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I don't see any realistic way in which we lose any of those three. The cap situation allows them to stay together for as long as they want, essentially. They all seem to dig each other, but have also already constructively gotten on to each other when needed. Great balance, in my opinion. They've already had some awesome memories to bring them closer too( All-Star weekend). Most importantly, they understand the importance of each other and I have yet to hear one of them talk egotistically about the team. If something goes wrong, it's their fault even when it wasn't. When something goes right, they praise a teammate or teammates for putting them in a good position to succeed. I know it's young and the winning hasn't come yet, but these guys have the right mentality to gel together and create something very, very special here.

Camden0916 wrote:I don't see any realistic way in which we lose any of those three. The cap situation allows them to stay together for as long as they want, essentially. They all seem to dig each other, but have also already constructively gotten on to each other when needed. Great balance, in my opinion. They've already had some awesome memories to bring them closer too( All-Star weekend). Most importantly, they understand the importance of each other and I have yet to hear one of them talk egotistically about the team. If something goes wrong, it's their fault even when it wasn't. When something goes right, they praise a teammate or teammates for putting them in a good position to succeed. I know it's young and the winning hasn't come yet, but these guys have the right mentality to gel together and create something very, very special here.

Absolutely right about the chemistry among these three. Unless one of them turns out to be head case like Marbury, they should want to stay together. Then we have to hope our ownership and front office aren't complete boneheads.

I want to take the opportunity to praise Wiggins passing. He is whipping passes across court sometimes under very heavy duress. It's a significant growth to his game for a guy that gets loaded up on and doesn't have a great handle at this point.

monsterpile wrote:I want to take the opportunity to praise Wiggins passing. He is whipping passes across court sometimes under very heavy duress. It's a significant growth to his game for a guy that gets loaded up on and doesn't have a great handle at this point.

Good point.

I think all three will end up pushing each other to new heights like the OKC trio. Nobody is gonna want to get left behind as we grow as a team so they are each gonna have to find ways to keep up which will help them all improve. The only way the situation could have been better is if they all could have been from one nationality to play international ball together because that program is huge for camaraderie in the US. It even has Lebron talking about making his own super team potentially at the end here. Instead our guys will be separated in US, Puerto Rico and Canada.

khans2k5 wrote:I think all three will end up pushing each other to new heights like the OKC trio. Nobody is gonna want to get left behind as we grow as a team so they are each gonna have to find ways to keep up which will help them all improve. The only way the situation could have been better is if they all could have been from one nationality to play international ball together because that program is huge for camaraderie in the US. It even has Lebron talking about making his own super team potentially at the end here. Instead our guys will be separated in US, Puerto Rico and Canada.

I think you meant Dominican Republic, but yeah, I get your point. Isn't there a rule where if a player has two nationalities he can pick one that he wants to represent? Is that not an option for Towns at this stage?