@KevinOConnorNBA @Timberwolves@YahooSports@PhilMackey@KyleTheige@DaneMooreNBA All entirely plausible. If:
- Wolves can beat nets twice, jazz, pistons, 76ers, Memphis, and bucks but lose to pacers
- Warriors beat nuggets, lose to rockets
- Nuggets lose to warriors, pacers, and rockets
- Lakers lose to OKC x2 and rockets
@KevinOConnorNBA @Timberwolves@YahooSports@PhilMackey@KyleTheige@DaneMooreNBA Write that down. What is I said the wolves have a clear path to third in the western conference and a clear path to the WC finals with the clippers, rockets, lakers series finals standing in the way of the NBA Championship
I’m really excited today for the people who never stopped watching this team.
They maybe didn’t go to a ton of games, but they were always watching. They had other hobbies cared about other things, but they had a Wolves group message that pinged whenever Shabazz Muhammad would get hot. They maybe even just did it on their own, watched alone — late at night with JimPete and on Wolves twitter, after they put the kids down.
For those people, for a while, it was a weird hobby, but it was their hobby. They didn’t care, they weren’t gonna stop watching the Wolves — something about it, no matter how bad the team was, felt like a connection to something they liked before. That was worth holding onto.
I’m excited because now all of those people are in the same space — out there, naming it. And when they walk by each other and you kinda make eye contact, you know you have something in common, you’ve seen some shit. But you’re still here.
And even if you don’t say it, you’re both thinking it: “Naz Reid”
Predicted this before the series and it’s quite literally on the money. My Wolves are without a doubt going to play Boston in the NBA finals #Timberwolves@sportsbetcomau
@WestCoastEagles are right to say rebuild will take time. Look at Hawks. Recruited Hodge 2001. Franklin, Roughead, Lewis 2004.
2004 record 4-18 (15th). 2005 record 5-17 (14th). 2006 record 9-13 (11th)
2008 premiers.
At a min even with generational talent 4-7 years.