Fifteen wins. Sixty seven losses.
A starting lineup of Jonny Flynn, Corey Brewer, Ryan Gomes, Kevin Love and Al Jefferson.
An all-star caliber center recovering from a ACL injury who is a bad fit for the offensive system, bench players as starters, who aren't even worthy of being called role players.
This pretty much sums up the Minnesota Timberwolves of last season.
To say that the Timberwolves won 15 games by luck is probably untrue however. They showed some dashes of brilliance with wins over the Dallas Mavericks, and two wins over the Utah Jazz. But more often than not, the Timberwolves had gathered an identity over the course of the season, but didn't have the depth, athleticism, and quite frankly the talent to even compete at a proper NBA level.
Looking at the depth of the Wolves from last season, there's not a free agent from the Wolves last season that has been signed by a NBA team thus far. Those players were Oleksiy Pecherov, Nathan Jawai, Sasha Pavlovic, Damien Wilkins etc. Even guys like Ryan Gomes were able to average 20+ minutes for the Timberwolves.
This is bad.
Add to the fact that A ...
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