Minnesota Timberwolves Wikipedia. The Minnesota Timberwolves are an American professional basketball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Timberwolves compete in the National Basketball Association NBA, as a member club of the leagues Western Conference. Northwest Division. Founded in 1. Glen Taylor. The Timberwolves play their home games at Target Center, their home since 1. Like most expansion teams, the Timberwolves struggled in their early years, but after the acquisition of Kevin Garnett in the 1. NBA draft, the team qualified for the playoffs in eight consecutive seasons from 1. New posts No new posts Forum is locked Link New posts No new posts Popular You posted in this topic Announcement Sticky Locked Moved. October 7 Complete your space franchise during Iceberg Publisher weekend Greetings space Wolves As part of huge Iceberg Interactive Publisher deal, we are happy to. Price 6. 99http hIDSERP,5238. 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The Minnesota Timberwolves are an American professional basketball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Timberwolves compete in the National Basketball. Welcome to the official website for Ubisoft, creator of Assassins Creed, Just Dance, Tom Clancys video game series, Rayman, Far Cry, Watch Dogs and many others. Star Wolves 2 Deutsch Patch' title='Star Wolves 2 Deutsch Patch' />The team has been in rebuilding mode for the past decade since missing the playoffs in 2. Garnett to the Boston Celtics in 2. Garnett returned to the Timberwolves in a February 2. Franchise historyeditTeam creationeditNBA basketball returned to the Twin Cities in 1. Minneapolis Lakers departed to Los Angeles in 1. The NBA had granted one of its four new expansion teams on April 2. Orlando Magic, Charlotte Hornets, and the Miami Heat to original owners Harvey Ratner and Marv Wolfenson to begin play for the 1. There were two American Basketball Association franchises, the Minnesota Muskies, in 1. Minnesota Pipers, in 1. The franchise conducted a name the team contest1. Timberwolves and Polars, in December 1. The team then asked the 8. Minnesota to select the winner and Timberwolves prevailed by nearly 2 1. The team was officially named the Minnesota Timberwolves on January 2. Minnesota is home to the largest population of timberwolves in the lower 4. The early yearseditThe Timberwolves debuted on November 3, 1. Seattle Super. Sonics on the road 1. Catalyst 2948 G Software. Five days later, they made their home debut at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, losing to the Chicago Bulls 9. Two nights later on November 1. Wolves got their first win, beating the Philadelphia 7. The Timberwolves, led by Tony Campbell with 2. Midwest Division. Playing in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, the expansion Timberwolves set an NBA record by drawing over 1 million fans to their home games. This included a crowd of 4. April 1. 7, 1. 99. Timberwolves lose to the Denver Nuggets 9. The next season, the team moved into their permanent home, the Target Center, and improved somewhat, finishing 2. However, they fired their head coach, Bill Musselman. They fared far worse in the 1. NBA season under Musselmans successor, ex Celtics coach Jimmy Rodgers, finishing with an NBA worst 1. Looking to turn the corner, the Wolves hired former Detroit Pistons general manager Jack Mc. Closkey to the same position, but even with notable first round selections such as Christian Laettner and Isaiah Rider, the Timberwolves were unable to duplicate Mc. Closkeys Detroit Bad Boys success in the Twin Cities, finishing 1. Program Calcul Vechime Carte Munca. One of the few highlights from that era was when the Target Center served as host of the 1. All Star Game where Rider won the Slam Dunk Contest with his between the leg East Bay Funk Dunk. As winning basketball continued to elude the Wolves, Ratner and Wolfenson nearly sold the team to New Orleans interests in 1. NBA owners rejected the proposed move. Eventually, Glen Taylor bought the team and named Kevin Mc. Hale general manager. The Wolves finished 2. The Kevin Garnett eraeditKevin Garnett played for the Timberwolves from 1. In the 1. 99. 5 NBA draft, the Timberwolves selected high school standout Kevin Garnett in the first round 5th overall,2. Flip Saunders was named head coach. Christian Laettner was traded along with Sean Rooks to the Atlanta Hawks for Andrew Lang and Spud Webb. Also, first round pick Donyell Marshall was traded the previous season for Golden State Warriors forward Tom Gugliotta. These trades paved the way for rookie Kevin Garnett to become the go to player inside. Garnett went on to average 1. Wolves finished in 5th place in the Midwest Division, with a 2. In 1. 99. 6, the Wolves added another star player in the draft, trading Ray Allen to the Milwaukee Bucks for the rights to Stephon Marbury, the 4th overall pick. The addition of Marbury had a positive effect on the entire team, as Garnett and Gugliotta became the first Wolves to be selected to the All Star team. Gugliotta and Garnett led the Timberwolves in scoring as the team made the playoffs for the first time in franchise history with a record of 4. However, in the playoffs the Timberwolves made a quick exit as they were swept by the Houston Rockets in three straight games. The T Wolves also decided to change their image by changing their team logo and color scheme, adding black to the team colors and replacing the original logo with one featuring a snarling wolf looming over a field of trees. It was also during this season that Minnesota began to play on a parquet floor. In 1. 99. 7, Garnett and Marbury established themselves as two of the brightest rising stars in the NBA. Garnett averaged 1. Marbury averaged 1. Despite losing leading scorer Tom Gugliotta for half the season, the Timberwolves went on to post their first winning season at 4. After dropping Game 1 of the playoffs on the road to the Seattle Super. Sonics, the Timberwolves won their first postseason game in Game 2, winning in Seattle 9. As the series shifted to Minnesota, the Timberwolves had an opportunity to pull off the upset as they won Game 3 by a score of 9. However, the Wolves dropped Game 4 at home as the Sonics went on to win the series in five games. In 1. 99. 8, a year after signing Kevin Garnett to a six year, 1. Timberwolves were then used as the poster child of irresponsible spending as the NBA endured a four month lockout that wiped out much of the season. With an already cap heavy payroll, the Wolves let Tom Gugliotta walk, partially because the team wanted to save money in order to sign Stephon Marbury to a long term contract, and in part because Gugliotta did not want to play with the young player. This move proved unsuccessful, however, as Stephon Marbury wanted to be the biggest star on a team and subsequently forced an in season trade by refusing a contract extension. In the three team mid season deal that sent Marbury to the New Jersey Nets, the Wolves got Terrell Brandon in return and a first round draft pick in the 1. The Wolves made the playoffs for the third straight season by finishing in fourth place with a 2. In the playoffs, the Timberwolves were beaten by the eventual champion San Antonio Spurs in four games. In 1. 99. 9, the Timberwolves drafted Wally Szczerbiak with the sixth pick in the draft. He had a solid season, finishing third on the team in scoring with 1. Led by Kevin Garnett, who averaged 2. Timberwolves had their first 5. However, in the playoffs the Wolves again fell in the first round, losing to the Portland Trail Blazers in four games. The Wolves opened the 1. Sacramento Kings at the Tokyo Dome on November 6th and 7th. In the summer of 2. Malik Sealy was killed in a car accident by drunk driver Souksangouane Phengsene, who was driving the wrong way down the freeway. Sealys number has since been retired the number 2 jersey memorialized with Sealys name on a banner hanging from the rafters of Target Center. The drunk driver was convicted of vehicular homicide and sentenced to four years in prison. MWO News. Missiles. Design Notes The effectiveness of multiple, smaller LRM launchers compared to their larger counterparts is something we have been observing closely. Currently the cooler running benefits of the larger launchers is made somewhat redundant due to the naturally lower heat settings on the Weapons themselves. At this time, we want to keep the LRM 5 the most DPS efficient out of the LRM lineup, but this trait should come at the cost of more heat. This will ensure that even with mass LRM 5 launchers being used, you will eventually hit your heat cap after multiple volleys. LRM 5 Heat increased to 2. Clan LRM 5 Heat increased to 2. AMS and Clan AMSDesign Notes AMS has found itself in a particularly useful state after the release of the Skill Tree, and we feel like its baseline properties could use a bit of a boost. While we are only providing a minor increase to its Max Range, we want to provide a fairly large increase to its Optimal Range in an effort to make it more reliable against incoming SRM and S SRM fire. Optimal Range increased to 1. Max Range increased to 2. Variants from two Clan and eleven Inner Sphere chassis are receiving Quirk adjustments in this patch. On the Clan side, all variants of the Night Gyr and Marauder IIC excluding the MAD IIC 8 are receiving reductions to their Base Mobility stats in this pass. The Night Gyr is additionally losing the existing Mobility Quirks for its Center Torso Omni. Pods, but in most cases is receiving a portion of that back in the form of less potent Mobility Quirks in the Left and Right Torso Omni. Pods for certain NTG variants. On the Inner Sphere side however, the ENF 4. R, ENF 5. D, BLK 6 KNT, KGC 0. KGC 0. 00. 0, and KGC 0. B are all receiving improvements to Base Mobility stats, while an array of other IS variants are seeing mostly positive adjustment to their Quirks. Inner Sphere Quirk Changes PDFClan Quirk Changes PDFNight Gyr. When a Mech begins to perform outside the balance variance curve, we tend to keep it under tight observation to see if that behavior persists or levels out over time. While the NTG has been reported as an over performer for some time now, under close examination we found that it often swung wide in both directions. Even at high tier play, we often found that the NTG could be oppressively effective under correct positioning, but on the other end of the spectrum, could be relatively ineffective if caught out of position. Under those circumstances, we are generally fine with Mechs having a high effectiveness curve provided it does not become a constant. This same kind of behavior is still seen in Dire Wolves, for example. In the months prior to the Skill Tree, the NTG was already under tight observation, and now in the wake of the Skill Tree release the overall performance capacity of the NTG is in need of reigning in. All NTG variants have received a blanket reduction to their Base Mobility stats and the removal of CT Omni. Pod Base Torso Yaw and Torso Pitch Quirks. However, the LTRT Omni. Pods for the NTG A, NTG B, NTG C, and NTG D have received minor Yaw andor Pitch Quirks in return. Marauder IICLike the Night Gyr, the Marauder IIC had been under heavy observation for previously skewing above the curve. With its performance in the wake of the Skill Tree release, we are reigning in its Mobility. All MAD IIC variants excluding the MAD IIC 8 have received a blanket reduction to their Base Mobility stats. Urban. Mech. The Urban. Mech has seen relatively healthy improvements from the Skill Tree, but the distribution of Armor Quirks across the variants has proven a bit lopsided. In this pass weve unified the bonuses across all UM variants, and have provided a slight durability buff to the large Ballistic Arm hardpoint. 12V Relay Datasheet Pdf. UM R6. L and UM R6. Armor Bonus Quirks to match the values already present on the UM R6. Firestarter. With the changes brought on by the Skill Tree, we want to provide different niches throughout the lineup of Lights for Mechs that tend to have similar Hardpoint and mobility profiles. In the case of the Firestarter, we want it to trade a bit of the Mobility you find in Light Mechs focused more toward speed, and make it more capable of effective offensive engagements with an increase to durability. All Firestarter variants have received Structure Bonus Quirks, with equal values across all variants. Panther. As one of the more improved Mechs over the previous month, we didnt wish to adjust the Panther too much in this pass. We have however unified the Armor Bonus Quirks to also include the Legs, giving it a bit more uniformity to how it scales with the Skill Tree. Existing Structure Bonus Quirks for all Panther variants have been replaced with Armor Bonus Quirks. Enforcer. Performance wise, the Enforcer has remained in a fairly stable position over the past few months, but we find it to be often overlooked compared to many of the other Inner Sphere 5. To give it a bit more diversity in function across the line, we are going to be giving the 4. R, 5. D, and the new Hero variant a slight Mobility boost. Weve also made a number of other minor adjustments to a few other ENF variants, outlined below. ENF 4. RENF 4. R C have lost their Laser Duration Quirk and have received reductions to their Large Laser Range and Energy Range Quirks, but have received increases to their Base Mobility stats in return. ENF 5. DENF 5. D R has received an increase to its Laser Duration Quirk. ENF 5. P has received a new Energy Cooldown Quirk. Hunchback. Armor and Structure Bonuses are traits that weve been keeping a close eye on in the wake of the Skill Tree release. We do not wish to disrupt the overall way that Armor and Structure Bonuses are handed out at this time, but we do wish to address the outliers as they crop up. For this pass we will only be touching the Hunchback 4. SP and the Battle. Master BLR 2. C with a modest reduction of their native Structure Quirks the intent here is for these Quirks to not overly compound upon the Skill Tree benefits to the extent that they have up to this point. HBK 4. SP has received a reduction to its existing Structure Bonus Quirks. Grasshopper. Like the Wolfhound and the Crab, the Grasshopper has seen a modest increase in its effectiveness in the wake of the Skill Tree release. However, this increase has been disproportionate depending on which variant youre taking into the field. In this pass weve adjusted a handful of GHR Quirks to bring a bit more balance to the Force to the various Grasshopper variants. GHR 5. HGHR 5. H C and GHR 5. JGHR 5. J R variants have received new 1. Missile Cooldown Quirks. GHR 5. N has received a new 1. PPC Velocity Quirk. GHR 5. JGHR 5. J R have received new CTRTLT Armor Bonus Quirks, but have lost their CT Structure Bonus Quirk. GHR 5. P has received a minor increase to its LLRL Structure Bonus Quirks, a reduction to its CT Structure Bonus Quirk, and the removal of its LTRTLARA Structure Bonus Quirks. Black Knight. The Skill Tree has had a fairly positive impact on the Black Knight, and we feel this will only improve more with the Energy Weapon changes. With fairly minor differences across the BL variants however, we wanted to rework some of the Quirk arrangements to better distinguish each variant. BL 6 KNTBL 6 KNT R and BL 6. B KNT have received new Sensor Range Quirks.