When a team is missing its top-three point guards along with an All-Defensive wing, you don’t expect that team to be competitive.
Thanks to players like Jerryd Bayless, that hasn’t been the case for the Wolves.
Minnesota has been without Derrick Rose for 10 of the last 18 games, Jeff Teague for four-straight games, Tyus Jones for six-straight games and Robert Covington for 13-straight games.
Bayless has helped ease the pain, along with fellow veteran Luol Deng. Bayless has played more than 20 minutes in five-straight games and the Wolves are 3-2 in that stretch. In the six games he’s appeared in prior to this recent stretch, Bayless played in just 9.