lipoli390 wrote:apollotsg wrote:Woke up to this mess. I am disappointed, I was sold on Towns leaks on what was going to happen and Rosas comments along with all the players talking about the Timberwolves making noise. I disagree with everyone saying Russel would not have made the difference - I think he changes the franchise for the next 5 years in a significantly positive way. And then...
Rosa clearly had a deal with someone that was ready - rumor is it was Dal, who got involved with MIA and then our deal died. Then the MIA deal died - so is DAL messing with other teams? As of this morning, DAL is NOT getting Wiggins or any player from MIA. I know there is bad blood between DAL and HOU, could this be some strange messing with Rosa over HOU history stuff?
Prior to MIA or DAL or however the deal fell apart - Wiggins was told - I am assuming Rosa felt 100% that he was going to be moved - it didn't happen.
Towns has been telling the world and more than he had this done - his Instagram post shows he thought it was done - so what happened?
So this morning we wake up with the same team we had last week. But Towns and Rosa have to go look at Wiggins - not sure how that works - like someone else said, maybe he will be pissed - who cares he cant give less effort. I think Towns looks like the biggest loser here - he recruited his best friend, had a party in a suit with him after agreeing to the max with us and then partied it up until Roas made room - clearly, his agent had some backup plans. How does your BFF agree to a deal in the night and by morning you tell him sorry but you changed your mind?
Good post. Yep, I'd say that Rosas and Towns both look pretty bad here. I'm still not sure what happened and I'm interesting in learning exactly what went down. What we're hearing is that the Wolves had a cap-clearing deal in place but Russell changed his mind and decided to go to the Warriors. Hmm. Maybe that's true. If so, I'm glad we aren't stuck with him on a max deal. But I'm not convinced yet by that story line. I'm still wondering whether the Wolves failed to put a deal together. We should find out from Jon K or someone in the next few weeks. Meanwhile, Wolves fans can't help but be disappointed. And now Rosas, Towns and Saunders will have to deal with the aftermath -- Wiggins and Teague feeling unwanted, Towns embarrassed and dejected and Rosas rightly embarrassed.
As for Rosas, he's now 0-2 measured against his own goals. He wanted Garland, but couldn't get him. Then he wanted Russell and couldn't get him. In both cases, the whole world knew what Rosas wanted and in both cases he came close but fell short. Not a good start. Rosas said he would do things differently. Well, maybe he has or maybe he hasn't. But one thing for sure - the results are the same.
This is somewhat in contrast to Thibs who in his 2nd full season on the job got a heck of a haul in that offseason. Butler was a HUGE get (even if you don't agree with the deal) and Teague and Taj were good free agent additions as players (price was high). The bad news was it didn't work out unless you could making the playoffs as success.
To me the difference is Rosas is known as a personal guy supposedly he and Towns have really hit it off. Ryan the coach is a guy that's known as a relationship guy with a connection to these players. The previous guys running this team was Thibs and Layden... Even if you aren't sure about Rosas it's pretty easy to see more potential of patching things up from this group. It's also possible they aren't done and a move of some sort can still be made. Thibs just told his guys to get back to work. I'd guess Rosas will have a more delicate way of going about it.
