Timberwolves Still CONSIDERING Malcolm Brogdon | Would A Signing Impact Young Player Development?

Timberwolves Still CONSIDERING Malcolm Brogdon | Would A Signing Impact Young Player Development?

Hello and welcome in to another episode of Locked on Wolves. Today on the show, Jake Fischer from Bleacher Report is talking about Malcolm Brogden to the Wolves again. I’ll talk about why I still think that’s the right option for Minnesota. Is it any more likely now? Why that might be the case? Also going through the Nikil Alexander Walker lineups last year, how will the Wolves adjust those? And what can we learn from the best n lineups from last season? It’s all coming. Welcome in. You are locked on Wolves. [Music] You are Locked on Timberwolves, your daily Minnesota Timberwolves podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network, your team every day. Hello and welcome to the Lockdown Wolves podcast, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. My name is Ben Beacon. I’m the host of Locked on Wolves. Happy Monday, everybody. Hopefully you had a fantastic weekend. And uh today I want to talk a bit more uh Wolves last roster spot. We’re going to talk Malcolm Brogden. He continues to be brought up as a real possibility for Minnesota. And uh still no movement on the free agent market, but I want to kind of revisit his fit. It’s been three weeks probably since we talked about that in depth. And there is, you know, Jake Fischer from Bluer Report had a had something else on this over the last few days. I want to get into some lineup stuff specific to the Nikquil Alexander Walker role. We’ve been talking about the Wolves back filling nause role in the aggregate, but what about the Nikquil lineups last year that were best and what were some of the weaknesses in those lineups that perhaps there’s some upside to improve given the guys that will be filling filling the role that was vacated by Alexander Walker when he went to the Hawks and then we’ll also talk a few Wolves notes here at the end. Some Pablo Pione some Rudy Goar working with the shooting coach some of that stuff in the final segment here today. So, lots to get to. We’ll go ahead and dive right in. First, a big thank you for making Locked on Wolves your first listen every single day. Of course, this show is free and available everywhere. Wherever you like to listen to podcasts, you can find Lockdown Wolves. You can also watch on the Lockdown Sports Minnesota app on Roku and Amazon Fire TV. All right. So, first, obviously, I’m on on the record on the show as stating that Malcolm Brogden I think could be a great fit for Minnesota. And and I feel like I need to preface this. Um, I’ve seen a lot of comments about, you know, Brogden’s not Brogden from when he was sixman of the year. I get it. He’s not. But what he is is, um, a veteran guard who can do a few different things. He can playmake. He can, uh, be a secondary creator. He can still score a little bit himself even if, you know, last year it wasn’t a great shooting year given the injuries, the team he was on, you know, etc. We’ll get into that. But I still think he is a good fit for Minnesota. And Jake Fischer feels the same way. Jake Fischer of Bleacher Report. If you are not familiar with his work, he does a great job there. He’s been a few different places, believe SI, Yahoo previously. Um, he did a YouTube stream, like a 30 minute stream, uh, I think Friday, maybe Saturday, and toward it was actually the last topic he covered, he talked about the Timberwolves as a logical landing spot for Malcolm Brogden. Um, I think the way he termed it was a quote really good situation for Malcolm Brogden, the Timberwolves would be. And he also said the Wolves are a situation that Brogden has been monitoring and one that the Wolves have checked in on. He also goes on to say he’s not predicting this, but that he does think it’s a good situation. I think he even says a the best situation for Malcolm Brogden. Um, and he talks a little bit about like he acknowledges Fischer does in his in his in his bit that the Timberwolves do want Rob Dillingham and TJ Shannon to get reps, initiating an offense and find minutes for those guys and take some of the workload off of Mike Connley. But also he acknowledges that with the absence of Nik Alexander Walker, there are minutes to go around and just giving Chris Finch another option would be positive. And again, I want to acknowledge I know there’s Timber fans that are like deathly afraid of Chris Finch getting his hands on another veteran that could take minutes away from Dilling Ham and TJ Shannon. I get that. But I also think and and I think I’ve said it this way before on the show is like there’s something to raising the overall floor of the roster. Like if you can get more good players, you do it. And if Malcolm Brogden comes in and doesn’t, I mean like actually a pretty good example of this is just a couple of years ago, a year and a half ago, not even when Monte Morris is acquired at the trade deadline. And I actually thought he was pretty good. He shot over 40% from outside the arc for the Wolves. The defense wasn’t great. He clearly was not over the hamstring injury he’d suffered in Detroit the the you know, six months prior to coming to Minnesota or four months prior, whatever it was. and Chris Finch ultimately was like, “All right, well, I’m going to give some of these minutes to Jordan Mclofflin.” And then it was like, “All right, I, you know, that’s not doesn’t always work, whatever the matchup is.” And obviously Mclofflin’s at the, you know, he wasn’t like a rookie secondyear guy. He was more of a veteran, but somebody Chris Finch trusted, but that was an example of the front office acquired Monte Morris to be the backup point guard and ultimately Chris Finch was like, “Yeah, no, we’re not going to do this.” I mean, go back earlier in that same season. In fact, the two guys that were traded for Monte Morris, Shake Milton and Troy Brown Jr., both of those guys fell out of the rotation when Chris Finch was like, “Yeah, this isn’t working.” And just last year, like Joe Engles was acquired and he was in the rotation for like five or six games before it was like, “All right, Joe doesn’t have it. We’re going to just trim this rotation back a little bit. we’re going to rely a little bit more on Nikil Alexander Walker to initiate to uh we’re going to rely more on Julius Randle to play point forward and to initiate a bit with the second unit when ants off the floor. And those are all adjustments that Chris Finch has made. And so I would posit that it’s not simply that Chris Finch, you know, like doesn’t like Rob Dillingham or doesn’t trust, you know, whatever. Like I think it’s just as much like clearly there was a reason why he wasn’t trusting Rob Dillingham and early in the season T.J. Shannon wasn’t getting as much run, right? Like there’s there’s multiple factors in every situation and the coaches are the ones that see the film room. They see the walkthroughs. They see the shoot arounds. They see the practices. They’re in training camp. They see summer league. They know all of these things in the behind the scenes and how these guys are developing. Um we’re going to talk a little bit later about Pablo Pion staying in Minnesota, but that’s something like John Krinski called this out on X that Pione spent a lot of time with Rob Dillingham over the last year since they drafted him. Like the Wolves are invested in developing Rob Dillingham. don’t think them signing a 32-year-old been hurt a lot the last two or three years Malcolm Brogden is necessarily going to get in in the way of developing Rob Dillingham and by extension also than TJ Shannon although I would argue if they sign Brogden given what we saw from TJ Shannon in summer league and given what we think we know about what the Wolves think about TJ Shannon as a player I don’t know that TJ Shannon would need to worry about losing minutes to Malcolm Brogden either so um I think what Malcolm Brogden would bring to the is another veteran creator that you could trust. Yes, he’s only played in in what 63 games, I think, over the last two years. He’s been hurt a lot. The Portland year, he was still recovering from the injury that he had in Boston. And Portland wasn’t a competitive team two years ago. In 39 games, he still averaged 16 points a game. He still shot 41% from three. The defense obviously started to slide, but again, not a competitive team. Last year, he wasn’t even that good. He really struggled in just 24 games. We’re talking a quarter of a season. barely a quarter of a season with Washington, a really non-competitive team. And the three-point shot was awful. You know, there probably wasn’t a whole lot of motivation there on on the part of Brogden. I mean, there wasn’t motivation on the part of the Wizards as a whole, so like I get it. Um, so all that to say, like the only real concern for me, yeah, he’s going to be 33 this year. uh he turns 33 in December and he’s been hurt a bunch. But I think when he plays like if you’re really worried about those 24 games with Washington last year, I guess fine, be worried about that. But I would say the body of work for him even still just two years ago with Portland in a half season scoring 16 a game on a bad team and shooting 41% from three. And even though the defense has slid a little bit, by the way, it’s not like he was ever like an all-world defender. He was very good in his prime defensively. wasn’t that the last couple of years, but given the scheme of the Wolves or given uh being part of a of a much better defensive machine than Portland and Washington the last two years, having Rudy Gobear in the paint and just the the motivation factor, I think Malcolm Brog would bring a lot more to the table. Uh as just as a passer as well, he could play point guard, he could play off the ball. Um again, for his career, we’re talking about a guy that is 39% from three. And the year in Boston when he won six man of the year, he was 44% just a couple of years ago from three and that’s across 67 games. Um and and again if you’re worried about the Dillingham minutes like Brogden has never played except for his rookie season when by the way he did win rookie of the year back in 1617 with Milwaukee. That’s the only season in the his entire career that he’s played more than 67 games. So is Malcolm Brogton going to get hurt next year? Is he going to sit back to backs? Yeah, probably. That’s very likely, but that is also another reason why Rob Dillingham is going to see run or TJ Shannon and Jaylen Clark will still see run. So, if you’re a team that’s trying to win the finals um and the Wolves legitimately with a straight face could say that’s our goal next year, you’ve still only got a couple more years in this Rudy Gobear window, perhaps only a couple years in this Julius Randall window. So, I think you can have it both ways. I I don’t think you can look at this and be like, “Yeah, they can’t. They shouldn’t add another good player because they want to develop Rob Dillingham.” I I just think that’s a mistake. I think you have to look at this as a as a we just want to raise the overall um caliber of our roster and it doesn’t mean Rob Dillingham’s not going to develop. It doesn’t mean he’s not going to still be a good NBA player at all. Um I just think it makes the roster better and and that’s what you need to be trying to do at all times if you’re a contending team and that’s what the Wolves are. Um so all that to say Jake Fischer thinks it’s a great fit. I’ve been saying this all summer. I think that Malcolm Brogden is is a top target for Minnesota should be a top target and if you’re Malcolm Brogden I mean Minnesota makes a lot of sense if you’re trying to win and and again Minnesota has the depth to be able to cover over a Brogton injury. They’re not bringing him in to be the sixth man of the year. They’ve got one of those in Naz Re. They’ve got another potential candidate for sixman of the year Dante Danchenzo. They don’t need to rely on his scoring. They would rely on his facilitation, his catch and shoot ability. And sure, he can score a little off the bench if you need him to, but I I I think the, you know, the combination of those things make him a really attractive target for Minnesota. All right, I want to talk a little bit about uh I guess the Wolves bench, more specifically the lineups that Nikil Alexander Walker thrived the most in last year with Minnesota. We’ll talk a little TJ Shannon and also some of the the car characteristics of Shannon, Jaylen Clark, Rob Dillingham that could be areas where the Wolves could improve upon what were Nikil Alexander Walker minutes in the past. So I guess the the glass half full look at Nquille’s departure. So we’ll do all that here next. Today’s episode of Locked Wolves is brought to us by our new friends at 5Hour Energy. Time to fuel up and turn it up with fivehour energy transfusion. It brings the bold grape, ginger, and lime flavor of your favorite golf drink, minus the alcohol, of course, into a quick energizing shot. 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Those lineups were 75th percentile offensively, excuse me, 95th percentile offensively, but just 21st percentile defensively. Now, a big part of that is because Rudy’s off the floor and you had Nas and Julius in the front court. Um, but still, I I think that’s important to point out. If you go down the list of all the lineups that Nquille played in the most, that’s the only one um that had played at least 150 possessions of of the seven lineups that were at least 150 possessions that had a plus offense, like a like an easily plus offense. Otherwise, a lot of the damage that those lineups were doing or a lot of the success those lineups were having is a better way to say it was because of the defense. So obviously you can’t just remove Alexander Walker and plug in say Rob Dillingham and assume that the defense is going to be as good. It’s not. Even just from a a size perspective, Nquille’s you know what, five, six inches taller and obviously longer than Rob Dillingham. And uh you know he’s also just a more gifted defensive player. Now would the offense get better? probably because again a lot of those Nikquille lineups were just okay offensively or some of them were actively poor offensively. And yes, I’m not I’m not saying Nquille was the reason or anything like that. I’m just saying that if if it’s a direct plug-and-play situation, you have to assume the offense would maybe improve a little, the defense would would get worse by maybe a significant margin. And that’s where TJ Shannon Jr. comes in. I think TJ Shannon has the ability, and we’ve seen this a little bit in the regular season and playoffs, but especially in summer league, the ability to be a pretty good defender. Pretty good’s even I think better than that. You know, he’s not going to be the kill level from day one, but again, big body, physicality, uh, athleticism, etc., all those things. And he plays hard, so as long as he can continue to play hard defensively. I think some of the concerns with him defensively coming out of Illinois, um, I said this at the time after the Wolves drafted him last summer that I think it was overblown a little bit because he was doing so much for them on offense. I don’t think he wasn’t trying to play hard defensively. I think he was just out of gas. And TJ Shannon, I think, can be a plus defender and you won’t have as big of a drop off there as you would with the Nquille lineups. Another observation from pulling the Alexander Walker lineups on cleaning the glass, his top three most used lineups did not include Mike Connley. And not only was it the top three, but it is six of the top seven did not include Mike Connley. So again, if you’re plugand play for to kill Alexander Walker, you’re not talking about somebody that’s going to play a ton with Conley. And and of course that makes sense because Alexander Walker was in effect the backup point guard last season. Side note though, the one lineup that did have both Connley and Alexander Walker on the floor together was with Devenzo, Naz Reed, and Rudy. There was no Ant. And it was a middle of the road offensive team, but a dominant defensive lineup. 98th percentile allowing just 93.2 points per 100 possessions. And overall, they were a plus 24.5. It was actually Nikquil Alexander Walker’s best lineup was the one with Mike Connley. Now, Mike Connley is a better team defender at this stage than Rob Dillingham. Um, so like you know, again, I just those are the facts. That’s what we had last year out of Alexander Walker. Another thing that I thought was pretty interesting is if you look at TJ Shannon’s lineups, now this is obviously a very small sample. He only played 555 possessions that are logged in cleaning the glass. Um, all of them basically including Nik Alexander Walker. In fact, I think it’s the top nine. Uh yes, literally the top nine most played Terrence Shannon Jr. lineups included Nquille Alexander Walker and now we’re talking about him being on the floor without Nikquil. Now it makes sense. Of course he he was some of the deep bench stuff, some of the um I guess clean the glass filters out garbage time. So like it wasn’t a ton of rotation time. And by the way, the TJ Shannon numbers weren’t great, especially the offense in terms of the lineup numbers. The defensive lineups with TJ Shannon were all really good. And part of that’s because it was with Dale Alexander Walker. Um, a lot of lineups with Jaden McDaniels. The top three TJ lineups last year had Jaden in them. So TJ Shannon was at the three and Jada McDaniels was at the four in those lineups. Um, so they were smaller lineups because Shannon was playing the three. In fact, his fourth used lineup, he was actually playing a small ball four with Nas Reed and that lineup itself was overall relatively successful. Was a plus 4.7 and very small um it was like 20 possessions or something like that. So what are the trends here to look at? Well, again, it’s not going to be apples to apples. Um, but I do think there is the potential for a TJ Shannon, Rob Dillingham combination, and add in Jaylen Clark, who’s an outstanding point of attack defender. I’d put him up there with Nquille certainly in terms of what they’re able to do. I know he’s a little smaller, but his actual on ball defensive impact, the off ball is maybe not quite as good for Jaylen as it was for Nquille. And that could change. Jaylen Clark is still an extremely young player without a ton of NBA reps, but the the again back filling the Aquil minutes in the aggregate between those three, I think there’s a real chance the the offense gets slightly better and the defense doesn’t take as big of a hit as you might think because of Shannon and to a lesser extent just in terms of what I would assume is less playing time, Jaylen Clark because I think Dillingham if he tries if he plays hard I think he can navigate screens Okay, I think he can. That’s the biggest thing, right? Is he going to fight through screens, etc. But I think the Alexander Walker to Shannon drop off isn’t going to be nearly as large. So I if you if you assume the defense gets a little worse, but not a lot, and the offense gets a little bit better, I mean, that could essentially be a wash grand scheme of things. Areas where they could actually get better, I would say rebounding. I mean, look at the Timberwolves overall rebound rate as a team last season, or I should say individual rebound rates as a team. Mikuel Alexander Walker was near the bottom of their rotation players in terms of rebound rate, which I was expecting that given how often he was on the perimeter, but it was a little bit lower than you might think. Overall on the team last season, if you take out the guys that didn’t play rotation minutes, I mean, he was the only guy that was regularly in the rotation below Nikil Alexander Walker for rebound rate was Mike Connley. I mean, every I mean, Dante Deenzo had a better rebound rate. TJ Shannon had a better rebound rate. Um, obviously Ant, Jade McDaniels, Nas, like he was a shade ahead of Mike Connley and a little bit ahead of Jaylen Clark, Rob Dillingham. So, I realize that two of the three guys that would be replacing his minutes are Clark and Dillingham. But on the offensive glass, Jaylen Clark actually had a really good offensive rebound rate and that is how he’s going to he’ll essentially function like a like a four on offense. Jaylen Clark will at times and that means he’s going to play out of the dunker a little bit. um he’ll be in the corners and corner crashing and and I think Jaylen Clark has obviously a great nose for the ball. He had one of the better offensive rebound rates on the Wolves last season. So, I like the potential there for the rebounding to actually improve. Uh if you look at those, like I mentioned, his his individual Nikquille’s individual rebound rate. Um, if you look at those Nikquille lineups last season, the only area that they struggled in that they were below league average, if you look at uh I’m cleaning the glass by percentile. So, of the four factors on offense and defense, the only ones that were below average were on the defensive side of the ball, believe it or not. And it was defensive rebound rate and free throw rate. Free throw rate I set aside a little bit because I just think there’s a lot of noise there when you look at fiveman lineups. We’re not going to like point at Nquille for that. But if Nquille’s on the floor at the three, which he was in most of these lineups and and yes, he was functioning as the one, but like he was with Ant Dante in most of these lineups or or in you know, one of the lineups with Connley and Dante, the team’s off the team’s defensive rebound rate was only 28.3%. Um, which is or sorry, I said that backwards. The way Cleveland glass does it is the opponent’s offensive rebound rate was 28.3% which is really high. So the defensive rebound rate is is the inverse of that, right? So it was what 71.7%. So really bad. Uh not really bad but worse than everything else that happened when Nquille was on the floor. All that to say TJ Shannon I think in the long run is going to be a better rebounder than Alexander Walker. I think Jaylen Clark’s energy and the offensive glass is going to help on the flip side. The offensive rebound rate wasn’t good with the kill on the four either. I I don’t have a whole lot of hope for Rob Dillingham to have a better rebound rate than to kill Alexander Walker, but that is an area that could improve. And again, I bring up Malcolm Brogden, like you add Malcolm Brogden and I think he’ll be a bit he’s a, you know, bigger body. He’s not as big as Nquille, but um there’s good potential there for the rebound rate to improve in those bench unit minutes if he’s backing Nquil Alexander Walker’s minutes. So again, I realize this is definitely a glass half full approach because losing Nquille hurts, but there is some upside there. There’s some offensive upside and diversity to the Wolves offense with Nquille leaving. he was um you know I think there’s again we said this the other day but some of the TJ Shannon stuff in the open floor I just think there’s more upside and more chances for the Wolves offense to a bit be a bit more diverse between Dillingham and TJ Shannon in the absence of of Nikquil Alexander Walker. All right I want to close with a couple of Wolves notes. We’ll talk about Rudy. We’ll talk about Pione potential impact on Rob Dillingham that that could have. We’ll do all that here next to close the show. All right. One of the notes we talked about, I think on Friday’s show was Pablo Pione interviewing for a job with the New York Knicks to be on potentially be on um Mike Brown’s staff there. Of course, Pion previously played for the New York Knicks and was an assistant for the Brooklyn Nets and I think I think he’d actually turned on an opportunity to coach for the Knicks at the time. um Pion the Wolves granted him permission to interview with the Knicks for an assistant job and we don’t know whether or not he was actually offered but um I would assume he was but the the reporting out of Ian Begley of SNY TV in New York was that Pion decided to remain with the Wolves. I mentioned earlier in the show, John Krinski of the Athletic had mentioned that Pion spends a lot of time working closely with Rob Dillingham and I believe that uh it was the Begley. Yeah, it was the Begley tweet uh post on X where Ian Begley said that family reasons were why he decided to stay in Minnesota. I mean, he’s been in Minnesota since what 2019, 2020. I mean, he was hired to be on Ryan Saunders staff. So, like before co um like six years. So if his family’s been in Minnesota for that long, I mean, you know, there do you want to uproot him and move him to New York? Obviously, the Wolves are both teams are conference finals teams, but there’s continuity with the Timberwolves staff, with Chris Finch, at the Wolves front office, and with the players and and you know, who knows what else in terms of behind the scenes went on. I don’t know, who knows whether or not he got additional incentives or or uh bonuses or raises or whatever to stay, but the Wolves obviously wanted him to stay, but wanted to do right by Prisone and give him the opportunity to interview for a uh potentially who knows a a what could have been a better role or an upgraded role in New York, but ultimately he’s going to stay in Minnesota. I do think that’s really big. For again continuity sake, they are losing I think it’s Turner. Um apologies if I have that wrong. There’s at least one assistant who’s leaving uh the Timberwolves this year and going to um another Western Conference team and I’m blanking on who it is, but that there will be some coaching staff turnover. We typically get those announcements in late August, early September in terms of what the coaching staff will look like for the following the upcoming season. But, you know, for the most part, the staff’s going to stay the same. It’s a back-to-back conference finals team. The Timberwolves want Pion to continue working with Rob Dillingham. And again, I go back to what I said in the first segment. Regardless what the Wolves do at their final couple roster spots, it doesn’t mean that they’re giving up on Rob Dillingham after one season, they are a finals contender, they are a championship contender and need to improve their roster and obviously they’re still invested in the growth and development of Rob Dillingham and Prisone is a really big part of that. Another interesting note, um this was let’s see who who reported this. This was uh related to Rudy Gobear. um he is working with a shooting coach Chris Matthews um who is a a sharp shooting guard in college and Chris Matthews actually actually Chris Matthews himself posted this online he’s worked with uh Anthony Davis Damonus Sabonis Bobby Poris Dwight Howard and in Matthews social media post um his actual words he said five guys who are dominant from 15 feet in talking about Davis Sabonis Poris and Dwight Howard um quibble with dominant from 15 ft with some of those guys. But the point is, Goar’s trying to improve his offensive game and um like he was not good within 14 ft. He only attempted like six shots outside of 14 ft and missed all of them. Um he’s he’s like below 10th percentile at everything that’s away from the rim. So this is obviously huge. the Wolves aren’t gonna like they’re not running anything for Gobar to get those opportunities. But the idea is if it’s half a half, you know, half an opportunity, half a shot a game from that distance. If he ends up with 30 40 shots from 15 ft out or whatever, 15 ft and in that aren’t at the rim, so call it between four and 14 ft, you’d love for him to shoot 45% of those instead of 10 20%. Right? Like if it’s a few more buckets a year, great. Teams are going to make him make the shot. the Wolves aren’t going to call plays to to for him to get the ball in that situation. But you think about him on the short roll to add another tool to the toolbox where typically goar on the short roll is catching and kicking and he’s pretty good at it at the free throw line. But if he has the ability to take one dribble and and I don’t think Rudy Gobear has be throwing up 12 foot floaters all season, but if he has the ability to do it, um I think that’s that it would be great to have that tool in his toolbox to to be able to to pull that out of his back pocket and use it when needed. Um, so good on Rudy to continue doing that. I mean, like it’d be easy for him to be like, “Look, I’m a four-time defensive player of the year. I’m a surefire Hall of Famer.” Whether or not Shaquille O’Neal likes that, which by the way, the most recent Shaq comments from what, Thursday or Friday last week are absurd. Don’t even don’t give it a listen. It’s just uh it’s unbelievable because I mean, Shaq’s got to understand. He has to know this. Rudy’s going to the Hall of Fame. Like, there’s no question Rudy’s going to the Hall of Fame. Um, and he deserves to go to the Hall of Fame. But good on Rudy for continually trying to improve like an area of his game that nobody talks about. Nobody It’s not good as it is. And he’s trying to take it and improve it. It’s not simply he always takes great care of his body. He’s in great shape. Everybody knows that. Great conditioning. But at his age to be like, “Look, I’m going to try and add this to my game. Even though I’m not an offensive player, my usage continues to go down. My scoring’s going down. I’m in, you know, my age whatever 34 season or whatever this is. I’m gonna try and add this element to my game and and help my team on the offensive side of the ball. Whether or not, you know, when people aren’t expecting me to do it and and good on Rudy for doing that. Um really excited to see if that turns into anything, you know, I don’t I don’t know it’s anything of substance, but at least the efforts there and it could be an added element that could help the Wolves offense. Um all right, that’s all I got for you today. A reminder, we are still daily. Uh we’ll be daily. Uh, I think every day this week we’ll we’ll have a show and then next week we’ll probably scale it back to three or four shows, not go every day throughout the month of August. But we’ll be back tomorrow. Um, we’re going to look through uh we’re actually going to be voting on a on a a locked NBA top 100 players. So, I’ll talk a bit about my selections in the top 100 over the next few days. Wolves players that should appear in the top 100. So, that’ll be some one of the things we talk about here soon. And we’re still, of course, waiting for more free agency news related to the Wolves. So, lots upcoming this week here at Lockdown Wolves. A big thank you once again for making Lockdown Wolves your first listen. Of course, you can uh find it anywhere. You can also watch on YouTube and watch on the Lockdown Sports Minnesota app on both Roku and Amazon at Fire TV. And a reminder that you can make your second listen, the Lockdown NBA show. There is no offseason there either. Doug, Matt, and Hayes will keep you up to date on contract negotiations, rumors, and everything you need to be the most informed NBA fan. Find Lockdown NBA on YouTube or wherever you listen to podcasts. Part of the Lockdown Podcast Network. your team every day. Of course, this show is part of that very same network, your local experts on all the biggest stories. Once again, I’m Ben Beacon. This is the Lockdown Wolves podcast. We’ll catch you next time.

The Minnesota Timberwolves and Malcolm Brogdon have reportedly shown mutual interest in a free-agent signing as the Wolves consider options for their remaining open roster spots. Ben Beecken (@bbeecken) breaks down the potential fit and why it would be mutually beneficial. Plus, a glass half-full look at how the vacated Nickeil Alexander-Walker minutes might be filled, and a couple of areas in which the Wolves could actually improve with more minutes for Terrence Shannon Jr. and Rob Dillingham.

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