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WildWolf2813 wrote:to anyone arguing Wiggins vs. LaVine, deep down you know if Wiggins and Lavine swapped places tonight, Zach woulda been in the corner the entire 4th quarter while we lament Wiggins finally taking that next step.

I've always believe that the moment they trade a frustrating player he'd finally put it all together.... so far Rubio has proven me wrong.

Teague is absolute trash. God how i yearn for ricky rubio. Seriously, rewatch this game and just watch him. He is so horrible.

Also i really think we will regret trading lavine instead of wiggins. The athleticism and especially lavines handle is just so impressive. He can get wherever on the floor with ease and that jumper is much better than wiggins. Not to mention his conpetitive flare.

Last, thibs has got to go. Too many dumb decisions. No reason butler just run iso and towns not getting touches. Still pissed about us guarding the inbound in cle game when everyone in the building knew lebron would be getting the ball. Thibs has lost touch. This team is greatly underacheiving with this talent.

Can we imagine a team of rubio lavine butler gibson and towns. So depressing.

crazysauce wrote:Teague is absolute trash. God how i yearn for ricky rubio. Seriously, rewatch this game and just watch him. He is so horrible.

Also i really think we will regret trading lavine instead of wiggins. The athleticism and especially lavines handle is just so impressive. He can get wherever on the floor with ease and that jumper is much better than wiggins. Not to mention his conpetitive flare.

Last, thibs has got to go. Too many dumb decisions. No reason butler just run iso and towns not getting touches. Still pissed about us guarding the inbound in cle game when everyone in the building knew lebron would be getting the ball. Thibs has lost touch. This team is greatly underacheiving with this talent.

Can we imagine a team of rubio lavine butler gibson and towns. So depressing.

It's unlikely that they have Butler and Gibson without Thibs, pick your poison!

WildWolf2813 wrote:to anyone arguing Wiggins vs. LaVine, deep down you know if Wiggins and Lavine swapped places tonight, Zach woulda been in the corner the entire 4th quarter while we lament Wiggins finally taking that next step.

Lol.

This loss is on thibs coaching period. That iso jimmy offense should not go an entire quarter. It went on the last 3-4mins of the cavs game and the whole 5min into overtime. This game it went the whole 4th. Jimmy is an all star and the main guy we have another all star in towns. Wiggins needs some shots and touches as he has delivered in the years past. Ball and player movement is important to get all guys involved and make the defense react. Our offense is basically jimmy dribbling, set some screens to get some switches but we never pass the ball to our bigs in the low block when a big switch on jimmy.

Call some plays thibs! Yes, wig and towns miss shots and we may lose games because they and others miss shots in the end. But how are they going to develop in close game situations when they are told to stay out of the way and hope for a broken play so they can get some touches and put up a shot.

Oh and remember we lost on 1 pt which was technical on thibs for yelling at towns. Very typical.

WildWolf2813 wrote:to anyone arguing Wiggins vs. LaVine, deep down you know if Wiggins and Lavine swapped places tonight, Zach woulda been in the corner the entire 4th quarter while we lament Wiggins finally taking that next step.

Or Crawford would have been in the game and Zach would have been on the bench. Let's be honest.

Taking a step back on this post.

In the end we might regret not trading Wiggins instead of Lavine. I like both players a lot, and I think they both will be very solid NBA players. But it is so hard to compare how player X would do than player Y in certain situations. Now if Lavine was on this team instead of Wiggins, he would be the third option and how would he do if he was asked to stand in the corner like Wiggins is. We are looking at different roles, Lavine on the Bulls is asked to do almost everything for them down the clutch and damn was he good tonight and good for him.

Like everyone else has said we need to run shit in the last 5 minutes of the game, I am fine with Jimmy taking the shots but lets run him off screens, lets post him up, lets get more ball movement so teams can't load up on him like they did tonight leaving Tyus open and one possession where they left Wiggins wide open and Wiggins missed the open 3.

I don't think we are far off being a really good team, but we have some pretty bad late game execution and I think that is fixable. Like even tonight we had a wide open 3 by our best 3 point shooter and he missed it. I will take that shot 10 out of 10 times.

crazysauce wrote:Oh and remember we lost on 1 pt which was technical on thibs for yelling at towns. Very typical.

If not for that technical Lavine would have had 40 plus with overtime... and Wiggins would have had 18!

That last part was for you Cool! :-P

worldK wrote:This loss is on thibs coaching period. That iso jimmy offense should not go an entire quarter. It went on the last 3-4mins of the cavs game and the whole 5min into overtime. This game it went the whole 4th. Jimmy is an all star and the main guy we have another all star in towns. Wiggins needs some shots and touches as he has delivered in the years past. Ball and player movement is important to get all guys involved and make the defense react. Our offense is basically jimmy dribbling, set some screens to get some switches but we never pass the ball to our bigs in the low block when a big switch on jimmy.

Call some plays thibs! Yes, wig and towns miss shots and we may lose games because they and others miss shots in the end. But how are they going to develop in close game situations when they are told to stay out of the way and hope for a broken play so they can get some touches and put up a shot.

worldK wrote:This loss is on thibs coaching period. That iso jimmy offense should not go an entire quarter. It went on the last 3-4mins of the cavs game and the whole 5min into overtime. This game it went the whole 4th. Jimmy is an all star and the main guy we have another all star in towns. Wiggins needs some shots and touches as he has delivered in the years past. Ball and player movement is important to get all guys involved and make the defense react. Our offense is basically jimmy dribbling, set some screens to get some switches but we never pass the ball to our bigs in the low block when a big switch on jimmy.

Call some plays thibs! Yes, wig and towns miss shots and we may lose games because they and others miss shots in the end. But how are they going to develop in close game situations when they are told to stay out of the way and hope for a broken play so they can get some touches and put up a shot.

I'm just tired of how many games we've lost this way. Jimmy is great, but he's not the be all, end all at the end of games. It's literally beating us to the point of insanity.