This is the story of how these new Timberwolves avoided becoming the same old Wolves starts with that team meeting, when the most experienced player on the roster grabbed a bunch of pups by the scruff of their necks and started the process of letting them know that things were changing around here. “Guys looked around, and we were kind of uncomfortable at first,” Jaylen Nowell said. “We never really had that type of situation, that type of vet that did that.”