Comments on: Another loss, another one goes down for the Wolves http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/12/04/another-loss-another-one-goes-down-for-the-wolves/ The latest on the Minnesota Timberwolves Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:02:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: medschoolmatt http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/12/04/another-loss-another-one-goes-down-for-the-wolves/#comment-7307 medschoolmatt Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:07:16 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/12/04/another-loss-another-one-goes-down-for-the-wolves/#comment-7307 ^successful troll is successful ^successful troll is successful

]]> By: Pointless http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/12/04/another-loss-another-one-goes-down-for-the-wolves/#comment-7300 Pointless Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:31:26 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/12/04/another-loss-another-one-goes-down-for-the-wolves/#comment-7300 Swan, I suggest you get on the Horn and call McHale and tell him you've got the solution to his problems. He needs to play Love's big flabby butt 48 minutes a game. Problem with that is if you played Love that many minutes he'd die of a coronary due to total lack of conditioning and athletic ability. Swan, I suggest you get on the Horn and call McHale and tell him you’ve got the solution to his problems. He needs to play Love’s big flabby butt 48 minutes a game.

Problem with that is if you played Love that many minutes he’d die of a coronary due to total lack of conditioning and athletic ability.

]]> By: Swan Dizzle http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/12/04/another-loss-another-one-goes-down-for-the-wolves/#comment-7299 Swan Dizzle Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:55:43 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/12/04/another-loss-another-one-goes-down-for-the-wolves/#comment-7299 16 & 12 for Love last night in 26 minutes ? Just a little over half a game ? Thats means if he played all 48 he'd get 32 & 24 ! Thats the MVP my friends. Love > Mayo Way to go McHale ! 16 & 12 for Love last night in 26 minutes ? Just a little over half a game ? Thats means if he played all 48 he’d get 32 & 24 ! Thats the MVP my friends.

Love > Mayo

Way to go McHale !

]]> By: Swan Dizzle http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/12/04/another-loss-another-one-goes-down-for-the-wolves/#comment-7297 Swan Dizzle Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:52:13 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/12/04/another-loss-another-one-goes-down-for-the-wolves/#comment-7297 Plus Carney looks lost in all offensive schemes. Plus Carney looks lost in all offensive schemes.

]]> By: Swan Dizzle http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/12/04/another-loss-another-one-goes-down-for-the-wolves/#comment-7296 Swan Dizzle Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:51:47 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/12/04/another-loss-another-one-goes-down-for-the-wolves/#comment-7296 Carney can't shoot and takes more ill advised shots than 10 McCants, for someone with such "ridiculous athleticism" he never tries to get to the rim...he has Gerald Green disease in the sense that he wants to prove he is more than a leaper. Carney can’t shoot and takes more ill advised shots than 10 McCants, for someone with such “ridiculous athleticism” he never tries to get to the rim…he has Gerald Green disease in the sense that he wants to prove he is more than a leaper.

]]> By: medschoolmatt http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/12/04/another-loss-another-one-goes-down-for-the-wolves/#comment-7295 medschoolmatt Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:26:59 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/12/04/another-loss-another-one-goes-down-for-the-wolves/#comment-7295 Witt, while intriguing once in awhile, has made too many boneheaded mistakes this year. Telfair deserves more than Ollie (and I like Ollie) and not giving ANYTHING to Carney (whose got talent coming out of his ears and can jump out of the building) even when both Brewer and Miller are out makes me think he is just sticking to his guns for no reason. Like Sean said, this team has the tools to get up and down the floor, but they (and rightfully so) try to run through Jefferson. Problem is, they aren't built to run a half-court offense. They are once again back to square one. Let's hope the team can turn things around before the fans stop forgiving them Witt, while intriguing once in awhile, has made too many boneheaded mistakes this year. Telfair deserves more than Ollie (and I like Ollie) and not giving ANYTHING to Carney (whose got talent coming out of his ears and can jump out of the building) even when both Brewer and Miller are out makes me think he is just sticking to his guns for no reason.

Like Sean said, this team has the tools to get up and down the floor, but they (and rightfully so) try to run through Jefferson. Problem is, they aren’t built to run a half-court offense.

They are once again back to square one. Let’s hope the team can turn things around before the fans stop forgiving them

]]> By: jama http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/12/04/another-loss-another-one-goes-down-for-the-wolves/#comment-7293 jama Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:39:30 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/12/04/another-loss-another-one-goes-down-for-the-wolves/#comment-7293 Jerry, I'm sure you asked this question or something similar to Wittman, but can you please ask him how playing Ollie almost 10 more minutes than Telfair helps this team now or in the future? Jerry,

I’m sure you asked this question or something similar to Wittman, but can you please ask him how playing Ollie almost 10 more minutes than Telfair helps this team now or in the future?

]]> By: Gdiggity http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/12/04/another-loss-another-one-goes-down-for-the-wolves/#comment-7292 Gdiggity Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:04:23 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/12/04/another-loss-another-one-goes-down-for-the-wolves/#comment-7292 I wish we could get lucky with our draft picks like Portland did with Brandon Roy, he is having a clutch hand this year ... or as AOL Fanhouse noted, O J Mayo has had four 30 plus games and ten 20 plus games, dude looks to be able to create space with those slow feet on a comparable bad team, and he averages more steals per game than anyone on the Wolves. If we could have drafted one of those guys, we might have been able to put enough threat in the backcourt to give Jefferson some real breathing room. Yet, I have full faith in McHale's vision that we all see forming. Foye & Love will be still be NBA All Stars when these "flash in the pan" moments are over for Roy & Mayo ... they just lucky is all. My patient in McHale will prove out as it always has before! I wish we could get lucky with our draft picks like Portland did with Brandon Roy, he is having a clutch hand this year … or as AOL Fanhouse noted, O J Mayo has had four 30 plus games and ten 20 plus games, dude looks to be able to create space with those slow feet on a comparable bad team, and he averages more steals per game than anyone on the Wolves.

If we could have drafted one of those guys, we might have been able to put enough threat in the backcourt to give Jefferson some real breathing room.

Yet, I have full faith in McHale’s vision that we all see forming. Foye & Love will be still be NBA All Stars when these “flash in the pan” moments are over for Roy & Mayo … they just lucky is all.

My patient in McHale will prove out as it always has before!

]]> By: Sean http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/12/04/another-loss-another-one-goes-down-for-the-wolves/#comment-7291 Sean Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:03:39 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/12/04/another-loss-another-one-goes-down-for-the-wolves/#comment-7291 Bryan has hit on the point that some of us have been saying for quite a while. There doesn't seem to be an overriding plan here. This team's best player -- Jefferson -- is surrounded by a bunch of players ill-suited to run the half-court game that best fits his abilities. Foye, Telfair, McCants, Brewer, and even Love would probably benefit from more of an up-and-down less-structured system that would reward the fact that some of these guys aren't optimally sized for the positions they play. But when you slow it down, having an undersized frontline and backcourt (if the decision to make Foye a two-guard is final) kills you in a traditional style of play. If you're going to build around Jefferson, then you need to get the right guys around him. That means a traditional center so he can play his true position and a play-making point guard who can initiate the offense. Bryan has hit on the point that some of us have been saying for quite a while. There doesn’t seem to be an overriding plan here.

This team’s best player — Jefferson — is surrounded by a bunch of players ill-suited to run the half-court game that best fits his abilities.

Foye, Telfair, McCants, Brewer, and even Love would probably benefit from more of an up-and-down less-structured system that would reward the fact that some of these guys aren’t optimally sized for the positions they play. But when you slow it down, having an undersized frontline and backcourt (if the decision to make Foye a two-guard is final) kills you in a traditional style of play.

If you’re going to build around Jefferson, then you need to get the right guys around him. That means a traditional center so he can play his true position and a play-making point guard who can initiate the offense.

]]> By: Roberto El Doucho http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/12/04/another-loss-another-one-goes-down-for-the-wolves/#comment-7289 Roberto El Doucho Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:14:18 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wolves/2008/12/04/another-loss-another-one-goes-down-for-the-wolves/#comment-7289 I'm thinking that any more injuries may harm the wolves playoff run. It would be a shame to break the streak of long runs in the playoffs with this historic franchise. I’m thinking that any more injuries may harm the wolves playoff run.

It would be a shame to break the streak of long runs in the playoffs with this historic franchise.

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