Britt Robson has covered the Timberwolves since 1990 for City Pages, The Rake, SportsIllustrated.com and The Athletic. He also has written about all forms and styles of music for over 30 years.
Bottom line, this was a disappointing season, made more so by a raising of the bar while the actual teamwork performance was lowered. But miraculously, the future isn’t mortgaged.
After 85 games, it is time to stop regarding moments of sunlight from a chronically inconsistent team as evidence of viable breakthroughs.
Wolves will need solid contributions from KAT, Ant and Conley to advance past Oklahoma City on Friday.
Or is there more this Timberwolves team has to offer as we close out the season?
Timberwolves seem to gel as the season is down to the last five games.
For one night KAT and the Wolves had an answer to some of the questions that have increasingly been pockmarking our perception of this team, and his role on it.
Mediocrity has been about the only consistent thing about the team this season.
As of Tuesday morning, the Wolves improbably found themselves with the sixth-best record in the muddled Western Conference, a slot in the standings that would enable them to avoid the play-in mini-tournament.
Amid the focus on the Rudy Gobert trade and the rise of Ant, Jaden McDaniels continues to shine.
This time around, a lot of you wanted to talk about the performance of Coach Chris Finch, and the re-acclimation of KAT if and when he is finally health enough to rejoin the rotation.
On Monday, a glorious synergy was on display for long portions of the game against a formidable Mavericks opponent. And there are reasons to think it might stick around with more reliable frequency over the remainder of the season.
On Sunday at 4 p.m., Bates and Hanson will celebrate the release of “Weights and Measures” with a performance in the space where it was recorded: Christ Lutheran Church on Capitol Hill.
Over those three years, the Wolves roster took on many different shapes, skill sets and personalities. D’Lo never comfortably fit into any of them.
In year three of the Ant Experience, our sense of anticipation and imagination of what the wunderkind might become can no longer be unfettered.
Almost all of their weaknesses — poor rebounding, difficulty competing effectively in transition basketball on both offense and defense, a proclivity for turnovers, and bouts of selfish offense manifested through wretched shot selection — stem from an inattention to detail and effort. In other words, mental and physical laziness.
There are plenty of people who believe letting DLo walk is more beneficial than the poor fit and the (they believe) poor attitude that comes with his virtues in exchange for all that money.
Analyzing the first half of the frustrating Wolves up and down season; plus Zoom with Britt tonight at 5.
Local vibraphonists Steve Yeager, Dave Hagedorn, Steve Roehm and Levi Schwartzberg pay tribute to the late musician on the 100th anniversary of his birth.
It was that 48 hours after being psychologically shredded by the NBA-worst Detroit Pistons on Saturday night, the Timberwolves came back to thump a Denver Nuggets team that had lost just two of 12 games since Dec. 8.
The Wolves have won six of 10 games since KAT went down with a significant calf strain. They have won three in a row since Gobert joined him on the injured list.
