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		<title>By: Bryan</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/11/17/whewww/#comment-6648</link>
		<dc:creator>Bryan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, I forgot to add a few things about Miller.

First, although he's not a good defender, he's better than people thing. He's a great team defender, but well, we have no team defense, so it doesn't show. 

Also, I think he's being utilized wrong, and that IS a Wittman thing. It's kind of like how the Celtics use Ray Allen...Ray gets his shots, but its not in the flow of the offense and most of them are pretty contested. Miller needs to be used the same way Wally was. Play him off the ball, keep him moving, and let him take jumpers as the ball rotates to him.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, I forgot to add a few things about Miller.</p>
<p>First, although he&#8217;s not a good defender, he&#8217;s better than people thing. He&#8217;s a great team defender, but well, we have no team defense, so it doesn&#8217;t show. </p>
<p>Also, I think he&#8217;s being utilized wrong, and that IS a Wittman thing. It&#8217;s kind of like how the Celtics use Ray Allen&#8230;Ray gets his shots, but its not in the flow of the offense and most of them are pretty contested. Miller needs to be used the same way Wally was. Play him off the ball, keep him moving, and let him take jumpers as the ball rotates to him.</p>
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		<title>By: Bryan</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/11/17/whewww/#comment-6647</link>
		<dc:creator>Bryan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/11/17/whewww/#comment-6647</guid>
		<description>Matty:

I agree very much that Mike isn't athletic or a good defender. However, I feel he's too good of a player to let go of. If we do get Rubio (and that's obviously a very big if), then we're going to need Mike's shooting touch. Running point guards like Rubio need two types of players to be really effective...running athletes to sprint the floor with them, and shooters to give them all sorts of options and open up driving lanes. It's like Peja and Tyson Chandler, and Mike would be our Peja.

jama:

I think Frye is more in the 240-250 range, but no, he's not a center. His appeal is he can run the floor, has good hands, is solid defensively, and can hit the midrange jumper. Starting him at center is basically just a way of bringing Thabeet along slowly...he's the kind of big man that will have a steep learning curve coming into the league, like Chandler...but ultimately the heavy lifting in the middle gets done by Hasheem and Jason Collins.

Icz:

I'd like to keep Love if we can. It'd be easy from our end to just keep him and not resign Collins or draft Dozier. But I think, for my scenario to happen, we'd have to trade Love, because I'm not sure how much trade value Foye, McCants or Smith hold right now. Love is our biggest trade asset right now, so if we make sweeping changes, I'm not sure we can pull it all off and still have him on the team in the end. But no, it's nothing against Love. He's going to be a great player. 

And to comment on Swan Dizzle's point, yes, my biggest fear about calling for Taylor to sell the team is that the new owner would move them to a different city.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Matty:</p>
<p>I agree very much that Mike isn&#8217;t athletic or a good defender. However, I feel he&#8217;s too good of a player to let go of. If we do get Rubio (and that&#8217;s obviously a very big if), then we&#8217;re going to need Mike&#8217;s shooting touch. Running point guards like Rubio need two types of players to be really effective&#8230;running athletes to sprint the floor with them, and shooters to give them all sorts of options and open up driving lanes. It&#8217;s like Peja and Tyson Chandler, and Mike would be our Peja.</p>
<p>jama:</p>
<p>I think Frye is more in the 240-250 range, but no, he&#8217;s not a center. His appeal is he can run the floor, has good hands, is solid defensively, and can hit the midrange jumper. Starting him at center is basically just a way of bringing Thabeet along slowly&#8230;he&#8217;s the kind of big man that will have a steep learning curve coming into the league, like Chandler&#8230;but ultimately the heavy lifting in the middle gets done by Hasheem and Jason Collins.</p>
<p>Icz:</p>
<p>I&#8217;d like to keep Love if we can. It&#8217;d be easy from our end to just keep him and not resign Collins or draft Dozier. But I think, for my scenario to happen, we&#8217;d have to trade Love, because I&#8217;m not sure how much trade value Foye, McCants or Smith hold right now. Love is our biggest trade asset right now, so if we make sweeping changes, I&#8217;m not sure we can pull it all off and still have him on the team in the end. But no, it&#8217;s nothing against Love. He&#8217;s going to be a great player. </p>
<p>And to comment on Swan Dizzle&#8217;s point, yes, my biggest fear about calling for Taylor to sell the team is that the new owner would move them to a different city.</p>
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		<title>By: zbast</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/11/17/whewww/#comment-6642</link>
		<dc:creator>zbast</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/11/17/whewww/#comment-6642</guid>
		<description>FREE TELFAIR!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>FREE TELFAIR!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Swan Dizzle</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/11/17/whewww/#comment-6641</link>
		<dc:creator>Swan Dizzle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/11/17/whewww/#comment-6641</guid>
		<description>BC - Don't forget we have had Carl Pohlad (cheapskate) and Red McCombs (cheapskate who didn't spend cash on the defense) as owners recently.  Both of whom make Taylor look awesome.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BC - Don&#8217;t forget we have had Carl Pohlad (cheapskate) and Red McCombs (cheapskate who didn&#8217;t spend cash on the defense) as owners recently.  Both of whom make Taylor look awesome.</p>
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		<title>By: Swan Dizzle</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/11/17/whewww/#comment-6640</link>
		<dc:creator>Swan Dizzle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/11/17/whewww/#comment-6640</guid>
		<description>BC - Taylor isn't as bad as Clay Bennett !  Aka the complete scumbag who robbed Seattle.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BC - Taylor isn&#8217;t as bad as Clay Bennett !  Aka the complete scumbag who robbed Seattle.</p>
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		<title>By: BC Beneke</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/11/17/whewww/#comment-6639</link>
		<dc:creator>BC Beneke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/11/17/whewww/#comment-6639</guid>
		<description>I am not familiar with Rothstein.  I would have guessed Floyd did a little better than this, but his teams were pretty terrible.

Funny Lowe, and Musselman cut most of those losses here. I love it.

The Timberwolves are a freaking DISEASED FRANCHISE</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am not familiar with Rothstein.  I would have guessed Floyd did a little better than this, but his teams were pretty terrible.</p>
<p>Funny Lowe, and Musselman cut most of those losses here. I love it.</p>
<p>The Timberwolves are a freaking DISEASED FRANCHISE</p>
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		<title>By: Sean</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/11/17/whewww/#comment-6638</link>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/11/17/whewww/#comment-6638</guid>
		<description>Among coaches who have coached as many or more games than Randy Wittman (297), only Sidney Lowe, Tim Floyd, and Ron Rothstein have lower winning percentages than Witt's 32.7%.

If you lower the bar to 250 games, you can add Eddie Donovan and Bill Musselman.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Among coaches who have coached as many or more games than Randy Wittman (297), only Sidney Lowe, Tim Floyd, and Ron Rothstein have lower winning percentages than Witt&#8217;s 32.7%.</p>
<p>If you lower the bar to 250 games, you can add Eddie Donovan and Bill Musselman.</p>
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		<title>By: BC Beneke</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/11/17/whewww/#comment-6637</link>
		<dc:creator>BC Beneke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/11/17/whewww/#comment-6637</guid>
		<description>This team doesn't need to trade Miller unless they can get something very good for him.  This team doesn't need to save money, it doesn't need more draft picks.  It needs a head coach that is NBA qualified.  They need a GM, VP, and assistant GM that can do more than wipe themselves half the time, and they need an owner that doesn't rival Al Davis and the guy from the Detroit Lions for being the worst owner in professional sports.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This team doesn&#8217;t need to trade Miller unless they can get something very good for him.  This team doesn&#8217;t need to save money, it doesn&#8217;t need more draft picks.  It needs a head coach that is NBA qualified.  They need a GM, VP, and assistant GM that can do more than wipe themselves half the time, and they need an owner that doesn&#8217;t rival Al Davis and the guy from the Detroit Lions for being the worst owner in professional sports.</p>
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		<title>By: BC Beneke</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/11/17/whewww/#comment-6636</link>
		<dc:creator>BC Beneke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/11/17/whewww/#comment-6636</guid>
		<description>Congrats to Wittman on his 200th career loss.

By this time next year he may have his 100th Win!!!


Glen Taylor vs Ford (Lions), and Al Davis (Raiders) for stupidest, most pathetic owner in professional sports!

McHale the worst GM/VP in professional sports

Randy Wittman may seriously be the worst headcoach in the history of the NBA.  Is there anyone else with over 250 games coached that has a less than .333 winning percentage?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Congrats to Wittman on his 200th career loss.</p>
<p>By this time next year he may have his 100th Win!!!</p>
<p>Glen Taylor vs Ford (Lions), and Al Davis (Raiders) for stupidest, most pathetic owner in professional sports!</p>
<p>McHale the worst GM/VP in professional sports</p>
<p>Randy Wittman may seriously be the worst headcoach in the history of the NBA.  Is there anyone else with over 250 games coached that has a less than .333 winning percentage?</p>
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		<title>By: Swan Dizzle</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/11/17/whewww/#comment-6635</link>
		<dc:creator>Swan Dizzle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/11/17/whewww/#comment-6635</guid>
		<description>Doesn't Miller's salary come off the books after the next season ?  Unless the offer is sweet this year I'd rather wait til next year or just let him play the contract out.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Doesn&#8217;t Miller&#8217;s salary come off the books after the next season ?  Unless the offer is sweet this year I&#8217;d rather wait til next year or just let him play the contract out.</p>
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