And we got pieced up both times. You can’t just coast through the regular season without building up championship habits and then just expect to magically put the puzzle together from scratch in the playoffs on the fly. They probably need to get bounced in the first round for them to realize that.

Why do people keep saying this? They faced a center-less Laker team and a Warrior team with no Curry and Butler hobbling on a bad butt. They only play who’s in front of them of course, but that doesn’t detract from the fact that their run was really easy.

They hated him because he spoke the truth 😔

Yes but their inconsistency makes them miss it. Dont get me wrong. They had the sad fact of facing a dominant nuggets team but the west was weak until these last 2 years.

Not true, wolves have won 4 (2+2) and thunder 5 (1+4).

Naz Reid being a “all star on any other team” is mostly said by non Wolves fans. Wolves fans are mostly over the novelty of a undrafted player being good now and are vocally critical of Naz’s lack of any skill besides scoring/shooting. He’s one of the most criticized player on the Wolves sub.

Randle being All NBA is also not common among Wolves fans. He’s certainly a pleasant surprise and him being as good as he is on a good contract has caused a vast majority of Wolves fans to get over the KAT-Randle trade but he’s far from a fan favorite and is one of the punching bags when the Wolves lose.

Ant/McDaniels/Gobert are overrated by Wolves fans yea.

They’re objectively a good team, but also looking light against the prospective WCF favorites like OKC and SA. I don’t know if there was any trade that was going to change that, but running it back with Dosunmu on top probably won’t be effective.

the problem is that they don’t have a point guard.

Lead to 2 WCF finals appearances in the big boy conference

I mean that sounds like a WCF team to me and decently accurate besides naz

They just ran into: SGA: MVP, J-Dub- all nba + all defense, Chet - all-star + dpoy contender, and this isnt even mentioning their depth

I’m a Wolves fan and everybody hates Randle. The McDaniels glaze is weird though

And also, they think their team isn’t good

Ant is top 5

It would be a more compelling point if OKC and SA were old teams approaching the cliff, and not even younger than MIN. Randle and Gobert also don’t fit that concept, which is most of their frontcourt.

I was actually in the building for the opener, and I’ll never forget the weirdness of that night because Chauncey finally got some scattered applause from the Blazer crowd during introductions. Last season he was usually booed. Jaden had an insane poster on Yang in that game, and it got no publicity because the Chauncey story broke the very next morning. Valiant attempt at “you don’t watch the games” though.