Name: How the Timberwolves are approaching the No. 1 overall pick | NBA on ESPN
Uploaded: 2020-11-21T18:25:24.000Z
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Mhm Simmons Thean NBA draft is about hope about the next big thing about an opportunity to transform the outlook of a franchise overnight.

You don't have the normal interactions in market in person visits, but the league has done a great job of making sure that there's platforms in place for us to get the information and the evaluations that we need.

The college season was cut short with conference tournaments in the N.

Teams had to transition to virtual scouting and zoom interviews to gather background on players and for the team with the number one pick, it only adds to the built in pressure of selecting at the top to get it right.

It's pushed the Wolves to rely on the full complement of a collaboratively minded front office.

Diversity of thought is something that's important to our organization and for Gerson and Gianluca, who runs a lot of our draft efforts, Uh, Sergeant Gupta, I think they appreciate the different viewpoint that we may bring to.

But we also like to use feel toe question, that data, having less data in terms of the season being cut short.

We watch every minute of those guys film, and we try to get access to as much intel and background in medical toe.

Tell people if you're ever gonna have the number one pick.

Do it in a year where you've got 67 months to repair.

This is a draft without a clear cut number.

It's perceived to be a week class Wolves take a best talent available approach.

But to add another wrinkle, they aren't looking to add a franchise player because they already have two young stars and Karl Anthony towns in D'Angelo Russell with those two guys toe start with Captain Dello are so unique in their skill sets Cats ability as a big toe play inside it out and delay his ability to play on and off the ball.

That gives us a lot of flexibility and really allows us to build this roster creatively around them way have a core in place to grow from there.

At the end of the day, we want to do what's best for the organization, whether it's four or five years down the road.

As we build an organization that can have sustainable success, it'll all be worth it.

There's always responsibility and pressure in these positions in sports, and I like to look at as a shared responsibility because credit to Gerson and his group in the front office.

They include the coaches through this process.

When you're working, it's hard to build something as special as we're doing here in Minnesota.

 You want these opportunities because the opportunity to move the organization forward. 