KAT made his first All-Star team under Thibs, and the Wolves ended a 13-year playoff drought when they qualified as the eighth seed in 2017. But a partnership between one of the league’s best tacticians and most promising young talents never got off the ground. Thibodeau’s acquisition of Jimmy Butler did help the team end that interminable playoff-less streak, but it proved to be the team’s undoing in the end. Butler clashed with Towns and the young Wolves, doing everything he could to publicly embarrass them to force a trade out of town.
Towns and Thibodeau have polar opposite personalities, so the fit was not a natural one. But they found a way to coexist throughout the early portion of their union before the messy Butler divorce upended everything.
Thibodeau was all business, preaching toughness and discipline. He is not one for pleasantries and his routine use of the phrase “this isn’t college” in postgame news conferences when he coached in Minnesota was viewed as a direct message to Towns, who would often reference his time at Kentucky when discussing what he thought was missing with the Timberwolves.
Towns was a young player learning a man’s league. Thibodeau was an accomplished coach with little room for error. The clashes were frequent, particularly toward the end when Thibodeau, who doubled as the Wolves president of basketball operations, did not crack down on Butler’s disruptive behavior. Thibodeau was fired a few months after Butler was traded, replaced by Ryan Saunders, who had a much closer connection to Towns.
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买进阿酸虽然帮助球队脱离乐透的命运却给球队埋下了一颗雷。阿酸想尽办法让唐斯跟球队难堪好逼迫球队出售自己。虽然阿锡根唐斯的性格截然相反、但在阿酸作妖前、他们还是在初期找到了共存的办法。阿锡是个工作狂,一心扑在工作上、强调纪律跟强硬、他在狼期间最喜欢强调这不是在大学了、被认为是在影射唐斯。因为后者在讨论球队缺乏什么时很爱提及在大学的时光。唐斯是个菜鸟他在学习、而阿锡的容错率很低、冲突频频发生。但压倒两人的最后一根稻草还是阿酸作妖、身为球队运营总裁的阿锡没有制止。
KAT made his first All-Star team under Thibs, and the Wolves ended a 13-year playoff drought when they qualified as the eighth seed in 2017. But a partnership between one of the league’s best tacticians and most promising young talents never got off the ground. Thibodeau’s acquisition of Jimmy Butler did help the team end that interminable playoff-less streak, but it proved to be the team’s undoing in the end. Butler clashed with Towns and the young Wolves, doing everything he could to publicly embarrass them to force a trade out of town.
Towns and Thibodeau have polar opposite personalities, so the fit was not a natural one. But they found a way to coexist throughout the early portion of their union before the messy Butler divorce upended everything.
Thibodeau was all business, preaching toughness and discipline. He is not one for pleasantries and his routine use of the phrase “this isn’t college” in postgame news conferences when he coached in Minnesota was viewed as a direct message to Towns, who would often reference his time at Kentucky when discussing what he thought was missing with the Timberwolves.
Towns was a young player learning a man’s league. Thibodeau was an accomplished coach with little room for error. The clashes were frequent, particularly toward the end when Thibodeau, who doubled as the Wolves president of basketball operations, did not crack down on Butler’s disruptive behavior. Thibodeau was fired a few months after Butler was traded, replaced by Ryan Saunders, who had a much closer connection to Towns.
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买进阿酸虽然帮助球队脱离乐透的命运却给球队埋下了一颗雷。阿酸想尽办法让唐斯跟球队难堪好逼迫球队出售自己。虽然阿锡根唐斯的性格截然相反、但在阿酸作妖前、他们还是在初期找到了共存的办法。阿锡是个工作狂,一心扑在工作上、强调纪律跟强硬、他在狼期间最喜欢强调这不是在大学了、被认为是在影射唐斯。因为后者在讨论球队缺乏什么时很爱提及在大学的时光。唐斯是个菜鸟他在学习、而阿锡的容错率很低、冲突频频发生。但压倒两人的最后一根稻草还是阿酸作妖、身为球队运营总裁的阿锡没有制止。