Dane Moore: Rudy Gobert stated he labored on hook pictures, floaters and ending by contact this offseason. I requested concerning the 3 ball; he stated “that’s simply icing on the cake” -via Twitter @DaneMooreNBA / September 28, 2023

Jon Krawczynski: Gobert: “The aim is to be a prime defensive staff on this league and construct from there.” -via Twitter @JonKrawczynski / September 28, 2023

In Yr 2 of Cities and Rudy Gobert paired within the frontcourt. Tim Connelly: We don’t have an excessive amount of video, however now we have sufficient video to know the place we had been flawed and the place we had been proper and form of drill down on these issues that had been working and say possibly we had been flawed with that is how issues probably may work. So I simply suppose collectively, figuring out all of the actors goes to make issues a complete lot simpler. -via The Athletic / September 23, 2023

Clutch Factors: “I’m simply rising up. You possibly can’t do it with out the staff. It takes 15 guys to win a championship, it takes 5 guys on the courtroom to provide and win.” Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards on prioritizing “we” over “me” 💯 (by way of @NBA) pic.twitter.com/ykHmqjFedK -via Twitter @ClutchPointsApp / October 4, 2023

Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards drew excessive reward from Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr throughout their time collectively for Crew USA on the FIBA World Cup this summer time, however Edwards revealed Thursday afternoon that wasn’t at all times the case. Edwards recalled assembly Kerr for his exercise main as much as the 2020 NBA draft — the place the Timberwolves made him the No. 1 general choice — and being advised by Kerr in the course of the exercise that he “wasn’t working laborious sufficient.” “I assumed I used to be working laborious,” Edwards stated at Timberwolves media day on Thursday. “When he got here, I used to be going by drills and he saved stopping them, like, ‘That’s all you bought? That’s all you bought?’ And I’m like, ‘Bruh, I’m going laborious as you need me to go. What you need me to do? I’m sweating loopy.’” -via ESPN / September 29, 2023

“He’s like, ‘Man, you’ve obtained to see Steph [Curry], KD and Klay [Thompson] work out,” Edwards stated. “They nonetheless was constantly telling me, ‘You didn’t work laborious sufficient. If we had the No. 1 decide, we wouldn’t take you.’ And I used to be identical to, ‘Rattling, that’s loopy.’” Though Edwards remembered being shocked by his work ethic being questioned, he additionally realized Kerr was proper. “Me and my coach using dwelling after dinner and we’re simply speaking like we obtained to choose it up,” Edwards stated. “I don’t know the way, I don’t know what we obtained to do, however we obtained to choose it up. After that. I turned a madman on the fitness center.” -via ESPN / September 29, 2023