The Timberwolves "Immaturity" Narrative is Overplayed at this point

But let's get started in this question because I think we need to separate this in a lot of categories, okay? So I think what comes with if this team is mature enough to win a championship, I think that connects to does this team have the natural chemistry that can translate at a championship level? And thing number one that we can talk about with this roster on that question is alignment.

And at this point of training camp, The alignment seems immaculate, absolutely immaculate.

Anthony Edwards and Lomelo Ball, the two stars of the team, they seem to have as much chemistry on a personal level as anybody I can remember on this Timberwolves team this early.

I was watching parts of the Michael Grady interview with Ant and Lomelo, and my first thought was, we all deserve somebody who looks at us the way Anthony Edwards looks at Lomelo Ball.

They're both clearly thrilled.

There's people talk about if Anthony Edwards feels a certain way about the team this offseason.

Anthony Edwards talked about like, man, no, no, no, no, no.

I am thrilled to be here.

And I was super happy about the offseason, even though he was sad about losing Nas Reed.

And interestingly, didn't mention Julius Randle in that conversation.

But also guys like Io DeSumo, this is home.

Jaden, clearly happy.

Rudy Gobert, clearly happy.

This is a happy locker room at this point.

And at training camp, this is what you want.

You want guys who clearly like each other on a personal level, who are willing to work with each other and just build that type of culture.

I think this team has a seriousness about building a culture that we haven't seen before.

I think this is different.

I really do.

And people talk about the Paris trip, but I think there's merit to that.

I think these guys really vibe with each other.

And I think that gives Minnesota a big thumbs up.

in terms of just natural personal chemistry, which does translate on the basketball court.

You want your guys to like each other at a certain level and be able to work with each other to really contend and go through the peaks and valleys of what is an NBA regular season.

So I do think that is a big point.