If you went around the league and asked any average NBA fan about the Minnesota Timberwolves’ Karl-Anthony Towns and Rudy Gobert front-court pairing from last season, nearly every single one of them would have said that it was a bust.
The sentiment was always that Minnesota paid too much for a funky fit that would never work. Period. While I had my own personal doubts about this duo, the one thing that did not sit right with me about these takes was that there was never enough sample size to make such a definitive claim to give up on something before it even had the chance to begin.