Three Minnesota Timberwolves Breakout Candidates in 2022-23

We’re so close. Just one more month until Minnesota Timberwolves basketball.

But until then, we have no choice but to apply trends we saw from a successful season last year to an impending speculated success this year, even though nobody knows how this will look upon opening tip; perhaps even Chris Finch doesn’t as of now.

Behind the much-needed step in progressing the franchise in the form of meaningful, regular season and postseason games in 2021 were years of player development during seasons that not as many cared about.

In fact, the Rudy Gobert trade wouldn’t have been possible without said player development, and guys stepping up in their roles (Jarred Vanderbilt and Malik Beasley…