Timberwolves Power Rankings: Wolves hit rough patch

3. Andrew Wiggins (2)

Season stats: 36.1 MPG – 18.1 PPG – 4.2 RPG – 1.9 APG – 43.8% FG – 32.2% 3PT – 63.6% FT

Weekly stats: 35.7 MPG – 17.6 PPG – 4.4 RPG – 2.4 APG – 42.9% FG – 26.3% 3PT – 62.5% FT

After his out-of-this-planet power rankings week last time around, Andrew Wiggins came back to earth this week. He wasn’t bad by any means, but it was always going to be a tough task to maintain his scoring exploits when Jimmy Butler returned.

Butler didn’t play in the first two games, however, and Maple Jordan showed a couple of different versions of himself in the All-Star’s absence.

The 22-year-old posted an impressive 24 points, two rebounds and two assists in the Blazers loss, hitting 11-of-17 from the field and looking like the Andrew Wiggins Timberwolves fans had gotten used to seeing at times in his first three seasons. He backed that up with a stinker at Golden State, hitting a ghastly 4-of-18 from the field for his 10 points. He did add four rebounds, three assists, two steals and a block.

Scoring is what Wiggins does best, and he bounced back in to that mode in the Nets win, dropping 21 points, five rebounds and two assists on a night where he and Jimmy Butler terrorized Brooklyn’s perimeter defenders.

Wiggins slid back in to his third-fiddle role for the final two games, netting 16.5 points over the that span. He did average an impressive 5.5 rebounds, which will excite fans who have called for Wiggins to improve his work on the glass.

Wiggins was beneath Taj Gibson for a good portion of this season, so it is good to see our $148 million man moving back in to his rightful third place in the power rankings.