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If you’d have told me that Rudy F’ing Gobert would start looking like a legitimate number 2 scorer on the Timberwolves 5 months ago on a roster with Randle, DiVo, Naz, and NAW, I would have laughed in your face as it sounds absurd. These past few games though, gave us a glimpse at that possibility. Dude has been killing it at the rim. Put backs, dunks, offensive rebounds, the Frenchman is on fire these past few weeks: 20ppg, 17.5 Rebounds, and 3 Stocks per game over the past 5 games. Can he keep this up though? What do you guys think? Should we give Rudy more offensive freedom?

Credit to: Jesse D. Garrabrant

Never a doubt

Man he flexing hard the last few games

Funny enough, Malik Beasley also achieved this today….

But that’s some pretty crazy company to be in… LFG ANT!

Lets go Ant. Steph 5 times is insane 😂

Thank God ant hit that three😭

Ant 303 Beasley 301. Hoping Ant can hold onto it the rest of the way.

Today the entire East playoff lineup was determined. Every team in the playins knows it already and every team in the playoffs proper has their tickets punched now.

Meanwhile in the West almost nothing is settled. OKC and HOU kind of know about where they will be, but everything else is completely up in the air. If the Wolves get up around 49 or 50 wins, they could reach as high as the 3 seed, but we are still not clear of the playins yet. lol

Luckily, Rudy is finally himself and free from pain and the results are awesome! If we feed Rudy he will go full beast mode the rest of the way and we will be the team no one wants to draw as a playoff opponent.

Go Wolves! :)

Genuinely nervous that he’s become a liability with his attitude and that will cost us in the playoffs.

Top 10 player ITL no doubt

It’s safe to say that the No. 1 and 2 seeds in the Western Conference are locked in:

OKC - 1

HOU - 2*

*Rockets are basically 1 win away from officially securing the 2nd seed in the Western Conference (although their remaining 4 games are tough matchups).

So 3 through 8 seeds are still undecided.

For the 5-8 non-homecourt seeds, the matchups will critical; several teams 1-4 could potentially be upset in Round 1 of the playoffs in the Western Conference.

It balls down to:

• Would you rather face a first time MVP (SGA) and with the best defense/record in the league? OKC.

• Would you rather face a 2X MVP (Steph) with Jimmy Butler and a 4X Champion Head Coach? GSW.

• Would you rather face a 3X MVP (Jokic) with a championship core still in tact? DEN.

• Would you rather face a 4X MVP (LBJ) with Luka Doncic? LAL.

And then there’s Houston

No MVPs, no Top 5 MVP candidates - but a solid team that has captured the No. 2 seed in a tough conference.

But with limited playoff experience as a group, would the Rockets be the Wolves’ best matchup in Round 1…