Taking final stock of Minnesota Timberwolves roster as free agency dust settles
hello and welcome in to another episode of lockdown wolves today on the show another former Timberwolf is officially a former Timberwolf signing with another Western Conference Contender we’ll also talk about the Tims have two more second round picks than we thought they did a week ago all in the wake of the NBA Draft so Tim Connelly continues to work his magic and uh ultimately who’s in and who’s out now that we basically know what the roster looks like moving forward it’s all up coming on the show Welcome in you are locked on wolves [Music] 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 locked on wolves today’s episode is brought to you by FanDuel make every moment more as the playoffs wind down and they’re over now no more hockey no more basketball no more 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Engles he had some quotes about coming to Minnesota I want to talk about the second round picks that Tim Connelly has uncovered as part of the uh the finalization of all the draft night trades and uh we’ll also talk a little bit of kind of roster overall you know some more finality in terms of pending free agents from Minnesota that are no longer pening so ton to get to here on this Monday a big thank you first of all for making lockdown wolves your first list in 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 podcast you can find lockdown wolves you can also watch on the lockdown Sports Minnesota app on both Roku and Amazon Fire TV and you can follow on X at lockon T wolves and also at B Beacon with two B’s two e’s cken all right let’s start with the more second round picks because this was a pleasant surprise when when this kind of when this uh came across I guess if you will um this was let’s see so if you I’m I’m going to just kind of run through this so we knew that the Timberwolves had some sort of a future second round pick coming as part of their trade back remember they were at 37 they traded back to what was it initially to to somewhere in the 40s and then to 53 and then to 57 and then all the way out of the second round so we knew they had a pick coming we weren’t really sure from where we thought maybe it was from Detroit and we knew that they had a pick swap com in as part of the Kyle Anderson signing trade well that full deal is now finalized and ultimately there’s six different teams involved and I’m going to credit Hoops rumors.com for kind of laying this all out um they’ve kind of compiled all the different press releases and stuff from the league and put this all here so the six different teams involved uh and the Wolves got another second round pick out of this and then there’s also another pick that I’ll get to in a second so ultimately there’s going to be two picks that they’re getting out of this thing so part of this deal is the wolves get the second round pick swap from the Warriors in 200 31 so the better of the two teams pick so if golden state has the better pick the wolves get it if the wolves have the better pick they keep it in 2031 this is part of the Kyle Anderson s in trade they also get cash which we know there’s a there’s a limit on what they can get there but that’s from Golden State in this trade because there has to be something else happening in the trade in order to to make it be completed and I’m going to read exactly what Hoops roomers has here it says we don’t yet know the exact details of the 2025 second rounders being acquired by both Dallas and Minnesota one of them is a 2025 Nicks pick that Charlotte excuse me nuggets pick where I got Nicks from that Charlotte initially agreed to acquire as part of the Jackson trade one of them is the 2025 Sixers pick that Charlotte already controlled the Hornets were always going to send out two second round picks to get Josh green but now they’re going to Dallas and Minnesota instead of Dallas and Golden State so basically one of the picks That was supposed to go from Charlotte to Golden State will now be rerouted to Minnesota we don’t yet know if it’s the pick that was originally a nuggets pick or the pick that was originally a Sixers pick either way the wolves get another second round pick this is a 2025 second round pick in addition to the 2031 pick swap okay so all the Wolves did here this is all they did here was facilitate Kyle Anderson going to Golden State they get cash a future second round pick Swap and a 2025 second round pick the other second round pick that Minnesota’s gonna get is from the wend Elmore Jr trade which was that that what became a a tradeback um we knew that they were trading him to the Pistons for a second round pick swap the Pistons went from 53 to 37 and so the Wolves got 53 so I added a step in there earlier so the Wolves went from 37 to 53 there was Cash involved and um they had the 53 pick then they traded the 53 to Memphis for 57 in a future second rounder and then they traded 57 to Toronto for a million bucks so the wolves have cash from Detroit they have a million bucks from the Raptors and then they get this future second round pick from Memphis for the 53rd pick in this draft so another second round pick so we knew that there was one in there somewhere but there’s a couple more now plus Cash Plus the future pick Swap and this was the trade you know they sent out W El Moore Jr they get back cash and they get back a future second round pick so two more second round picks than the Wolves thought than that at least publicly everybody thought the Wolves had a week ago week and a half ago in the wake of the of the draft big win for Minnesota well big is maybe strong but a uh a win nonetheless and this is how Tim Connelly operates nobody was focusing on the two second rounders or or the N Alexander Walker part of the DLo Mike Conley trade everyone was worried about the Conley dowlo part I thought the second round picks were great coming from Utah which they were good picks right one of them was already this year but nobody was focusing in the nikil Alexander Walker part but he’s quietly even though he’s traded out all these first rounders he’s quietly acre these second rounders which you can use later of course and they already have um but it’s also a way to affordably relatively speaking build a team that’s going to be a second apron team at least for the the near future and only has what one first drum pick and a couple of swaps in the next seven years I’m pretty sure that’s what it is I’m pretty sure the Wolves I don’t have it right in front of me right now but I believe the wolves have a 26 pick that’s their own and a swap in 28 and now a swap in 30 I believe is what they have um only one actual pick they own free and clear in the next sevenish years going up to 2031 so part of the way you’re going to build that team rebuild this roster or build the roster along the way is through hitting on these second rounders or trading them or packaging picks together like future picks like they did this year to move up to number eight and take Rob Dillingham it’s a creative approach to team building that you have to do when you’ve got three max contract guys with the way the CBA is now set up pretty interesting pretty interesting one other thing really quick uh Joe Engles gave an interview after he signed with Minnesota it was reported and then it was I think finalized on Saturday over the weekend and um he talked about how the Wolves wanted to get him last year and he was interested in going to Minnesota in part because he knew that they like him even when Kyle Anderson was still on the roster and now uh you know he’s replacing KY Anderson and his quote I’ll read Kyle Joe engle’s quote he said part of it meeting Sig in Minnesota was having the interest for more than just Kyle Anderson leaves and hey you can help us last year they went pretty hard as well meaning the Wolves went hard after signing him in free agency and we decided Orlando playing with Mike Conley again will be awesome obviously I know Rudy and then helping these other guys to keep getting better uh Dane Moore had reported I think on Twitter last week that the wolves are off Eng Les 7 million last year and he went to Orlando for 11 million which is defensible and Orlando was a playoff team this year so uh yeah can’t fault the guy for making 4 million more now this year the Wolves just offer him the vet minimum and who knows what other options he had I’m sure he had some and he comes to Minnesota talks about how engle’s daughter and Conley’s son attended school together when they both played in Utah so that relationship is there apparently he and Chris Finch got into it in the 2012 London Olympics when Finch was coaching Great Britain I didn’t know that I’m GNA have to look that up I he talks about the competitive nature and then he says it’s exciting it’s obviously a really good team Western Conference finals this year just going in there fully understanding the role they have for me trying to help Rudy trying to help ant trying to help all these guys get better and hopefully go further when the opportunity came up and you speak more in depth about the basketball side especially with the stuff I’m saying you still want to play you still want to compete it’s a basketball opportunity that was too good to give up that’s what Engel said about Jonie Minnesota so that’s that’s good stuff exciting that Joe Engles is excited to be in Minnesota again that’s a ESPN article from I believe their Australian basketball writer of course Engles playing for Australia this year in the Olympics as well so really good uh all right I want to talk about the roster Jordan mlin is leaving he’s signed the Sacramento we’ll talk about now we know what’s 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free Amazon Fire TV channels app part of the lockdown podcast Network your team every day all right so Jordan mcgoffin on I think this was reported early Sunday agreed to sign with the Sacramento Kings so not a surprise the Wolves only have the one real roster spot left we don’t know about the uh the PJ Doer contract there’s been kind of conflicting reports out there it may be partially guaranteed in which case uh if it’s only partially guaranteed it’s kind of like they have two roster spots left uh but either way Jordan mcgoffin reportedly signing with the Sacramento Kings hopefully he’s able to to get a legit backup role there if he ends up just being a fringe rotation guy there would be disappointed uh that it’s there and not in Minnesota but uh he let’s see it’s a believed to be a minimum contract deal he gives them an option behind Daren Fox of course uh Davon Mitchell was traded to Toronto over the summer and the kings are also completed a signing trade for demard de Rosen of course that’s the um the other kind of big news so mlin likely getting a minimum deal there it’s curious to me that he wouldn’t get anything a little bit more than the minimum and maybe wouldn’t get he he may just be their straight up backup point guard I don’t you know I haven’t researched their depth chart a ton but uh there’s a shot that he’s he’s just got a rotation role there and I suppose you’re in the west you’re with a contender you can play against the Wolves you can compete the kings are at least a fringe I shouldn’t say Fringe they were obviously much better the last couple years than they were last year um but they’re they’re a playoff team in the west so mlin moves on and it’s understandable that writing had kind of been on the wall the change of scenery makes some sense Minnesota does not have a third point guard but they also didn’t last year either remember at the start of the Year Jordan mlin was the only other true point guard on the roster beside Mike connley Shake Milton was an option as a combo guard n Alexander Walker we knew they were going to use in that capacity and Kyle Anderson of course initiated offense a lot last year but now this off season it’s the same deal instead of mlin it’s Rob Dillingham he’s of course gonna see uh it’s really more the shake Milton role um remember the start of the regular season last year mlin didn’t wasn’t necessarily getting minutes every night it was mostly Shake Milton and Kyle Anderson and N Alexander Walker sharing quote unquote point guard duties with the second unit with Shake Milton being asked to generate a lot of offense for himself in addition to all um and we talked about this I think on Friday’s show about Shake is essentially or excuse me um Dillingham is essentially in what was the shake Milton role last year and previously previous to that the Jaylen noell role that instant offense Off the Bench as a primary creator for oneself but also the ability to create for other people uh Dillingham is basically in that role so taking a half step back and looking at the roster right now I’d seen a couple of uh of things out there and I’m trying to remember there was a I forget there was a Blog I’ve seen this on TV like people kind of talk about winners and losers of the offseason or people that teams that necessarily that that might have gotten a little bit worse and the wolves have kind of been mentioned as one of them and that’s I think pretty absurd I don’t think this roster worse you could argue it’s maybe marginally worse just because we know what Kyle Anderson is and we kind of knew what Monte Morris was or should have been had he been fully healthy and we don’t know what Rob Dillingham is but as I argued last week on a couple of different shows it’s not hard to argue that Joe Engles is actually a better fit for Minnesota than Kyle Anderson I know that the losing the defensive versatility of Kyle Anderson is going to really hurt because Engles is not the defender Kyle Anderson is that is going to hurt but the wolves have enough depth length athleticism just overall Talent on this roster to cover over what they’re losing for Anders from Anderson on the defensive end and the offensive boost that Les even at call it 18 to 20 minutes a game is going to give you over Kyle Anderson I think is significant enough to overcome that difference on defense because not only do you have the margin for error they were the best defense in the league by over two points per 100 possessions by over two points in defensive rating the Wolves were the best defense in the league they have margin for error and they have guys like McDaniels goar Alexander Walker and guys that can cover and keep the defense as a top or at least top three defense offensively they’re in the 15 to20 range basically all season they finish what depending where you look 17th 18th in the league uh in terms of offensive rating there is no margin frir they have to get better offensively so by losing a couple of lower usage guys Monte moris SL Jordan mcgoffin Kyle Anderson and bringing in higher usage a higher usage effective offensive player very likely in Rob Dillingham of course we don’t know what he looks like at the NBA level but based on what he did in college and based on his skill set what he’s expected to bring that’s going to make the offense better it’s going to raise the floor of the offense certainly and take removing another um and this isn’t even I’m not even talking about uh ter Shannon at this point but taking out a a who was essentially net negative offensive player and I know he distributed the ball well I know he was good against the zone for a handful of possessions a game but replacing KY Anderson with Joe Les and and I don’t want to repeat everything I talked about Friday with Engles spacing to the corner and just how that’s going to naturally provide so much more room for ant and Cat and Rudy on you know rolling to the basket diving to the rim there’s just gonna be more space because you don’t you can’t seg off of Joe Engles who’s going to hit what was he what did I say he was last year 60% on catch and shoot threes something nuts there was over 50% on catch and shoot threes but like 66% wide openen threes something like that like two points per possession on catch and shoot three-pointers or I should say catch and shoot overall but the vast majority of those were three-pointers like 1.9 points per possession replacing slow-mo with Joe Engles is going to make a world of a difference so the Improvement to the offense at least the floor of the offense with Dillingham and Engles is greater than the impact of losing Kyle Anderson on Def defense and grand scheme if you look at what they’ve lost to what they’re bringing to the roster I think it raises both the floor and the ceiling seriously so what’s out Kyle Anderson Monte Morris Jordan mlin what’s in Rob Dillingham Joe Eng Les Terence Shane Jr essentially right you go back to Mid last season and obviously uh Shake Milton and Troy Brown Jr and they you know in terms of depth pieces wend Moore dih Nicks at this point is still a free agent guys that didn’t play weren’t part of the rotation so I’m talking rotation guys and you go back and look at the rotation at the end of the regular season like for instance once cat came back the final couple regular season games it is it is three of the five bench pieces kyli Anderson Jordan mofin Monte Morris all gone however mclin and Morris were playing together because they had to they were two of the 10 best players so they had to play together and it wasn’t ideal they were both undersized like there’s a reason either of them are back because the Wolves Wen going a pony up to keep either one of them they wanted some more size and I know dillingham’s actually smaller but I’m talking about playing them together they work they didn’t want to have to play two small point guards together in the back court at the same time and now they just have one and they’re adding size to the rotation in teren Shannon Jr Joe Engles similar size to KY Anderson so they continue to get bigger and ultimately the floor raises because there’s more scoring potential there with Dyan ham there’s more offensive Firepower more shooting ability more uh they’re never going to have two guys on the floor together that cannot shoot the three theyve only got one guy in the rotation now that’s not a three that’s not capable of making a three and that’s Rudy goar so you’re never going to have two of those guys on the floor together so again the floor of the offense raises they’re already third best at three-point percentage they’re middle the pack in terms of three-point rate the three-point rate comes up the three-point percentage should stay similar and the defense I don’t think got significantly worse maybe slightly but teren Shannon should be a good Defender at the NBA level Eng Les isn’t net slight net negative defensively depending on how they use him but likely in in the scope of the team defense he’s going to be a negative and then dillingham’s very likely to be a negative early in his career and may be forever but again the floor and the ceiling of the offense comes up the floor in the ceiling the floor of the defense might go down slightly I don’t know if the ceiling comes down because we already knew what Kyle Anderson was and some of these guys are only going to get better because that’s the other thing we have to factor in I want to talk a little bit about that and then kind of put a bow on the overall dep conversation and why I would argue this roster is every bit as good now as it was call it 12 months ago so we’ll do all that here next to close the show today today’s of lock out wolves is brought To Us by our friends at betterhelp it’s sponsored by betterhelp do you tend to compare your life to others it’s easy to do that if if you do it’s because of social media no doubt social media plays a part in that and what do you 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in only one of them is a known quantity we know what Joe Engles is and and yeah he’s 37 soon to be 38 he may take a half step back next year he may fall off a cliff we don’t know hopefully not literally I mean his production of course uh but he’s he’s a we’ll call him a known quantity just like Kyle Anderson was Rob Dillingham and Terence shanon Jr we don’t know what they will be at the NBA level but we know dilling there should be almost no qu dilling was so efficient as a score at Kentucky he’s not going to suddenly be completely inefficient at the very least he’s gonna be a really good catch and shoot player off the ball he’s GNA be a good pick and roll point guard a lot of what he’s able to give the wolves in terms of overall production and onc Court impact is going to hinge on if he’s going to be fine defensively passable or a complete disaster if he’s a complete disaster it brings the Florida you know or it brings the ceiling down just a little bit of course but the point here is call Kyle Anderson and Joe Engles a wash because ultimately Engles is gonna make the offense better the defense worse Anderson made the defense better the offense worse call it a wash what Rob dillingham’s going to bring is not going to be less than what Monte Morris and Jordan mcclaflin brought and what’s his ceiling borderline Allstar Allstar what’s his most likely outcome probably high usage relatively efficient bench scor six-man type Contender that’s upside that you didn’t have with Monte Morris Jordan mcgoffin and you know so good players solid backup point guards I would have loved to have one of them back that was what I said at the start of the offseason I wanted one of them back well it didn’t happen Morris is with the Suns mclin’s with the Kings both those guys are going to be competing for playoff spots next year again but the ceiling of what this could be both this year and into the future with Dillingham is much higher and I don’t think the floor is any lower I don’t think this is a worse roster because the most likely scenario I know rookies are generally not good like they even if they’re promising what they give you is not usually positive production but I think Dylan ham is relatively safe I know he’s really small and I know he’ll be bad defensively but the offensive production and the field shows as we’ve talked about already many times on the show in the last two weeks the pick and rooll feel and the way how he operates a team the way he knows what to do with the ball in his hands and score efficiently that’s not going to just not be there Shannon’s a bit of a wild card but he’s also the 10th Man and he’s going to battle with Josh Min and Leonard Miller to be the 10th Man as the team is currently constructed and I mean it was rare that Morris and mlin were in the rotation or think back to the 10th Man early in the year when it was Troy Brown Jr and eventually shake when Shake was played out of the rotation a little bit whoever that 10th man is is kind of a s like he some nights he’s not going to play and again there was a stretch after the Morris acquisition and especially after cat was hurt where mlin and Morris were both in the rotation it just wasn’t ideal it worked in the regular season because they were both fine players but now instead of playing two point guards together you have the punch of Rob Dillingham and you have the size of Shannon or the size of Min not Min not of course is a a relative non-shooter not as bad as Kyle Anderson but he’s not what Shannon should be he’s not obviously Engles um so whoever that 10th guy is if it’s Shannon Min not potentially Leonard Miller unlikely PJ doer right but you know one of those guys it’s probably gon to be better than Troy Brown slash having two point guards play at the same time with Morris and mlin so again I go back to the point here I think the floor is about the same maybe slightly higher I think the ceiling is pretty obviously higher because we don’t know just how good Dillan H could be and in a year probably two years he becomes the starting point guard and then you’ve obviously got to solve the bench thing and and you know Nas only has a year left on the deal before he can opt that anyway that’s the next thing we have to talk about is we haven’t on this show talked about the Rudy gobear extension at all but that could even happen this summer he’s extension eligible the Wolves can bring down I think we covered this on the Minnesota basketball party on Wednesday I think Jack Borman brought it up that the Wolves could save themselves some future cap I wouldn’t say they save themselves cap pain but maybe some of that Pain by bringing down the average annual salary for Rudy if you agree to an extension now and essentially buy out you know what happens in the future uh with Rudy and you got to figure out the nas contract you got to understand that Nik alander Walker a year from now is gonna be somewhere else he’s going to make more than what the Wolves can offer him next year so there is a step here it’s Nas it’s da it’s the extension for Rudy but for this year for the assets the Wolves had that Tim Connelly had at his disposal and what’s next the floor is about the same the ceiling’s higher it’s just it’s not a worse roster than what we saw a year ago and given again given the assets and the reality of what Tim Connelly had to work with he did extremely well and I would be really surprised if this team was you know more than a couple of off of last year’s pace and we haven’t even factored in I tease this a little and we’re not really I guess getting to it today but you have to assume that 22-year old Anthony Edwards and 22y Old Jade McDaniels and you know especially those two they’re not going to get worse they’re getting better they’re not to their Prime athletically or as NBA just their skill level and Cat’s in the middle of his prime this team the best players are all in their prime or younger and if you assume relative Improvement like what we saw from 2223 to 2324 this team is going to be better next year I’m not saying they’re going to win 60 games I think the variance is a couple of wins either direction this is very early to truly project this and I’m not giving a real win projection but they’re pretty likely to be in the 54 to 58 win range give or take to me that’s the most likely scenario sitting here right now is that they’re in that range still they didn’t get significantly worse I I believe that all right later in the week we will get the summer league roster for the Wolves maybe even on Monday we might get it today in which case we’ll cover it Tuesday when we get it we’ll do a deep dive on the roster what I’m most excited to watch we’ll talk specifically about the the actual roster players for Minnesota whether it’s the rookies dylian ham Shannon uh the second year you know Leonard biller uh technically second year SL rookie Jaylen Clark who of course is it was officially cleared I should have mentioned that he was officially cleared over the weekend by T rolls doctors to participate in summer league so very excited to see Jaylen Clark well talk about uh I believe um yeah Josh minet’s going to play so 30-year guy playing lots to talk about there and then also whatever else they F the roster with we’ll cover all of it we’ll talk about every single player that’s on the roster but we’ll have some special focus on the actual roster players for the Wolves regular season roster as well so lots to get to here yet this week a big thank you for making lockedown 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 podcast you can find lock on wolves you can also watch on the locked on Sports Minnesota app on both Roku and Amazon Fire TV and you can follow on X lockon wolves and also at B Beacon with 2bs 2 e cken of course the lockedown Wolves 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As NBA free agency winds down, a look at what the Minnesota Timberwolves roster will look like. Ben Beecken (@bbeecken) breaks down which players are definitely gone and who will be taking their place. Plus, Tim Connelly acquired a couple of additional second-round picks on draft night that we’re just learning about. Finally, an argument as to why the Wolves’ roster is just as good as it was a few weeks ago — but with an even higher ceiling.
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