Back in early July, we saw ESPN’s Summer Forecast series project the Wolves as a 39-win team. Then, Kevin Pelton and Co. released their ESPN Real Plus-Minus projections for the upcoming season, which saw the Wolves as 37-win squad. (Pelton hedged this by saying that RPM is unable to factor in the addition of Tom Thibodeau, and that a 37-45 record is probably low.)
And now, Pelton is going team-by-team and releasing detailed projections of each and every rostered player across the NBA. Monday was the Timberwolves’ turn.
This is once again an Insider post, so we can’t regurgitate everything here, but I’d like to pull out a few notable excerpts and provide a bit of commentary on them.