NBA purgatory is a terrible place to be.
The no man’s land of more than 30 but less than 43 or 44 wins is the practical definition of this dreaded locale, and the Minnesota Timberwolves will almost certainly land in that range for the second consecutive season.
SB Nation’s Tom Ziller penned a piece calling out owner Glen Taylor for the Wolves’ mediocrity, referencing long periods of irrelevance for the franchise, followed by a two-year bump from Jimmy Butler, and now presumably back to not mattering.
The problem with this analysis, however, is many-fold.