Last year, the Wolves were a fairly predictable team in terms of who we were going to see on the court. You could almost set your watch by Thibodeau’s substitution patterns and the Wolves played their starting five by far the most of any team in the NBA. In 48 games they played a total of 1131 minutes together. The next closest, the Charlotte Hornets starting five, played 1086 minutes over 56 games.
Even the five-man group with Nemanja Bjelica filling in for an injured Jimmy Butler was the 18th most used lineup in all of the NBA.