Carlos, I have a big golf game on Friday. Please trash talk me a little before my game to ensure I have a good day :) .
No kidding! The best part is that I actually like Hummel and have defended him in other posts. But he literally was like 1 for 10 in 3 point shots until I spoke up :-). Now he just giving me the middle finger.
Boy, that game only made it harder to figure out who to trade/buyout. Shabazz played the best all-around game of his career, Budinger continues to shoot well from deep, and Hummel played great defense against Parker and made a couple 3's.
I was impressed that a mixture of our 2nd/3rd unit guys more than held their own against a mixture of Bucks 1st/2nd unit guys.
And even though Rubio didn't have a great shooting night, he was the best player on the floor hands down.
Not sure about others, but this site crashed for me right at the of the game (when "Rudy" got in!). Anyway - fun game. It will be a tough cut down to 15 - but that's a good thing.
I think it will also be tough to play everyone once the roster if final, so the D-League may be more important this year than it's been in the past. But I'm really excited to see them play for real. They are fun to watch based on the couple games I've seen.
I love how JJ is only thought of as a scorer camn't play PG but somehow in 4 preseason games averaging about 20 mins pergame he has 24 total assists. He does actually have the ability to create for others and will pass. Like someone said in this thread he makes a switch and turns into a ballhoging SG but I think he was as many people have said Adelman really enabled that which is quite bizarre.
Hummel has blocks in back to back games. Never thought I would see that. He is playing well. GR3 seems to be playing well in his small amounts of minutes. It does seem like everyone is playing well I wonder what happens.
One option that's out there is GR3 could agree to sign a d-league contract being a camp alocation keeping his rights and the Wolves would tell him if we move a guy or have a spot open and have a roster spot its gonna be yours and sign him to another contract and then wouldn't he also get paid twice? Sounds decent for him. You have to wonder if maybe that's an option since he has pretty limited playing time. I just don't think GR3 is gonna wanna do that when he probably thinks he could be on an NBA roster. In the d-league he would likely ge to play a lot of basketball so there is upside to that option. He wouldn't even have to go to the Wolves affiliate.
Carlos Danger wrote:Rubio 6 assists and JJ with 7. Five guys in double figures scoring. They really spread it around now without Love.
This. The reason I know we are going to be .500+ is because we have the talent to spread around Love's production. And while we may not totally replace his offensive efficiency, the defensive effort this squad is able to exert completely squashes that one negative.
