While Wolves fans weather the storm of abundant optimism surrounding second-year guard Zach LaVine, the reigning NBA dunk champion is receiving some national attention as he looks to make a big splash in his sophomore year as a professional.
Grantland’s Zach Lowe penned a lengthy article focusing on LaVine’s massive shortcomings as a rookie but equally stratospheric talent ceiling. Lowe does a masterful job of laying out exactly what the Wolves’ guard’s biggest issues were and why the organization is confident that those issues can and will be corrected.
LaVine had no clue how to play NBA defense, or run point guard, the position into which Minnesota almost cruelly shoehorned him after Ricky Rubio’s early-season ankle injury.