Chris Finch details tantalizing strategy he plans to use this season

There is plenty for Minnesota Timberwolves fans to be excited about in the upcoming season. The team will be entering the 2023-24 NBA season as a legitimate top-tier championship contender, something that they have not been able to say for around the last 20 years.

The superstar talent of Anthony Edwards only becomes a bigger factor as the 23-year-old guard matures and becomes an even better all-around player. Surrounding him will once again be one of the best supporting casts in the association, spearheaded by the reigning four-time Defensive Player of the Year, Rudy Gobert.

Of course, if we keep dissecting this Minnesota roster, we can find endless reasons for optimism just on the surface. But greater insight will be found when speaking with the team's head coach, which is exactly what Timberwolves reporter for The Athletic Britt Robson did recently.

Robson sat down with Chris Finch and dove into various topics concerning the upcoming season in Minnesota. Among the topics discussed were the controversial three-big lineups the Wolves can utilize with Rudy Gobert, Karl-Anthony Towns and Naz Reid.

Finch plans to utilize more three-big lineups

According to Finch, the team will try to tinker with using these lineups more in the coming season where they can. Chris showed some palpable enthusiasm for trying out bigger lineups. "I’d love it. I’d love to go as big as we possibly can," said Finch, before cracking a joke about rolling out Joe Ingles at point guard as well.

Chris had already referenced getting Naz Reid more minutes at small forward when he brought up the challenges of trying to implement that strategy. "Naz at the three is going to come down to how we guard way more than it will be about offense," he said. "Skill-set wise, I think offensively there is enough skill among those guys to make it work."

That would seem to be the biggest concern even for an outsider. Offensively, you have to think having three bigs on the court while two of them can step out to the perimeter at a moment's notice would create some looks that would be very difficult for the opposition to stop. It is the switchability on defense that would be the main concern.

But either way, it has to thrill Timberwolves fans to hear Chris Finch is already discussing this idea and very clearly planning to utilize it wherever he can in the coming season. The versatility of Minnesota's bigs may just be what makes them the most unique contender for a championship this season.