Timberwolves’ Season Grades

Shabazz Muhammad: B-

This is like when you spend the whole semester screwing around and getting F’s on everything, but then you get that A on the final to bring your grade up. The start of the season for Muhammad was miserable. It was different than what we have come to expect from him.

He averaged single digits in scoring throughout the months of October, November and December. From January through March however, he averaged double-digits every month.

I don’t know what clicked for him, but the second half of the season he played great. It could be, in part caused by Zach LaVine being out with a torn ACL. With the team losing the scoring production from LaVine, Bazz stepped in to pick up a few extra points here and there.

He finished the season averaging 9.9 points per game. His scoring has gone down over the last few seasons, which isn’t good. In his 2014-15 season, Bazz averaged 13.5 points per game. The next season he averaged 10.5 points, and this season that dropped to 9.9.

Shabazz’s three-point percentage was at 33.6 percent this season. Not awful but not good. For the amount of time he sees on the floor, he needs to get that jump shot down.

Bazz also only averaged 0.4 assists per game. I know he isn’t the point guard but come on. He played nearly 20 minutes a game this season and as the two-guard he couldn’t do any better than 0.4 assists per game? That’s pretty rough.

Like I said earlier, he really picked up his play late in the season. He was trash in the first half of the season but seemed like a serious offensive threat in the second half. If he continues to play like he has in the second half of the season, he’ll remain the top player for the Wolves bench.