Minnesota Timberwolves Who’s Up and Who’s Down a review of Tom Thibodeau and bench players

INDIANAPOLIS, IN – DECEMBER 31: Jimmy Butler #23, Tyus Jones #1, Karl-Anthony Towns #32 and Jamal Crawford #11 of the Minnesota Timberwolves celebrate on the bench against the Indiana Pacers during the second half at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on December 31, 2017 in Indianapolis, Indiana. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

Let’s take stock in the Minnesota Timberwolves’ bench players and review who’s up and who’s down.

This is the second half of a two-part series which started with a review of the Minnesota Timberwolves starting five and President of Basketball Operations and Coach Tom Thibedeau performance.

The Timberwolves are Tom Thibodeau’s team, as an executive, he’s assembled the roster and as a coach, he’s developed the players. Timberwolves have been consistently in the fourth seed in the Western Conference (27-9) and first place (9-2) in the Northwest division with a 36-25 record.

After the All-Star break, they have twenty games remaining on their schedule and are likely to make the playoffs if they can continue to win games at a similar pace.

I’ve compared career averages for the number of minutes played, points scored, assists and rebounds with this seasons numbers for each player.

That will help provide a partial statistical snapshot of each players performance this season with the first column in bold being career average and the second column this season totals and the final column indicating if the player’s performance is UP, DOWN or EVEN.