Minnesota Timberwolves: Tracking new players’ progress part 1
By Andrew Ites
The Minnesota Timberwolves overturned most of their roster at the trade deadline to better fit Gersson Rosas and Ryan Saunders’ vision for the team. After about a month of basketball, let’s check in on those new additions.
Including the Jeff Teague trade, the Minnesota Timberwolves acquired nine new players before the trade deadline as Gersson Rosas brought in guys who would better fit the team’s system on both ends of the floor.
The Wolves have already moved on from one of those newly-acquired players by buying out the rest of Allen Crabbe‘s contract to get out of the luxury tax, but the rest of these new acquisitions will have a chance to prove that they can be part of the turnaround in Minnesota.
The Timberwolves have gone just 2-7 since the February 6th trade deadline, but many of those losses can be credited to injuries as both Karl-Anthony Towns and D’Angelo Russell have missed time.
During that stretch, Minnesota has certainly played a more exciting brand of basketball and fans have been treated to some promising performances including a road win over a Miami Heat squad that had only lost three home games all year to that point.
Player evaluation is the number one priority for the Wolves at this point in the season, so let’s dive deep on how each player has performed in a Minnesota uniform.