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Nollr37 wrote:Hey Lip, with this recent success for the Wolves are you going to eventually concede that Rosas got something right with the hire of Chris Finch?

Hey Nollr - You're obviously way behind in your Lip reading. (Pun intended) :). My first post praising Rosas for the Finch hire is now ancient history. And my praise for Rosas didn't stop there. I've praised him since for drafting Edwards and McDaniels after expressing my initial doubts about both on draft night and for a while thereafter. Then there was my even more ancient praise for drafting Nowell and signing both Naz and JMac as undrafted free agents. I was also a fan of the Beasley deal.

I'm certain I'll never praise Rosas for drafting Culver. And it will take a lot before I praise him for trading both 2021 picks with only top 3 1st-round protection to get DLO or for paying Juancho $7M per year for two years. I'm not crazy about the Rubio deal either. But the positive side of my Rosas ledger is filling up nicely.

You are correct I did forget about those posts. Maybe it's just that I'm not used to WOLVES posters being so high on this team. Are we finally rounding the corner towards success with this Franchise!

Nollr37 wrote:You are correct I did forget about those posts. Maybe it's just that I'm not used to WOLVES posters being so high on this team. Are we finally rounding the corner towards success with this Franchise!

We can only hope. My sense is that we are starting to turn the corner. I think this team would be in the running for at least the play-in tournament if KAT and DLO had been healthy all season and Finch had been here from the beginning. As I see it, here are the two keys going forward:

1. DLO playing consistently with the overall intensity on both sides of the ball we saw from him last night.

2. Our two rookies continuing to progress towards their potential. Both of these guys clearly have the potential to be great all-star caliber two-way players.