The Wolves embrace the role of underdogs.

No one picked the Timberwolves to beat the Lakers in the playoffs, but they did. They gained some much needed respect moving into the second round of the playoffs.

Rudy Gobert had this to say: “We have a lot of guys that are underdogs. They’ve been underappreciated in their careers. I’m thinking guys like Julius, for example, Mike Conley, obviously Ant is a young superstar that still has a lot to prove, but we have a bunch of guys that have never had anything handed to them.”

Gobert has been constantly criticized, even in times like last season when he was the anchor for Minnesota’s top-ranked defense, won his fourth Defensive Player of the Year Award and helped the Wolves reach the Western Conference finals. He was asked about Julius Randle: “We want to see each other win. I was saying to Julius after the game, ‘You’ve gotten a lot of disrespect your whole career, and so do I.’ So it’s a good opportunity for us to write our own narrative, and winning does that.”

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