Timberwolves World Champs 2023!!!
Preseason is preseason. It means nothing. Wolves 4-0, with their starting lineup yet to play a game together. I also noticed...they aren't revealing their offense. It has pretty much been a free-for-all except for a few minutes to start each half.
What I love about the Wolves is how under-the-radar, but incredibly deep, their bench is. EVERYONE thinks they gave up all their bench depth. ha ha ha. The bench is BETTER this year. The team is legit 11-guys deep. Guys like Naz Reid should be starting this year, but he's going to struggle to get over 20-25 minutes because of Towns and Gobert. What a great problem to have. Taurean Prince can do everything asked of him. Jaylen Nowell, a guy most people haven't heard of, is a legit sixth man who is incredibly versatile.
I mean:
C -Gobert
PF - Towns
SF - McDaniels (he will be incredible this year with his defense and shooting)
SG - Edwards
PG - Russell
C - Naz Reid
PF - Kyle Anderson
SF - Taurean Prince
SG - Jaylen Nowell
PG - Jordan McLaughlin (incredible ball handler, passer, and intense defender)
11th - Bryn Forbes (Chris Finch needs to find him time because of his shooting - just not sure whose minutes will suffer for it)
I could go deeper, but the point is...it is an exciting time to be a Timberwolves fan. I've been a fan since the expansion season of 89-90 and my guy, Tony Campbell. This is, to my eyes, the deepest squad the Timberwolves have ever had, including the KG-playoffs teams.
They won't win the chip this year, but they are going to turn a lot of heads. By next season, if these 11 guys are retained (Russell needs to be resigned, as does Naz Reid and Jaylen Nowell), a run at the title isn't far off.