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thedoper wrote:Detroit just beat Denver on the road with a bunch of scrubs while shooting 28% from 3. NBA can just be wacky. They can trade us Jokic and we can play 3 centers.

76ers also won without its best 3 players

kekgeek1 wrote:

thedoper wrote:Detroit just beat Denver on the road with a bunch of scrubs while shooting 28% from 3. NBA can just be wacky. They can trade us Jokic and we can play 3 centers.

76ers also won without its best 3 players

These results are killing my gambling account

I enjoyed PatBev last year as much as anyone, but not so much as the season wore on. I wonder if the Wolves brass had some concerns too and weren't too reluctant to include him in the Gobert trade. Well, Pat has started 14 games this season and is averaging a whopping 4.1 PPG with a TS% of 40.6...23.8 on threes. And Pat hasn't handled adversity well, because he's about to serve a 3-game suspension for "forcibly" shoving Ayton courageously from behind. Punk move. He's lucky he only got 3 games.

I am way down on our fighting Timberwolves after an absurdly bad loss to a terrible Hornets team, but as others have pointed out, the West is weird this year. Despite such a disappointing start to the season, the Wolves are only 2 1/2 games out of first place. Had they gotten the job done in Charlotte, they would have been 11-8 and tied for 3rd place. Instead we fell to 10th.

FNG wrote:I enjoyed PatBev last year as much as anyone, but not so much as the season wore on. I wonder if the Wolves brass had some concerns too and weren't too reluctant to include him in the Gobert trade. Well, Pat has started 14 games this season and is averaging a whopping 4.1 PPG with a TS% of 40.6...23.8 on threes. And Pat hasn't handled adversity well, because he's about to serve a 3-game suspension for "forcibly" shoving Ayton courageously from behind. Punk move. He's lucky he only got 3 games.

I'm not sure which of them was worse this one or when he pushed Chris Paul. He did also get ejected from the game he was playing in so that's likely considered part of the suspension. What also makes this thing bad to me is he could have ended up hurting his own teammate if Ayton fell/stepped awkwardly. The Wolves likely miss some of Beverly's energy and so do I but yeah not good.

FNG wrote:I am way down on our fighting Timberwolves after an absurdly bad loss to a terrible Hornets team, but as others have pointed out, the West is weird this year. Despite such a disappointing start to the season, the Wolves are only 2 1/2 games out of first place. Had they gotten the job done in Charlotte, they would have been 11-8 and tied for 3rd place. Instead we fell to 10th.

The Wolves will feel the full sting of these bad losses to far inferior, depleted teams later in the season when they're losing to equal or better teams at full strength a the same time the Wolves start suffering some injuries. That's where it will get ugly and Danny Ainge will start drooling over the prospect of another 2023 lottery pick and perhaps may more lottery picks the the remaining odd years this decade.

lipoli390 wrote:

FNG wrote:I am way down on our fighting Timberwolves after an absurdly bad loss to a terrible Hornets team, but as others have pointed out, the West is weird this year. Despite such a disappointing start to the season, the Wolves are only 2 1/2 games out of first place. Had they gotten the job done in Charlotte, they would have been 11-8 and tied for 3rd place. Instead we fell to 10th.

The Wolves will feel the full sting of these bad losses to far inferior, depleted teams later in the season when they're losing to equal or better teams at full strength a the same time the Wolves start suffering some injuries. That's where it will get ugly and Danny Ainge will start drooling over the prospect of another 2023 lottery pick and perhaps may more lottery picks the the remaining odd years this decade.

The Spurs must be thinking the same thing about Atlanta who lost to the Rockets right?

lipoli390 wrote:

FNG wrote:I am way down on our fighting Timberwolves after an absurdly bad loss to a terrible Hornets team, but as others have pointed out, the West is weird this year. Despite such a disappointing start to the season, the Wolves are only 2 1/2 games out of first place. Had they gotten the job done in Charlotte, they would have been 11-8 and tied for 3rd place. Instead we fell to 10th.

The Wolves will feel the full sting of these bad losses to far inferior, depleted teams later in the season when they're losing to equal or better teams at full strength a the same time the Wolves start suffering some injuries. That's where it will get ugly and Danny Ainge will start drooling over the prospect of another 2023 lottery pick and perhaps may more lottery picks the the remaining odd years this decade.

Lip, I still believe in the talent of this team enough to think Ainge will never get a lottery pick from us. But that doesn't detract much from the sting of a terrible start to the season. Breakdown our 10 wins: 5 against the bottom 4 teams in the West, 4 last week against teams missing 2 or more of their best players, and then finally an impressive win against the Pacers. And sandwiched in between are several losses to teams that we should have beaten by double digits. Sure there are other disappointing teams this season (like the Warriors, who seem to be pulling it together just in time to meet us), but based on our very good health and weak strength of schedule, I can't find any performance as disappointing as ours.

I loved the Gobert trade and, like many here, I'll go down fighting before finally admitting I was dead wrong. But I'm wavering...

I'm with Kek on the Wolves slow start. It's all about shooting. They are ranked 27th in 3pt % as a team. Unless you absolutely dominate the possession battle (rebound differential and turnover differential), you simply can't make up for that kind of poor 3-point shooting in a league dominated by that shot. The fact we have a winning record with that kind of shooting speaks to the fact that we're a solid team otherwise.

monsterpile wrote:

lipoli390 wrote:

FNG wrote:I am way down on our fighting Timberwolves after an absurdly bad loss to a terrible Hornets team, but as others have pointed out, the West is weird this year. Despite such a disappointing start to the season, the Wolves are only 2 1/2 games out of first place. Had they gotten the job done in Charlotte, they would have been 11-8 and tied for 3rd place. Instead we fell to 10th.

The Wolves will feel the full sting of these bad losses to far inferior, depleted teams later in the season when they're losing to equal or better teams at full strength a the same time the Wolves start suffering some injuries. That's where it will get ugly and Danny Ainge will start drooling over the prospect of another 2023 lottery pick and perhaps may more lottery picks the the remaining odd years this decade.

The Spurs must be thinking the same thing about Atlanta who lost to the Rockets right?

Maybe, Monster. Murray is turning into one of the biggest jerks in the league, and I'm guessing Pop would rather have the draft picks than Dejounte's on-court attitude and 52 TS%. I still like our trade better than Atlanta's, but I don't see either the Spurs or the Jazz getting a lottery pick out of them.