The Minnesota Timberwolves just wrapped up their most successful season in decades, and while the way it finished wasn’t how they wanted, it’s hard to be disappointed in the overall body of work It did become wildly apparent against the Dallas Mavericks, however, that the Timberwolves have some offensive deficiencies they need to iron out, especially late in games, if they want to be an NBA Finals team next season. Anthony Edwards needs more backcourt help. A partner who makes it impossible for defenses to focus all of their attention on stopping him.
In theory, Karl Anthony Towns was supposed to play Robin to the Wolves’ Ant-Man. But as a front court player, he’s often taken out of games way too easily. Karl Anthony-Towns had a tale of two halves during Game 4’s season-saving W: 1st half: 5 PTS on 2-3 FG & 1 REB (4.
2 FPTS) 2nd half: 20 PTS on 7-10 FG, 4 REB & 4 3PM (24.3 FPTS) Let’s hope KAT’s phenomenal 2nd half carries over to Game 5 tonight at pic.twitter.
com/7vys18EBuz Throughout the duration of the Wolves’ first round series against the Phoenix Suns , none of that was an issue. Minnesota swept KD, Devin Booker and the Suns. Instead, most of the storylines revolved around Anthony Edwards taking the torch from Kevin Durant as a face of the NBA.
The Timberwolves’ 22-year-old blossoming superstar has made it well known just how much he looks up to the future Hall of Famer and, by the end of the series, Durant was crowning Edwards too. Kevin Durant says Ant.
