On Wednesday evening, the Minnesota Timberwolves dropped to 2-3 with a frustrating home loss to the Los Angeles Lakers. The Timberwolves found themselves down by 20 in the second half before storming back and taking a late lead, only to have Lakers guard Austin Reaves hit a game winner on them as time expired.

The Reaves play occurred when he got a screen from a teammate, then navigated around Rudy Gobert , who bizarrely positioned himself off to the side of Reaves instead of in front of him, and then lofted in a floater over Donte DiVincenzo.

Users on X, formerly Twitter, were frustrated with the former Defensive Player of the Year, to say the least.

“Rudy Gobert is slow and old now and provides zilch offensively, and an average defense, but the smarter than everyone GM doubled

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