At halftime of last Friday’s game against the Memphis Grizzlies, the Minnesota Timberwolves officially crossed the quarter mark of their 2023-2024 NBA season.
Since the preseason, I’ve been looking at this team through the lens of a movie sequel. Ownership brought most of the main cast back despite a lackluster first film.
Everyone associated with the film (even the fans) have a lingering awareness that even if this movie is a huge success, there is almost no financial reality that they could roll it back for a three-quel.
This left two main directions for the season to go:
- The sequel is of a similar quality to the first film; some memorable moments but ultimately a film stuck in the same mediocrity of its predecessor.