 What's the worry y'all welcome back to NBA every day? Can you believe that we're talking about the Minnesota Timberwolves we're like what? A couple days into this series and it definitely felt like the Timberwolves are going to be a team that we talked about very late in this series but they made a trade today and me being a YouTuber it is my job to try to maximize on the views by talking about a team or they made some deals and I've been looking at their team, looking at some of the other stuff going on around the league and I'm actually intrigued about what's going on in Minnesota. Patrick Beverly got traded from the Clippers, went to the Memphis Grizzlies and made a tweet, Gritt and Grind, let's go, I made a tweet that was like, hey, Patrick Beverly from Chicago born and raised, Tony Allen from Chicago born and raised, Patrick Beverly got a field those shoes of Tony Allen and then he got traded to Minnesota. So that tweet of Gritt and Grind is no longer matters but he did make another tweet today saying he's excited to be with the Minnesota Timberwolves but there are also rumors that the Timberwolves are super intrigued by potentially adding Ben Simmons. I don't know what a trade package looks like for Ben Simmons with the Minnesota Timberwolves but I do know that Patrick Beverly will have to be involved. So you might see three destination tweets from Patrick Beverly this off season, unlikely that Ben ends up there but I'm just saying it's a possibility. Especially after yesterday we dropped the video talking about Ben Simmons and then it came out that he still has returned and he calls Joel and B just got a max extension and it said that Ben Simmons is solely expecting to be traded this off season. So I'm not saying Minnesota is the place. I'm just saying it's a possibility. Anyway, the reason why the Minnesota Timberwolves felt like a team we wouldn't talk about to the very end is because last year they were not very good. They had their bright spots of course in the first overall pig and Anthony Edwards, D'Angelo Russell had an up and down season in Carthage Towns, but you know, it's a very weird season for Carthage Towns, all the things he went through off the court. I'm not looking at anything he did this season and saying that, oh, this is the reason why he can't do this or yada yada like some people are. I just know outside circumstances can really, really hurt a player or person just in general, but they are still a team that went 23 and 49. And then we got to this off season. They didn't have their pick. That was the pick that turned out to go to the Warriors. And they didn't do anything, man. They traded Ricky Rubio for Torian Prince and then now they did a trade today. But for the most part, a team that had been towards the bottom of the conference since Jimmy Butler left continues to do things that won't raise their silly. These guys won 23 games and for the majority of this off season, they was like, we can run it back. Let's see what we got this year around. And yes, they're counting on a lot of progression from a guy like Anthony Edwards. Of course, he was the first overall pick and shooting half court shots five in a row this off season. We're expecting his type of progression. We're expecting Carthage Towns to hopefully be better than what he has been the last couple of seasons. We're hoping for D'Angelo Rosso to have a healthy season, but even all of that can bind. There's still probably a ceiling on what this team could be going into this next season. And Patrick Beverly does help that. Defensively, as you can imagine, the Minnesota Timbers were really bad. They were 27th overall when it comes to points per 100 possessives given up. They basically tied with the Houston Rockets, which is not a good thing because the Houston Rockets wasn't trying to do a damn thing last season. And y'all were actually trying to make pushes and things. They were slightly better than the Portland Trailblazers. That kind of tells you how great of an offensive team the Trailblazers were last season. That they had the second worst defense in the entire league and still ended up making a push. But you can basically say the Minnesota Timbers were not a good defensive team last year. Now adding the guy like Patrick Beverly will help that. I know that Torian Prince didn't play a lot last season. And then when he did play, I'm gonna be honest, I wasn't watching, but based on track record and what I've seen from him in the last couple years, he's a positive defender. And these are the type of changes they decided to make this season. I don't believe Patrick Beverly is coming into the Minnesota Timbers organization and starting immediately. But if you look at him from a mentor, not that he gonna teach all the dirtyness and things like that, but just being gritty and being a good defensive player, I think that some of that can rub off on Anthony Edwards, some of that can rub off on D'Angelo Russell. And those are the players that you really need to be better defenders because those are the players that gonna be getting 35 to 40 minutes a game for you. So in a straight Minnesota Timbers getting Patrick Beverly and they sent out Jerichover and watching her and Gomez to the Memphis Grizzlies. And Gershaw Rosas is a guy that's in charge over there. He took over basically the year that Jerichover was drafted. And I was just doing a little bit of research before this because I know Jerichover hasn't been good in this first two seasons. There was a small period of time in his rookie season where he was averaging like 15 points per. He was shooting the ball okay. And they gave people a little bit of buzz thinking that he wasn't the wrong pick there. But when I was doing a little bit of research, they traded up for that pick. If you forgot, let me tell you what they traded to get Jerichover to eventually give up on him two years later. They traded the pick that became Cameron Johnson and they traded away Dario Sartre. And now they have Patrick Beverly. I mean, it's just not a good trade, not a good trade. But what I read was they traded up for that pick in hopes that Darius Garland would still be there at number six but Darius Garland guys drafted fifth. So they just went with the guy that thought was best available and they were wrong. I don't wanna give up on Jerichover because again, he had that one month period of time in this rookie season where he's averaging pretty solid numbers. But sophomore year, I don't know what the heck happened. He went from a guy that I felt like a lot of people like man, Jerichover deserve a more opportunity but they were giving him opportunity and he wasn't doing anything with it. And at this point in their careers with Carthage and the Italians being there for X amount of years, them trading everything they had with for D'Angelo Russo and having the first overall pick in Anthony Edwards, this is a team that is trying to make the playoffs. They're not in the realm of, oh, let's go give Jerichover 10 more minutes so he can get better as an NBA player. They're trying to win. They're not being successful on doing that but they're trying to win and they couldn't afford to roll the ball out for a guy that didn't do anything in sophomore year and now they give up on him for the last year on the contract for Patrick Beverly. It's kind of rough. The wants of her and gold man story is actually interesting too. I was not aware of this until a couple hours ago but listen, this is why I'm a guy that really loves the game of basketball. I thought I knew everything and I just don't. So let me tell you this story. Wants of her and gold man is who was also a part of this trade. He's going to the Memphis Grizzlies. He dislocated his shoulder a couple months ago which is, I understand that Wants, oh, I've been there before. I am currently in physical therapy for my shoulders. I've been there before. I know what it's like. And he had a sub-subduction dislocation which is basically when your shoulder dislocates but it puts itself back in. I've been there as well, right? And this is right in time for the Olympics. He wants to represent his country. I mean, there's no better feeling. You can ask anybody, whether it be on Team USA or Team whatever, there's no better feeling than represent your entire country putting on a surge and trying to win a medal for them. And Wants of her and gold man was like, hey, Wants of her and gold man. Say it in the name too many times in a row you really get tongue twisted. He was like, I want you to go play for my home country as he would, but he was just dealing with this shoulder separation injury. And Gershaw Rowsos is like, I don't know if we want you to do that. You can go work out and everything but we won't give you the green light just yet. And right before they were supposed to go over and go to Tokyo or yada yada. Gershaw Rowsos told her and gold man is no, we are shutting you down. We do not give you the green light to play in the Olympics so he didn't. And the Olympics rocked up with it a week ago, two weeks ago, and they traded him away. Tough, tough. I wonder if the Memphis Grizzlies would have gave him the green light to play overseas for his country, which is kind of weird, man. It's definitely a weird story, but a deeper story than that. This is why doing research before videos is actually kind of intriguing, but I hate doing it. I did not know that Wants of her and gold man is about to be in the movie with Adam Sandler. What? This is officially from the Minnesota Tim Wolves website. Netflix unveils first look at her and gold man's is this new film with Sandler. This movie, I am a good, I'm a sucker for a good basketball movie. So I'm here for this. Wants of her and gold man is following the footsteps of Kevin Garnett and they traded him away, just like they traded Kevin Garnett, even though Kevin Garnett basically forced his way. I understand KG, I 100% agree with your decision and you won a championship. Like the Tim Wolves legend and Hall of Famer stole the show and uncut gems. Her and gold man's is set to co-star alongside comedy great Adam Sandler in a Netflix film Hussle. While the Spaniard spent time working out in the Twin Cities this summer, her and gold man's has more recently been on location in Europe and Philadelphia filming his big scene debut. Per Variety, Sandler plays an American basketball scout who after being unjustly fired discovers a talented player abroad in the size to bring him to the US to prove that they both have what it takes to make the NBA in the movie. Like bro, a scout movie about Beth Hussle is produced by LeBron James and also stars Queen Latif and Robert Duvall. What? When is this coming out? Because we're doing a full review on this. Anyway, watch your her and gold man's. The Minnesota Tim Wolves allowed him to work on this movie during the off season. And it turns out after the movie he came into training camp out of shape and then he called COVID and then as you remember the year before this last year, watching her gold man's was really solid. They even gave him extension. I think it was like three years, 21 million. He was really solid. And last year coming into camp, not in great shape and also catch COVID, he basically was completely out of the rotation and now they flip him for Patrick Beverly. So one of the things that the Minnesota Tim was desperately needed in their locker room was veterans and with Torian Prince and Patrick Beverly coming into the team, they might feel devoid. They did have Ricky Rubio as a veteran and it seems like Anthony Edwards and Ricky Rubio really got along. But there's rumors that the wants of her and gold man's story that I told you, rub Ricky Rubio the wrong way and that's one of the reasons why they got him off the team. But unfortunately, but even with all of that said, the West is just such a deep conference that I can't look at their roster and think that they're going to be a playoff team. Is it a possibility? For sure. You have Carthage Towns, one of the better young players in the league. You have Anthony Edwards who's coming off a good rookie season. I think it's a possibility, but if I was laying out my predictions for a playoff seating, I wouldn't have the Minnesota Tim Wolves in there just yet. I think a lot of it relies on D'Angelo Russo because there's two different sides of D'Lo. Let's be honest, man. D'Angelo Russo has had years where he was an all-star with D'Angelo Russo was the star player on a team that wasn't expected to make the playoffs, that didn't make the playoffs. But since then he struggled to stay on the floor and when he has been on the floor, he hasn't been the player that they traded all the picks for. I do love the idea of them swinging for the fences and potentially bringing in Ben. I don't know what that looks like. I don't even know what pieces that is Malik Beasley, Patrick Beverly and all the picks. It seems like if that trade wasn't going through, they would need a third team to be a part of it. I would want that to happen for the sake of their fans because they desperately need playoff appearances. They desperately need to show Carinthony Towns we are here for you to be the future. I would hate for Minnesota Tim Wolves fans to go through the same thing they went through with Kevin Garnett again with Carinthony Towns. So let me know in the comments section what you think about the off-season of the Minnesota Tim Wolves. Not a lot going on, but something happened today.