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Injury Updates and Other News

Injuries have plagued the team all season, and it continues in the coming weeks.  While almost all teams deal with injuries, it has hurt the Timberwolves a lot with not having any consistency week to week.  This week, Avery Bradley, and Jeremy Lin are out again, putting pressure on the team with only one real shooting guard healthy.

When the team traded for Avery Bradley, we knew about his injury history, but were hoping he would be better than Bradley Beal has been for the last couple of seasons.  Now it looks like we made the wrong choice as far as health is concerned.  “Avery is a big part of what we do on both ends of the floor.” Said head coach Tom Thibodeau.  “He is the best perimeter defender in the league, and he spreads the court and scores well without plays even drawn up for him.  It’s no wonder we struggled last week on both ends of the court.” 

Jeremy Lin continues to be injured, and this is a big reason why we made the trade last week.  Bringing in Wes Matthews and Jordan Clarkson makes the injuries to Avery and Jeremy not as big of a deal.  We can continue to play a similar style of play.  Teams have come inquiring about the status of Lin, and it seems no trades will be had right now.  Even though he will have to be resigned in the offseason, he is still a starting caliber point guard in the league.  As soon as he gets healthy, he will work his way back into the rotation and prove his value.

Metta World Peace just came back from his DNPs to help the team this week and step into the starting lineup.  The hope is that this allows Wes to come off the bench and bolster the 2^nd unit like he did 2 weeks ago.  Artest knows  he’s not there to take a ton of shots.  He’s there to play smart defense, and take open 3’s.  Hopefully we can weather the storm until the team gets healthy again.

In other news, the team was in negotiations to bring in a big time frontcourt player this week, but injuries have derailed the talks.  “With all our injuries this season, we just can’t knowingly trade for a guy that is going to be out for any extended period of time.”  said GM Spudspace of negotiations.  With the trade deadline coming faster than anyone is realizing, the team may be done with moves this year.  The goal of the team is to be in the top 4 in the West at the end of the year, hopefully we can keep that up.