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Post by darko on Apr 6, 2024 21:35:40 GMT -6
Suns game was impressive d, I didn’t know that they could even do that. Part of it was they just played with more desperation, Wolves came out flat, and of course Ant is slumping probably due to nagging injuries, but it did remind me of one of the early OKC games we had trouble cracking their shell d. Then that last game we seemed to get it with better spacing late, getting Ant downhill in space more, but I do think that’s where our offensive woes could show up minus Kat.
I’m not sure that’s as easy to solve without him, but have no chance if Ant isn’t cookin’. JP mentioned they didn’t have efficient offense, which is true, but efficiency is the result of good o, not the other way around. Not saying that’s not what he meant but I do think we have some questions on how to break that kind of d with Kat let alone without. No matter who’s shooting if you’re not able to generate those in rhythm catch and shoots it’s gonna take a good game from Ant.
It will be interesting to see Lakers here, also desperate, and they mostly took Naz away last game second half with Rui, and AD. Could be another tough one if Ant can’t get back on track, or get to the paint.
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Post by darko on Apr 6, 2024 21:36:39 GMT -6
Man what a year, Shak’s got a new album I can play during games, the Ant Man is fo real, and here we are fighting for one in the west.
Hot dog.
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Post by darko on Apr 6, 2024 22:04:08 GMT -6
2017-18, pre FOM:
Can’t believe we had a point guard like this. Give him and Ant Man and Big Rude, five chip minimum.
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Post by darko on Apr 6, 2024 22:09:22 GMT -6
Pin point lasers. That’s the tat.
Also, while post season is tbd, it is good to think about the deals that went down the same year, and since Rudy, how they were covered.
Mitchell, Murray, KD, Beal, any Lakers junk. Gobert far and away has been the most impactful when teams are stocked. Cleve somehow has been more successful when they have one of Garland or Mitch.
Just ordered a Favors red Nets jersey to hoop in. I will only shoot inside the arc.
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Post by darko on Apr 6, 2024 22:50:31 GMT -6
Post FOM so a 1000 % less cool, but that behind the back he does from above the break wing, White Chocolate has a similar dime he cites as his favorite pass, but the ease at which Double R is doing this is bananas.
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Post by darko on Apr 6, 2024 23:16:19 GMT -6
I would describe Williams’ pass there as borderline violent, which was also awesome but Ricky’s doing it it like it’s a ten foot chest pass.
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Post by darko on Apr 6, 2024 23:29:29 GMT -6
The home run ball has always been passing. Magic, Bird, Nash, Williams, Nash, Kidd, Rubio, LeBron, Luka, Joker.
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Post by darko on Apr 10, 2024 14:26:16 GMT -6
To me the biggest question going into playoffs is still what happens when teams take away the drive. How often did we see that the last 20 games?
Lakers when they had AD second half of one game, and Suns shell d are the only ones I recall attempting to. I guess maybe Houston with their starters switching, but they obviously have no ability to do that given their limited bench currently.
Teams like Denver are going to have a harder time doing that given they typically have Murray and Jokic out there much of the game. Which teams gives us the most problems with that?
Wolves really sitting good, and can't wait to see Kat back. Tonight's kind of a preview, maybe final Suns game is interesting, otherwise it's a bit of a wait until playoffs.
Name the bar Kevin Love broke his hand in.
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Post by darko on Apr 10, 2024 15:38:41 GMT -6
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Post by darko on Apr 11, 2024 12:09:07 GMT -6
Upon further research, my conclusion is Favors for Love to Utah was the deal. Favors is like a healthy Pek, in that he can screen, and roll, has a little more catch radius, and is a no frills finisher. Little quicker on the roll.
What's interesting is he's listed at like 6-9, Pek was listed at 6-11, no way Pek was 6-11 right? He's like a suped up Pek, and I mean which is a bonafide driver of an offense, because as we've all learned with Gobert, if you have a big that can pressure whether on the roll or lob, that is a driver of offense for everyone on the team, versus a catch and shoot stretch four, or stretch two.
Favors, Pek Randolph, Beasley Wiliiams, Johnson Miles, Ellington Rubio, Barea
Run it back!
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Post by darko on Apr 11, 2024 12:11:34 GMT -6
That and it's better value to spend on cost effective floor spacers, versus supermax'in those streth whatever positions, and spend on the engine that free's that can create good looks for everyone. Not just the one guy on ball.
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Post by darko on Apr 14, 2024 15:24:37 GMT -6
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Post by darko on Apr 14, 2024 23:57:59 GMT -6
In regards to the ownership thing, none of the PR spin matters. For the record Glen took the bullet on the Joe Smith deal for McHale, unless you think he didn't know somehow (likely his idea). McHale was a giant here, but he was an awful gm, lost Marbury, should have taken Allen AND Roy, we just remember it differently because Jackie Mac does a very favorable SI piece on that whole thing, which is an amazing 180 compared to DK. vault.si.com/vault/1999/03/22/inside-the-nbaMcHale was a far worse gm and it's not even close, he just happened to hit on KG. Horrific picks, trade and free agent history, way, way underrated how bad a gm he actually was, which I now understand to be among the biggest reasons for the immediate backlash to Kahn day one. Glen's mostly let gm's do what they think is best, including the Gobert deal and there's a lot of context to each of those eras, rebuilds, injuries etc. I believe it was Jon K's (whom we lost in the narrative wars this year) that mentioned Carlyle effectively was not on the list of approved equity groups, and dropped out because they would have had to divest some of their conflicting interests to be approved by the league. Dyle capital is, which makes me go why not start there, but ultimately part of the process is that money would be approved by Glen, before having to be approved by the league. Which makes sense, think Logan Roy selling Waystar Royco? It would be a similar process, the two sides would have to agree on a proposal, including money before the other partners/board vote up or down. While Dyal is likely a fine path for Lore and A-Rod, it sounds like they're trying to skip the part where current ownership has to agree to terms. They are trying to argue if they have it, it's a done deal, but Carlyle dropping out late is significant, and they're trying to hinge it on going by the date they filed papers to the league, skipping the window in which they needed to have their money lined up, and agreed upon by Glen prior to filing by March 27th or whatever. That is the contract. The main takeaway is mediation could start in May, and then however long arbitration takes (how long does it take to control f on this thing). The league will except whoever comes out of that unless there's other concerns about Lore and A-Rod. As for going to court, hard to imagine a court overriding a contract if the mediator, arbitration, and NBA all says it's clear they didn't meet the criteria, but even that's riskier for A-Rod and Lore. They're not going to want to sift through all A-Rod's dick pics let alone whatever contact he's had with KG, which is likely just emoji's and f-bombs. Wachtell can talk whatever smack they want, but if it's as air tight they're not pumping out all these buzzwords and catch phrases. The only thing I'm surprised by is they haven't called the mediator a corrupt DC prosecutor or something. Glen acknowledging part of it is team's increased value (mostly due to tv money, and Ant) makes no difference, they're not proving intent. If you're bummed because you thought you were going to be buds with the new owners, use that new urinal trough or whatever, you could also just hype whoever's there. When future generations ask me how it ended I'll say content creators might have had too much inside info. I'm prepared to lead a group of Joe Mauer, KG, the Prince Estate, maybe get some of that Snoopy money in there, and Mike Lindell to buy the team. Think how comfy and billowy those city edition uni's would be!
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Post by darko on Apr 16, 2024 12:03:28 GMT -6
GETTING SCHWARTZED Agent provocateur Jeff Schwartz made Kevin Love a Cavs gain.
Kevin Love, who's been chanting "There's no place like home" for months now, clicked his heels three times and finally got his wish. The Coney Island native forced the Timberwolves to trade him to New Jersey last Thursday after providing them with a short list of acceptable destinations: New York, New Jersey or Los Angeles. Love, through his agent, Jeff Schwartz, forced Minnesota's hand by threatening to walk at season's end and sign with the Bulls.
"Go ahead," was general manager David Kahn's initial reply. He couldn't believe Love would forsake a team that was developing into a championship contender for a dynasty in ruins. Upon hearing that Kahn was prepared to call Love's bluff, Schwartz, who refused to deal with Kahn, informed Minnesota owner Glen Taylor, "I can put together my own team in Chicago." The implication was that Schwartz would dump his stable of free agents--among them Love, Nets guard Kerry Kittles and Cavaliers center Vitaly Potapenko--into the lap of Chicago general manager Jerry Krause. When Taylor became convinced that Love was a lost cause, he told Kahn to make a trade.
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Post by darko on Apr 16, 2024 12:08:10 GMT -6
Marbury has forsaken us, but when Love was doing his bs Wolves fans were pitched as Kahn has forsaken him.
Again the only story in the history of Timberwolves basketball we needed local media to push back on, and give fans the truth is how Kevin Love broke his hand. No exaggeration, just the truth on what happened. Wolves blog now understands how that was framed and covered at the time.
Time for a truth bomb on Woj and Schwartz. I can't imagine not covering the truth here if that was my paid job being around that team at the time. Never too late.
Get this monkey off our rumps heading into the playoffs! It's time.
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Post by darko on Apr 16, 2024 12:14:33 GMT -6
The only question in the history of Timberwolves basketball that matters is how did Kevin Love really break his hand in October 2012?
Why did we just let Woj/national media trash us there?
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Post by darko on Apr 16, 2024 15:15:29 GMT -6
This was the genesis of our greatest rival The Horde. We must break the spell!
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Post by darko on Apr 18, 2024 11:44:02 GMT -6
Man, what a fun time to be a Wolves fan. A historic couple weeks here at Wolves blog. I had no idea HTB did a pod on Glen, hilarious. And then of course Jon's thing (whom we lost tragically this year in the narrative wars).
Whatever propensity he had to report the truth about how Kevin broke his hand it's over the second he's a guest on Lo Po. Woj's, Morey Media. Same beast. It's an interesting line, he's more than happy to trash two guys who essentially lost their jobs to these losers, than just tell Timberwolves fans the truth about how a player broke his hand. This again, is the gist of this thread.
I get it, cool kids ask you to sit by them at lunch, we're all trained to excuse things when money’s involved.
My appeal would be I was a Timberwolves fan during the KG era. I saw Kevin McHale fail to draft Allen, lose Marbury, and Googs in the same year, which is why he illegally paid Joe Smith under the table. His excuse was every team does this.
McHale's tenure was a dumpster fire, Jaric, Olowakandi, Rasho. McCants, Brewer, Foye, Ricky Davis, Jaric, Rasho. Huge Al Jefferson fan, clearly should have kept him over K-Baby. I am a fan of all those teams, none of whom received a fraction of the heat DK had day zero. It was so hard to attract talent to surround KG, in Minnesota, Marbury wanting to live in a less culturely white city. All of that was very real.
So when DK comes on, clears the books, starts collecting young talent, he was doing it the exact right way. The process wasn't in the vernacular of NBA fans, but that is what he was doing. They effectively framed year one and two as he's a dummy, when the reality is he was hard tanking, similar to Hinkie would be widely celebrated four/five years later.
I don't care if Kahn whispered to himself in the mirror sometimes, or McHale told you a cool Bird story. They were trashing Minnesota, trying to get Rubio, and Love out of here, and ax a guy I had never heard of before. Somehow that was portrayed as Wolves haven't made playoffs in ex # years, most of which were McHale btw, intentionally misframing year one and two year rebuild. Whether you like Kahn or not, his year three roster, is so far ahead of what McHale was doing. That team was in no man's land. Not too mention his boy Ainge punks him on that KG deal.
I used to see it as mostly redirecting fire form Morey, but I'm glad I found that Marbury piece. I didn't realize Jackie Mac was the Co-Founder/MVP of the Shameless Boston media, but that SI piece is straight up spin. And if you think race didn't play a factor in how Marbury was covered, versus Love, ok.
The way that team was covered impacts, free agency, trade partners, guys wanting to stay here. There has never ever beeen anything like it before or since, the closest examples would be how when they go to work on Bulls or Clippers earlier this year. Think about how insane fans got about the Rudy trade, it's like if it was that for three years. And btw if injuries do hinder, it's going to happen again.
There was a story shared by the ambulance guy about Rambis using a racial slur toward Brewer. Not surprisingly HTB trashed Kahn firing Rambis, he defended Rambis, because Jeff Van Gundy made it seemed like he stabbed someone in the back. If Daryl Morey or Danny Ainge fire their coach at the drop of a hat, are they covering the same way? Oh, right we know because Rosas did that to Ryan, and no one said boo, so we could take three years for Finch to realize it's better to have Kyle play point, than stand in a corner. It is WILD to see fans move in sync with the narrative wars so consistently. But here's the rub, if folks had just reported that incident with Rambis, fans, and national heads alike understand. It's so much simpler to just report truth, than worry about who you're needing to frame things for. And it's 1000 % better for fans. Every single fan would have said go get Adelman there, which ended badly because we blew up everything we were doing to get Love paid.
I'm having legit fun here, Wolves are three seed and have an awesome playoff game Saturday. A playoff run with Suns, Nugs, OKC and Boston would be unbelievable, and we're in the mix. A lot of things have go right to win, luck, execution, health, all that. This is a blast, but why so many fans want to continue to choose to side with these dum dums is really only explained, by how difficult it is to talk someone back from a cult. Hey Woj says Rosas is cool, I love that Culver pick. That is what is happening, among Wolves fandom, over, and over, again. Vecna can't picture how Kat and Gobert can work together? What are you talking about? Do you know what basketball is? Pretty mum on FOM, the rule change that broke basketball for six years.
Again, all in good fun, this week rules, and once games get going I am prepared to enact a temporary embargo on this topic through playoffs now that I've exiled, and then unexiled myself, but eventually this should be cleaned up publicly. It must come. THE WRATHE.
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Post by darko on Apr 18, 2024 11:58:43 GMT -6
You don't offer Love a five year designated max, because he CLEARLY was not that guy (the only reason you need), and two that would have really been among our best carrots for whoever we could get here.
Kahn's second year we have one of the two worst records (see Hinkie), and best odds to get number two, we drop to 4. My guess is we were going for Favors.
We can't move Love due to raucous Minnesota whites, and Schwartz trashing us via Schwartz Bombs.
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Post by darko on Apr 18, 2024 12:07:16 GMT -6
Kevin Love trashed his coaches, gm, teammates, and effectively said I should be paid over Williams and Rubio. Easily the worst thing I have seen a teammate do in my lifetime. James Harden got fined $100,000.00, conduct detrimental to the team for saying Daryl Morey is a liar. He is the leagues most famous liar! Meanwhile Kevin Love gets pampered as if he's been wronged for not overpaying him?
I'm not saying we need to trash anyone's rep, just confirm how he broke his hand, in print. Most fans won't care. I bet you could still go on all your favorite shows.
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Post by darko on Apr 18, 2024 13:05:57 GMT -6
THE WRATHE must come! Until then full embargo!
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Post by darko on Apr 27, 2024 22:42:29 GMT -6
I thought this was funny this came out today.
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Post by darko on Apr 30, 2024 21:22:34 GMT -6
Just shot a wide open corner three in 2K17 with The Lion, and Kevin Harlan goes "what are they doing?!!!"
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