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Minnesota Timberwolves: Josh Okogie and Keita Bates-Diop need minutes, too

Here’s something you’ve no doubt heard before: the Minnesota Timberwolves‘ rookies aren’t getting minutes.

It’s no secret that Tom Thibodeau isn’t a huge fan of giving rookies chances to really prove themselves; we’ve seen it throughout his coaching career how hesitant he is to consider expanding his rotation beyond nine players.

So far, he has stuck to almost exclusively a nine-man rotation, giving heavy minutes to Karl-Anthony Towns, and more dangerously, Derrick Rose (29.5 minutes per game) and Robert Covington (over 30 minutes in all but one game as a Timberwolf).