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Rudy Gobert led the Minnesota Timberwolves tonight in ASSISTS!

NBA Western Conference standings graphic showing the top 6 teams. Oklahoma City Thunder sit first at 49-15 (.766), clinched playoff spot, on a 4-game win streak. San Antonio Spurs are second at 44-17 (.721), 3.5 games back, W1. Minnesota Timberwolves third at 39-23 (.629), 9 GB, W4. Houston Rockets fourth at 38-23 (.623), 9.5 GB, L1. Denver Nuggets fifth at 38-24 (.613), 10 GB, W1. Los Angeles Lakers sixth at 37-24 (.607), 10.5 GB, W3.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Two wolves fans holding a Wolves back sign

I want you to put the word out there that

Point-Center Rudy Gobert with five assists

Replay of the Ayo left hand transition finish

Ayo Dosunmu the one man fast break

5 minutes before tipoff.

Kyle Anderson 4th assist in 10 minutes on this backdoor to Ayo Dosunmu

Kyle Anderson trips on a chair

- Julius Randle's reaction -

Gobert -> Edwards -> Reid

HIT THAT MUSIC

Julius Randle hesitation blow by

Ayo Dosunmu mid range game

A Windows 95-style title card for a segment called "DRAW THE LOGO," with the title spelled out across three tilted hand-lettered signs at the top. Below, five pixel-art portraits of Minnesota Timberwolves players are lined up left to right — Anthony Edwards, Julius Randle, Rudy Gobert, Joe Ingles, and Bones Hyland — each holding their finished drawing in a framed panel beneath them. Left to right, the drawings are: Edwards' chaotic shoe creature, Randle's lopsided wolf head with "Timberwolves" scrawled underneath, Gobert's snarling full-body wolf with pine trees, Ingles' blocky "Minnesota Timberwolus" wolf with unfinished trees, and Hyland's minimalist wolf head with "Minnesota Timberwolves" in loose cursive. The whole scene is framed as a Windows 95 desktop window on a gray-blue background.

Alt text: A Windows 95-style desktop meme featuring two open windows. The left window shows a hand-drawn interpretation of the Minnesota Timberwolves logo — a lopsided wolf head in gray, black, and blue with small yellow eyes, surrounded by unfinished green pine trees, with "MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLUS" written in chunky block letters underneath — labeled "COLORIZED" below. The right window shows a photo of Joe Ingles (#7) in a Minnesota Timberwolves jersey, smiling and holding a tablet displaying a small sketch. Pixel-art pine trees line the bottom of the photo, and a pixel-art head with brown hair and furrowed brows peeks above the left window from the top. Bold text at the bottom reads: "I DIDN'T EVEN GET TO FINISH MY TREE'S OFF."

NBA Paint draw the logo from memory challenge

Joe Ingles

A Windows 95-style desktop meme featuring two open windows. The left window shows a hand-drawn interpretation of the Minnesota Timberwolves logo — a simplified wolf head in gray and black with yellow eyes, a large black horn, surrounded by green pine trees, with "Minnesota Timberwolves" scrawled loosely underneath — labeled "COLORIZED" below. The right window shows a photo of Bones Hyland in a Minnesota Timberwolves jersey holding a tablet up to his face, nearly covering it entirely. Pixel-art pine trees line the bottom of the photo, and a pixel-art head with dreadlocks peeks above the left window from the top. No caption text appears on this frame.

NBA Paint draw the logo from memory challenge

Bones Hyland

A Windows 95-style desktop meme featuring two open windows. The left window shows a hand-drawn interpretation of the Minnesota Timberwolves logo — a snarling wolf head split in gray and black with yellow eyes, blue spiky fur, a wide open mouth full of jagged teeth with a red tongue, and green pine trees along the bottom — labeled "COLORIZED" below. The right window shows a photo of Rudy Gobert (#27) in a Minnesota Timberwolves jersey holding a tablet displaying what appears to be a small sketch of a face. Pixel-art pine trees line the bottom of the photo, and a bald pixel-art head peeks above the left window from the top. No caption text appears on this frame.

NBA Paint draw the logo from memory challenge

Rudy Gobert

A Windows 95-style desktop meme featuring two open windows. The left window shows a chaotic hand-drawn interpretation of the Minnesota Timberwolves logo — a lopsided wolf head in gray and black with misshapen yellow eyes and "Timberwolves" scrawled messily underneath — labeled "COLORIZED" below. The right window shows a photo of Julius Randle (#30) in a Minnesota Timberwolves jersey holding a tablet displaying the same drawing, apparently explaining his artwork. Pixel-art pine trees line the bottom of the photo, and a pixel-art head peeks above the left window from the top. Bold text at the bottom reads: "IT SAYS TIMBERWOLVES, YOU SEE?"

NBA Paint draw the logo from memory challenge

Julius Randle

Windows 95-style desktop meme featuring two open windows. The left window displays a hand-drawn cartoon of what appears to be a shoe rendered as a menacing creature with yellow eyes, black and gray coloring, and blue accents — labeled "COLORIZED" beneath it. The right window shows a photo of Anthony Edwards in a Minnesota Timberwolves jersey holding a blank whiteboard, with pixel-art pine trees along the bottom edge. A pixel-art rendering of Anthony Edwards peeks above the left window from the top. Centered at the bottom of the screen, bold text reads "PICASSO." — implying this chaotic shoe drawing is Edwards' masterwork.

NBA Paint draw the logo from memory challenge

Anthony Edwards

"Julius Randle is open"

-Julius Randle

Replay

Ayo Dosunmu Defense -> Ayo Dosunmu Offense

With a Rudy Gobert dime sprinkled in for good measure

Survive & Advance

Big Ten Tournament

Highlights from Trae Young's first stint with the Wizards

Looks good. You should stop asking me for feedback because I'm always going to try to think of what the next step is and that's showcasing frequency vs league average some how. Not sure if that's just two charts one team color is efficiency and use secondary color is next chart for frequency.

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What a fantastic article. Excellent work by @mattbrown.bsky.social

Would love to see more NBA coverage dig into assistant coaches and staff members more. What their specialized roles are, how they contribute, how they see the game.

So many people besides the head coach help impact winning and I would like to know more about how NBA teams function behind the scenes