Minnesota Sports Forum

For those of you that talk like a 5 year deal for Love would mean we just wouldn't have tried to build a better roster until the threat of him leaving hits 2 years later, I just have to ask: what are you talking about? What GM signs a guy to a max 5 year deal and says, "good, now that he's locked up lets try to keep sucking because he can't do anything about if for two more years". You talk like any front office is complacent of losing as long as they have their guy locked up long-term. The only thing Love's 5 year deal would have guaranteed was him being here for 2 more years. You don't sign a guy to a max deal and then do nothing on top of that because you can.

Believe it or not, this isn't the make or break season because half our roster is new on top of our big 3 barely playing together until this year. Team chemistry doesn't happen in one offseason and 2 months of basketball. I think it is a joke that people honestly defend the Love deal because they think that a five year deal would have lead to a front office that wouldn't have cared to make the team any better because they didn't have to. If anything, this rush to win right now cost us some long-term title contending potential because of how we focused so heavily on bringing in mid-level vets that ate up our cap and don't appear to have pushed us over the top. I would rather have had another lottery season this year to add a top ten pick in this draft and go all in next year with Love on a 5 year deal. That would have given us some long-term winning potential just in time for Love's 5 year deal to expire instead of where we are now which is no man's land and him set to opt-out after next season.

khans2k5 wrote:For those of you that talk like a 5 year deal for Love would mean we just wouldn't have tried to build a better roster until the threat of him leaving hits 2 years later, I just have to ask: what are you talking about? What GM signs a guy to a max 5 year deal and says, "good, now that he's locked up lets try to keep sucking because he can't do anything about if for two more years". You talk like any front office is complacent of losing as long as they have their guy locked up long-term. The only thing Love's 5 year deal would have guaranteed was him being here for 2 more years. You don't sign a guy to a max deal and then do nothing on top of that because you can.

Believe it or not, this isn't the make or break season because half our roster is new on top of our big 3 barely playing together until this year. Team chemistry doesn't happen in one offseason and 2 months of basketball. I think it is a joke that people honestly defend the Love deal because they think that a five year deal would have lead to a front office that wouldn't have cared to make the team any better because they didn't have to. If anything, this rush to win right now cost us some long-term title contending potential because of how we focused so heavily on bringing in mid-level vets that ate up our cap and don't appear to have pushed us over the top. I would rather have had another lottery season this year to add a top ten pick in this draft and go all in next year with Love on a 5 year deal. That would have given us some long-term winning potential just in time for Love's 5 year deal to expire instead of where we are now which is no man's land and him set to opt-out after next season.

What has this team done to speed up this losing culture? It didn't get going til Ricky and Rick Adelman got here. Ever since Adelman has been here it's about winning now, getting better faster. It's gotten to a point where this team equates developing players with losing. Given the futures of Love and Rubio, they have to win or else. If they had a locked up Love for 5 years, your idea of dipping into the lottery yet again wouldn't make Love feel any better. a 5 year deal for him wouldn't buy this team more time since we'd be hoping he doesn't get fed up after every season.

And no excuse for team chemistry. The Phoenix Suns have 9 new players on the roster not including Frye yet they're better than us. Last year the Warriors got it done with new guys and 3 rookies.

It seems we all have our own interpretation of what a superstar is.
In my eyes putting a superstar on any team with anyknnd of talent or lack there of and its automatically in the playoffs. Kevin hasnt shown the ability too do that.

Its tough to blame him for that if u look at the numbers. Thats why I blame his position as well. Just like the Nfl being a qbs league the NBA is dominated by its wings and pg play. The league has become much to long and athletic to expect PFs to dominate games. Unless ur able to put the ball on the floor ,dribble out of double teams and be a shot creator from anywhere on the floor it will be tough to dominate games especially at crunch time when the focus is soley on u.

Love is a great playerbut if the opportunity arose to trade or draft for a potential dominate wing then Love must be considered as the tool used to do that. IMO