the to-do list

Five suggestions — or questions — that new Wolves shooting coach Mike Penberthy likely will address (or ignore):

1. Help Ricky Rubio

The Wolves never need him to be Steve Nash, but he has to improve just enough to keep opposing defenses honest. Remember Jason Kidd didn't shoot very well early on.

2. Improve three-point shooting

The NBA's best-shooting big man — yes, Kevin Love — is gone from a team that was fifth worst in the league last season in three-point field-goal percentage (.341) even with him.

3. Get Chase Budinger's body back

Shooting isn't just arms and wrists. It's the whole body and Budinger struggled last season to get his legs back under him after returning from his second knee surgery within 10 months.

4. Can you teach touch?

Center Nikola Pekovic's shot chart looks like the smallest Rorschach test, but even the highest of those high-percentage shots have seemed to fail him late in close games in recent years.

5. Leave Kevin Martin alone

Let's just say Martin's jump shot is, well, unorthodox, but he's been in the NBA 11 seasons and it goes in.