What if luck is in the Timberwolves favor this year?

Now that the Minnesota Timberwolves have faced and overcome their fair share of adversity and challenges throughout the entirety of the 2022-23 NBA season, has anyone thought about just how well this team could perform if it all comes together this year? After all, this team did not just make one blockbuster trade to acquire All-Star center Rudy Gobert and then rest on its laurels.

Improving the Timberwolves roster was partially successful in the 2022-23 NBA season, mainly due to the intermittent and unrelenting wave of injuries that forced the team to adapt their starting five players and rotations on a constantly changing basis.

Perhaps the most significant downside to all of that was the fact that managing a constantly changing roster in terms of available players truly limited what the Timberwolves coaching staff could do in terms of player development last season.

Timberwolves roster was fluid and productive last season

So the younger players like Two-Way contracted players like forward Matt Ryan and center Luka Garza, as well as the Timberwolves rookies F Josh Minott and wing Wendell Moore Jr. were outsourced to the team’s G-League affiliate, the Iowa Wolves.

There, young players got plenty of playing time, had a chance to contribute, and eventually were given the opportunity to showcase that progress by suiting up for the Timberwolves to fill in for an injured veteran.

Still, that was not exactly a winning formula for a team that had such a tremendous roster upheaval to start the season. The Timberwolves traded away five players to acquire Gobert, all of whom had or planned to have significant roles in the 2022-23 NBA season. As a result, the team was re-assembled after many of the