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Well if we retain the lottery pick this year doesbt it turn into two 2nds next year??

TheFuture wrote:Well if we retain the lottery pick this year doesbt it turn into two 2nds next year??

I believe so....although we might break some kind of record for most lottery picks on a single roster. Unbelievable.

Ah, the path to Draftexpress is a well-worn one for us T-wolves fan! Although I have a feeling Thibs and Layden have no interest in keeping the kiddie-parade going much longer. Consider it just another asset that Thibs and Layden could potentially put in play as they try to re-make the team this offseason.

Just in case you want to feel even worse, Brooklyn and Philly have both won as many games as the Wolves.

Q12543 wrote:Until Wiggins, KAT, and LaVine realize that you actually have to get your hands a little dirty when you play basketball, this team is going no where. When shots aren't going down, you have to claw and scratch your way through it - dive for loose balls, take a charge, get an offensive rebound. I didn't see any of that! All these three want to do is make the big sexy play. Not good enough!

No one is gonna say it because they're really really young, but they're losers until proven otherwise, from the best to the worst player on this team. It's time people treat them that way until they show otherwise. It's like what I said after the Nets game, some teachers start you with an A and say "it's up to you to keep it." Well this team started the season as failures and have nothing to disprove the notion that we'll be waiting forever for this team to figure it out.

TheFuture wrote:

60WinTim wrote:BTW, it's a 9-man rotation. Bazz in, Payne out.

They said bazz was a plus 9 on the floor. I saw 1 defensive rebound, 1 offensive rebound off his own miss, 1 Bucket, 1 no brainer assist, and 2 offensive fouls..

I hope we move him for a ball moving floor spacer or defender.

Agree...he was tough to watch tonight.

Can Minnesota pass a friggin law the disallows the Wolves and Wild from playing on the same evenings? I've had enough of watching both of these pathetic teams lose within an hour of each other.

Went to the game tonight, but way too disgusted to kick out a separate thread game report.

As a basketball fan, it was a pleasure to see such a clear example of a well-coached team and a poorly-coached team. But it's not fun to be a season ticket holder of the poorly coached team. I understand that we lost the game tonight because we couldn't make a 3-point shot. But we simply can't continue to ignore these continuing second half collapses, and our coach's impact on them. These are the things I saw tonight that are on Thibs:

1) There was no question that our starters were gassed in the 4th quarter tonight, while Stevens had a fresh team out there running circles around us. Tired legs=missed jump shots and poor defense, and we saw both in spades in the 4th quarter. We know that Thibs played his starters almost the entire game, while Stevens recognized that there are 4 quarters in a game, and substituted more wisely throughout the game. What we don't know is how hard Thibs worked his team in practice yesterday. We do know his reputation though, and we can safely assume that Thibs' Sunday practice was a lot more intense than Stevens'.

2) We know that Thibs left Bjelica on the bench for all but 10 minutes of the game. Oh. by the way, he scored 10 points during those precious 10 minutes Thibs gave him. He would have looked awfully good on the floor in the 4th instead of the tired guys Thibs went with.

3) We know that Rubio had the ball in his hands much of the 3 quarters, and the result was a lot of layups...points in the paint were a mismatch tonight. But in the 4th, Thibs positioned Wig at the top of the key again and put Ricky in the corner, and the result was a lot of 3-point jumpers from tireed players. What the fuck is Thibs thinking?????

I'm sorry guys, but I'm fed up. I'm so tired of Thibs bellowing and waving his arms disgustedly on the sidelines, when a lot of the reasons his team is playing so poorly is HIM. Yes, I was not a fan of his hiring, but the results are much more dire than I could have imagined. This is a $10 million disaster, plain and simple.

There is one area where Thibs is much better than Mitchell...he's much more polite and not as defensive as Sam was in the post-game comments. But some of his comments are as dumb or dumber than Sam's. Tonight he told the media that we have been a good 4th quarter team all season. What???? Did he even watch the Memphis game 2 nights before? That's 2 disastrous 4th quarters in a row, and there have been others that have also been bad.

Thibs needs to pull this back together...and soon.

You know it's bad when this board shows this much apathy. I don't even know what to say at this point. Coming into the season I never thought I would I could feel as demoralized about this team as I do tonight. I think this HAS to be rock bottom. I can't imagine it getting any worse. Can it?

Q12543 wrote:Until Wiggins, KAT, and LaVine realize that you actually have to get your hands a little dirty when you play basketball, this team is going no where. When shots aren't going down, you have to claw and scratch your way through it - dive for loose balls, take a charge, get an offensive rebound. I didn't see any of that! All these three want to do is make the big sexy play. Not good enough!

According box score KAT got 6 offensive boards that alone matches the amount of offensive boards entire Boston team got. So he did at least some of those scrappy things as well.

CoolBreeze44 wrote:You know it's bad when this board shows this much apathy. I don't even know what to say at this point. Coming into the season I never thought I would I could feel as demoralized about this team as I do tonight. I think this HAS to be rock bottom. I can't imagine it getting any worse. Can it?

Sam is better than Thibs now. Sam kept it simple. Thibs want this team his way and it doesn't work. I thought they didn't have fun under Sam, but Thibs seems to be even worse. Look at what Luke does in LA with a less talented young team.