Keep or trade Love poll

[Mstermisty [enjin:6864008]]

I'm honestly on the fence about this right now. If we trade him we'll most likely take a step back as a team, and after a 10 year playoff drought the thought of that is brutal.

If we keep him, we may fail next season and end up getting less for him than we could now, or even nothing, which would be a disaster.

[Coolbreeze44]

If Love was truly a player who could carry his team to the playoffs I might feel differently. But I haven't seen any evidence that we can make the playoffs with him. Get what you can before the season.

[Camden [enjin:6601484]]

I know this doesn't count as a vote, but it really depends on what the trade packages are..

[Coolbreeze44]

I know this doesn't count as a vote, but it really depends on what the trade packages are..

The choice was for best offer. So if you can't take that you are voting to keep him.

[Mstermisty [enjin:6864008]]

Voted to trade Love. But realistically this team has a much better chance of becoming good if we keep him.

For me the deciding factor is he simply doesn't want to be here. Maybe that's due to Kahn and Taylor not giving him the 5th year, maybe it's him thinking he can't win here. For whatever reason, he doesn't believe in the team. But if we trade him we'll never know.

[Camden [enjin:6601484]]

I know this doesn't count as a vote, but it really depends on what the trade packages are..

The choice was for best offer. So if you can't take that you are voting to keep him.

I would trade Love this off-season for the right offer. But if the "best offer" doesn't meet my standards, I'm definitely fine with keeping him. I think Flip needs to have this mentality as well. Can't be scared to trade him. Can't be scared to start the season with him either.

CLE offered No. 1, Waiters and Thompson -- Yes.

BOS offered No. 6, No. 17, LAC 1st, BRK 1st, Olynyk -- Yes.

CHI offered No. 16, No. 19, Gibson, Butler -- No.

GS: Lee, Barnes, Green, future 1st -- No.

This is what I mean by trading Love for the "right offer".

[khans2k5 [enjin:6608728]]

I voted for trading him. I think it's 50/50 that he is a Ewing theory candidate. Denver lost Melo and started playing more team basketball which carried them to the playoffs. I am interested to see how Ricky responds to actually being forced to score. I think he spends too much time with Love, Martin and Pek never looking for his own offense. We saw it a couple times this year where he attacked and had to score because of injuries to Martin and Pek. Attacking PG's open the offense up for everybody else which will open his passing lanes even more. Even if we keep Love, Pek and Martin, I'd like to see Ricky attack the basket more and let Pek and Love clean up what he can't finish. I really hope we can trade Love for #1. I think a defensive foundation of Ricky, Wiggins and Dieng could be lethal.

[TAFKASP]

If Love was truly a player who could carry his team to the playoffs I might feel differently. But I haven't seen any evidence that we can make the playoffs with him. Get what you can before the season.

It's a bit ironic that Kahn was likely correct when he said Love would be the third best player on a championship team. I would argue that he could be the second best on a team with a dominant 1 or 2 guard, but still, for all that Kahn got wrong, including Love's extension, he was mostly right about that.

[TAFKASP]

Voted to trade Love. But realistically this team has a much better chance of becoming good if we keep him.

I'm not interested in this team becoming good, after all these years I want great! Unfortunately as this team is currently constructed and how it's cap is set this team has little chance of being anything more than 1st or at best, 2nd round playoff fodder. Would you be truly happy with this team squeaking into the playoffs all the while knowing they have no honest chance?

Building small market contenders requires a great deal of lottery luck, along with a FO that makes few if any mistakes. This Wolves rebuild has been attempted with little of the former and far to much of the latter to succeed. As I'm convinced this team will never raise a championship banner, is unlikely to raise a conference championship banner, and is even a long shot to raise a division championship banner, I would rather get the next rebuild started sooner rather than later. I've been a Wolves fan for far to long to believe otherwise.

[Coolbreeze44]

Voted to trade Love. But realistically this team has a much better chance of becoming good if we keep him.

I'm not interested in this team becoming good, after all these years I want great! Unfortunately as this team is currently constructed and how it's cap is set this team has little chance of being anything more than 1st or at best, 2nd round playoff fodder. Would you be truly happy with this team squeaking into the playoffs all the while knowing they have no honest chance?

Building small market contenders requires a great deal of lottery luck, along with a FO that makes few if any mistakes. This Wolves rebuild has been attempted with little of the former and far to much of the latter to succeed. As I'm convinced this team will never raise a championship banner, is unlikely to even raise a conference championship banner, and is a very long shot to raise a division championship banner, I would rather get the next rebuild started sooner rather than later. I've been a Wolves fan for far to long to believe otherwise.

That's brutal honesty...............................and you're absolutely right.