Twitter reacts to Minnesota Timberwolves trade for Rudy Gobert
By Bret Stuter
Reactions to Timberwolves trade for Gobert
How are you taking the news? If you don’t know the answer just yet, you are not alone. Few saw this one coming, and less imagined how large of a trade package would be needed to make this deal happen. Some believe this makes the Timberwolves immediate contenders for the NBA Championship:
D’Angelo Russell
— Ben Stinar (@BenStinar) July 1, 2022
Anthony Edwards
Karl-Anthony Towns
Rudy Gobert
The Minnesota Timberwolves are a championship contender
While others cannot get past what the Minnesota Timberwolves traded away. To get something of value, you need to trade away something of value.
Initial reaction: The Wolves are gonna be really good but that’s terrible value
— Dane Moore (@DaneMooreNBA) July 1, 2022
Of course, we had covered the interest of the Minnesota Timberwolves to pursue a Twin Towers front court. With this trade, do we now have the Timberwolves’ twin cities twin towers?
Twin towers in the Twin City. They need to scoop up some perimeter defenders now. Jaden McDaniels stock going up this season.
— Neon Boudeaux (@Carnage45__) July 1, 2022
Aggressive move? Some like the fact that the Timberwolves are pushing all of their chips to the center of the betting table. And why not? Fortune favors the bold.
— Josh Hill (@jdavhill) July 1, 2022
Timberwolves head coach Chris Finch gets his wish.
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Twin city twin towers
Finch loves to set a big wall of defenders, and so far has been completely stymied with a roster that never had the size or skillset to do so. Well, the game has changed for the Timberwolves now.
watching every smallball lineup dribble past them. https://t.co/NsVaT8EfWe
— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) July 1, 2022
And in the end, the Minnesota Timberwolves got better, and . . . weirder?
New Timberwolves ownership came in and made one thing abundantly clear — they wanted to be aggressive and go star hunting.
— Kyle Theige (@KyleTheige) July 1, 2022
They got their new executive in Tim Connelly, and now they got their new center in Rudy Gobert.
Weirdest team ever just got… weirder.
That is a pretty wide range of reactions so far, isn’t it?