NBA Power Rankings: Will the Warriors ever lose again?

Minnesota Timberwolves. 25. team. 86. The Minnesota Timberwolves confuse me. Zach LaVine and Andrew Wiggins take turns dunking on 7-footers. Karl-Anthony Towns is only getting better. Tom freaking Thibodeau is their coach. Yet, they haven’t broken .500 or won back-to-back games this season. The players have taken the next step, but the team as a whole hasn’t been able to follow suit. According to Basketball-Reference’s Pythagorean Win Projection, a team with the Timberwolves’ point differential should be 8-8 instead of the 5-12 they currently sit at right now. If they had managed to be .500 they would be right in the thick of the playoff hunt. Right now, they are all the way down at 13th in the Western Conference (even the New Orleans Pelicans have a better record!) and are three full games out of the eighth seed. Three games might not seem like much when only 16 have been played, but if the race for eighth is tight coming down the stretch Minnesota might wish it was able to get some of these early games back. Towns, LaVine and Wiggins will provide highlights for us to indulge nightly, but until they turn those SportsCenter Top 10 plays into victories the Timberwolves will be stuck in neutral for another year.. 5-12. Previous: