The 2025 Wolves Off Season

[FrenchMinnyFan]

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

Le Berricade will be one of the top 5 players from this years draft and as such he will get minutes. This is beyond contestation.

Totally agree. Can't compare for me Garza and Le Berricade. Joan is 5 times better already in defense than Garza. I'm convinced he will get some minutes to let Rudy rest , keeping our defense at high level. I do not forget how bad combo Randle/ Naz is when it come to rebounding and defense.

[FrenchMinnyFan]

I'm sure young players will play more this year for few reasons :

- Mike stated in in a recent itw, telling that TSJ, Rob will play more. Mike is getting older and need to be ready for PO. Sharing minutes with Rob make sense if Rob earn it.
- NAW is gone, those minutes are available for them
- Rudy getting older as well, they can easily cut him 6-8 min and give a chance to Joan to show what he can do, specially on the defensive side.
- I expect continuity to provide a better start than last year which should put us in top 4 almost all regular season. Last year, we have to play the same 8 players all season, because our first 2 months were really bad and we had to fight all season long to avoid play-in. Load management should be possible this year.
- As least, injuries can happen...

[Klomp]

Quick thinking about the rotation.....

Combined, the seven returning veterans combined to total 212 minutes per game averaged last year, leaving 28 minutes remaining for the NAW "replacement" and whatever scraps are left if all minutes stay the same (none really feel off as-is). So knowing this, I think I'd currently pencil in Shannon for 20 minutes, which would leave that 8-minute "half rotation" spot for one other young guy (Dillingham, Clark, or Beringer) to be matchup-dependent.

[KGdaBom]

Quick thinking about the rotation.....

Combined, the seven returning veterans combined to total 212 minutes per game averaged last year, leaving 28 minutes remaining for the NAW "replacement" and whatever scraps are left if all minutes stay the same (none really feel off as-is). So knowing this, I think I'd currently pencil in Shannon for 20 minutes, which would leave that 8-minute "half rotation" spot for one other young guy (Dillingham, Clark, or Beringer) to be matchup-dependent.

I think Mike and Rudy will play less minutes this year leaving more for Dilly and Le Berricade.

[Klomp]

Quick thinking about the rotation.....

Combined, the seven returning veterans combined to total 212 minutes per game averaged last year, leaving 28 minutes remaining for the NAW "replacement" and whatever scraps are left if all minutes stay the same (none really feel off as-is). So knowing this, I think I'd currently pencil in Shannon for 20 minutes, which would leave that 8-minute "half rotation" spot for one other young guy (Dillingham, Clark, or Beringer) to be matchup-dependent.

I think Mike and Rudy will play less minutes this year leaving more for Dilly and Le Berricade.

It's certainly possible, but really, most "rotations" happen in roughly six or eight minute stints, especially when you might only play one rotation per game. Four minute stints are possible, but I'd argue not as likely. So to carve out even six minutes for Beringer, that would drop someone like Gobert to 27 minutes. That's a pretty steep drop, especially when coming at the expense of an extremely raw 19-year old. It's possible to carve out a minute or two from each of the three man "big men", I guess, but I'm not sure I'd expect much more realistically.

[Klomp]

Interesting angle to the Brogdon stuff if it ends up having legs....he's an Atlanta guy, so I wonder if there's an existing relationship with Ant.

[KGdaBom]

Quick thinking about the rotation.....

Combined, the seven returning veterans combined to total 212 minutes per game averaged last year, leaving 28 minutes remaining for the NAW "replacement" and whatever scraps are left if all minutes stay the same (none really feel off as-is). So knowing this, I think I'd currently pencil in Shannon for 20 minutes, which would leave that 8-minute "half rotation" spot for one other young guy (Dillingham, Clark, or Beringer) to be matchup-dependent.

I think Mike and Rudy will play less minutes this year leaving more for Dilly and Le Berricade.

It's certainly possible, but really, most "rotations" happen in roughly six or eight minute stints, especially when you might only play one rotation per game. Four minute stints are possible, but I'd argue not as likely. So to carve out even six minutes for Beringer, that would drop someone like Gobert to 27 minutes. That's a pretty steep drop, especially when coming at the expense of an extremely raw 19-year old. It's possible to carve out a minute or two from each of the three man "big men", I guess, but I'm not sure I'd expect much more realistically.

I'm kind of envisioning 28 minute games from Rudy and 24 MPG for Mike. On nights when Dilly is clicking and hopefully there will be many of those I could see him get 20 minutes or more.

[KGdaBom]

Interesting angle to the Brogdon stuff if it ends up having legs....he's an Atlanta guy, so I wonder if there's an existing relationship with Ant.

If we sign him I'd have nothing against it. Hopefully he can put together one or two good seasons.

[KGdaBom]

DDV injured. Turf Toe.

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[_AIJ_]

I really liked Johnny Juzang at the 2022 draft. great pickup!

[KGdaBom]

I really liked Johnny Juzang at the 2022 draft. great pickup!

Rotation player at Utah. 6'7" SG from KY. 24 years old. Good shooting percent. Nothing I see not to like.

Shams Charania: Free agent guard Johnny Juzang has agreed to a one-year deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves, sources tell ESPN. Juzang played his first three NBA seasons in Utah and averaged 8.9 points and 38% 3-point shooting in 19.8 minutes per game in 2024-25.

[Devilzsidewalk]

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I was expecting to see nothing but threes, but there's a lot of paint work in there. He seems to like getting close to the rim and using his size.

[minimus]

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[winforlose]

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“ Standing at 6-foot-5, he's a career 36.3% three-point shooter on 4.5 attempts per game. He's only 24 years old, and it's a low-risk, one-year deal for the Wolves. Reports indicate that the contract is not guaranteed, and Juzang will have an opportunity to compete for Minnesota's final roster spot at training camp this fall.”

I quoted the wrong post to respond to, this is about Johnny.

https://www.si.com/nba/timberwolves/minnesota-timberwolves-news/report-wolves-sign-free-agent-johnny-juzang-to-one-year-deal

[minimus]

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I was expecting to see nothing but threes, but there's a lot of paint work in there. He seems to like getting close to the rim and using his size.

I like him as a wing with 3PT shot on two-way contract. Our g-league team needs a lot of shooting around Beringer to develop him within good spacing.

[KGdaBom]

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I was expecting to see nothing but threes, but there's a lot of paint work in there. He seems to like getting close to the rim and using his size.

I like him as a wing with 3PT shot on two-way contract. Our g-league team needs a lot of shooting around Beringer to develop him within good spacing.

I don't see Le Berricade getting much time in the G at all.

[Norseman79]

Any sense that these signings could be a precursor to filling out the roster in the event of a trade involving guys like Clark and Miller as throw ins? Likely camp bodies I know

[KGdaBom]

Any sense that these signings could be a precursor to filling out the roster in the event of a trade involving guys like Clark and Miller as throw ins? Likely camp bodies I know

Interesting thought.

[younggunsmn]

Enrique Freeman draft measurements:
Height: 6'7.25 w/out shoes
Standing Reach: 9'0
Wingspan 7'2

An energy and hustle player. I like him better than Leonard Miller but thats not saying a whole lot.
Do we find a team willing to give leonard miller a roster spot and give him away for free?

Johnny Juzang is more than camp depth but I don't know what his chances are of making the roster if we are carrying only 14 players.

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He does check some boxes though as DDV redundancy with his shooting and his size, skills, and game seem to fit a lot of what Finch looks for from bench 2 guards in his system. If Dante keeps having toe/foot problems that might be nice to have.
Can really shoot it and did play more than 1200 minutes for a terrible Utah team last year.
Caught in a bit of a roster crunch in Utah this year I guess, although they easily could have just waived a couple guys.

I don't know why we couldn't just give Ingles an assistant coach job rather than a cheerleader roster spot.

We can't go into the season with Tristen Newton as the 3rd point guard though.
That's front office malpractice.

[BlacJacMac]

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