Minnesota Sports Forum

WildWolf2813 wrote:Towns: "we got too comfortable with the lead. We thought we'd cruise to the finish line and we stumbled."

This team hasn't learned a damn thing. Not a damn thing.

This is a major problem with this team if they are still getting comfortable with leads in games. How many huge leads do you have to blow in just one season before you realize you aren't good enough to get comfortable ever? I just don't get that mentality on a Thibs team no less when you've blow so many leads this season already. Disappointing to hear the same problems keep happening over and over again. Play hard for 48 minutes or go find a new job ass holes.

Who wasn't guarding Jeff Green?

They just released a new team photo!

That is funny

Fell asleep during with the Wolves up big... caught most of the 4th quarter this morning. Yikes.

It was two entirely different games. I don't know if there was a turning point or not, but the 4th quarter was pretty bad. There was one play in particular late... the announcers were gushing about Jamychal Green when the Grizzlies missed a shot. Green grabbed the rebound and laid it in. Meanwhile. Wiggins was just standing there... he never rotated under the hoop or boxed out.

That's either (a) basic basketball or (b) lazy basketball. Neither is a good sign at that point of the game... the season... and his career.

But I'm not blaming Wiggins alone. It was just a telling moment in a game I only caught glimpses of. The Wolves are still not a playoff team... or even an average team. They are bad. AGAIN.

They are 19 - 32. And that's with an almost entirely healthy team. I guess it's time to start counting ping pong balls -- AGAIN.

CoolBreeze44 wrote:Tyus is one of the best pure basketball players on the team. He will help us win games if Thibs would let him play.

Thibs has to know way more about basketball than we do...what is he seeing that we're not that keeps this guy on the bench except when injuries force his hand?

Q, thanks for the Tyus defense analysis. I would argue that Tyus looking "OK-ish" on defense makes him a viable NBA rotation player...given his offensive skills.

longstrangetrip wrote:

CoolBreeze44 wrote:Tyus is one of the best pure basketball players on the team. He will help us win games if Thibs would let him play.

Thibs has to know way more about basketball than we do...what is he seeing that we're not that keeps this guy on the bench except when injuries force his hand?

Q, thanks for the Tyus defense analysis. I would argue that Tyus looking "OK-ish" on defense makes him a viable NBA rotation player...given his offensive skills.

The PR side of being a coach/GM.

He drafted Dunn at #5. Another guy drafted Tyus Jones at #24.

AbeVigodaLive wrote:

longstrangetrip wrote:

CoolBreeze44 wrote:Tyus is one of the best pure basketball players on the team. He will help us win games if Thibs would let him play.

Thibs has to know way more about basketball than we do...what is he seeing that we're not that keeps this guy on the bench except when injuries force his hand?

Q, thanks for the Tyus defense analysis. I would argue that Tyus looking "OK-ish" on defense makes him a viable NBA rotation player...given his offensive skills.

The PR side of being a coach/GM.

He drafted Dunn at #5. Another guy drafted Tyus Jones at #24.

Yeah, just wanted someone to say it. Next question: Is that how we want our coach making rotation decisions?

(the question is meant to be rhetorical and an indictment of Thibs (and Glen for allowing the same guy to have both jobs), but if someone wants to answer it as if it's not rhetorical, I'm all ears)

longstrangetrip wrote:

AbeVigodaLive wrote:

longstrangetrip wrote:

CoolBreeze44 wrote:Tyus is one of the best pure basketball players on the team. He will help us win games if Thibs would let him play.

Thibs has to know way more about basketball than we do...what is he seeing that we're not that keeps this guy on the bench except when injuries force his hand?

Q, thanks for the Tyus defense analysis. I would argue that Tyus looking "OK-ish" on defense makes him a viable NBA rotation player...given his offensive skills.

The PR side of being a coach/GM.

He drafted Dunn at #5. Another guy drafted Tyus Jones at #24.

Yeah, just wanted someone to say it. Next question: Is that how we want our coach making rotation decisions?

(the question is meant to be rhetorical and an indictment of Thibs (and Glen for allowing the same guy to have both jobs), but if someone wants to answer it as if it's not rhetorical, I'm all ears)

I mean the problem with this team isn't offense, it's defense and Dunn is probably the best perimeter defender on the team with Ricky still being better than Tyus. So you either try to make an effort to play any defense with Dunn and Ricky or you just try to outscore the other team with Tyus and Thibs is always going to think defense first.

bleedspeed177 wrote:Who wasn't guarding Jeff Green?

is it a joke? I can't tell.