The 2025 Wolves Off Season

shrink · Post #641 » by **shrink** » Fri Jul 25, 2025 9:11 pm

Do you think 4th big minutes for Beringer would help or hurt his development?

KGdaBom · Post #642 » by **KGdaBom** » Fri Jul 25, 2025 9:13 pm

minimus wrote:Would you offer min contract to Bones Hyland?

No

KGdaBom · Post #643 » by **KGdaBom** » Fri Jul 25, 2025 9:14 pm

shrink wrote:Do you think 4th big minutes for Beringer would help or hurt his development?

Like 6 minutes or more in the 4th quarter?

BlacJacMac · Post #644 » by **BlacJacMac** » Fri Jul 25, 2025 9:14 pm

shrink wrote:Do you think 4th big minutes for Beringer would help or hurt his development?

Help.

The kid has such amazing instincts and a great feel for the game. I think he can handle being thrown into the deep end.

KGdaBom · Post #645 » by **KGdaBom** » Fri Jul 25, 2025 9:16 pm

BlacJacMac wrote:
shrink wrote:Do you think 4th big minutes for Beringer would help or hurt his development?

Help.

The kid has such amazing instincts and a great feel for the game. I think he can handle being thrown into the deep end.

How many minutes do you want the Wolves devoting to him this year?

BlacJacMac · Post #646 » by **BlacJacMac** » Fri Jul 25, 2025 9:24 pm

KGdaBom wrote:
BlacJacMac wrote:
shrink wrote:Do you think 4th big minutes for Beringer would help or hurt his development?

Help.

The kid has such amazing instincts and a great feel for the game. I think he can handle being thrown into the deep end.

How many minutes do you want the Wolves devoting to him this year?

Depends on how he progresses. Start him out with 5-8 situational minutes. Hopefully he'll earn more. I'd be thrilled if he was playing 12-15 by the end of the season.

shrink · Post #647 » by **shrink** » Fri Jul 25, 2025 9:53 pm

Unless they improve dramatically, the less minutes Naz and Randle play together, the better,

But I have to wonder if a player as inexperienced as Beringer might get to overwhelmed if he jumps to NBA too soon?

KGdaBom · Post #648 » by **KGdaBom** » Fri Jul 25, 2025 11:33 pm

BlacJacMac wrote:
KGdaBom wrote:
BlacJacMac wrote:
Help.

The kid has such amazing instincts and a great feel for the game. I think he can handle being thrown into the deep end.

How many minutes do you want the Wolves devoting to him this year?

Depends on how he progresses. Start him out with 5-8 situational minutes. Hopefully he'll earn more. I'd be thrilled if he was playing 12-15 by the end of the season.

Very honestly his development arc has been amazing. He could earn those minutes.

KGdaBom · Post #649 » by **KGdaBom** » Fri Jul 25, 2025 11:35 pm

shrink wrote:Unless they improve dramatically, the less minutes Naz and Randle play together, the better,

But I have to wonder if a player as inexperienced as Beringer might get to overwhelmed if he jumps to NBA too soon?

4 years of basketball. If the stories are to be believed only 4 years since he first even touched a basketball. I'm guessing that puts him in the least experienced basketball players to ever join the NBA.

Edit: I just did some research.
The player with the least basketball experience to ever join the NBA is generally considered to be Mark Eaton. He didn't start playing organized basketball until he was 20, three years after graduating high school. He was a late bloomer who eventually became a dominant defensive player in the league. He joined the NBA at 25 years so seems like he had more experience than Le Berricade.

Amar'e Stoudamire started Basketball at 14 Joined the NBA at 20. Le Berricade might be the least experienced NBA player ever. I suppose he has to play a game first to make it official.

FrenchMinnyFan · Post #650 » by **FrenchMinnyFan** » Sat Jul 26, 2025 2:40 am

Joan will suffer if they throw him too fast in the arena. He is clearly not ready yet for NBA level but he is smart, hard worker and you improved also by playing , not sitting on the bench. I will be delighted if he play 5-8 min on 3 quarters and sit a clutch time.

As say Shrink, the other issue we have is how bad combo Randle-Naz is. Not much defense, not enough rebound...Rudy getting older, i would limit him to 30 min per game which shoud give some space to Joan. Let's see but if he can contribute this season, it will be a huge plus.

FrenchMinnyFan · Post #651 » by **FrenchMinnyFan** » Sat Jul 26, 2025 7:08 am

Just read an interesting ITW from Mike talking about golf, next season, ANT.. link below

https://www.brainerddispatch.com/sports/pro/timberwolves-guard-mike-conley-talks-wolves-his-health-and-golf

Happy to read Mike is fully heathy after a tough off season last year.

BlacJacMac · Post #652 » by **BlacJacMac** » Sat Jul 26, 2025 6:33 pm

Starting to look like this will likely be our final year having Michael Grady.

Easily the best play-by-play guy we've ever had. We were lucky to have him as long as we did.

Read on Twitter

KGdaBom · Post #653 » by **KGdaBom** » Sat Jul 26, 2025 7:21 pm

BlacJacMac wrote:Starting to look like this will likely be our final year having Michael Grady.

Easily the best play-by-play guy we've ever had. We were lucky to have him as long as we did.

Read on Twitter

I believe Harlan was easily better, but I hardly care about the announcers anyway.

BlacJacMac · Post #654 » by **BlacJacMac** » Sat Jul 26, 2025 7:38 pm

KGdaBom wrote:
BlacJacMac wrote:Starting to look like this will likely be our final year having Michael Grady.

Easily the best play-by-play guy we've ever had. We were lucky to have him as long as we did.

Read on Twitter

I believe Harlan was easily better, but I hardly care about the announcers anyway.

I think Harlan is super entertaining, and he was perfect for when we were a bad team. He was able to distract from the bad product on the court and keep you engaged.

But I think Grady has much more authority calling a game. And he knows when to be funny and when to pull back.

shrink · Post #655 » by **shrink** » Yesterday 1:06 pm

Adjust my depth chart to be reasonable

Conley (24) / Dillingham (14) / DiVincenzo (10)
Ant (34) / DiVincenzo (14)
McDaniels (32) / Shannon (16)
Randle (32) / Naz (16)
Gobert (32) / Naz (16)

KGdaBom · Post #656 » by **KGdaBom** » Yesterday 2:44 pm

shrink wrote:Adjust my depth chart to be reasonable

Conley (24) / Dillingham (14) / DiVincenzo (10)
Ant (34) / DiVincenzo (14)
McDaniels (32) / Shannon (16)
Randle (32) / Naz (16)
Gobert (32) / Naz (16)

No No a million times no. We need some minutes of Le Berricade.

Slim Tubby · Post #657 » by **Slim Tubby** » Yesterday 5:49 pm

KGdaBom wrote:
shrink wrote:Adjust my depth chart to be reasonable

Conley (24) / Dillingham (14) / DiVincenzo (10)
Ant (34) / DiVincenzo (14)
McDaniels (32) / Shannon (16)
Randle (32) / Naz (16)
Gobert (32) / Naz (16)

No No a million times no. We need some minutes of Le Berricade.

I think it looks very reasonable from Shrink. My guess is he would be thrilled if JB and Clark play well enough to earn minutes, too.

I really hope we find a way to get JB at least 8-12 meaningful minutes right out of the gates. If he ends up being the primary backup to Gobert, we would have the NBA version of "The French Connection".

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shangrila · Post #658 » by **shangrila** » Yesterday 9:09 pm

I think everyone should prepare for Beringer to have a redshirt season

MN7725 · Post #659 » by **MN7725** » Yesterday 10:59 pm

shangrila wrote:I think everyone should prepare for Beringer to have a redshirt season

I don't why anyone would expect he would get more minutes than Garza: garbage time, extreme foul trouble, multiple injuries

KGdaBom · Post #660 » by **KGdaBom** » Today 10:32 am

shangrila wrote:I think everyone should prepare for Beringer to have a redshirt season

I am not prepared for that.