 of those minutes were in garbage time. This was after TC announced they wer going to throw him in there no matter what. Playing ahead of him was a 37 year old who barely cracked the top 30 at the spot for the season and three guys who aren’t pg’s. The other young guys who didn’t play were slotted at positions that were loaded.
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I think what blew up Tim's plan was trading for ddv. Finch loves vets, gave him a reason to not play Dilly.much
 



I love the first round pick. He's a freak athlete and will get to learn from Rudy. But I was all in on rashard fleming and they passed on him in 2nd round

I settled in on a C because of that miss.
 

GopherWeatherGuy said:
The odds of the Wolves running it back with the same roster next year are near zero. They didn't make the KAT trade until Oct 3rd last year. There's plenty of time to make a move.

The Wolves have 3 guys that barely played in the playoffs would likely play ahead of whoever they drafted at 17, TSJ, Clark, and Dillingham. And already writing off Rob Dillingham, who was the 8th pick last year and is only 20, is dumb.
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And as we know, Finch hates rookies and youth
 

jamiche said:
Then Finch is dumb or at least not as smart as you. He played Rob 500 minutes last year, probably around 400 of those minutes were in garbage time. This was after TC announced they wer going to throw him in there no matter what. Playing ahead of him was a 37 year old who barely cracked the top 30 at the spot for the season and three guys who aren’t pg’s. The other young guys who didn’t play were slotted at positions that were loaded.
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Rob just turned 20 halfway through the season. How many 19 year olds join a WCF team and make a significant impact? Very few.

Complain all you want about Conley but he's been in the league almost as long as Rob has been alive. Conley also wasn't great his first few years in the league despite getting more PT. It takes time for young PGs to develop.
 


jamiche said:
It's almost as if the wolves thought they won the championship and there were no holes to fill on the current roster.
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Or they thought the holes wouldn't be filled by a second rounder on a team that just added three first rounds in the last two drafts (Dilly, Shannon, and Berringer).
 

GopherWeatherGuy said:
Rob just turned 20 halfway through the season. How many 19 year olds join a WCF team and make a significant impact? Very few.

Complain all you want about Conley but he's been in the league almost as long as Rob has been alive. Conley also wasn't great his first few years in the league despite getting more PT. It takes time for young PGs to develop.
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He's 5 years younger than TSJ.
 

GopherWeatherGuy said:
Rob just turned 20 halfway through the season. How many 19 year olds join a WCF team and make a significant impact? Very few.

Complain all you want about Conley but he's been in the league almost as long as Rob has been alive. Conley also wasn't great his first few years in the league despite getting more PT. It takes time for young PGs to develop.
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Our best player also logged a ton of minutes at PG. I don't know if Dilly makes it but to say that Finch is writing him off because he couldn't get significant minutes on a team with Edwards, DDV, NAW, and Conley is silly.

For better or worse, Finch doesn't view the backcourt as having a PG and a SG. In 2024, we traded for Monte Morris as a backup PG and barely played him. SlowMo logged more minutes as a point guard than Morris. This was the same thing as 2023, we played 1 true PG (Russell and then Conley).

Last year, Dilly (19) was competing with DDV (27), TSJ (24), Conley (36), NAW (25) and Ant.
 

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