If there's someone on the Timberwolves roster who knows how a team can overcome the loss of one of its stars for an extended length of time, it's Kyle Anderson.
Last season, Anderson was on the Grizzlies, Wednesday's visitors to Target Center, and Memphis had to weather 25 games without Ja Morant. The Grizzlies went 20-5 in those games.
The Wolves may face a similar number of games without Karl-Anthony Towns for several weeks, according to the team, because of a right calf strain. Towns was in the locker room before Wednesday's game with crutches and a walking boot.
"Any time any one of us goes down, it's tough. We're going to miss him," Anderson said after Wednesday's shootaround. "He's obviously a big part of what we do. That's the NBA. Things happen. We're going to have to keep pushing, try to figure out a way to get some wins."
Anderson said the key for the Wolves is not to think about who is and isn't available to play, and just go out and play.
"Finding a way to stay together. It's very easy to not stay together in a game or throughout a season when things go hard," Anderson said. "But the more you can communicate it and actually go out and perform staying together, I don't want to say it'll make it easier, but it should give us a little bit of help."
Anderson could be in line for a bigger role with Towns out. He was in the starting lineup at power forward Wednesday, but coach Chris Finch said the starting lineup could change game by game as the Wolves figure out how to navigate.
"I would approach the game the same way if I'm playing, and whoever is out there, we roll with and we have confidence in," Anderson said. "That was the case last year. That's been the case my whole career. So we're obviously going to miss Karl, but I don't really play into too much who's not playing. It's just whoever is out there with us, be ready to go and let's try to get the job done."
