LAS VEGAS — Minnesota Timberwolves general manager Matt Lloyd was breaking down the team’s two-day performance in the draft last month when a question was lobbed at him about second-year big man Joan Beringer.“Oh boy,” Lloyd said, his voice getting noticeably buoyant. “Here we go.”Beringer played sparingly as a rookie last season, with the Timberwolves bringing him along gradually behind a star-studded frontcourt rotation. But the whispers of his athletic feats in practices during the season and in workouts this summer have grown louder and louder, and Lloyd offered up a specific memory to illustrate how excited the team is about Beringer’s future.“I think one of my favorite moments thus far of the offseason is we had a pickup game about a week ago and he got a defensive rebound,” Lloyd said. “He dribbled the length of the floor, changed the direction of his dribble twice and finished over the top of another player.”The next stop for LeBron should be...David Aldridge, Joe Vardon and moreThat potential is one of several reasons Wolves president of basketball operations Tim Connelly made two seismic moves this offseason: trading Julius Randle to Brooklyn and sending Naz Reid to Charlotte for LaMelo Ball. The deals removed all the barriers for entry to the rotation for Beringer, who is currently penciled in as the backup to Rudy Gobert at center.Beringer played in 40 games as a rookie, the vast majority of them in garbage-time situations. There were very few minutes available on a team that had Gobert, Randle and Reid soaking up all of the frontcourt playing time.When he did get extended minutes, there were some promising signs. He had 13 points and five rebounds in 30 minutes against Milwaukee in January and had 24 points, 13 rebounds and seven blocks in the regular-season finale against New Orleans.“I think he’s going to make a huge impact defensively,” Connelly said. “He doesn’t make mistakes offensively. He’s exactly the type of work-ethic, self-motivated, tough player we’re looking for, and I think he has a physical profile that only a handful of the guys in the league have.”There will be anywhere from 15-25 minutes available for Beringer on a nightly basis. Whether he is completely ready for that responsibility or not, he is going to get it starting in October. The Wolves are giving him some minutes at power forward in the NBA Summer League to test his versatility and give them a glimpse of what he could one day become.