Thanks in large part to a broken right shooting hand that limited All-NBA power forward Kevin Love to just 18 games, the Minnesota Timberwolves finished the 2012-13 NBA season ranked 25th among 30 NBA teams in offensive efficiency. Rick Adelman's team barely cracked one point scored per possession on the season, according to NBA.com's stat tool, with much of the offensive ineptitude stemming from Minnesota's status as a gang that couldn't shoot straight. The Wolves were a woeful shooting team, making just 30.5 percent of their 3-pointers on the season, which was the worst mark in the NBA by a sizable amount. Not a single Wolf made 35 percent of his long balls last year, which is pretty rough, considering the league average for 3-point accuracy was 36 percent . Defenses unafraid of heavy-minutes loggers like Luke Ridnour, Ricky Rubio, Alexey Shved, Derrick Williams and J.J. Barea focused on slowing the Wolves' pick-and-roll combinations with burly center Nikola Pekovic, disrupting Pek's post touches and cutting off driving lanes to keep Minny's drivers ( never forget ) away from the restricted area, the only place they really did damage. So, yes, the Timberwolves entered this offseason needing shooting, and set about getting it Tuesday by agreeing to a pair of free-agent contracts reported by Yahoo! Sports NBA columnist Adrian Wojnarowski — a four-year, $28 million deal to import former Oklahoma City Thunder sixth man Kevin Martin and a three-year, $16 million deal to bring back swingman Chase Budinger, who was traded to Minnesota last offseason but was limited to just 23 games after tearing the meniscus in his left knee . The 30-year-old Martin is a career 38.5 percent 3-point shooter who hit a career-high 42.6 percent from deep for the Thunder last season; the 25-year-old Budinger's a tick below 36 percent in four NBA seasons, but was coming off a 40.2 percent mark in his final season with the Houston Rockets before suffering through injury last season, and is expected to be ready to go come preseason.
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