The Timberwolves’ offseason makeover is playing out as a predictable work in progress on the court as we sort through the pluses and minuses of everything that happened.
There are big-picture questions like how much Jimmy Butler (when he’s not sick) will help this team grow, whether ditching Ricky Rubio in favor of Jeff Teague was a good idea and just what the ceiling is for young scorers Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins.
But there are also some lower-level questions that might be more significant than we think. One of them has to do with the playing time of Wolves big man Gorgui Dieng.