Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Jake Fischer and Senior NBA writer Dan Devine discuss whether the Timberwolves are primed to run back their fantastic season or if the team is due for big changes to get over the hump. Hear the full conversation on “No Cap Room” – part of the “Ball Don’t Lie” podcast – and subscribe on , or wherever you listen.
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Anthony Edwards said in his postgame press conference will be back.
There is no guarantee the Timberwolves will be back.
They haven’t been back in 20 years doesn’t work that way.
The Denver Nuggets thought they’d be back and they lost to these Minnesota Timberwolves.
The margins are so thin, especially as we continue to drift deeper into the more tumultuous stormy waters of the second apron era, which is exactly where the Minnesota Timberwolves current payroll is expected to be.
And there’s so much nonsense hanging over everything from an ownership battle where you’ve got John Krasinski at the athletic reporting that Glenn Taylor was trying to shake the hands of a Rod and Mark Laurie even give them hugs at these games and all those overtures were rebuffed.
Glenn Taylor is still gonna be the majority owner while the off season happens if they’re still battling in court.
And then there’s this mutual opt out clause in Tim Connelly’s contract.
Where do you personally stand on what this team just accomplished a year after the Rogo be trade was widely locked and then he became the defensive player of the year again.
They were fighting for the one seed all year long.
They knock off the defending champs and then fall short in the conference finals.
You talked about the thin, uh how thin the margins are and obviously like you, you, you, you referenced it in terms of the roster building and the financial needle that they’re gonna have to thread and, you know, the big decisions that come on that like is Carl Anthony Town is going to wind up on the trade block because you’ve got to figure out what, how to retrofit this roster moving forward around Anthony Edwards.
And also I keep going back to the how slim the margins are in these games, right?
Like they got their doors blown off in game five.
But before that, it’s, they know they’re up with 3.5 minutes to go in game one, they were up, you know, heading into the final possession of game two, they’re up in the final five minutes in game three and before they completely just like disintegrate in terms of crunch time execution, which was a problem all year long for the Timberwolves.
And now that’s what puts you in the existential crisis.
So Anthony Edwards is, uh, he’s obviously it was a remarkable postseason run for him where he can go is, you know, the, the sky is the limit for him, but all of the accolades and the plaudit that he got for the first two rounds, this was the, you know, coming back to earth a little bit in the third, in the third round.
If it’s me, I think it’s worth it for them to, to, to whoever is owning the team to pony up and pay up and let, and let’s see where they see, you know, some minor tinkering around the edges on the playmaking and some, maybe some more shooting to open up the floor for ant where that gets you.
But, you know, easier said than done.
Everybody’s looking to make those around the edges, uh, improvements and they don’t come cheap.
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