The Timberwolves are one of the most inconsistent teams in the league and guard Donte DiVincenzo has tried to pinpoint his team’s issues.
The perfect example came this week when Minnesota took down defending champs Oklahoma City, then went on to win two more games against the Bucks and the Knicks.
But things took a turn when they went down to the 10-19 Nets.
DiVincenzo tried to explain why it’s hard for the Wolves to keep their “identity” of a championship level team for every game.
“I truly don’t know, like we can’t have these peaks and valleys, like it’s frustrating,” DiVincenzo said, via Wolves reporter Andrew Dukowitz. “You give them credit, no disrespect to the opponent but it’s a team we are supposed to come in and handle business, and do what we’re supposed to do… they played with more energy, but that’s the type of team that they are, but they are that. We have spurts that that’s what we can do but it’s not necessarily who we are, but that’s who we need to become. So we can’t get too low on this but we have to address it… we have to hold that, we can’t just go off against OKC then come in against Brooklyn and just get punked. So we have to look ourselves in the mirror.”
He was also asked what seems to be different for this team in correcting the “energy” problems versus other teams he has played for.
“We have it in us… what they [Brooklyn] are is a hard playing team, and if they don’t play hard you’ll see they get blown out,” he said. “We have talent up and down the roster where we can come in and win some games based off of talent and shot making. If we have that and we’re playing hard, this is a game we’re supposed to come in and handle business by 15, 20 points… we can’t just look at the season like it’s a failure but we have to address it for what it is and we have to become what we know we can, we can’t rely on talent… every night the energy has to be there, every night the competitive spirit has to be there, we can’t be up and down on a night to night basis.”
Right now, the Wolves are 20-12 and sixth seed in the East.
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