Anthony Edwards spoke for a lot of fans — and a lot of his teammates — when it came to seeing Rudy Gobert and Karl-Anthony Towns play together for the first time before Friday's 112-102 Timberwolves preseason loss to the Nets at Target Center.
"Just like anybody else, we haven't seen it, the players ourselves," Edwards said. "I think it's pretty exciting."
But the twin towers' debut wasn't exactly exhilarating from the start and underscored that the Wolves will likely be a work in progress as they get used to playing with each other and their teammates adjust to playing with them.
"It really felt it would be clunky like that," coach Chris Finch said. "I told the guys the best thing about that game is that we got a lot on film. We can look at it, and go to work with a purpose."
The Wolves didn't score for the first 3 minutes, 15 seconds of the game as everybody tried to get on the same page. Gobert finished with 16 points and eight rebounds
"I thought it was good at times, bad at times, but that's the fun of it," Gobert said.
Towns had 15 points, eight rebounds.
Kevin Durant had 20 points for Brooklyn while Kyrie Irving had 26.