Final Roster Review and Overall Grade
Overall, I think Barflaan did an awesome job with this simulation as GM of the Timberwolves.
He made a big trade to move up and get a prospect he clearly feels is the best in the entire draft in Ball, while shipping out the team’s biggest question mark in Jarrett Culver.
After drafting Ball and Stanley, that first trade with the Knicks was a blowout dub for Tedoe and the Wolves. I’m talking first-game of the New Wolves Order, good old fashioned, disrespectful, leave-no-doubt blowout.
After the addition of Bey and Danny Green in the trade with the Lakers, Barflaan was left with an enormous roster that is overviewed here:
MY B/R App NBA Fantasy Wolves Roster
— Barflaan Tedoe 🇱🇷 (@The_Barftender) May 17, 2020
🚨 Drafted LaMelo Ball
🤝 Kept Malik Beasley and will re-sign him
🔥 Traded for Danny Green
Squad winning 55 games by scoring 200 pts a game pic.twitter.com/uTEkIDowUX
Starting Lineup
— Barflaan Tedoe 🇱🇷 (@The_Barftender) May 17, 2020
LaMelo
D-Lo
Danny Green
Juancho
KAT
Bench
Malik Beasley
Okogie
Jake Layman
Naz Reid
Robert Woodard
Tyler Bey
Cassius Stanley
Jordan McLaughlin
This roster (outside of being too large to be a real NBA roster) is one with a ton of fun players across the board.
The team is set with the backcourt of the future in Russell / McLaughlin / Ball / Beasley / Okogie and has a bevy of playable, talented wings in Green / Layman / Bey / Martin and great young talent waiting in the wings in Stanley / Nowell / Vanderbilt.
I love where this team ended up and think it might win 45 games based purely on the fact it might average close to 120 points per game. Defense is another story, but the Timberwolves will not be in a position where they can sizable immediate upgrades on that end of the floor this fall.
OVERALL GRADE: A-
Until the Timberwolves come calling, we’ll always support our legendary, one-week GM, and his offensive juggernaut.
Cheers, brother.