With the NBA Draft upon us and free agency and summer league just down the road, it’s important to reflect back on the Minnesota Timberwolves’ season and how each position fared during the season and playoffs now that there is some space from the emotional exit against San Antonio.
Over the next couple weeks, every position will be covered here at Hitting the Hardwood, but the most complicated position will be the first to talk about. The point guard position is tough to nail down for the Wolves.
Donte DiVincenzo was the point guard according to the depth chart for a large swath of the season. However, he rarely did point guard things, often just bringing the ball up and starting the initial action or first pass.
Julius Randle — now former Wolves player Julius Randle — was more of the engine of the offense, and made more of the point guard-like reads. But at 6-foot-9, he rarely brought the ball up and rarely guarded opposing guards.
Ayo Dosunmu was a late arrival, but it’s hard to call him the point guard of the team — at least during the regular season.
Anthony Edwards had the ball in his hands more than any other Wolves player, but clearly was more of the shooting guard than the lead point guard.
Arguably, Kyle Anderson could be qualified as a point guard in the 2025-26 season due to how much he brought the ball up and started actions.
The System
With so much confusion around the position, for this piece, we’re going to rely on what NBA 2K has listed as the Wolves point guards. And for the grades themselves, the prototypical ABC grades won’t be weird enough for the 2025-26 Wolves — therefore we will be grading them based off of obscure 2000s TV references.
The Point Guards
Donte DiVincenzo
Starting with a controversial point guard, NBA 2K did list DiVincenzo as the top point guard on the Wolves roster. Therefore, we will grade him as such. DiVincenzo did hold his own in 2025-26 as a playmaker, finishing with a career high 4.1 assists and 1.4 turnovers. Combined, it resulted in a career best 2.7 assist-to-turnover ratio while posting the second-lowest turnover ratio of his career at 9.0. All of this while recording a 56.7% true shooting percentage and connecting on 37.9% of his three-point attempts.
DiVincenzo’s +4.6 plus/minus per game was the second-best of his career, and although he was not in charge of every play and action on offense, he performed well enough to warrant starting all 82 games. On the defensive side, he guarded opposing guards 69.4% of the time and held them to just 44.1% shooting with a 32.9% mark from three, also forcing opposing guards to turn the ball over 73 times over the season.
Statistically, it’s hard to argue that 2025-26 was one of the best seasons of DiVincenzo’s career. This despite suffering a broken nose, biting through his lip at one point and playing out of his natural position. As a point guard though, DiVincenzo did have flaws in his game. His shot creation for himself was limited due to his inability to create space, and although he was arguably the most unselfish player in the starting lineup, he was lacking some of the floor reading skills that true point guards have naturally.
DiVincenzo’s Grade
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Mike Conley
The savvy vet is next on the list, and was the most point guardy, guard on the Wolves roster, especially come playoff time while leading the team in plus/minus in the post season. In the regular season, Conley struggled with his shot considerably, shooting a career-low 33.5% from the field, which did improve to 50% in the playoffs. His 4.6 assist-to-turnover ratio was a career high, which highlighted his best value: steadiness. Simply put, Conley just didn’t make mistakes and was a calming force for the Wolves on offense.
Defensively, he struggled throughout the regular season, allowing opposing guards to hit on 43.7% of their three-point attempts and shoot 46.9% from the field. That did improve drastically in the playoffs, with Conley giving up just three threes in his 168 minutes.
This is where the hard truth of Conley in 2025-26 must be talked about. At the age of 38, he was able to play at a borderline All-Star level in the playoffs when he was able to rest or had his minutes limited. When he wasn’t rested in the regular season, his production dropped off a cliff and he looked ineffective in every area except passing and calming the team.
Conley’s Grade
Scruffy’s Futurama quote “My job, toilets n’ burners, burners n’ toilets. Plus that one burning toilet, fire me if’n you dare” — Conley’s job was keeping the team together and making good decisions. The Wolves traded him, felt the pain from doing so, then wouldn’t dare taking him out of the playoffs
Bones Hyland
This season was a resurgence for Hyland. On average, he played the most per game since 2022-23, he shot a career-best 45.3% from the field and hit on 38.8% of his threes. He fell into the role of energy bringer for the Wolves and, whether it was his positivity or his connection with the fans, he brought the energy constantly.
His 2.7 assist-to-turnover ratio was solid for a backup, and he did post the second-best offensive rating of his career. However, for Hyland, the mistakes were loud when he made them. The missed threes felt crushing at times, some of his turnovers completely broke the flow of the offense, and defensely, Hyland struggled to match up with larger players. All this led to Hyland falling out of the playoff rotation for the most part and the season being more of a bridge season to hopefully more time and production in 2026-27.
Hyland’s Grade
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Zyon Pullin
Admittedly, it’s hard to grade a two-way player that played the vast majority of his minutes in the G League. While he did stand out enough in the G League to earn the contract thanks to his dominant scoring ability, Pullin didn’t earn much time in the NBA outside of developmental time at the end of games.
Still, he did show to have a good handle on the ball and a quickness that allowed him to get to the rim fairly easily. Defensively against other backups, he did hold his own. But again, it’s hard to fully judge how he performed off of sporadic minutes against backups.
Pullin’s Grade
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All in all, the Wolves’ point guards did enough to at least hold over the team and win a playoff round, but it also made clear that changes need to be made and a more established true point guard should be brought in.
With Conley’s age, Divinvenzo’s Achilles and Hyland’s style of play, the point guard spot will be the most watched position of the Wolves’ offseason.