‘Point Ant Has Been Under-Utilized’: Offseason Talkers, Vol. III

Photo by Jordan Johnson/NBAE via Getty ImagesIn case you didn’t know, the Minnesota Timberwolves weren’t exactly the healthiest team in the NBA during the 2022-23 season. They were far from it.

What started with an extended period of time without Karl-Anthony Towns snowballed into Kyle Anderson being in and out of the lineup, Rudy Gobert missing time and generally being less than 100% even when he played, and players available off the bench fluctuating on a nightly basis. It forced the Wolves to play the game a different way every night — something that, by December, seemed to be pretty commonplace.

One of those things was the rise of Anthony Edwards as the primary ball-handler in a more…