CoolBreeze44 wrote:I love it. Zach over Thibs and Butler. Nice 4th quarter Jimmy. How many times do we have to go through this before we do somethign different?
I love Butler. He's my favorite player, but his hero ball has indeed run its course. It worked at the start of the season but no more. However, if youre Butler and you pass the ball off to a wide open Wiggins and Kat and they both clank threes..it probably doesnt encourage you to pass it in the future....
Thibs is borderlining kurt rambis with his offensive strategy
WolvesFan21 wrote:LaVine needs to win and is clutch, Wiggins just doesn't care. Like KG said, he had to push his buttons to get him to play hard. Butler did alright, LaVine was just better.
Andrew statistically has been the wolves best clutch player every year he has been in the NBA. That statement is just not true. Like I like Zach as much as the next guy but that statement is not true.
Like Wiggins 50% FT in the last 2 minutes or his 1 for 8 on game winning shots?
It can't be repeated enough this team neither takes enough 3s or has the right players to make them. The starting unit took 13 tonite. Curry takes that many in his sleep. Houston avgs 40 some a game. It's a huge handicap to be scoring 2 to the other teams 3 all game long.
thedoper wrote:So funny. Wiggins has been ripped in multiple wins this year for having a better stat line than Zach. Zach played great, but this loss wasn't on Wiggins or Zach. It was on our continued shitty D on the road from our bigs.
The game certainly wasn't lost by Wiggins, but he didn't do much to win it either. There's an argument that you'd want more from your big three in the fourth quarter... where he disappeared.
Again, the blame doesn't fall directly on him, but he's capable of a lot more. So is Towns as he wasn't exactly an All-Star in this one either.
What is Wiggins supposed to do? Wave off the coach and go grab the ball from Jimmy? Wig had NOTHING to do with this loss, save for his turnovers that happened long before crunch time.
Early in the season Butler was taking a backseat to Wiggins and KAT and neither took the bull by the horns so Butler now has. If Wiggins wants to impact the game it's going to be up to him to do so, he had his chance and slept through it.
Second on our team in scoring going 9-14 from the field but ya he slept through the game.
We had a lot of problems tonight, Every last big man (outside of a solid game from Belly) was bad, it was one of Towns, Gorgui and Taj worst games this year. Taj was bad defensively. Teague had a meh night. They left Tyus open late in the game and he turned the ball over when it was passed to him.
We have problems but to blame wiggins tonight is just dumb.
The offense in the 4th was just terrible. KAT make some plays early playing his ass off on offense and for being the primary screener for jimmy. Renowned shot hunter crawford took and make 1 shot. Wiggins miss 1 shot. Taj got a dunk off a nice jimmy feed. Tyus role in the 4th is to bring the ball to half court and pass it to jimmy the whole quarter.
I am a jimmy fan but it gets too much. Thibs should call some other plays and its on him more so than butler.
thedoper wrote:I can't believe the talk is about Wiggins after that game. It's not even about basketball anymore here. Ridiculous.
I think it's because Zach LaVine just provided a terrific example of why people wanted to keep him over Andrew Wiggins even with an ACL injury. He's engaged, willing, and confident in all moments. He's not scared of failure. I think as fans we appreciate that more than someone who tends to disappear when the situation gets more difficult.
And to be fair, Wiggins does have some clutch moments, but it seems that does not compare to how many games he's gone invisible in. Like tonight he started 5-5 from the field and then faded into the sunset...
