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Originally Posted by GeoffRas22
Why do we think the Timberwolves are gonna be good? Even if you believe in Wiggins they have 4 good players right? And those 4 players don't even really fit together all that well. Considering their depth & fit, their o/u, especially considering they play in the West, makes no sense to me. And I'm firmly in the teamWiggs camp.
They were ~10th last year in offensive efficiency as a team with the majority of the minutes going to:
Rubio
Wiggins
Towns
Dieng
Lavine/Bazz
Lavine is obviously a huge loss from a spacing perspective, but he only played the first half of the season last year, Teague provides more in that area than rubio and replacing Butler with Lavine/bazz minutes is a huge difference. They were fine last year with that roster construction, I don't see any reason why they won't be fine this year.
I do think they're going to struggle a lot for the first half of the season just because teams that have had more talent have struggled early on with chemistry issues. However, I can see the offense functioning quite well around the wings/teague pnr'ing with towns while one sits in the opposite corner of Taj/Dieng and the other one plays the swing man.