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Offseason Analysis: Minnesota Timberwolves
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| Rikki Giambruno |
| May 25, 2006 |
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Team href=/profile//> Name: href=/profile//> Minnesota href=/profile//> Timberwolves href=/profile//>
Draft href=/profile//> Picks: href=/profile//>
Picks href=/profile//> #9, href=/profile//> #36, href=/profile//> #37 href=/profile//> and href=/profile//> #57
Depth href=/profile//> Chart:
PG: href=/profile//> Marcus href=/profile//> Banks*/Marco href=/profile//> Jaric/Troy href=/profile//> Hudson/Anthony href=/profile//> Carter*
SG: href=/profile//> Rashad href=/profile//> McCants/Trenton href=/profile//> Hassell/Bracy href=/profile//> Wright*
SF: href=/profile//> Ricky href=/profile//> Davis/Justin href=/profile//> Reed*/Ronald href=/profile//> Dupree* href=/profile//>
PF: href=/profile//> Kevin href=/profile//> Garnett/Mark href=/profile//> Madsen/Eddie href=/profile//> Griffin href=/profile//>
C: href=/profile//> Mark href=/profile//> Blount href=/profile//>
Background: href=/profile//>
After href=/profile//> trading href=/profile//> Sam href=/profile//> Cassel href=/profile//> and href=/profile//> letting href=/profile//> Latrell href=/profile//> Sprewell href=/profile//> walk href=/profile//> in href=/profile//> free href=/profile//> agency, href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> team href=/profile//> presumably href=/profile//> had href=/profile//> gotten href=/profile//> rid href=/profile//> of href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> bad href=/profile//> attitudes href=/profile//> that href=/profile//> had href=/profile//> plagued href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> teams href=/profile//> 04/05 href=/profile//> season. href=/profile//> However, href=/profile//> much href=/profile//> like href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> 2004-2005 href=/profile//> campaign, href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> 2006 href=/profile//> season href=/profile//> ended href=/profile//> in href=/profile//> supreme href=/profile//> disappointment. href=/profile//> A href=/profile//> sub href=/profile//> par href=/profile//> first href=/profile//> half href=/profile//> of href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> season href=/profile//> led href=/profile//> Kevin href=/profile//> McHale href=/profile//> to href=/profile//> make href=/profile//> significant href=/profile//> changes href=/profile//> at href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> trade href=/profile//> deadline. href=/profile//> The href=/profile//> Timberwolves href=/profile//> stuck href=/profile//> a href=/profile//> deal href=/profile//> with href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> Boston href=/profile//> Celtics; href=/profile//> trading href=/profile//> long-time href=/profile//> Wolves href=/profile//> forward href=/profile//> Wally href=/profile//> Szczerbiak href=/profile//> along href=/profile//> with href=/profile//> Center href=/profile//> Michael href=/profile//> Olawakandi href=/profile//> and href=/profile//> rookie href=/profile//> Dwayne href=/profile//> Jones href=/profile//> for href=/profile//> Ricky href=/profile//> Davis, href=/profile//> guard href=/profile//> Marcus href=/profile//> Banks, href=/profile//> Justin href=/profile//> Reed href=/profile//> and href=/profile//> center href=/profile//> Mark href=/profile//> Blount. href=/profile//> The href=/profile//> face href=/profile//> of href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> Wolves href=/profile//> changed href=/profile//> over href=/profile//> night. href=/profile//>
The href=/profile//> second href=/profile//> half href=/profile//> of href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> season href=/profile//> went href=/profile//> just href=/profile//> as href=/profile//> poorly href=/profile//> as href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> first href=/profile//> half. href=/profile//> The href=/profile//> new href=/profile//> team href=/profile//> had href=/profile//> trouble href=/profile//> gelling, href=/profile//> though href=/profile//> it href=/profile//> was href=/profile//> apparent href=/profile//> that href=/profile//> they href=/profile//> trade href=/profile//> brought href=/profile//> more href=/profile//> talent href=/profile//> to href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> team. href=/profile//> Even href=/profile//> though href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> team href=/profile//> didn’t href=/profile//> have href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> season href=/profile//> they href=/profile//> had href=/profile//> wanted, href=/profile//> there href=/profile//> are href=/profile//> still href=/profile//> things href=/profile//> that href=/profile//> Timberwolves href=/profile//> fans href=/profile//> should href=/profile//> be href=/profile//> excited href=/profile//> for. href=/profile//> The href=/profile//> development href=/profile//> of href=/profile//> rookie href=/profile//> Rashad href=/profile//> McCants href=/profile//> became href=/profile//> very href=/profile//> apparent href=/profile//> in href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> later href=/profile//> portions href=/profile//> of href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> season. href=/profile//> With href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> playoffs href=/profile//> out href=/profile//> of href=/profile//> reach, href=/profile//> McCants href=/profile//> saw href=/profile//> his href=/profile//> minutes href=/profile//> rise. href=/profile//> He href=/profile//> averaged href=/profile//> a href=/profile//> little href=/profile//> over href=/profile//> 16 href=/profile//> points href=/profile//> per href=/profile//> game href=/profile//> in href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> month href=/profile//> of href=/profile//> April. href=/profile//> The href=/profile//> team href=/profile//> also href=/profile//> sees href=/profile//> promise href=/profile//> in href=/profile//> Point href=/profile//> Guard href=/profile//> Marcus href=/profile//> Banks, | | |
