Minnesota’s versatile big man wasn’t the reason the Timberwolves were demolished by the Mavericks in the West finals. But he makes for a uniquely convenient scapegoat
The space of a seven-footer is never refined, always an inch taller than “normal”. Everyone has one guy they know, taller than any other, six-foot-something but not seven-feet tall. That’d be ridiculous.
So we put ‘em in shorts, teach the seven-footers how to shoot a basketball, and one seven-footer came out better than any other at shooting basketballs: Karl-Anthony Towns, self-assured to the point where he long ago pointed out which seven-footer shot basketballs best. It was him. Karl-Anthony Towns shot them best.