Minnesota Sports Forum

TheFuture wrote:

Duke13 wrote:I was at the game last night. Had the fortune of sitting court side in Cambria's seats. I thought Kat was terrible, both side of the ball. He had the stretch in the 2nd/3rd quarter where he scored at will often going 3-1, he's yet to figure out how to make players better. During this stretch Kat felt the need to start jawing with Sabonis, one time chasing him down the court and tripping him, getting called for the foul and crying about it. Crawford, from the bench tried to wave Kat over to him to calm him down. Kat looked right at him and waved him off, and just ignored him,Crawford was noticeably annoyed. I thought that was interesting because I've seen a handful of times in huddles this year where Crawford is coaching Kat, which I think is great and needed.

He's such a selfish player to me, he's the most annoying player on the team in my eyes. He lacks any sort of leadership skills. Even worse is he pretends to be a leader. At least Wiggins doesn't present. Lip, you're at a lot of games, give me an example of Kat showing leadership skills, encouraging teammate, etc...

Also, Tyus played his worst game in awhile. He had about 3-4 opportunities when the ball was swung around the perimeter where he passed up wide open 3's instead passing to much less open teammates. It was bad, Belly did this a couple time also.

I share the sentiment about KAT. In fact, I'd take it a step further and say he is quickly becoming my least favorite player. He is a supreme talent, but I'm starting to see that all the talk has gotten to his head. He is always out of position on D and fails to ever box out simply relying on his talent to hopefully get boards, plays like a guard with 3 fouls when someone comes at the rim so as to ensure that he can continue to get his on the offensive end, forces way too much when he feels hot or hasnt gotten his, and then regurgitates the same bs post game and does nothing different. His head/ego seems larger than the teams cumulative. His 20/10 begins to look like it comes at the expense of the team.

I won't get started too much on Teague. His OKC game was great, and light years ahead of what Rubio can do as far as repertoire offensively, but when he is off, he is worthless. At least Rubio covered 80% of the game any given night. Rubio/Wiggins/Butler/Belly/Kat would have been dynamite.