Minnesota Timberwolves: 4 steps to reemerge as playoff contenders

Trade Andrew Wiggins

Minnesota has endured the Andrew Wiggins experience for the past four years and has had mixed results that in the end haven’t benefited anyone but Wiggins’s pockets.

The trade they made with the Chicago Bulls to get Jimmy Butler in 2017 yielded them a playoff experience but in the long-run disgruntled egos between Butler, Wiggins, and Towns over who should lead and in what possible way.

In the process of this, the team lost an All-star player in Butler while the team also shopped a promising young talent in Zack Lavine (who they traded along with guard Khris Dunn to get Butler) at the shooting guard position. They have been trying to compensate for the loss of LaVine and Butler at the two spot ever since playing Wiggins out of position at the shooting guard position to sadly no consistent avail.

Wiggins as a talent has supreme athleticism and the ability to score the ball at all three levels on a consistent basis when he chooses to. The latter is the issue and its based on the terminology of consistency. Wiggins hasn’t been able to turn the offensive switch on a consistent basis enough and defensively seems content on not giving his full effort on that side of the floor.

He’s still a moveable asset that can gain the Wolves an array of consolatory parts that can help round out the team for the future. The reason why is because Wiggins is still considered a promising and talented enigma that deserves for his sake and the Timberwolves to blossom somewhere else.