The Minnesota Timberwolves came into the season with high hopes and thoughts about a return trip to the playoffs for the first time since 2004 until injuries came and tore the team apart.
Minnesota started the season with Ricky Rubio and Kevin Love on the sidelines, and along the way, they saw Chase Budinger, Malcolm Lee and Brandon Roy go down with injuries that would keep them out for months. Love re-injured his hand, and Alexey Shved and Nikola Pekovic ended up with a nick and a bruise here and there.
Even still, the T-Wolves have looked like a decent team in the process, continuing to play solid defense and even being exciting at times.
They aren't going to make any kind of a splash without Kevin Love leading the way for them, but they're not too far out of the way to make the playoffs. Sure, at 17-21 they're a long shot, but the bottom of the Western Conference's playoff picture isn't as pristine as it has been in the past.
If anything, they're doing the best they can to stay afloat while Rubio works his way back into form, buying time until they get a few players back.
It's impressive that they haven't totally collapsed i ...
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