Karl-Anthony Towns has not had the best 2022-23 season. Here are two reasons why the Timberwolves can pull off the unthinkable and beat the Lakers without Rudy Gobert in the 2023 NBA play-in tournament.
Facing LeBron James and Anthony Davis may not be an easy task, but the Timberwolves, of all teams, know that there is no such thing as an impossible outcome in the NBA. Underdogs sometimes manage to come out on top, like they do over and over again during March Madness. This has made the Lakers the heavy favorites to nab the seventh seed out West, and for good reason.īut in a single-game format, anything can happen. The team has suspended Rudy Gobert for his actions towards Kyle Anderson, while Jaden McDaniels is out indefinitely, suffering a fractured hand after punching a wall in frustration. Still, the Timberwolves' rousing win over the Pelicans came at a hefty cost. However, even though fits of temper threatened to put the Timberwolves in such a precarious play-in tournament spot (they would have needed two wins to make the playoffs as the eighth seed), Minnesota managed to pull out all the stops necessary to defeat the Pelicans, setting themselves up for a date against the mighty Los Angeles Lakers, a team that has posted the second-best record in the NBA since trading away Russell Westbrook prior to the trade deadline. However, the Minnesota Timberwolves did the exact opposite of locking in after Rudy Gobert, Kyle Anderson, and Jaden McDaniels each lost their heads in the first half of their crucial game against the New Orleans Pelicans on Sunday.
This is the point of the campaign where the team needs to lock in to achieve the goal of, at the very least, making a deep playoff run. Of all the junctures in the 2022-23 season to self-destruct, doing so just before the postseason begins is arguably the worst time to do so.
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