When does Flip start getting ripped?

[Camden [enjin:6601484]]

Thad Young for MVP.
Cut Anthony Bennett.
Trade Martin and Pekovic.
Give Brewer to a contender for peanuts.
Exile Budinger from Minnesota.
Start Gorgui at PF. Err -- wait -- C.
Go back to the retro units.

[WildWolf2813]

Flip deserves to be ripped because anything positive has come from luck or by accident, that and his philosophy doesn't seem conducive to winning in today's NBA.

It's like how McHale wanted to be a smashmouth basketball team when he was here and it wasn't the way to go.

[Monster]

I'm curious as to what old school stats retro units are. :)

It was a little over a week people were thrilled with this team for the most part and Rubio went down we started a 19 year old rookie developmental player at PG and the last 2 games we were playing without one of the best players in Thad. What were people realistically expecting to happen?

[WildWolf2813]

I'm curious as to what old school stats retro units are. :)

It was a little over a week people were thrilled with this team for the most part and Rubio went down we started a 19 year old rookie developmental player at PG and the last 2 games we were playing without one of the best players in Thad. What were people realistically expecting to happen?

The ship was gonna sink because the team is tied to Ricky and Ricky alone. What causes my distrust is that Flip and Milt tried to undermine that so much (the way you could say Kahn undermined Love)

[TeamRicky [enjin:6648771]]

Idiotic thread. Flip had a fantastic offseason and he's the right man to develop young talent. I love what Flip is doing. With Rubio out, playoffs seem unlikely, might as well develop young guys and get a top draft pick.

[alexftbl8181 [enjin:6648741]]

I'm curious as to what old school stats retro units are. :)

It was a little over a week people were thrilled with this team for the most part and Rubio went down we started a 19 year old rookie developmental player at PG and the last 2 games we were playing without one of the best players in Thad. What were people realistically expecting to happen?

The ship was gonna sink because the team is tied to Ricky and Ricky alone. What causes my distrust is that Flip and Milt tried to undermine that so much (the way you could say Kahn undermined Love)

If you become this bad by losing a guy of Ricky's caliber, whose not even a top 10 PG, doesn't that say something to the guy who built the roster?

[Volans19]

I'm curious as to what old school stats retro units are. :)

It was a little over a week people were thrilled with this team for the most part and Rubio went down we started a 19 year old rookie developmental player at PG and the last 2 games we were playing without one of the best players in Thad. What were people realistically expecting to happen?

The ship was gonna sink because the team is tied to Ricky and Ricky alone. What causes my distrust is that Flip and Milt tried to undermine that so much (the way you could say Kahn undermined Love)

If you become this bad by losing a guy of Ricky's caliber, whose not even a top 10 PG, doesn't that say something to the guy who built the roster?

Wiggins
LaVine
Bennett
Dieng
Shabazz
GR3
Hummel

7 players on our roster have less than 2 years of NBA experience. CALM DOWN. Anyone who thought that we would be good this year was delusional to begin with

[alexftbl8181 [enjin:6648741]]

I'm curious as to what old school stats retro units are. :)

It was a little over a week people were thrilled with this team for the most part and Rubio went down we started a 19 year old rookie developmental player at PG and the last 2 games we were playing without one of the best players in Thad. What were people realistically expecting to happen?

The ship was gonna sink because the team is tied to Ricky and Ricky alone. What causes my distrust is that Flip and Milt tried to undermine that so much (the way you could say Kahn undermined Love)

If you become this bad by losing a guy of Ricky's caliber, whose not even a top 10 PG, doesn't that say something to the guy who built the roster?

Wiggins
LaVine
Bennett
Dieng
Shabazz
GR3
Hummel

7 players on our roster have less than 2 years of NBA experience. CALM DOWN. Anyone who thought that we would be good this year was delusional to begin with

I'm curious as to what old school stats retro units are. :)

a guy of Ricky's caliber, whose not even a top 10 PG, doesn't that say something to the guy who built the roster?

GR3 and Hummel are 14th and 15th guys who don't even play. Is there a person who Flip has signed so far that people don't already want to get rid of?

Brewer- get rid of him
Martin- get rid of him
Bud- get rid of him
Pek- get rid of him
Hummel- get rid of him
Mo- get rid of him

All signed by Flip

[thedoper]

No proper blame can ever be assessed to this franchise without looking at the Mankato moron. Flip has done well to capitalize on opportunity and try to make something out of a bad situation, but this team will never be remedied with Taylor as an owner. We have the worst type of sports problem right now because our problem is with ownership. I hope to god KG can buy this team, at least we know he wouldn't be cheap. The real reason we are in as big of a mess as we are right now (and I agree we should not be surprised or panicked) is that Taylor wanted a little extra dough and agreed to a home game in Mexico City, and we start the season with a 6 game 2 week road trip with record setting miles of travel. This team needs as much practice as possible and some confidence established through some home wins. Taylor doesn't give a crap about anything other than saving money at this point. Yes he paid the luxury tax at at one point but that was because the economics suited him to do so with a competitive team. And then he immediately complained about it and stated what a mistake that was when management didn't know how to handle high paid egos. We will never have the balls to compete in this league with that idiot up top.

[mjs34]

No proper blame can ever be assessed to this franchise without looking at the Mankato moron. Flip has done well to capitalize on opportunity and try to make something out of a bad situation, but this team will never be remedied with Taylor as an owner. We have the worst type of sports problem right now because our problem is with ownership. I hope to god KG can buy this team, at least we know he wouldn't be cheap. The real reason we are in as big of a mess as we are right now (and I agree we should not be surprised or panicked) is that Taylor wanted a little extra dough and agreed to a home game in Mexico City, and we start the season with a 6 game 2 week road trip with record setting miles of travel. This team needs as much practice as possible and some confidence established through some home wins. Taylor doesn't give a crap about anything other than saving money at this point. Yes he paid the luxury tax at at one point but that was because the economics suited him to do so with a competitive team. And then he immediately complained about it and stated what a mistake that was when management didn't know how to handle high paid egos. We will never have the balls to compete in this league with that idiot up top.

Doper, am not sure of your logic here. Taylor is worth 30 times what KG is, and KG doesn't have even close to enough money to be a majority owner. KG called a lot of the shots when he was with wolves involving personnel, and I think we all no what that got us. I would be more than happy if KG is never involved in a major ownership role.

Taylor will always want the wolves in Minny, and has never been cheap when it came to salaries. Can anyone name one instance when Taylor said it was too much money to sign someone. Remember that Love did get the max salary, just not max years.

I don't see how one game in Mexico city is responsible for a 2-7 record. The wolves could easily have come home for a couple days between Saturday and Wednesday games.

Flip has not done a good job when it comes to filling out the roster. He signed Bud, and Pek to new deals with both having major injury concerns. He signed Hummel at the very least too early in the off season, and with the intent to use him at PF. Hummel is way too small with no athleticism to even be considered for that spot. Turiaf apparently had his hip issue during training camp. Rather than buying out JJ, they might have though about dumping Hummel and/or Turiaf, or buying out Bud instead of JJ. There were many different ways to go with this roster, and it seems as if Flip has chosen poorly in each instance.

Maybe some of his decisions like Young had something to do with convincing Ricky to re-sign here, and so he couldn't go full rebuild mode. Either way, this team has options in front of it, and it is time for Flip to make some hard decisions.