Siakam needs to teach them The Ritual from last year

IMO we did when ANT got injured…. Surely we don’t have to actually kill him??

With these injuries, I think a combined Nuggs/Wolves team could take Spurs. Jamal, McDaniels, Randle, Jokic, Gobert?

For fucking what this is the most cursed sports town in the world

so they need to sacrifice Bronny?

I did that last game… didn’t work

Rudy’s going to sting himself in the face with a bee and go nuts

And then Silver wonders why there is load management

It really is so fucking sad. What should be the culmination of the whole year, for players and fans alike, instead becomes a roulette like you said where a significant amount of teams fizzle out to injuries.

Idk what the right solution is, but the league needs to explore more options to address the fact that basketball is more dynamic, fast, and therefore harder on the body than any point in the past. And that trend will only continue. Athletes are too good now for their own bodies to keep up, they gotta pick and choose and meter out their limited health as a resource like Deku from MHA lol.

The Wolves legitimately might not have guards left.

The Wolves have 6 guards on the main roster. If 4 of them are out, they may only have like 1 guy who can dribble and he’s 38 year old Mike Conley.

That’s what I’m saying. Feels like Wolves fans are giving up already. I’m not saying it’s likely they win but they just gotta win one game out of two, it’s not impossible. Basketball is crazy sometimes, could be a flukey bad shooting night or someone gets on fire – like we literally just saw Ayo Dosummu with a 43 point game out of nowhere last week.

Ain’t over til it’s over.

We’re gonna need the Minnesota faithful to shake the nuggets enough to have a bad shooting game…

After that it’s alllll up to Julius Randl-awwww fuck

It’s not totally out of the question for him to squeeze out a 20-point game. Older players on good legs days are still to be feared

Mike Conley legacy game.

We are full circle now with the trade and now he’s starting and expected to play heavy minutes.

Turn back the clock and give us Memphis Mike for one night!

I want to see some pick and roll/screens with Mike and Rudy to get Mike some decent looks from three. If his shot doesn’t fall, we might be cooked.

that’s how I feel too lol, Wolves deserve to win this series but then the basketball gods smite them for some reason.

and even with that I still wouldn’t be surprised if we lost anyway T_T

True, but at least for Ant it’s just been freak injuries.

It was bound to happen, the core players have played a lot of basketball the past 2-3 years

That was my thought. Not too many injuries during the regular season. Sucks it had to happen to you guys in the worst ways in the playoffs.

I feel like Ant has been dealing with nagging stuff for the last few years, hasn’t he? Not that he’s out all the time it just feels so often I throw on a Timberwolves game and they’re talking about something affecting him even if he’s still playing

why would a Hawk care lol?

He really takes his health seriously.

LOL

The reward is bragging rights over the Nuggets tbh. At this point idc if we lose to SA. Just beat Denver.

we’ve only had THREE seasons in our entire history where we’ve won a playoff series (weirdly, all were too the conference finals)…beggars can’t be choosers lol

Randle has been saving himself for that next task.

He’s actually been playing on a sprained ankle for the past month, so it’s likely that the recent injury just exacerbated what was already bothering him.

You guys shit on us with your bench I won’t underestimate you at all.

How close is Watson to playing again?

No way, jingles is at least 60

Jingles might get playing time today, completely seriously. Mike Conley is playing 30 minutes. We are cooked

He will put in a hell of a 4 minutes off the bench

6’5” is a SG in the NBA so unfortunately they have to get me at guard with my one duck & under post move and possibly the Mikan Drill

The last playoffs that were more or less, injury free, were in 2011. All the good teams were at full strength, except the Mavs, who lost Caron Butler during the season, but won it all regardless.

Unfortunately, in a playoff system where they play high impact, high intensity games with only a day or two to recover between games, injuries are inevitable. A best-of-7 for two months system is a great for quantity and business, but it’s terrible for the player’s health and finding out the best team instead of the least injured one.

I’m feeling the same way. Too many miles on too few guys is causing problems for the league’s watchability. Meanwhile Shai doing fine because he’s wrapped in bubble wrap and gets plenty of rest at the line

Yeah it’s really becoming an issue. It’s hard to completely ruin my excitement for the playoffs, but it’s been piling up for a few years now. People talk about tanking, refs, gambling, and all that, but personally, the injuries are the biggest thing making me feel more and more detached from the league.

You can’t tell me she wouldn’t have 10 of her pocket pass assists off of PnR’s (assuming Rudy catches them)

Jingles erasure

On one hand, sucks if we win a poverty series like this. I feel bad for Minnesota. On the other hand, we’ve been on the other hand of poverty series enough that I’ll take one

Unfortunately they are mutually exclusive. Either he goes nuclear and tells the press that David Adelman is garbage and should die, or we will see him slamming his head on the wall in the tunnel. No in between.

How to ruin the Wolves in the playoffs 101

That’s good that’ll match what OKC gets so we get a bangin WCF

Randle will score 33 on offense but be directly responsible for giving up 40 on the other end.

The Julius Experience.

Inshallah, fellow Wolf

The greatest player in NBA history

I don’t know if you’ve checked the rulebook lately, but it turns out that there’s a golden snitch rule. If Gobert hits a 3 then we’re automatically made NBA champions.

Saturday has potential to be a peak Minnesota sports day and I’m not here for it

The have been one of the healthiest teams in the league for several years now