A few thoughts:
1) lets talk about values, opportunity cost etc. First, Gobert is no doubt a superstar. But he is not a media star for current NBA. So consensus meaning about his value was kind of defined by talking heads, all time low for defensive minded big who consistently makes winning plays, year by year. All stats are confirming this. Second, how many superstar brought here MIN under Glen Taylor? Ever year MIN fans are seeing all FA passing on MIN. Gobert is the first superstar brought here despite all negativie narrative about MIN. He wanted to be traded here, he has chip on his shoulder. Finally, it is not our money, not our business. ARod and Lore are risking it all. They have invented and implemented this plan, they have been in every decision. Lets relax and enjoy the situation. We have been too long through the same cycle: draft-develop-fail. Our new owners want to do something special.
2) we have two bigs who are leaders in TS%.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/leaders/ts_pct_career.htm But this is a very controversial topic, because Towns has not showed a killer instincts yet, which are a MUST for shooting players to be a star. We saw multiple times that Karl passed tough shot in the clutch, So being leader in TS% does not necessary mean it translates to wins, but look at all-time TS leaders, guys such as KD, Curry, Harden, Jokic are all there. They kind of figured out. What happened if Towns takes next step? TS% is also very controversial topic for Gobert. UTA built four-out offense and him a focal center of their offense, something that MIN wont do, because we have Towns and Edwards. However, as someone (Krawczynski) reported our FO and coaching staff think that Gobert was misused in UTA. So having two extremely efficient scorers does help, but it depends on how we utilize them. Spread pick-n-roll? Oversized horns? I really have no idea. To me the biggest point are playmakers. Whoever fill this role MUST be able to run this special lineup. DLo, JMac, Ant, Moore, Nowell they all MUST learn have to play with Gobert.
3) now lets talk about offense AND defense. I truly believe that the relation between offense and defense is often underrated. Simple example, in playoff Gobert was killed on switches when DAL played five-out, Towns struggled against LAC tactics when they guarded him with Batum. As result the best player was out and failed defense meant failed offense. Last year UTA and MIN as teams did not have answer, did not have personnel to counter react. This year MIN have all tools: we can try high wall with Anderson and MCD at wings. We can go big with Gobert and Towns. We can use Gobert with deep drop. We have potential to be the most versatile team in NBA, I wonder if he even try to stash Gobert or Towns with second unit, because we have potential to completely destroy opponent flow of the game simply by giving one of our bigs rest and playing second big against weaker opponent. I believe that we should not abandon high wall, we should not abandon deep drop, use it when it makes sense, build defensive versatility on top of this. This year lets say Gobert has problems with certain mismatch, or let say or defense completely fails, this year it does not necessary means that our offense fails. Let me ask you, how many times we saw MIN completely collapse on BOTH ends in 3rd, 4th quarter? Well, we have all tools to be good all four quarters AT LEAST on one end of the floor.
To sum up: on paper we can be successful team, the weakest point to me is execution, lack of experience, because our daily gameplan might be WAY too more omcplicated that usual NBA team. Ideally I'd add a proven playmaker, but we dont have any resorces. Go Wolves!
