Wolves Mania, The Hype Train, The Bjelicaissance — whatever you want to call it, the movement towards high expectations for the Minnesota professional basketball team has one of the youngest team’s in the league feeling as if they are trending upward, running at an incredible rate.
On a recent episode of Zach Lowe’s The Lowe Post Podcast, Lowe proposed a question to former NBA head coach and current ESPN analyst Jeff Van Gundy regarding the fifth through eighth seeds in the Western Conference. Lowe, a Utah Jazz believer, asks, “If Utah is in, then one of these five teams is out; Dallas, Memphis, Portland, Houston, Oklahoma City.