Bones Hyland had a breakout game in the Minnesota Timberwolves' win over the Golden State Warriors on Monday with a 17 point performance, his third-highest in a game this season, along with seven rebounds and five assists. 

With Anthony Edwards unexpectedly out, Hyland ended up being called on heavily from the bench as a major piece of the offense and his 17 points were the second-highest on the team behind Julius Randle in what turned out to be a well-rounded team win with five different Timberwolves scoring 14 points or more. 

"[It's] huge. Obviously the production which was great, the pop that he played with, but I liked his defense too," Timberwolves head coach Chris Finch said (via Timberwolves). "We've got to have those performances on a nightly basis."

Hyland is settling into his role with the Timberwolves in what is his first real season with the team after playing just four games for Minnesota last season.

While he hasn't been the high impact bench scorer that he's shown he can be in his early seasons in the NBA quite yet for the Timberwolves, performances like Monday night's show flashes of the `potential he has to be yet another weapon at Minnesota's disposal in the team's high-powered offense.

The Timberwolves would love to have more performances like that from Hyland in the future Finch believes that the key for Hyland to chain together more impact games is just to maintain a level of aggression in his game from night to night. 

Hyland has the potential to play with a high pace and impact the game in a variety of ways and shoot from a variety of places, both on the perimeter and finishing inside the paint. Finch identified that kind of pace-setting as a need for the Timberwolves offense. 

While the team is impressive as is as one of the top scoring teams in the NBA, adding more variety in the way they can score and having even more players who can make an impact is never a bad thing. Hyland's presence, especially on a night without Anthony Edwards, reinforces the idea that the Timberwolves aren't a one note team and that there isn't just one way to contain the team.

Monday night was impressive from Hyland not only from a scoring perspective, but from the way that he defended as well. His ability to control the game from both ends of the court is another way that he presents a variety of benefits to the roster and makes the Timberwolves a hard team to game plan against. 

Consistency is what's needed most from Hyland at this point and it remains to be seen how many high-impact games he can deliver on a game-by-game basis, though the more he shows the player he can be, the better off Minnesota will be as well.