After an 0-2 start, Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Tom Thibodeau has noticed that his team lacks toughness in many aspects of the game.

The Wolves suffered close losses against the Memphis Grizzlies (102-98) and most recently against the Sacramento Kings (106-103) on Saturday — teams that were beatable, but Minnesota fell apart during fourth quarters.

When asked what sort of toughness his team lacks, Thibodeau didn't pull any punches.

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“Everything: mental toughness, physical toughness, emotional toughness, all aspects of it,” he told reporters, according to Jerry Zgoda of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “Every team has two or three primary scorers, and they're going to put pressure on you and you have to respond. It's not any one person's responsibility. It's the entire team's. We have to get tied together and have discipline.”

While all of it is true, the new coach has to be careful with his words as a young team is not likely to take this type of criticism as well as a veteran squad. If he has these types of things to say very often, it won't take long to ruffle some feathers among the team's young core.

If Thibodeau gets them to embrace his tough love attitude and soak in constructive criticism, the team can only go up from here.

“We got to look at the film to see what the issues were,” he said. “We've got to be tougher.”