Minnesota Timberwolves: Top 10 moments of the 2018-19 NBA season

BROOKLYN, NY - NOVEMBER 23: Derrick Rose #25 of the Minnesota Timberwolves looks on during the game against the Brooklyn Nets on November 23, 2018 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2018 NBAE (Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images) /

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5. KAT posts 35 and 23, singlehandedly beating the Bulls

Those first few weeks with Covington and Saric were gloriously upbeat, but that doesn’t mean the new guys were constantly lighting up the scoreboard. In the Nov. 24 game against the Chicago Bulls, nothing was going right for the any Timberwolves’ starters other than Karl-Anthony Towns.

Wiggins and Covington set out to build a brick house, combining to shoot 1-of-30 (that is not a misprint). You’d be hard-pressed to think any team could withstand such an atrocious shooting night from its second and third options on offense, but Karl-Anthony Towns was on a mission to prove his value after starting the season slow. He went out and did this:

Karl-Anthony Towns stuffs the stat sheet with 35 PTS, 22 REB, 6 AST in the @Timberwolves home win! #AllEyesNorth pic.twitter.com/WSyQy9WBJY
— NBA (@NBA) November 25, 2018

Supported by Dario Saric’s 19 and Derrick Rose’s 22 points, KAT carried the Wolves to victory, making both rookie Wendell Carter Jr. and veteran Robin Lopez look downright incapable at times.

The night was a definitive statement that KAT’s numbers are not merely empty stats, but a display in true dominance that very few big men in the NBA can pull off.

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