Since 2004, the Minnesota Timberwolves have made the NBA playoffs just once during the 2017-18 season and this year, nothing has changed. They are still the same losing franchise that they have been over the last decade or so.
Are things actually on the rise for this franchise though and are they on their way to winning games? Well one of the biggest problems with the T-Wolves this year was that they have barely been fully healthy and all of their players have missed at least some time. In fact, rookie Anthony Edwards is the only player to have played in every single game for Minnesota this year.
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Not having their entire core healthy and playing together has definitely hurt the Timberwolves chances to win games this year and this has been proven over the last few weeks of the regular season.
The Timberwolves have won just 21 games on the season, but over 40% of their wins have come from the start of April to now. Other than Malik Beasley, pretty much everybody else on this Timberwolves roster is healthy and they actually do not look like that bad of a team!
Add Beasley to this team right now and they could easily be a team that is contending night-in and night-out, so moving into next year, there is definitely a lot to like about the T-Wolves. But, will they make the right offseason decisions to help them grow as a team?
Let’s take a look at three moves the Minnesota Timberwolves should consider making in order to take the next step during the 2021-22 season and finally start winning games.
