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Group report: 17-65, 20.7% win proportion
The winner of Most Improved Participant in 2010-11, future Corridor-of-Famer Kevin Love had his breakout season in his third NBA marketing campaign, averaging 20.2 factors, a league-leading 15.2 rebounds and a couple of.5 assists whereas capturing 41.7 p.c from three.
Sadly for Minnesota Timberwolves followers, Love’s extremely spectacular marketing campaign, one through which he additionally earned All-Star honors, wasn’t sufficient for the staff to be any good that yr, because the staff went 17-65 for a 20.7 p.c win fee, which finally led to then-head coach Kurt Rambis getting fired.
After all, Rambis wasn’t precisely arrange for fulfillment, because the second-leading scorer on the Wolves that season was Michael Beasley and the third was Luke Ridnour with the staff nonetheless slowly recovering from the departure of staff legend Kevin Garnett in 2007-08. A slew of yearly draft night time errors by then-head shot-caller David Kahn didn’t assist issues, both.
For a glimpse into how unhealthy the Wolves have been in 2010-11, Love was the one participant on the staff with a constructive field plus/minus on the season. Ridnour and Anthony Tolliver have been +0.0s and everybody else on the roster was a unfavorable.
Love really ranked thirteenth league-wide in BPM that yr, in addition to thirteenth in VORP and High 10 in Win Shares, making it nearly spectacular that Minnesota was as unhealthy because it was regardless of having an All-NBA-level large man main the best way.
