It's not the money. Not the Twin Cities, or the winter. It's them sitting at home watching the playoffs. KLove watching LaMarcus and Griffin, Ricky watching Wall and Westbrook. We go to the playoffs next year or we may loose them both. They want in on this party.
Couch Patrol Observation - Damn, Washington looks like a real contender. How did that happen?
the big risk of loosing Kevin and Ricky is what they are doing right now
Re: the big risk of loosing Kevin and Ricky is what they are doing right now
If those guys are watching the playoffs they should take one thing away from it. (Rubio especially). They need to get better as basketball players. If ricky is watching Paul, Westbrook and Parker he should know he has miles to go as a player before he requests the team gets better. Hes the one guy on the team that has to make giant leaps this offseason for this team to be serious about the playoffs.
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BloopOracle
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Re: the big risk of loosing Kevin and Ricky is what they are doing right now
PorkChop wrote:If those guys are watching the playoffs they should take one thing away from it. (Rubio especially). They need to get better as basketball players. If ricky is watching Paul, Westbrook and Parker he should know he has miles to go as a player before he requests the team gets better. Hes the one guy on the team that has to make giant leaps this offseason for this team to be serious about the playoffs.
My guess is the main thing they're taking away is that other teams have a great bench and a coach with the ability to make an adjustment. I don't doubt LOve and Rubio will be motivated to work on their game this off-season but I think they only thing they're taking away from watching the playoffs is how pathetic our front office is.
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Re: the big risk of loosing Kevin and Ricky is what they are doing right now
papalrep wrote:It's not the money. Not the Twin Cities, or the winter. It's them sitting at home watching the playoffs. KLove watching LaMarcus and Griffin, Ricky watching Wall and Westbrook. We go to the playoffs next year or we may loose them both. They want in on this party.
Couch Patrol Observation - Damn, Washington looks like a real contender. How did that happen?
Washington ONLY looks like a contender because they play in the East. Don't be fooled. Miami will sleepwalk in the ECF and still win easily.
Washington wouldn't have even made the playoffs in the West.
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Re: the big risk of loosing Kevin and Ricky is what they are doing right now
BloopOracle wrote:PorkChop wrote:If those guys are watching the playoffs they should take one thing away from it. (Rubio especially). They need to get better as basketball players. If ricky is watching Paul, Westbrook and Parker he should know he has miles to go as a player before he requests the team gets better. Hes the one guy on the team that has to make giant leaps this offseason for this team to be serious about the playoffs.
My guess is the main thing they're taking away is that other teams have a great bench and a coach with the ability to make an adjustment. I don't doubt LOve and Rubio will be motivated to work on their game this off-season but I think they only thing they're taking away from watching the playoffs is how pathetic our front office is.
Disagree a bit on both points.
1) Coaching. Randy Wittman is the coach of the feel-good story of the NBA Playoffs. Jason Kidd is also there. And we know next to nothing about him as a coach, sans his sophomoric stunt early in the season with the cup of water. To be fair, I think the West has 3 good to excellent coaches and one decent one still in the playoffs. I don't think a coach matters as much as many seem to think... because...
2) Stars win playoff games. It's still a players' league. A bench helps, obviously. But, rotations tighten and the stars usually are the ones who decide games.