Are we serious about the PO's

[mjs34]

I can understand wanting to keep the pick and finding a good SF with it. Everything else would likely make me give up on the team. We traded a decent PF/SF backup away for Luc. One of our worst trades ever imo. I hope our FO is smart enough to realize that Price and Hummel have no business on an NBA roster. Unfortunately I don't think we can use smart and Flip in the same sentence.

[Camden [enjin:6601484]]

Am I the only one who DOESN'T want them to be serious? Keep the lotto pick, draft a SF (again?) or a PF (as a better backup than LRMaM, or as insurance against Love leaving), resign Price and Hummel, maybe a well-placed trade or two, and go to battle next Halloween.

Personally, I'd rather have the playoff experience. It's easier to replicate success than it is to do it for the first time. Love needs to get to the post-season. Ricky's always made the post-season -- except for the time he's been a Timberwolf. I think the same goes for Pekovic. These guys need to win. I'll take making the playoffs over a late lottery pick (guys I like) any day. We have to change the culture here.

[kekgeek]

I can understand wanting to keep the pick and finding a good SF with it. Everything else would likely make me give up on the team. We traded a decent PF/SF backup away for Luc. One of our worst trades ever imo. I hope our FO is smart enough to realize that Price and Hummel have no business on an NBA roster. Unfortunately I don't think we can use smart and Flip in the same sentence.

Really on of the worse trades, ever, I am not saying it was a great trade for us, but it isn't like Dwill is lighting the world on fire with his play (sweet he had one good game last night). More than likely it will end in a wash, and I would rather have Luc for the playoffs (if we can make it there) instead of Dwill

[shahidi124 [enjin:6591729]]

I can understand wanting to keep the pick and finding a good SF with it. Everything else would likely make me give up on the team. We traded a decent PF/SF backup away for Luc. One of our worst trades ever imo. I hope our FO is smart enough to realize that Price and Hummel have no business on an NBA roster. Unfortunately I don't think we can use smart and Flip in the same sentence.

You're kidding me, right? Can you explain how that was the "worst trade ever"? Or even a bad trade? DWill has had 2 good games since going to the Kings. His first game there and last night. That's really it.

[bleedspeed]

I would rather have given minutes to DWill then Luc at this point. Better yet we shouldn't have given him the next year on his contract and let him expire.

[longstrangetrip [enjin:6600564]]

I can understand wanting to keep the pick and finding a good SF with it. Everything else would likely make me give up on the team. We traded a decent PF/SF backup away for Luc. One of our worst trades ever imo. I hope our FO is smart enough to realize that Price and Hummel have no business on an NBA roster. Unfortunately I don't think we can use smart and Flip in the same sentence.

You're kidding me, right? Can you explain how that was the "worst trade ever"? Or even a bad trade? DWill has had 2 good games since going to the Kings. His first game there and last night. That's really it.

In all fairness, Luc hasn't exactly lit things up since the trade either. I think we spend entirely too much time analyzing this trade, because it was a classic "trash for trash" trade. Neither Williams or Luc are complete NBA players. Luc can defend better than most players but has almost no offensive game. And Williams is effective one out of every ten games or so. Nobody won, and nobody lost on this trade.

[Camden [enjin:6601484]]

I would rather have given minutes to DWill then Luc at this point. Better yet we shouldn't have given him the next year on his contract and let him expire.

Pretty much, but that's easy to say in hindsight. What would have happened had D-Will finally put it together this season in his third year (like a lot of players do) and been the player he has the talent to be? He'd be a RFA and in line for a big pay day or force a trade. I get it, the situation looks brighter if D-Will plays better here, but the end result would have been us not having him for another year at $5M. Everyone (fans and media) would have been killing Flip for making that critical mistake in not accepting D-Will's option.

The only perfect outcome for Flip's reputation in this situation was declining his option, expecting D-Will to not progress even though he's 22 years old, and then using D-Will as a contract/taking the cap room this summer.

[longstrangetrip [enjin:6600564]]

Am I the only one who DOESN'T want them to be serious? Keep the lotto pick, draft a SF (again?) or a PF (as a better backup than LRMaM, or as insurance against Love leaving), resign Price and Hummel, maybe a well-placed trade or two, and go to battle next Halloween.

Personally, I'd rather have the playoff experience. It's easier to replicate success than it is to do it for the first time. Love needs to get to the post-season. Ricky's always made the post-season -- except for the time he's been a Timberwolf. I think the same goes for Pekovic. These guys need to win. I'll take making the playoffs over a late lottery pick (guys I like) any day. We have to change the culture here.

Although the prospect of making the playoffs still seems unlikely, I'm definitely in the camp of preferring a playoff appearance to a draft pick. A healthy Wolves team could keep things interesting in a series, and I'm hungry for some playoff basketball. It's nice to know that a nice draft pick is waiting for us if we don't make the playoffs though.

Unless.............unless the unthinkable happens, and the Wolves fall into the dreaded David Kahn black hole, and we get neither a draft pick nor a playoff.

[mjs34]

I can understand wanting to keep the pick and finding a good SF with it. Everything else would likely make me give up on the team. We traded a decent PF/SF backup away for Luc. One of our worst trades ever imo. I hope our FO is smart enough to realize that Price and Hummel have no business on an NBA roster. Unfortunately I don't think we can use smart and Flip in the same sentence.

You're kidding me, right? Can you explain how that was the "worst trade ever"? Or even a bad trade? DWill has had 2 good games since going to the Kings. His first game there and last night. That's really it.

DW has scored over 20 three times, and been in double figures an additional 20 times. Luc has made it to double digits 2 times. DW is 22 years old while Luc is 27. What that means is that one guy will likely improve, while the other won't.

[Camden [enjin:6601484]]

If it makes anyone feel better, I don't want D-Will or Luc. It means relatively nothing to me anymore.