What roles will Minnesota Timberwolves offseason additions Joe Ingles, Rob Dillingham, and Terrence Shannon Jr. have at the start of the season? Ben Beecken (@bbeecken) breaks down the expected roles that each player will have, using the team's Opening Night rosters from the last two seasons as a guide. What each will provide, and why Ingles' presence will immediately lift the Wolves' offense.
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It's the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. Hello and welcome to another episode of Lockdown Wolves. Today on the show, how Joe Ingalls, Rob Dylan, Hamlet, Shannon Jr. fit the to rules rotation. What are each of their roles? Compared to what those roles look like in recent past season, what skill sets are they bringing to the team rules? Also, preview the rest of the offseason for Minnesota, it's all a come and welcome in. You are Lockdown Wolves. You are Lockdown Timber Wolves, your daily Minnesota Timber Wolves Podcast. Part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. Hello and welcome to the Lockdown Wolves Podcast, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. My name is Ben Beacon, I'm the host of Lockdown Wolves. Today's episode is brought to you by GameTime, download the GameTime app, create an account and use the code, LockdownNBA for $20 off your first purchase terms apply. Happy Friday, everybody. Happy weekend. We had a great Independence Day and a Happy Fourth of July and hopefully a great Independence Day weekend, if you will. A really nice four day stretch here, celebrating the holiday for those of you in the U.S. Today, we are going to talk about the Wolves Off seasons so far, basically taking a half step back. We talked about each of these moves individually, the biggest ones of course being draft night and the addition of Joe Ingalls. We will talk about the roster where it stands, what each of these roles looks like and dig a bit into some of the numbers, especially on Joe Ingalls and the skills that he provides. We talked a little about it Thursday, but I want to get a bit more into why he is such a perfect fit and if all things are equal, I said this on Thursday. It gets close, who I'd rather have on the Wolves, Ingalls or Kyle Anderson, but given that Ingalls is at the minimum and Anderson would have been two, three times that plus the penalty of the second apron, it would have paid like 30 million essentially, like literal money, not just against the cap, but that's what it would have cost the franchise. It's really not close. At that cost, Joe Ingalls is an awesome addition from Minnesota, so we'll get a bit into that and then also just kind of talking about what's up next for the off season. A big thank you off the top for making Lockdown Wolves your first listen every single day. Of course, this show is free and available everywhere. That includes YouTube as well as all your favorite audio platforms. Wherever you like to listen to podcasts, you can find Lockdown Wolves. You can also watch them. The Lockdown Sports Minnesota app on both Roku and Amazon at Fire TV and you can follow on X at Lockdown T wolves and also at B beacon with two B's, two E's, CK, E-N. All right, loss to get to today. Let's start with kind of just a quick reset on what the off season looks like to date and what Joe Ingalls fit is. We'll get it to some of the different roles here as well. We know that the two rules, in terms of their top eight rotation guys, top nine rotation guys, the only one that they were going to lose that they have lost is Kyle Anderson. If you go one deeper, you get into the Monte Morris last Jordan McLaughlin role. We know Monte Morris is signed with Phoenix. It's unlikely Jordan McLaughlin's back at this stage. The Wolves just have one roster spot left. So the backup point guard role has been filled now by rookie Rob Dillingham, who the Wolves traded up to number eight or acquired him at the number eight pick on draft night last week. And then outside of the rotation, looking in that next kind of role that early last season was filled by Troy Brown Jr. and there was never really a consistent 10th guy other than multiple point guards. Like at one point, it was Morris and McLaughlin at one point. It was TBJ at another point. It was Shake Milton and McLaughlin were seen minutes. It was kind of all over the place. That role is likely a Terrence Shannon Jr. role. We'll get it to that. Kyle Anderson's role was replaced, of course, by Joe Ingalls. So that's basically what we're looking at right now. And on my graphic, I've got Joe Ingalls first, I actually want to talk about the roles specifically and how they're being, I'm going to flip those first two bullet points that you see if you're watching on YouTube. I'm going to talk more about the rotation and those roles first, and then we'll get a little bit more in on Joe Ingalls. So the easiest way to describe the Timberwolves in July this year versus 12 months ago, in July of last year, is it's seven of the top eight spots are the same. Robert Dillingham, Rob Dillingham, I think he went by Robert until people just started calling him Rob, based on some of the, the, the liberals behind the scenes videos that are out there. But Dillingham, he's supposed to be the scoring guard off the bench in, in the, in the vein of what Sheikh Milton was supposed to be last year and think back, you go back and look at some of the quotes that Tim Connolly and Chris Finch especially gave last off season and into training camp about what Sheikh Milton's role would be, combo guard can score, can create for others, can knock down catch and shoot threes. That never came to fruition with Minnesota. He had like one good game and I'm not exaggerating, maybe two in a Timberwolves uniform. He just never found his footing. Two years ago, that was supposed to be Jalen Noel. And now three years ago, going back to the season that finished with the six seed playoff loss to Memphis in Chris Finch's first full season, Jalen Noel was really good. And that off season, Chris Finch talked that all the time about how like he, there was literally one interview where he was talking about the wolves, young core moving forward and he mentioned aunt and cat and Jane McDaniels. And then he mentioned Jalen Noel. Like Jalen Noel was thought of as like, Hey, this is a bargain contract. He's going to be a legit six man in the 22, 23 season and he had a horrible year. He just was not good at any point during that season. And sure enough last year ends up in and out of the NBA with the Grizzlies and then eventually the Kings and spent a lot of time in the G league. And I don't believe he's on a roster currently. And he just never, so they brought in Sheikh Milton to fill that role to be somebody who on the bench with the ball in their hands, they're going to score for themselves. They're going to create their own offense, but they can also distribute, run, pick and roll. And then the ball comes back to them. They can knock down a catch and shoot three. That's the idea. Sheikh Milton never was able to do that. Now Rob Dillingham is a little bit smaller, not a little bit. He's a lot smaller. I mean, Sheikh Milton's not huge and neither is Jalen Noel, but those guys, I mean, Noel's six four, Sheikh was about that, I believe. And Dillingham is like maybe six, one, six three wingspan, but he's also like 165 pounds. So he's a lot smaller. He's more of a traditional point guard size, like old school traditional point guard size, which isn't typically Tim Connolly's MO or what Chris Fitch is looking for. But if he was, and this came up, I want to say Tyler Metcalf said this a week ago, actually a week ago today, last Friday's show that I did with Tyler Metcalf of no ceilings NBA. If he was three, four inches taller, like he's the number one pick in the draft, there's a question. He's that talented offensively. The only question marks are really some of the defensive positioning stuff, not even the want to, but some of the knowledge and defense and then the size, which impacts on both ends, but especially defensively, but offensively, he does everything well besides just be big. Like that's the only thing he's not good at offensively. And he's going to give you that punch off the bench. He could score for himself. He could create for others. He's a better pastor than he was giving credit for. Sistrate was good at Kentucky, and it was really more completing the plays that his teammates weren't, his teammates weren't necessarily completing plays. But one of the things I talked about and Tyler talked about pretty extensively earlier this week and late last week was his reading the defense, how he reads pick and rolls, et cetera. All that to me is next level. It's every bit as good as Shayk Milton, you know, who's four or five years in the league when he came to Minnesota last year and better than Jalen O'L ever was, every defense. There's no, there's no question about that. So he brings you all that, but he's also knocked down catch and shoot. Knocked out catch and shoot. He was 48% last year on 88 attempts for Kentucky on catch and shoot threes. 88 attempts, it's not a massive sample size, but it's a pretty good one. And he was also 38% off the dribble on threes, which is fantastic. I mean, that's a little better than Anthony Edwards, right in range where I was last year. Obviously three point lines different in college. I know that, but he's good off the dribble. He's great catch and shoot. He was 50% shooter out of pick and roll as a ball handler, 43% shooting threes out of pick and roll. We talked already about the feel. So all of those things that the wolves tried to do with Shayk Milton and Jalen O'L because you need somebody else with that bench unit. And also I talk about like somebody that can knock down a catch and shoot three. That becomes important when with the substitution pattern, they're on the floor and they're going to share the floor with Anthony Edwards at some point, whether it's at the start of their stint or the end of their stint and by they, in this case, I'm talking about Dillingham. So they have to also be able to play off the ball. When Dillingham's on the floor, three quarters of the time, two thirds of the time, he's going to be the one with the ball and his hands creating for himself or others. But the rest of the time, you have to be able to be a threat. And Rob Dillingham is that he's a better version of what they wanted Shayk Milton and Jalen O'L to be. He has to play a minute in the NBA still. I get that, but he should be every bit as good if it should be better, frankly, offensively as those guys immediately in the NBA. That was the idea behind Rob Dillingham is, is he fills that role and then he's also your backup point guard. And so between him and the Kellogg's Interwalker and now Joe Ingalls, what used to be Kyle Anderson, you've got three guys off the bench who can run the offense and they don't even have a third point guard. And remember, they went into last year without a third point guard too, and I was really surprised by that. And Jordan McLaughlin was in the rotation early in the season, but they played stretches last year and McLaughlin got hurt again when he wasn't effective before they traded for Monte Morris and that's one of the reasons why at the trade deadline backup point guard was like this big thing and they ended up getting Monte Morris. But they never really had a consistent and consistently effective backup point guard last year at all. And they still managed to be number one seed for most of the year when 56 games go to the conference finals. And Dillingham is already that. The question is defensively and, you know, we've talked about that and there's certainly, you know, they got a paper over some of that on the defensive end and hopefully he ends up being a decent defender as a rookie. We'll see. The exact word that the exact phrase that Tyler Metcalf used last week was Dillingham is probably going to be a disaster on defense right away is what he said. I have a little bit more hope than that, a little, I don't want to say faith, a little more hope that he'll, uh, he'll be a little better than a disaster this year. And again, number one defense that could probably paper over some of those deficiencies. All right. I want to talk about the Joe Ingalls role and the Terence Shannon Jr. potential role and then go a little bit more in depth on jingles before we get into, uh, kind of preview and the rest of the off season. We'll do all that here next today's episode of Lacti Wolves is brought to us by our friends at eBay Motors passion drive and patience. The formula for winning championships is also what keeps your rider die alive. eBay Motors has everything you need to maintain your vehicle and level it up to peak performance superchargers, roof racks, exhaust kits, LED headlights and more, whether you're into speed, power or style eBay Motors has you covered with over 122 million parts for your number one rider die. 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If so, no doubt you have to turn down the volume because of all the shouting instead, make the switch to locked on sports today a free 24 seven sports streaming channel program for you every day to bring you the biggest stories without all the screaming locked on sports today brings you can't miss analysis, opinions and news streaming 24 seven on YouTube where the free Amazon fire TV channels app part of the locked on podcast network, your team every day. All right, so the temporal rotation right now is going to be obviously same starting lineup Mike Connolly, Anthony Edwards, Jade McDaniel's Carl 30 times where you go bare two of your next three up are going to look really familiar. It's going to be Nas Reed. It's going to be Nikhil Alexander Walker and then your eighth man in some order is going to be Rob Dillingham. The next guy in this rotation is Joe Ingles and we'll talk I'll do turn Shannon next but Joe Ingles is is in that top I really probably top eight I say ninth guy but like it's going to depend on the night who's actually getting the least minutes off the bench. It's probably Dillingham to start Ingles is probably kind of your de facto eighth guy but in terms of your top nine you're going to have a nine man rotation at minimum that plays every night in the regular season. Joe Ingles is in that rotation him and Dillingham are going to be in that eighth nine area. So Dillingham as we mentioned takes the shake Milton slash Jalen Noel role from the last two seasons is what I refer to that that bench combo scoring guard role. Joe Ingles is in the slow mo position and what I mean by that is is he's going to play mostly at the three which is what slow mo had to do last year and of course slow mo was more effective at the four two years ago overall in his career Kyle Anderson's more effective playing the four than the three Joe Ingles however is a little bit more effective playing the three than he is the four and he's more frequently played the three in his career. He's a similar size to Kyle Anderson I mean he's six nine he's actually maybe a little bit bigger than Kyle Anderson the length isn't there necessarily he's never been as good of a defender as Kyle Anderson although for stretches of his career Joe Ingles has been better than he's been giving credit for. Now when he was put on an island guarding in Utah's defense because Rudy go bear was so incredible they had a you know Roy so Neil a couple other guys that could defend younger Mike Conley Ingles was one of the weaker links in a good defense but he wasn't awful he's gotten a little bit worse the last couple of years like he is thirty seven he's gonna be thirty seven before opening night in the fall so he's not great defensively you're losing a little bit on that under the floor from Kyle Anderson but everything on the offensive end Joe Ingles does just as well or better and we talked about a lot of this Thursday so I'm not gonna rehash all of it but the assist rate 23% last year turnover it was a little high but overall assisted turnover is palatable for Joe Ingles three point rate over 70% of his shots last year and each of the last four seasons have been threes for his career almost exactly two thirds of his shot attempts have been threes and again that's increased as his career has gone on he's also really good overall in the pick and roll and Kyle Anderson was fine in the pick and roll but he was never a threat to score and to be clear one of the numbers I rattled off Thursday was as a pick and roll ball handler Joe Ingles is a good shooter but he's not effective at getting into the paint and finishing last year he was like 42% or something in the paint out off a pick and roll he's not gonna beat you off the dribble and score efficiently at least the threat for Joe Ingles in the pick and roll is he's such a good passer and such a good shooter that he's gonna break down the defense for somebody else and Kyle Anderson had a little bit of that but I mean go back and watch how anybody defended Kyle Anderson in the half court when he had the ball in his hands they were giving him six feet of space because they knew he wasn't gonna shoot the ball until he got to within 12 feet 15 feet and even then it was a 50 50 proposition which is not bad a 50% you know 50 50 is actually high like he wasn't that could have a shooter from the elbows or from the nail but the defense could give him that cushion you can't necessarily do that with Joe Ingles because he's I think a little bit of a better passer than Kyle Anderson and he's certainly a better perimeter shooter so there's always the possibility that he just stops and pulls up on a three pointer which we'll talk more about his individual like the types of three point attempts he was getting up last year and how effective he was there's just you have to respect him you can't leave him in the corner and and I want to dive into a little bit of those numbers here so I talked about his points per possession last year when he was wide open he was about two points per possession which meant he was shooting nearly was making nearly two thirds of his wide open three pointers which is absolutely bonkers we talked about the catch and shoot last year Joe Ingles on catch and shoot shots according to NBA.com stats he was 53.3% on catch and shoot threes last season that's insane 53% on catch and shoot threes and again he was he was like one point eight five or something points per possession on on uh open uh open opportunities which are mostly threes for Joe Ingles so he he was you know 60 plus percent on wide open three pointers last year um he's gonna get a lot of open opportunities now not as many as Kyle Anderson I know everybody's thinking about all the times Kyle Anderson was open that was by design from the defense but some of it was like Anthony Edwards has so much gravity Rudy Golbera on a roll has so much gravity even now as Reed at this point Carl 30 towns these guys all have defenses respecting them you put Joe Ingles out there if you're choosing somebody to not guard it better not be Joe Ingles because he's gonna knock down the three nearly two thirds of the time if he's left wide open um going into the b-ball index numbers last year for Joe Ingles as a perimeter shooter he was just a shade under 41% overall on threes he was 51% catch and shoot threes according to them what did I say that NBA.com number was so these are all very slightly NBA.com is 53% according to uh b-ball index 51.3% catch and shoot which is still 98th percentile on a plus grade above the break threes 39.6% so 40% 86th percentile above the break threes he was 45.5% on corner threes last year which is 80th percentile in the NBA we talk about all the wolves players who should be good at quarter threes and aren't as good as they need to be go back and look at what he did in Utah on corner threes uh i'm just going like go through his career on corner threes 45% 49% 42% 53% one season i'm catching on corner threes excuse me 44% uh the his down here he was 37% 51% catch and shoot threes 40% 45% last year 47% in Orlando on corner threes you leave a wide open that number's north of 50% so take Kyle Anderson out of this think about that being Joe Ingalls in the corner again these are going to be left as wide open but what does that mean that means more of a driving lane for Anthony Edwards more space to operate for Rob Dillingham for Carl City towns attacking from the perimeter for Rudy to roll and Rudy's such a good i mean what did Rudy do in Utah his short roll kicked to the corner of Joe Ingalls to Roy Sunil to Mike Conley to Donovan Mitchell um Rudy's a really good short roll passer and he and and it wasn't as effective when it was Kyle Anderson and to a lesser extent Jayden McDaniel's Jayden had a down shooting year two that's we'll talk more about that this offseason that's another thing that has to work in the other direction from Minnesota Jayden has to he may not be 40% every year like he was two years ago but he's got to be better than 33 or whatever he shot last year if that's league average and and it's picker poison so it's ant attacking you know say it's ant and Rudy you got Joe Ingalls in one quarter he's going to shoot over 50% open for on threes Jayden McDaniel's who hopefully is around 40% wide open quarter threes and or you allow ant and Rudy to attack the middle of your defense and whoever is your other guys at naz is at Carl City towns whoever it is they can catch attack a close out and go scoring the lane it adds a dimension that this offense did not have and it's it's why i say even like if it was the same dollar amount i could have made the argument for Joe Ingalls being a better fit there's always the chance that like he's 37 he complete he may just completely be ineffective at this stage of his career like but he was really good last year so it's like i mean it's like if you're a twins fan it's like Nelson Cruz like you're just kind of like is it this year that his career falls apart or is it next year like let's give him a minimum contract and find out so like he made 11 million last year and he's gonna make the vet minimum this year with Minnesota and i bet he could have made more with a non contender but Minnesota he wanted to win and uh he's a perfect fit he's Kyle Anderson offensively with a jumper and i think a little bit of a better passer and yeah you're gonna give something back on defense and and it's but but like think about Utah Utah didn't have any outstanding perimeter defenders they just had Rudy a couple of good perimeter defenders and some really bad ones this Minnesota team now has Rudy and they've got two or three of the best perimeter defenders in the entire NBA. Jade McDay used a kill examiner walker and a locked in Anthony Edwards are like three of the top we'll call it 15 if there was an all defensive third team Anthony kill examiner walker would have a shot of making it three of the best perimeter defenders in the league you got a passable guy who's long in the tooth and just a good team defender Mike Conley and then a couple guys who aren't going to be as good and Rob Dillingham Joe Ingalls but average that all out plus Rudy plus cat plus nods who all have size and length this is not going to be I don't the defense may not be as good this year as it was last year but it may still be the league's best defense it's certainly still a better combination than what Utah was trying out there with Rudy so I really I love the Joe Ingalls edition I love him and the Kyle Anderson role I just think that alone remember this is an offense that finished like 18th last year in the league they have no business being 18th of the league with Anthony Edwards and Carl City towns and you know the gravity of a Rudy go bear and the third best three point shooting team in the league just having Joe Ingalls on the floor is going to raise remember they didn't shoot enough threes they were bottom third of the leagueish and bottom half of the league in terms of three point attempt rate just having Joe Ingalls is going to raise that because Kyle Anderson's point six threes a game becomes Joe Ingalls once he gets a shoot like last year with Orlando I guess he only played 17 minutes it was two and a half threes a game but the year before the Milwaukee four and a half threes a game the year before the Utah five threes a game so call it three and a half to four threes per game that's three more three point attempts per game at a 40% plus clip and that's going to make a huge difference I know it doesn't sound like a lot but it is and then factor in the the um essentially the gravity of Joe Ingalls in the corner because if you don't guard him he's going to make the three over half the time if you do guard him more space for ant for dilling in for cat for whoever is attacking the middle of the floor it's it's it's awesome it's going to be really really nice fit let's talk next about terence she and a junior what his role might be with this team is he good to see minutes early what does that look like and then we'll talk about what's upcoming here the next few weeks this soft season we'll do all that here next hey every dayers NBA free agency is here and coverage doesn't stock with your team locked on NBA will be here for you every day of the offseason with quick hitting 30-minute recaps of all the news and rumors in the NBA make locked on NBA your second listen and stay caught up on the biggest offseason storylines and free agency signings every day available on youtube or wherever you get your podcast part of the locked on podcast network your team every day alright so the tables even though they acquired the number eight pick in the draft and took dealing hand they kept the 27 pick last week in the first round of the draft it took terence shannon jr out of illinois go back and listen to monday's show i talked to tyler back half of no ceilings nba to talk about shannon what he brings to the table and actually i'm i'm working on a conversation with locked on a line i with their host sunny uh talking about terence shannon we're going to talk about his role with minnesota we're going to also talk about what he did in college so we'll do that'll probably be early next week that will run that and so i'm not going to go through the whole skylight report on terence shannon jr but the short version is dude was a 20 point per game score at illinois a lot of it not all of it a lot of it was transition it was just being quicker more athletic and also just a volume three-point shooter like a really solid three-point shooter he had a lot of volume at illinois um and some of that was created in half court he was pretty good off the dribble um but those the volume of opportunities will not be there in the mba it's gonna they're gonna ask him to be the lower usage i should say lower usage he'll be a high usage guy when he's on the floor but he's not he's not going to be the microwave right that's rob dillingham's job to be the the the sixth man that you're all Crawford if you will score terence shannon is going to be the tenth man he's going to be in what effectively was you know i i'm trying to create these um comparisons to last year's opening night roster the tvj the troy brown jr role energy hopefully some defense knocked on threes in the open floor dunk on people in transition he might not always play early in the season some of the time he might get 10 minutes some of the time he might get two minutes some of the time he might not play if there's foul trouble jade mcdaniels maybe he plays more he plays 16 18 minutes that's possible it's going to be a wide variance of how often shannon plays in the uh in the fall at least at the start of the season he's getting plenty of run in summer league and he'll be higher usage in summer league he's getting a plenty of run in training camp in early and and uh pre-season but i think he's the tenth guy and i think he's the first guy to benefit if there's issues uh foul trouble issues with especially jade in but to a lesser extent nah or anthony edwards uh i think he's going to be the next man up i do think he's going to get the inside track on the tenth man spot because of the combination of the really the three and d stuff and how good he is in transition you can obviously handle the ball he did it a ton of ellenoy um so i like that's his role it's energy it's threes it's dunks it's transition it's defense he's gonna battle a little bit with josh might not i think for that role and depending on what the wolves need on any given night it could go back and forth and i i'm a huge josh might not fan i've been on record for years like i did a whole show last summer i think on on or most of a show on basically his rape based stats in college and the g league and just how impressive they are and in relatively small samples and if he had the opportunity to play more what could he turn into is he a a different version of say brandon clark from medvis right like that's that type of player i think he is the problem is he doesn't shoot threes well enough to be in that role and with how chris vinch wants to play i think terence shan i think the rookie has the inside track on that tenth man role if it's a bigger opponent if it's a game that's going to require more rebounding if there's bigger wings that require uh that the wolves need to guard on the perimeter josh might not might have that opportunity over terence shan jr and i'm curious to see how might not looks in summer league he had moments last summer he had one i think he had one 20 plus point game if i if i'm not mistaken in vegas last summer uh there's still upside there the question is the handle the three-point shooting in my mind he's a low usage wreak havoc on defense wreak havoc in transition start breaks the other way offensive rebounds dunks lobs opportunities from the dunker spot stuff like that i think he's a small ball for josh minut is i don't think he's a three that can guard twos like terence shan it is so i think minut is going to be on the outside looking in but have every opportunity if there's an injury god forbid if there's uh foul trouble if there's you know say shan it really struggles early on minut's got a shot and i'm excited to see him play you know summer league but especially pre-season early in the season i'd like to see him get an opportunity to a lesser extent Leonard miller he's of course a year behind minut in terms of experience he's also more of a um he's more of a really a point big if you will um better handle the josh minut better pastor than josh minut better score than josh minut but the question is is the defensive consistency there for miller i don't think it's going to be as good at least not now as minut and he's not going to give you as much on the glass he could be a very good rebounder and he has been for stretches but i think minut has a chance to be better at least on the offensive glass than Leonard miller so either one of those guys has a chance but i honestly think shannon's got the inside track on that tenth bane roll it's going to depend on what the situation calls for so it is a little bit of how you know denver laster tried to fill like three bench rolls with rookies in second year or third year guys not with proven veterans the addition of in goals and the fact they still have alexander walker and of course not as read means we're talking the ninth and tenth rolls for dillingham and then um this kind of battling out between the late first rounder second rounders from past years like Leonard miller and josh minut that's fine because of the three of those you're going to find somebody that's going to play well in a tenth bane roll you get to the playoffs they don't even need to play anyway so as long as dillingham's decent you know the your rotations at a pretty good spot um so a lot to like there with what the wolves have and that doesn't even include jailin clark we'll spend more time on him later this offseason i'll probably um well i'm we'll see what he looks like in summer league i'm excited to see him play we've not seen him play hasn't played in a game in a year and a half almost uh and not quite a year and a half a year you know 14 15 months before he tore his uh Achilles at um UCLA it was last march um excited to see him in summer league like he's got a real shot at being a rotation guy and and and i think he'll be on the outside looking in for most of the year but they're clearly looking at an alexander walker is only making four million bucks this year he's gonna they're not gonna be able to afford him a year from now and free agency he's gonna be gone they they got a steal and he was awesome last year jailin clark's gonna have to be able to play that role and then we'll talk about that another day but that that's jailin clark's gonna be 11th 12th 13th guy probably you know we'll get a chance of the g league he's on a two-way deal this year to play a lot in the g league play his way into some shape show a little bit of something offensively and he's got a real shot all right real quick uh next up summer league the wolves actually play a week from today next friday they play a summer league game at uh four p.m. central against the pelicans on esp and two we don't have the summer league roster yet we'll talk about that early next week as they go to summer league training camp or whatever they call it summer league camp um we know that a bunch of rookies are gonna play we know minot's gonna a bunch of rookies shannon and uh um and dillingham and uh i would imagine yeah they did say that um clark's gonna play miller minot all those guys are gonna be there but who else on the roster that'll be fun we'll talk about that next week so a week from now we've got summer league action we'll be able to talk about here on the show and then of course we know olympic basketball the basketball competition starts on july 27th so we're what is that like basically three weeks away um so we're still daily throughout the month of july and then in august we'll still be three times a week so we'll be talking nba olympic basketball of course anthony edwards on team usa lots of other wolves players involved in the kill examiner walker rudigo bear uh joe engulls playing for australia like there's lots of guys that are out there uh on the wolves roster playing an olympic action so we'll talk about how they're all doing and of course have a a special focus on ant and team usa as we get into august so a pack summer here on lock that wolves and believe it or not once the olympics are over i mean then we're like what three four weeks 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