Potential targets for the Minnesota Timberwolves in NBA Free Agency + Luka Garza is back

Potential targets for the Minnesota Timberwolves in NBA Free Agency + Luka Garza is back

hello and welcome into another episode of lock on wolves free agency has opened the T wolves have made their first free agency move I wouldn’t call it a splash but bringing back one of their unrestricted free agents we’ll talk about that where the Wolves sit right now and then I want to run down a list of several potential minimum free agent signings for Minnesota also touch on a couple of the other signings and moves League wide it’s all coming on the show Welcome in you are locked on wolves you are locked on Timberwolves your daily Minnesota Timberwolves podcast part of the locked on podcast Network your team every day hello and welcome to the lockdown wolves podcast part of the lockdown podcast Network your team every day my name is Ben Beacon I’m the host of lockdown wolves today’s episode is brought to you by FanDuel make every moment more as playoffs wind down the Sports Stop sportsing like we want them to but this summer fanduel’s hooking up all custom customers with a boost or a bonus daily that’s right there’s something for everyone all day all summer long visit fanduel.com lockon to get started happy Tuesday everybody happy I don’t know I I lose track of all the what day is it a free agency technically the tampering period opens Sunday things are reported but not official the whole thing it’s happening right now we’re in the midst of it and the timber rules for the first time the last couple years are really not players at all because they don’t have any cap space at all they have negative cap space to play with and and uh they did make one move which we’ll talk about here in a second on Monday and then there’s also I want to been most of the today running down a list of guys that I like that I think would fit the Wolves roster remember they really do need to figure out who’s the ninth or tth guy in the rotations we’ll talk a little bit about that here on the show today I’ll hit on a couple of the other NBA moves here off the top too so a big thank you first of all for making lockdown wolves your first listen every day of course this show is free and available everywhere that includes YouTube as well as all of your favorite audio platforms wherever you like to listen to podcasts you can find wolves you can also watch on the lockdown Sports Minnesota app on both Roku and Amazon firetv and you can follow an X lockon wolves and also at B Beacon with 2bs 2 e cken all right so the Timberwolves their move on Monday in case you missed it they are bringing back Luca Garza will be rejoining the team on actually a two-year deal two-year minimum deal as of right now the team has not announced it I’m recording this late on Monday so the team has not announced the deal yet officially it was reported first by Adrien wowski and I believe it was Chris Hine of the uh the star trib in the minneap in Minneapolis St Paul that that confirmed that it was a minimum contract so should be a two-year minimum deal not sure if there’s an option or partial guarantees or whatever in there but certainly that first year is going to be guaranteed for Luca Garza and I don’t really have a hot take on this one um it makes sense for everybody they’re you know I wonder if you know maybe another team offered him a minimum and the Wolves said hey we’ll tack on a second year whatever who knows but Garza knows what his role is with Minnesota he didn’t play much in the g- League last year and he’s not going to this year now that he’s on a standard contract remember he was on a two-way deal last year actually the last two years and then last year he was promoted to a a standard NBA contract toward the end of the regular season to satisfy the roster minimum requirement the Wolves actually still had an open spot but they added Garza to a standard contract so he could be available in the playoffs and satisfying the roster minimum requirement by all accounts what the Wolves love about Luca Gars is he is a professional he practices hard he’s a really good offensive player like he really would be if he ever played extended minutes I believe he’d be a Plus on the offensive side of the ball the problem is he’s a minus on the defensive side yes he still plays hard there yes his positioning is generally pretty good and he grabs a fair amount of rebounds um and he’s certainly better laterally moving laterally is more quick laterally than he was as a second round pick out of IA of course having a a storyed college career um but he remade his body and and improved his range improved and and added consistent consistency to his three-point shot and the postgame didn’t get worse when he got into better shape the postgame did not get worse uh so he is a plus offensive player he’s a minus defensive player but he plays hard and he adds value on the boards and as we’ve seen in you know basically a small handful of games that both Rudy goar and Carlon towns missed last year and and uh Luca averaged I don’t know 15 16 minutes a game something like that it was effective we’ve seen that um in in limited rotation minutes when guys are out in uh spot Duty we’ve seen it going back a couple of years obviously in garbage time he dominates and uh he’s a valuable kind of fourth or fifth big depending on how you want to classify you know we don’t see Jade McDaniel at the four very often but you know however else the roster shapes out and when Kyle Anderson was on the roster and maybe he still will be but probably not he plays a few minutes at the four so gar is a fifth big is what he is he’s only going to play if two of your top three guys are out for the entire game because even in games where guys are in foul trouble it’s not like Garza got opportunities he really only got opportunities when there were injuries and players were not available and that’s fine that’s the type of player he is but in a pinch he can give you production you know what to expect from Luca Garza by all counts the locker room loves him the coaching staff loves him so good for Luca Garza to work hard a guy who a lot of people didn’t think was a legit pro pro Prospect despite being the Big 10 player of the year despite all he did at Iowa just you know the the the athleticism and and lateral quickness concerns primarily but he again reshaped his body became more consistent from the outside and has been a consumate pro in the g-league with the Pistons and now with the Wolves for the last two plus years so good for Luca Garza good story a really nice Player Development story for Minnesota as well and uh because he he clearly is is an NBA player now even if it is an 11th guy like that’s to to to know what you have in that spot there’s value in that when it comes to Luca Garo so good to get that out of the way reduces the number of roster spots still available Minnesota has three spots to fill plus two two-way spots so that means you know we’re looking at vet minimum guys and I want to do that here in a moment first though I just want to real quick and actually as I run through this I’m gonna run through a list of like all the reported deals most maybe not all of them but from Sunday and Monday not really many guys the Wolves would really have interested just because again it’s only vet minimum deals to bring back and real quick I I’ll reiterate this to bring back any of their own free agents so Kyle Anderson Monte Morris Jordan mlin they could go beyond the minimum to bring back their own fre agents but they’re paying a penalty for being in the second apron the only guy that I think they’d even consider doing probably consider it for Monte Morris but in the wake of trading up to draft Rob Dillingham last week I don’t think the wolves are going to spend a bajillion dollars on Monte Morris to compete for the second point guard spot or or you know have the spot until Dillingham keep it warm until Dillingham takes over mlin they maybe could get from the minimum we talked about that extensively or more extensively on Monday at this point it feels pretty 5050 on if he wants a change of scenery could the wolves get a different vet minimum point guard I don’t know that you’re going to do much better than mlin as your third point guard but to that point he may go somewhere else for a little more than the minimum and be able to have a legit backup you know number two point guard role so good for him if that’s the case I could go either way on that one Kyle Anderson I think the Wolves could go you know further into the tax to to resign him I started the offseason saying they wouldn’t do it then I started thinking yeah maybe they would uh but now that we know there’s no midlevel exception available because they are firmly into that or above that second apron I I don’t know that they’re going to be able to bring back Kyle Anderson at the moment as of this recording he’s still out there on the free agent market and and is probably one of the few guys still out there that you know besides the ones who we expect to know where they’re going like LeBron going back to Lakers and stuff like that you know one of the few guys out there that that could get much significantly more than the minimum which which is which is certainly what KY Anderson’s looking for uh so in terms of other moves like we saw uh I’m just kind of going in chronological excuse me chronological order going back through what happened you know Sunday and Monday Max Christie brother of Cam Christie new Clippers draft uh draft e and former gopher uh cam Chris Christie cam Christie Max Christie resigns with the Lakers uh we saw uh Chris Paul go over to the San Antonio Spurs in a one-year deal which I really like for both Paul and the Spurs more for the Spurs than for Paul it makes a ton of sense to put an adult in that room and and to have him work with Greg papovich will be cool but to have him play with wanyama is gonna be great we know James Harden’s going back to the Clippers some other minor things that don’t affect the Wolves at all Kevin Love going back to Miami likely a minimum deal but a two-year deal so not that the he would have come to Minnesota to be their fifth big but a player that could have theoretically fit Minnesota if the heat didn’t want to bring him back and they weren’t going to bring back Luca Garza everybody loves a good reunion story um kcp kavus calwell Pope leaving Denver to go to Orlando that obviously not a player the Wolves could have competed for but significant that he’s not going back to Denver we know Paul George of course going to the Sixers um Isaiah hartstein going to the or uh hartenstein excuse me going to the okumus city Thunder that’s a perfect fit for OKC player to team is about a perfect of a fit as you can find they needed physicality they needed rebounding they needed some offense uh and also playmaking ability from their bigs they just needed a big period Beyond Chad hren the question is can chat play the four at extended minutes next to hartenstein I tend to think uh yes I you know I don’t know how many minutes that is it’s probably what 12 14 16 a game so that’s interesting um let’s see what else do we have we have valent chunis going to the Wizards which is weird for everybody involved I don’t really know what happened there uh nii Marshall leaving the Pelicans to go to Dallas Dallas loses Derrik Jones Jr who goes to the clippers but now shortly before recording this find out Klay Thompson is going to the Dallas Mavericks which is also a perfect fit in my mind for both player and team he is kind of what that team was missing I know they got to the finals but losing derck Jones J is going to matter a lot and and losing both him uh well losing him is the biggest hits to their defense and Klay Thompson isn’t you know A Plus on that end of the floor at this point but um that’ll be interesting to see that play out so both Dallas and OKC get better at the moment Golden State and the Clippers have gotten worse there’s no question about that although there’s still some balls in the air again as of this recording we know I mentioned Paul George the Sixers we know Maxi resigns we know UB resigns at the Sixers the Thunder keep other rotation guys like isaah Isaiah Joe and Aaron Wiggins um try to see if there’s any I don’t think there’s anybody else that had like a potential wolves oh Delon Wright I guess signing for a year and three 3.3 million with the Bucks which is a little over the vet minimum Delan Wright would have been a fit in Minnesota as a backup guard but perhaps could have a few more minutes per game with Milwaukee and probably a few more dollars uh with Milwaukee as well so I guess that one’s a little bit notable um Lori marinin apparently available for trade hasn’t been traded as of right now but team’s interested in him being traded away from uh potentially being traded away from Utah that’s kind of it oh Golden State added to Anthony Melton as well which is not nothing but it you know Golden State’s still gotten worse without Chris Paul without Klay Thompson we know they’ve gotten worse so pretty interesting and that would be kind of my like my first couple days of free agency quick dirty summary is Golden State’s worse OKC’s better Dallas is um likely better I think with the Klay Thompson addition even though they’re losing Derrik Jones Jr I would say Dallas is better I would say Denver is worse losing kcp we already there’s they’ve got other guys that are free agents as well we’ll talk about Justin holid here in the minute even though he was kind of a bit player for them but the West isn’t going to be easier it’s just going to be a little bit different next year which is to be expected so I want to get into some potential wolves targets Justin holiday will be one of them I’ve got we’ll call it three guys that I think are realistic to get on the vet minimum that are maybe my three favorite vet minimum targets and then a couple guys that I think uh will probably be a little bit more than that so I’m not sure the Wolves can get them unless the market completely unless there’s just nothing else out there or these players and or these players just want to compete be a be in a rotation spot for a title contender in Minnesota which is a very weird thing to say and I don’t think I’ve ever said that uh certainly never said that on this podcast uh related to free agency but there’s that possibility couple old friends mixed in there as well so I’m going to Rattle off a few names that’s what we’ll do the rest of the show here today we’ll get to all of that here next today’s episode of lock out wolves is brought To Us by our title sponsors over at fuel I love sports I love them so much I never want them to stop but as the playoffs wind down and they have wind down of course in the NHL in the NBA we get fewer games and the sports just aren’t sportsing like we all want them to but fandel lets you keep the sports going whenever you want all you have to do is open the app and dream up bets anytime you’re in 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just for the sake of making this more simple n Alexander Walker will call their seventh man so the top seven guys are back and seven seven of the top eight would be another way to look at that so seven of the top eight from the playoff rotation so you’ve got one playoff rotation spot to fill you’ve drafted two guys in Rob Dillingham and teren Shannon Jr both of those guys will have a shot at a roll this year we’ll just say again for the sake of argument Dillingham is the backup point guard they basically said he will be so that’s eight players you’re now looking at filling a ninth spot a 10th spot last year at various times these are roles that were held by Shake Milton Troy Brown Jr um Jordan mlin technically I guess you could lump Kyle Anderson into the conversation as guys that were in those roles so you’re looking for two guys that are unless you unless you’re buying that Terence Shannon Jr is one of them but for the nine and 10 spots you need two more guys that could play Rotation minutes at the moment if Dylan Ham’s in that top eight you’re looking at Terence Shannon Jr you’re looking at Josh Minot and you’re looking at Leonard Miller as possible answers for those spots Jaylen Clark we don’t know if he’ll be fully ready or not he’s going to play in Summer League we’ll see he might be they may be counting on him my guess is it’s more of a g-league start of the year maybe mid-season late season to seeing how he feels but he’s a fantastic Defender so I got to believe he’s got a shot so right now if it’s the Kyle Anderson role or the Troy Brown Jr role that’s more of kind of a swing forward type which are different roles but that type of position Josh Minot and Leonard Miller would have to have up an in side edge and actually teren shanon Jr is a bigger bigger guard is kind of in that conversation too but you need at least one but probably two veterans in that mix to compete now a two-way player is a possibility but the wolves have vet contracts to play with they have roster spots to play with and they are uh you know frankly if guys are looking for vet spots this is a fringe rotation spot that could grow into something bigger especially if they’re not retaining Kyle Anderson again this is if they’re not bringing back Kyle Anderson these are potential rotation minutes and guys that are free agents could be looking at the wolves and saying all right this team went to the Conference Finals they’ve got a they’ve got Kat and Rudy they are they’ve got janen McDaniels they’ve got enough young talent to get back to the Conference Finals or further they’re not going anywhere I could sign today and be the ninth player on their depth chart and potentially rise dependent on injuries dependent on ineffectiveness uh you know whatever that might be the Wolves could be an attractive destination for some of these guys so it’s not like a complete wish list where the Wolves would have to overpay and past years or just wait until everybody’s done doing whatever they’re doing there’s a little bit of that certainly um but hopefully less of it here because the wolves are a legit Contender so my favorite guys again no particular order here but I’m going to hit my three favorites Reggie Bullock who actually probably is my favorite would would be at the top of my list just last year so not 23 24 but the year prior he was a 30 minute a game guy for Dallas actually for two consecutive years and it was a good Dallas team now I guess that Dallas team didn’t actually make the playoffs but the year before they did and he was a rotation guy the year before they actually did go to the Conference Finals he started half the games that regular season he was a 10-minute game guy for Houston last year shot 40% from outside the arc for his career he’s 38 and a half percent outside the arc he’s going to be 33 years old or actually he just turned 33 this spring um so he’s 33 years old obviously no upside here again we’re talking about veterans that are Fringe rotation guys I think he’s still a slight net positive Defender I think that he can still guard multiple positions he he probably is going to be guarding um you know not the point of attack as much but that’s kind of what we’re talking about here remember the wolves have is guys that can do it if they need to but can play that support role defensively similar to a Kyle Anderson because they’ve got Alexander Walker they’ve got Jade McDaniels they’ve got Anthony Edwards they’ve still got Mike connley they’ve got other guys that are gonna guard point of attack Bullock would be asked to play off the ball to guard bigger twos to guard smaller threes he’s 66 um you know has been a plus defender in the past and I think could still kind of effectively be a three and D guy and frankly like he didn’t play more for Houston last year because Houston wasn’t I mean I guess for stretches they they did actually get close to pushing for a play in late um but on a good team I think Reggie Bullock could make a case to be that kind of Fringe rotation guy I think he fits that bill perfectly for his size and for the position he’s an okay rebounder he’s not going to run your offense at all which is what you’re losing going from Kyle Anderson to somebody like this but again that’s why you have Dillingham it’s why you have Alexander Walker it’s why you bring in a mlin or somebody else to be your third point guard so as a catch and shoot three-point guy he can be effective as a Defender off the ball he can be effective again 40 plus percent last year from three he’s been 38% or greater three the last four years so he’s still a plus three-point shooter and should have enough athleticism and also the size uh to to to be an important player and it’s weird like a lot of times with these guys you see this trajectory of like with almost anybody that that’s still hanging around you know eight years into their career whatever six seven years into their career where they’re like a starter and then a bench guy and then whatever or there’s like a normal trajectory to what they’re doing Bullock was like not a rotation guy with the Clippers goes to a bad Detroit Team Works his way into a rotation has a cameo at the Lakers ends up with the Knicks is kind of a fringy rotation guy there and then all of a sudden last year at the Knicks first year with Dallas he’s a rotation guy in a good team last year he’s a rotation guy in a bad d mediocre Dallas team and then he kind of his Fringe rotation for Houston I don’t think he suddenly got much worse from 23 to 24 I think it was a combination of Houston not trying to win initially they had injuries it was a weird situation and then uh you know he just didn’t fit what they were trying to do I think he still got some run in him I think he’s better for more than 10 minutes a game I don’t think he’s a 30 minute game guy nor do the Wolves need him to be I think he’s a 12 14 16 minutes if you need him type guy there’s more juice there than for instance what the Wolves got from from TJ Warren at the end of last year no disrespect to TJ Warren he was more of a a three4 Bullock’s more of a a three2 if you will so I really like Reggie Bullock and he’s my favorite selection as a vet minimum contract guy I think it’s very likely that’s all he gets on the open market this year he’s made a little bit of money in his career his last deal that just uh finished so he was a minimum contract guy last year for Houston and he again didn’t play a whole lot so um I think that there’s still some uh you know still a possibility that they can I mean he was what he was with Dallas he signed a three-year he’s paid what nine and a half million 10 million then the next year was supposed to make 11 million last year but he was cut after the Dallas to Spurs trade signed to a minimum deal by Houston so minimum is probably all he going to get at this point and I like Bullock as an option for Minnesota two more guys I want to focus on and then I’m going to list a few names that I don’t think will work for a couple of reasons but players the Wolves no doubt have had internal conversations about as uh as possible ads uh for to the this year so we’ll do all that here next all right so Reggie Bullocks my favorite Target for the Wolves un event minimum contract along similar lines you’re going to sense a theme here because what I think they’re looking for is is again that that that kind of backup swing forward type role the Kyle Anderson type role the Troy Brown Jr type role dillingham’s going to feel the shake Milton jayen noell role if you will um and I do think they bring another point guard by the way I’m not focusing any point guards here well I guess one kind of combo guard we’ll get to in a minute but there just isn’t a whole lot out there in terms of vet minimum point guards I think mlin is actually the best option it might get more than that uh Pat bevs out there I don’t know that he’s gonna come for a third string rooll no nor do I I don’t know that anybody wants him to come for a third string roll Chris Dunn is fine but I think he’ll get perhaps more a little more than the vet minimum may find an actual backup roll somewhere there just aren’t many point guard options that I love so I’m not going to dwell too much on that because I kind of hope it it ends up being mlin as the third guard again okay so back to this uh this this uh ninth man role Jay Crowder is another one again 66 he’s a three that can guard some some fours and guard some you know he he plays a little bit more small ball four than you know uh talking about Bullock Bullock’s a three that can play the two Jay Crowder is a little bit in that TJ Warren M where he plays small ball four but he can also play some three played a lot of four for Milwaukee the last couple years actually ended up starting 25 games for the bucks last year only shot 35% from three which is not great and his last full year before that with Phoenix a couple years prior was also 35% the year before that with Phoenix he was 39% actually for his career this surprised me he’s only about a 35% three-point shooter and I think everyone kind of thought that he’d be a little bit of a better outside shooter never really came to fruition for Jay Crowder course of former Mike Conley and uh I don’t know that he overlapped with nil no he wouldn’t have former Mike Conley team met in Utah and he’s been on a ton of different teams uh actually let’s see one two three four he’s actually been on eight different teams man um so all that to say I think from a positional standpoint Bullock fits maybe a little better I also worry a little bit less about him wearing down I just think the last two years for Crowder have not been as good the shooting hasn’t been as good he hasn’t been on the floor as often he’s had a few more uh been banged up a little bit more than bulock so I like bulock a little more but Crowder could fit the bill you’d like him to rebound a little bit better if he was going to play the four but it’s passable he also yeah assist rate’s a little better can he’s not going to orchestrate your offense but a little bit less of a catch and shoot three only guy than Bullock um but again maybe kind of why I like bolock a little bit more is the catch and shoot is really what you need at this point I think they’re both slight positives defensively but again a little bit of a different like Bullock’s going to guard more twos and Crowder’s going to guard could theoretically guard some bigger players so maybe the Wolves feel a little bit differently about Crowder being a slight preference for for the Wolves front office but I think Jay Crowder is a legit option as well and I put him kind of in that same category as Reggie Bullock I’d have a slight preference towards Bullock Justin holiday is another one Justin holiday of course was with the uh the Nuggets last year and has been kind of a fringe rotation guy for I talked about Crowder being on eight different teams and uh holiday has been on 10 different teams over the course of his career which is nuts in fact last year was one of only three seasons in his career that he hasn’t changed teams mid-season is that true that’s crazy uh but Justin holiday I I like him I like him as a he’s probably more of a tenth guy he’s certainly a minimum player um I mean his career 36 and a half three-point Shooters 40% last year for Denver and he launched quite a few threes when he was in the game for Denver he was uh up in and out of the rotation actually started nine games when they were kind of ravaged with injuries throughout the year I like him as a 10th guy I think he’s similar to Bullock where he’s he’s actually same size as Bullock in terms of height he’s kind of a two that can guard some threes I would describe Bullock as a three that guards some twos they’re pretty interchangeable um he’s not again not the shooter that Bullock is he’s maybe a little bit of a better Defender overall than Reggie Bullock at this stage he’s actually a little bit older he’ll be 35 this season um actually just turned 35 like less than two months ago so we’re talking about like these guys I’m talking about uh bulock is 33 Crowder is 34 holiday is 35 that’s what we’re looking for right now is vet guys that are gonna say yeah I’ll sign on for a run at a championship I’ll be your ninth or tenth guy with a shot to earn more minutes depending on how the season shakes out and I’d probably rank them in that order I’d go Bullock Crowder holiday but all three of them are kind of in that first tier of realistic vet minimum type guys I think the Wolves could and should Target a couple other names I’ll throw out there quickly thus young old friend thus young I don’t know if there’s anything left in the tank for Thad um he is just turned 36 like a week and a half ago and he barely played last year he of course ended up on the Suns we saw him briefly in the playoffs I think he played rotation minutes in one game and he was acquired by the Suns he played 10 games there spent first 23 games in Toronto I mean we’re only three years removed from him being really good with the bulls and getting six Man of the Year votes uh in the 2021 season but he’s never been a three-point shooter and that volume’s even decreased the last couple of years he certainly fits the kind of Swiss army knife multiple position uh can be the your distributor for offense can run your offense can guard multiple positions he’s actually probably even right now every bit as impactful defensively than all the guys I just talked about I just don’t know that he helps you much offensively again he can your offense like Kyle Anderson in fact there’s some Kyle Anderson to his game I just think even the scoring efficiency the craftiness isn’t there when he was younger he had a bit more burst than slow-mo that’s not there anymore um I would put that as like at this point like the poor man’s version of Kyle Anderson like that’s what we’re looking at um I don’t know that he gives you much but as your 10th or 11th guy maybe we’re starting to slide a little bit here I think he’s all only a vet minimum guy too so a name to look at a guy that I think will get more than the vet minimum so I I don’t think is a real option is Alec Burks I think he’s probably going to get something close to the low low midlevel um like four or five million um he was good last year in stretches for once he got to the Knicks of course he started the year with the Pistons he’s a career 38% three-point shooter couple years ago for Detroit he was 41% outside the Arc in fact he’s been well last year was a shade under 38% but he’d been over 40% three straight years prior to that and like I think he’s good enough defensively he’s probably the worst defensive player we’re talking about but he’s got enough size to guard some twos uh and some smaller threes so but again I think the three-point shooting for him probably takes him out of the Wolves range but he’s a name I wanted to mention as a possible addition as a um you know kind of UM Vet minimum if the market falls apart couple others very very quickly Damen Lee opted out with Phoenix he didn’t play last year due to injury he would be awesome the rumor is he’s going to go back to Phoenix for just a few bucks less like they’re going to retain him but if Damen was still available he would be a great fit Jordan noar if you’re looking for again size along those same lines tan Prince those guys might both get a little bit more than the vet minimum again Prince obviously old friend toian Prince was a bit disappointing last year for La although he kind of is what he is and if you’re looking for a ninth or tenth guy you can do worse than Jordan noara or toian Prince guys that will almost certainly get more I don’t know maybe not almost certainly for Gordon Hayward he’ll probably get more than the minimum but he’d be an option we talked about him at the Minnesota basketball party last week Gordon Hy would be fine obviously he’s not giving you anything defensively but he could give you some scoring punch Off the Bench which I think is less necessary now that you have Dillingham but you never know uh so Hayward would be an option give him the chance to stick it to OKC too he didn’t it sounds like love the way that things finished with the Thunder and then cheddy Osman who I I think will almost certainly get more like he’s gonna get more than the that minimum uh unless Things Fall Apart but I wanted to mention him as kind of another guy who fits that mold of a Swiss Army knife type multiple position positional flexibility utility type forward and and I would put slowmo and Thad young and cheddy Osman all in that category to a lesser extent Jak Crowder Reggie Bullock who I think are a little bit more locked into what they can do and then you got kind of the Guard category as well that we talked about with Burks and I think holiday fits a little bit more there so um that those are just a bunch of names that I like on some level or could be possibilities for Minnesota again Burks and Osman maybe Hayward being outside the price range Nora and Prince may hit there too Thad young maybe not being a real ninth guy at this stage but a nice bench piece potentially Damen Lee likely going back to the Suns guys that I like that I think they’ve got a shot at the minimum Bullock Crowder holiday in that order all right we’ll talk more about this I’m sure between now and Wednesday show more is going to happen we’ve got the Minnesota basketball party Wednesday as well so be sure to check that out that’ll be posted uh it’ll be live on YouTube on lockdown Sports Minnesota at 9:00 am Wednesday we’ll have that episode here on the lockdown wolves feed Wednesday evening but of course I’ll be back Wednesday morning with the lockdown wolves the regular Daily Show as well big thank you for making lock down wolves your first listen every day of course this show is 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