NBA.com's John Schuhmann gets you ready for the 2017-18 season with a key stat for each team in the league and shows you why it matters. Today, we look at the Minnesota Timberwolves, who got a big chunk of their scoring from just two guys.

THE STAT

Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins scored 46 percent of the Minnesota Timberwolves' total points last season.



THE CONTEXT

That was the biggest percentage of a team's points that any duo in the league scored.

That Towns and Wiggins were two of 17 players (teammate Gorgui Dieng was another) to play all 82 games was a factor. But the Wolves also ranked last in the league in bench scoring at just 22.8 points per game.

The star-heavy offense worked well enough for the Wolves, who ranked in the top 10 in offensive efficiency for just the second time in the last 12 years. Scoring 1.9 more points per 100 possessions than the league average, it was Minnesota's best offensive season since their trip to the conference finals in 2004.

But with the addition of Jimmy Butler, both Towns and Wiggins will need to sacrifice touches and shots. And Wiggins will likely have the bigger adjustment.

When Towns was off the floor last season, Wiggins had a usage rate of 37.8 percent, which would have ranked second in the league. After the All-Star break, he ranked 11th in usage rate.

Wiggins will need to develop his off-the-ball game. Last season, 76 percent of his jump shots were off the dribble.

Towns should have an easier time playing off the other two. He scored 1.23 points per possession as a roll man last season, the best mark among 16 players who averaged at least three roll-man possessions per game. He took 160 more jump shots off the catch than Wiggins did.

Both former No. 1 picks need to pass more. Wiggins and Towns assisted on just 8.7 and 10.5 percent of their possessions respectively, the fourth and 10th lowest assist rates among 45 players with a usage rate of 25 percent or higher in at least 20 minutes per game.

Spacing will continue to be a issue for a team that ranked last in 3-pointers last season, and then traded the guy - Zach LaVine - who made twice as many threes per game as anybody else on the team. Wiggins and Butler were two of six guards/wings who attempted at least 1,000 shots, with less than 20 percent of them coming from 3-point range.

Sacrifices will need to be made defensively, as well. The Wolves ranked 26th in defensive efficiency last season and allowed 110.7 points per 100 possessions with Wiggins and Towns on the floor together.

Maybe if the pair doesn't have to carry such a big offensive load, they can bring more energy and effort on the other end of the floor.