Nba, Minnesota Timberwolves 2021-22 preview

Lots of smoke and little roast. We are the usual, in Minnesota. The Timberwolves continue to amass talent, but without logic. More because the solution is so far away that doing something, perhaps with special effects, can distract from the sad reality than for the real conviction of being able to turn. At the moment it becomes difficult to imagine how there can be long-term trust, after so many, too many failures, in the various Towns, Russell and Beasley. Yet veterans have arrived as a reinforcement as if the team were “racing”. Yet the interest in Ben Simmons, dumped from Philadelphia and who does not want anyone, at the requests of Morey, the first executive of the 76ers, seems real. He would be another dysfunctional player on and off the pitch, but tremendously talented. Yet another move “to do something”, as a smokescreen on a status quo from which it is preferable to look away. The hope to Minny is that Edwards, who has grown further in stature in the summer and now imagined to be 3 in a quintet with three outsiders, will make another qualitative leap after the bombastic, in terms of individual numbers, freshman season. But to think that with that personality he can become a frank man is to believe in fairy tales …

the news

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Patrick Beverley and Taurean Prince are not clapping acquisitions for a rebuilding team, with no targets for immediate results. But these are the names that came from the market. Beverley dumped first from the Los Angeles Clippers and then from the Memphis Grizzlies, Prince from the exchange with Rubio, and the Spaniard was highly regarded by the community in Minnesota. At least the two new ones will bring defense, or at least they will try. Then, just in case Simmons comes along …

probable quintet

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Russell, Beasley, Edwards, McDaniels, Towns.

main reserves

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Beverley, Okogie, Prince, Layman, Reid.

target

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At least fight for the playoffs.

why believe it

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Because for the overall talent the team would not be bad. With so many points in the hands, in particular. If Edwards consecrated himself, if Towns finally decided to defend, if Russell became more than an unfinished talent, if Beasley proved to have matured after the troubles he faced off the pitch … Too many “ifs” to count on.

why doubt it

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Because there is not a single leadership player on the staff. What was there, Rubio, was greeted. Because some might describe the workforce as a group of capricious millionaire kids rather than charismatic professionals. Because it is difficult to find unanimity when there are so many disconnected egos to tune in to the same wavelength. Because the West has so many quality teams and there is no pressure in Minneapolis. Not even the shadow of a winning culture.