The Minnesota Timberwolves made no remarkable additions out of season, despite the losing of Nickeil Alexander-Walker. Minnesota set up Joan Beringer (and Rocco Zikarsky, who is in two directions) and signed Johnny Juzang for a two -way deal. They also signed Julius Randle and Naz Reid in particular. Nevertheless, it was a quiet low season for Tim Connelly and the wolves.
Some people will point to the lack of activity of the wolves in an increasingly competitive Western conference as negative. Given the improvements of teams such as the Denver Nuggets and Houston Rockets, this is a reasonable opinion. However, this also ignores the fact that the wolves are back-to-back Western conference finalists and the power of continuity.
Randle and Donte Divincenzo, who is in the mix for another season, will benefit the wolves. Moreover, the internal development of the Wolves of young players, including Terrence Shannon Jr., Rob Dillingham and Jaylen Clark, can help them make a surprising run in the west. Even Edwards at the age of 24 and Jaden McDaniels on 25 can take considerable steps. During the low season, Connelly openly discussed how he believes that increased continuity will benefit wolves.
Randle and Divincenzo play that are used to the team will be useful
Last outside the season, the wolves for Randle and Divincenzo only exchanged a few days before the training camp. This turned out to be an ideal step, both from a basketball and financial perspective. Anyway, the wolves started slowly while they had to integrate both Randle and Divincenzo.
In particular, by 34 games, the Wolves were in the conference at 10th with a record of 17-17. Minnesota eventually found some momentum, went 17-4 in the last 24 games and avoiding the play-in tournament. During this piece, Randle flourished, and this went to the play -offs, where the wolves dominated their first two series, with Randle playing at an elite level.
This season there will not be the same adjustment period for Randle and Divincenzo. As a result, they will probably be able to prevent a slow start, especially because other teams try to integrate new players into their systems. It is difficult to claim that the additions of nuggets and rockets are not impressive. However, adding new players, even ultra talented, usually takes some time for the team to reach an elite level. Fortunately, the wolves do not have to deal with this.
The continuity of the Timberwolves and Two-Way Excellence will help the team
Continuity will not only benefit the wolves early in the season, but will benefit them at the greatest moments. This core has already let a final of the conference come together; They know what is needed to return to that phase and are hungry for more.
At the end of the season and play -offs, Minnesota turned out to be one of the best teams in the competition. With Anthony Edwards and Randle, the wolves have the star power needed to win at the highest level. Rudy Gobert and McDaniels anchor a great defense. In addition, Naz Reid and Divincenzo offer the production of Elite Bank.
Last year the Wolves were one of the four teams in the top 10 of both ends of the court. Elite Balance is the key to making a deep play -off run, and with this core that has a year of experience together, there is reason to believe that they can improve at both ends of the court.
In general, the wolves check all the boxes of a real title candidate and their continuity is a large part of that. Both teams that played in the NBA Finals, the Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana Pacers, had a high level of continuity. Although the outdoor season of the wolves was perhaps not flashy, it was effective and their continuity is an unmistakable advantage.
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