Grantland's excellent basketball writer Zach Lowe takes on the Wolves shooting guard position today, writing about the transition from Kevin Martin to Zach LaVine in the starting lineup.
Lowe is realistic about just how terrible LaVine was last season:
LaVine had no clue how to play NBA defense, or run point guard, the position into which Minnesota almost cruelly shoehorned him after Ricky Rubio's early-season ankle injury.
LaVine was dead last in ESPN's Real Plus-Minus among 83 point guards. He turned the ball over on a revolting 27 percent of pick-and-rolls he finished with a shot, drawn foul, or cough-up.