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The Minnesota Timberwolves starting small forward and starting power forward eliminated both Trey Murphy (10 points) & Zion Williamson(13 points) from a basketball game and people wonder why they have the #1 rated defense in the league. Maybe because their new starting power forward can guard Zion Williamson and erase him from a game 1 night, guard Amen Thompson and erase him from a game another night, and then guard Scottie Barnes and hold him scoreless on another night. Maybe with the new starting power forward doing that, it's given the Wolves a nasty dimension that they've never had next to their 2 other defensive aces in McDaniels and Gobert. Maybe the previous guys in Julius Randle & Naz Reid didn't have that type of defensive ability to give McDaniels a breather in guarding the point of attack & other wing defenders while also dealing with opposing power forwards. I don't know, maybe that's just me, @ZachLowe_NBA. People just can't state the obvious can they? Atlanta all of the sudden became a hell of defensive team the moment Kuminga suited up for them and we all wondered what the difference was in their team defense. I'll never forget @BTRowland went on Nate Duncans podcast after the season and when asked about the Hawks defensive improvement he eventually called Kuminga a fake defender and that's not what he really wants to do. That's the type of bad PR JK has dealt with & continues to deal with. People with press passes couldnt even answer basketball questions and state the obvious. The Wolves added 2 newcomers to their starting lineup. LaMelo Ball & Jonathan Kuminga. Why don't you take a wild guess in who's responsible for their defense catapulting to #1 this season. It's very easy to say LaMelo has juiced their offense which everyone has no problem in giving him his deserved flowers for, but we can't say shit about the other newcomer to the starting lineup who has clearly juiced their defense can we? Nah we are just going to go on and do Wolves segments & pretend like he isn't part of what's going on in Minnesota. Zach Lowe did a segment on the Wolves twice over the past several days & Lowe mentioned everyone but Kuminga. Said he had notes from the Rockets game & mentioned everyone on the Wolves & I mean even Bones Hyland and Jaylen Clark got some words. You can't discuss that Houston game or that Pelican game without mentioning #24. Just very weird. I had to listen to @HPbasketball go on @DaneMooreNBA's podcast saying Steve Kerr and Quin Snyder giving up on Kuminga should tell people something. First off, Jonathan Kuminga is doing the exact same shit in Minnesota that h did in Atlanta. The very same shit. Only that he's in a starting role and playing more minutes. JK wanted to start and made that clear to Atlanta this off-season and they decided to move on. He didn't flame out in Atlanta. He made them better, just like he made the Wolves better. Quin Snyder didn't pull JK from the lineup and give him DNPs, @HPbasketball. People saw that Hawks defense improve and hawks playoff seed improve with Kuminga and people just wanna pretend JK had NOTHING to do with it. Yea ok.. Everybody can get better except for Kuminga. Podz can grow and take a leap, McDaniels can get better, Ayo can show more in Minnesota that he ever showed in Chicago and get better, and every other young player can grow and get better except for Kuminga. See with Kuminga its that he's just now deciding to play like an all NBA defender and make pull up 3s because nobody wanted him and he's been humbled into this. It isn't because he grew defensively in Atlanta and carried it forward. It isn't because playing with LaMelo Ball is different and easier than playing in the system he used to play in. It's that type of thinking that allowed the Wolves to get a 25 million dollar player for 6 million.