Timberwolves Offseason Update: The Draft

The Timberwolves are in a very interesting position. They are the fifth worst team in the NBA meaning we keep the conditional 1st round pick for another year from the Marko Jaric/Sam Cassell deal. There are six players who could have an impact on our team on a serious level available in the draft: Ricky Rubio, Ty Lawson, Hasheem Tabeet, Stephen Curry, Brandon Jennings, and Darren Collison.

Rubio is the best of the bunch. My favorite is Collison. Jennings looks like the most fun. Tabeet would make us a different team but a fun one and a hard one to beat. Lawson looks like he is ready to be as good as Baron Davis right away. Stephen Curry is a shooting machine who would fill up the scoreboard for us.

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There are also other interesting guys like Jonny Flynn a score and dish point guard with a good assist to turnover ratio and high field goal percentage, Kenneth Faried a rebounding machine who is a little too small to be a power forward, Brandon Brooks a true point guard who can knock down open shots, David Holston the next in the line of Mugsy Bogues, Earl Boykins, and Nate Robinson, Jodie Meeks a real scorer if he goes pro, Chavis Holmes a scorer and thief and his twin brother with an eerily similar skill set Travis Holmes, Taj Gibson if he comes out early, Terrence Williams who could be somebody's starting shooting guard next year, Ahmad Nivins a real power forward, John Bryant a beast from Santa Clara who scores at a high percentage and improved his rebounding numbers every year in college until he reached an elite level his senior year, Chase Budinger an athletic versatile player ready to make an impact right away, Milan Macvan an import who is a banger: think Charles Oakley, and Chief Kickingstallionsims a 7'1 265lbs center from Alabama State who is a raw possible developmental pick.