|
Post by araxen on Sept 15, 2018 15:58:13 GMT -6
|
|
|
Post by cory on Sept 15, 2018 16:17:07 GMT -6
Yea, it would be tough to have any expectation that he'll either have healthy feet if he's playing a ton, which he will have to do, or that he will be able to develop enough given the lost time to be anything more than a talented project who ran out of time. It's tough to miss this much time for any young player, it seems like a death sentence for Patton's NBA career or potential.
|
|
|
Post by kingsxman on Sept 15, 2018 18:37:19 GMT -6
Tough luck....its time to just cut bait on this guy though. I have to believe that insurance will kick in at some point. Can we get a injury comp on our cap? If they can then I can see them bringing in Noah for sure.
|
|
|
Post by Nick K on Sept 15, 2018 20:25:29 GMT -6
Thibs drafts a guy with glass feet. How many more things can he screw up....We could have had John Collins or OG. Both those guys would have been great fits here.
Maybe they ought to have him wear inserts or different shoes.
|
|
|
Post by Nick K on Sept 15, 2018 20:29:40 GMT -6
Tough luck....its time to just cut bait on this guy though. I have to believe that insurance will kick in at some point. Can we get a injury comp on our cap? If they can then I can see them bringing in Noah for sure. I wouldn't give up on him just yet although it's easy to feel that way. We'll see how it goes after the all-star break.
|
|
|
Post by tjstyles on Sept 17, 2018 10:34:26 GMT -6
I think this probably marks the end of his career in a Wolves jersey, but he is young enough to work his way back onto an NBA roster if he gets healthy. I think of guys like Whiteside who had a disastrous first season or two and looked to be on their way out of the league, but managed to carve out a niche on a new team. I get that foot injuries to bigs are hard to overcome, but assuming these are just bad luck injuries and not a sign of a more severe chronic issue, I think he could still pull it through. Though, it will likely be too late to secure a place on our roster with the way Thibs has squandered roster spots and salary.
|
|
|
Post by cory on Sept 17, 2018 10:45:05 GMT -6
I think this probably marks the end of his career in a Wolves jersey, but he is young enough to work his way back onto an NBA roster if he gets healthy. I think of guys like Whiteside who had a disastrous first season or two and looked to be on their way out of the league, but managed to carve out a niche on a new team. I get that foot injuries to bigs are hard to overcome, but assuming these are just bad luck injuries and not a sign of a more severe chronic issue, I think he could still pull it through. Though, it will likely be too late to secure a place on our roster with the way Thibs has squandered roster spots and salary. Probably. He has a great skill set for Euro League play. I'm not sure he gets back to the NBA but hopefully he can, he seems like a good kid. When you have this many foot injuries though it seems like it's Sam Bowie like and he's never going to be healthy if he is able to play consistently. The pick at the time was questionable at best, selecting a project center when you already possessed a franchise center on his rookie deal, a solid veteran in Dieng, and a surplus of big men league wide when you lacked depth everywhere else on the roster. You unfortunately don't get any more brownie points for losing picks to injury as opposed to the McHale era draft picks which were botched mainly due to incompetent scouting . They all just look awful and when you look at this franchises history, we have a striking ability to get nothing out of our picks that happen to occur after pick 10 or so. Our high lottery history has been pretty disastrous but at least there have been some notable hits to go along with the colossal busts we think of fondly.
|
|
|
Post by levine on Sept 17, 2018 10:50:51 GMT -6
I think this probably marks the end of his career in a Wolves jersey, but he is young enough to work his way back onto an NBA roster if he gets healthy. I think of guys like Whiteside who had a disastrous first season or two and looked to be on their way out of the league, but managed to carve out a niche on a new team. I get that foot injuries to bigs are hard to overcome, but assuming these are just bad luck injuries and not a sign of a more severe chronic issue, I think he could still pull it through. Though, it will likely be too late to secure a place on our roster with the way Thibs has squandered roster spots and salary. Probably. He has a great skill set for Euro League play. I'm not sure he gets back to the NBA but hopefully he can, he seems like a good kid. When you have this many foot injuries though it seems like it's Sam Bowie like and he's never going to be healthy if he is able to play consistently. The pick at the time was questionable at best, selecting a project center when you already possessed a franchise center on his rookie deal, a solid veteran in Dieng, and a surplus of big men league wide when you lacked depth everywhere else on the roster. You unfortunately don't get any more brownie points for losing picks to injury as opposed to the McHale era draft picks which were botched mainly due to incompetent scouting . They all just look awful and when you look at this franchises history, we have a striking ability to get nothing out of our picks that happen to occur after pick 10 or so. Our high lottery history has been pretty disastrous but at least there have been some notable hits and along with the colossal busts we think of fondly. It still floors me that Thibs didn't draft OG. Butler and Wiggins were the only wings even on the roster and OG seemed so much in the "young Luol Deng" mold. He's a guy you can play with either Wig or Butler (or both) and he won't dominate the ball. It was the easiest slam dunk move Thibs could've made. So of course he zagged instead.
|
|
|
Post by cory on Sept 17, 2018 11:35:39 GMT -6
Probably. He has a great skill set for Euro League play. I'm not sure he gets back to the NBA but hopefully he can, he seems like a good kid. When you have this many foot injuries though it seems like it's Sam Bowie like and he's never going to be healthy if he is able to play consistently. The pick at the time was questionable at best, selecting a project center when you already possessed a franchise center on his rookie deal, a solid veteran in Dieng, and a surplus of big men league wide when you lacked depth everywhere else on the roster. You unfortunately don't get any more brownie points for losing picks to injury as opposed to the McHale era draft picks which were botched mainly due to incompetent scouting . They all just look awful and when you look at this franchises history, we have a striking ability to get nothing out of our picks that happen to occur after pick 10 or so. Our high lottery history has been pretty disastrous but at least there have been some notable hits and along with the colossal busts we think of fondly. It still floors me that Thibs didn't draft OG. Butler and Wiggins were the only wings even on the roster and OG seemed so much in the "young Luol Deng" mold. He's a guy you can play with either Wig or Butler (or both) and he won't dominate the ball. It was the easiest slam dunk move Thibs could've made. So of course he zagged instead. It's indefensible and that's being kind. It really showed the archaic way Thibs looked at the NBA and how poor he was at allocating resources to areas of need on his roster. Pre-draft articles talked about OG being a potential new age center who can guard everyone from 1-5 and at minimum was a high end 3 and D wing candidate. We won't receive a significant minute out of the 16th pick the way it stands. I can only think of guys like Paul Grant when it comes to similar busts in this franchise history who gave us nothing at a similar spot. Ebi was at least the 28th pick.
|
|