2018 NBA Playoffs: 5 head coaches who have underperformed

#2 Tom Thibodeau

Thibodeau's Wolves have vastly underperformed

To say that the Timberwolves have underperformed through 86 games played this season would be massively underselling the problems that viewers can see from the eye test. The Minnesota franchise has made it to the playoffs and is still alive after 4 games purely because of the talent they have, and not due to any coaching maneuvers made by Thibs.

In truth, Tom Thibodeau looks like a coach who would have thrived in the 90s era of basketball rather than now. He has run his starters into the ground all season long - 3 of their starters rank among the top 20 in the league for minutes played per game.

Despite acquiring adequate talent, all Thibodeau has used them as is fodder for extreme garbage time, instead of getting all his players into a rhythm and in readiness to take the floor at any point of time.

On top of that, Karl-Anthony Towns has gotten hardly any shots at all. Despite being a top-20 3-point shooter over the course of the regular season (percentage-wise), Thibodeau seems to have expressly denied him a green light from downtown, which makes zero basketball sense.

All-in-all, this is a massively messed-up situation at Minnesota as Thibs is both the coach as well as the GM for the franchise, and surprisingly it is his work as a GM that has been better despite his pedigree at the touchline.