He knows how to win with veteran teams focused on defense and toughness, but can Tom Thibodeau adjust his ways and fit in with today's NBA of player empowerment and load management?
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So Thibodeau the executive tried to create Bulls 2.0 in Minnesota by swinging a blockbuster trade for Butler, signing veterans like Gibson and Jeff Teague and eventually Rose. The Wolves finished 27th in defense but fourth in offense in 2017-2018, making the playoffs for the first time in 14 years by beating Denver on the final night of the regular season. After a quick first round exit against Houston, things went off the rails.
Minnesota majority stakeholder Glen Taylor saw that the young group wasn’t responding to Thibodeau, a season after Towns, Wiggins and Gibson all finished in the top 14 in the NBA in total minutes played. As Berman notes in his piece, no Thibs-coached team has ever finished in the top half of the league in 3-pointers made per game. In an era of threes, player empowerment, rest and load management, Thibodeau relied on the opposite and it backfired....
With cap space to burn and a top draft pick coming, can Thibodeau work with and develop young players like R.J. Barrett, Mitchell Robinson, Frank Ntilikina, Kevin Knox and whoever else is on the New York roster when next season begins, rather than hinder their growth in favor of young players in a misguided quest for mediocrity? Though those players would do well learning some defense, toughness and tenacity, they also shouldn’t be run into the ground, either.
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