Comments on: Uff-da: Bulls beat Wolves 85-75 in forgettable Target Center debut

By: doug

doug — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:52:09 +0000

Wrong-O, Slam-Man! It did happen over night. It took Love a mere 24 hours to show everyone what an idiot Reusse is…

By: SLAM-MAN

SLAM-MAN — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:34:45 +0000

Love will be a great basketball player in the NBA. It doesn’t happen overnight. The trade for Miller and Love will improve this team.

By: BC Beneke

BC Beneke — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:35:27 +0000

I think that the wolves would be best to cut ties with Cardinal (buy him out), and to keep Ollie and let Ahearn go. I like the idea of the kid, but Ollie is a calming vet that understands his minutes, and will be best suited to mentor the boys, and bring stability to the PG position in the off case that he is needed for more than 5 minutes a night… oh wait, he’s the only real PG on the team. Of the other three… Foye is an inconsistant passer who looks like stocton one night, and Al Jefferson another night with his assists. Telfair can’t shoot, and Ahearn has no experience.

The big question for this team is can they play defense? Will the team be able to play against FAST teams, or against teams with more than Marginal talent?

With Randy Wittless as a coach, and Kevin McFailure in the front office my guess… as much as I love the wolves… HELL NO! Another season in the top 5 next year in the draft!

Here’s to hoping we can draft an NBA quality center next year because no quality free agent will ever come here with McChump running the team into the ground!!!

By: blue

blue — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:34:17 +0000

Bryan: Hilarious, Love and Miller are smart and will evolve, while McCants, and Foye are in funkland with low basketball IQ? Why not just come out and say you’d like an all-white team? Jeez. Things are going exactly to plan, folks. The Wolves will win 27 games and get into the lottery, hopefully, because neither Love nor Brewer will be enough to get Al Jefferson serious playoff action. (Or any playoffs at all.) Another year where you have to root for the home team to finish dead last and get one of the top three picks, one their egghead GM might actually keep. This team is already toast.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:30:16 +0000

Garnett started 43 games as a rookie, playing 28 minutes a game.

I don’t think that comparing Love to KG is a good comparison, though. It was unusual in 1995 to have a very young player like that playing significant minutes, much less starting. That’s not true today, and Love doesn’t need the sort of beefing up that KG did — he’s already at the size that he’s going to be for the rest of his career.

By: triebark

triebark — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:40:15 +0000

Sean,Great comment on Madsen.

I agree that Love needs game minutes to learn and improve, but don’t know that I agree with him starting right away. I’d rather see Jefferson, Gomes/Smith, Gomes/Brewer, Miller, Foye (I’m a little indesicive, because I’d rather see Collins, Jefferson, Brewer, Miller, Foye; but with Collins still hurt….)Leaving McCants, Telfair, Love and Gomes or Smith rounding out a 9 man rotation. Carney and Ollie seeing situational or match-up playing time. And Madsen riding the pine. Once Love gets up to speed (literally and figuratively), then I agree with your line-up. Maybe by December. How many games did KG start his rookie year? And when during the season did he first start?

Please tell me they plan to send Richard to the D-League again this year for a while. He’s a wide body, but I didn’t see anything from him last year that screamed “give him more minutes”.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:28:40 +0000

Yep. If Love is having a rough night, you can limit his minutes, but he needs to be on the floor with the guys who are supposed to be the core of this team going forward. I don’t really see how the Wolves have gotten any real value out of their go-slow approach with guys like Foye and McCants.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:16:26 +0000

I definitely agree, Love needs to be just thrown out there. The Wolves ever since Saunders have had a bad habit (I think) of bringing rookies along TOO slowly, especially the ones we are relying on. Love needs to get the KG treatment and just be put on the floor, and the team should just learn to live with his mistakes. The sooner he makes them, the sooner he learns from them and corrects them.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:04:04 +0000

Love has to be on the floor so he can figure out how he’s going to adjust. This is McHale and Wittman’s pick and they have to make it work.

They need to stop playing these stupid games with the lineup and go with what should be the starting five: Jefferson, Love, Brewer, Miller, and Foye. That leaves you Gomes, McCants, Telfair and Smith as the top guys coming off the bench. Carney, Ollie and one of the other bigs fill in as necessary. The notion that Mark Madsen should be playing regular minutes needs to be banished from the minds of the folks in charge.

By: triebark

triebark — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:59:21 +0000

All this after what has been such a promising preseason so far. I hope the plane isn’t crashing before it even leaves the terminal.

I’m a basketball fan at every level, and I watch the NBA because that’s where the best players play. I watch the Timberwolves because I’m a Minnesotan. I just hope I can enjoy watching this year, and not be changing channels at half-time because the team looks bad.

It’ll be great to finally know who makes the final roster. Hope Whit picks a starting line-up and sticks with it long enough to give the players a chance to prove what they can do together.