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Oh well. We suck. And we will continue to suck until our babies grow up. Which may take several years...

TeamRicky wrote:Ricky has a team best +9. I don't fault him for running down the clock as Wolves were content with last shot or going to OT. If Wiggs makes his free throws, we never get to that point.

I don't disagree with you but it is a huge weakness in ricky game that when the refs let it get physical ricky will struggle creating down the stretch

So pathetic haha.

Like come on. 23 to 4 run by the Lakers. Haha

TeamRicky wrote:Ricky has a team best +9. I don't fault him for running down the clock as Wolves were content with last shot or going to OT. If Wiggs makes his free throws, we never get to that point.

I don't fault him for running down the clock either. I fault him for being afraid to shoot and not being able to run a simple pick and roll. In the most important possession our floor leader needs stones. If you're afraid to shoot give up the ball.

Thibs plays his starters too many minutes and we collapse at the end.

TeamRicky wrote:Thibs plays his starters too many minutes and we collapse at the end.

That is straight false.

We had 2 reserves play almost the whole 4th. The game was in the bag until the bench came in the second half.

The problem is we have 3 guys who are plus players right now. And they all need to be special to win

thedoper wrote:

TeamRicky wrote:Ricky has a team best +9. I don't fault him for running down the clock as Wolves were content with last shot or going to OT. If Wiggs makes his free throws, we never get to that point.

I don't fault him for running down the clock either. I fault him for being afraid to shoot and not being able to run a simple pick and roll. In the most important possession our floor leader needs stones. If you're afraid to shoot give up the ball.

I don't buy that logic. Ricky is not afraid to shoot, but he has the utmost confidence in his passing ability and the confidence in his teammates to make shots.

thedoper wrote:

TeamRicky wrote:Ricky has a team best +9. I don't fault him for running down the clock as Wolves were content with last shot or going to OT. If Wiggs makes his free throws, we never get to that point.

I don't fault him for running down the clock either. I fault him for being afraid to shoot and not being able to run a simple pick and roll. In the most important possession our floor leader needs stones. If you're afraid to shoot give up the ball.

Don't know if he is afraid but he can't create space when the defense clamps down on him what is a problem down the stretch of games if he has the ball

team is pathetic. When we look back on this season, we're gonna view it as a total waste considering the lack of improvement in this team, the early crappy results in team management, the subpar coaching of Thibs, and remember, this is a down year for the West in terms of record for the 8th seed: Dallas, New Orleans, Denver, and Portland are all gonna improve much more exponentially than this team is.

The light at the end of this tunnel is a train.

The thing that bothers me most is that as talented as these guys are, they're some of the mentally weakest players around. The Wolves are like a guy with a bunch of muscles but has a glass jaw.

I jinxed Ricky. I praised him and he's gone stone cold.