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Great expectations: the Minnesota Timberwolves 2017-18 season preview
Welcome to the first step on what should be a thrilling — and expensive — road to relevance.
Britt Robson
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Timberwolves media day takeaway: Can Butler and Wiggins play nice together?
After years of disappointments, the Wolves are suddenly expected to make the playoffs this season. Should we believe the hype?
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Nobody should be surprised by the way Tom Thibodeau has remade the Timberwolves
After a series of moves — including trading Ricky Rubio to Utah — the 2017-18 Timberwolves will be older, blunter, bruising, expensive and better.
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Jimmy Butler brings everything the Timberwolves need. And more.
Butler is the best player the Timberwolves have ever acquired via a trade in the 28-year history of the franchise — and an absolutely perfect fit given the team’s current circumstances.
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The Timberwolves’ new logo might as well be a question mark
Thibs, Wiggins and Towns are inextricably tied to each other. Can they synergize their extraordinary skills in a manner that elevates the Timberwolves?
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Is Tom Thibodeau getting through to his players?
A coach of Thibs’ pedigree deserves a season-long mulligan if it is prelude to the great leap forward. But that mulligan has eight games left. Then that vaunted reputation is on the clock.
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Will the Wolves ever develop the ability to play sustained team defense?
The brief and predictably specious boomlet of playoff talk surrounding this year’s Wolves turned out to be a mirage.
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The days of the Timberwolves being a laughingstock are over
Does this mean the Wolves will snag a playoff berth? Doubtful. But the chance to be obliterated in a first-round playoff series is a short-term endgame that ignores the greater good of the Wolves metamorphosis.
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The best person to fill Ricky Rubio’s spot on the Wolves’ roster? Ricky Rubio
Rumors of the point guard’s imminent departure were greatly exaggerated.
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The tenuous Timberwolves future of Zach LaVine
If Thibs and Taylor don’t have the stomach to make a big bet on three young players, Zach LaVine could be Zach leavin’.
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‘I like what I see’: the Tom Thibodeau Q&A, part II
The second half of a 78-minute interview with Minnesota Timberwolves head coach and President of Basketball Operations Tom Thibodeau.
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‘Everything matters’: A Q&A with T-Wolves coach Tom Thibodeau
“The challenge when you have young players is: How do you speed up the process? Just understanding what goes into learning — you have to give them the chance to learn,” Thibodeau said.
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The boom-or-bust risk for the star-studded Timberwolves
Put bluntly, the great danger here is that the heralded coach and the star trio are a bad match.
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Wolves win offers a welcome break from the miserable monotony of the season so far
The Wolves this year are like one of those doorstop Russian novels — only poorly written, with precious few plot twists and a predictably disheartening resolution.
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Was sacrificing wins in order to let the ‘Big 3′ mature Thibs’ plan for the Wolves all along?
It didn’t seem like it in the preseason, but a wretched start to the season perhaps reordered Tom Thibodeau’s priorities.
