More than halfway through their first season with Rudy Gobert, the Minnesota Timberwolves are an average team.
Even after their dramatic, 128-126 victory over Toronto in a surprisingly loud Target Center on Thursday night, they are failing mathematically and optically.
That's both an accurate assessment, and the easy story of the moment.
The Wolves are one game behind the pace set by last year's Wolves, who did not have Gobert and took much of the season to figure out how to play together.
If we decide that this year's team is underachieving, then the architect, Tim Connelly, and the coach, Chris Finch, should be held responsible.