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60WinTim wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2025 9:09 pm

Monster wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2025 8:54 pm

Q-is-here wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2025 5:38 pm

So we have Tim wandering in the wilderness and Abe giggling like a schoolgirl over the Wolves win against Denver. What on earth is happening here!?

I'm looking outside for signs of meteors.

This is the 2nd game I've seen since like game 10 and there was a bunch of interior passing including Gobert and Randle. There was some the precious game but that first half Rudy was really playing well in that regard. Might have helped it was such a small Nuggets lineup out there. Randle was enjoying that for sure.

Another observation. In these 2 games I've watched Conley looks like the same guy as last year to me. That was not the case earlier in the season. I'll be interested to see how that plays out as I watch games.

Okay, so back to being opTIMistic... Looking at the monthly splits for Conley, Jaden and NAZ, all three of them have been scoring very efficiently for the month of January, after having very subpar numbers the previous 3 months. That's encouraging!

NAW on the other hand has fallen off a cliff after being pretty effective in previous months. Oh well. And Randle's numbers just don't stand out particularly well. I still look forward to moving on from Randle, but if he's still here after the 6th, I'll be rooting for all of them the rest of the season.

I think it was Jace Fredrick that tweeted out a couple days ago that Randle's net rating the past few games was easily the highest on the Wolves.

NAW has been good the past 2 games maybe he is gonna turn it around which I woukd expect him to. The thing about him is that he does other good stuff he helps even if his 3 point shot isn't falling. He is obviously way more valuable when he is hitting those shots though so hopefully he gets back to making them.

Monster, the interior passing you saw in this Denver game is definitely the exception, not the rule. I was amazed frankly at not just Rudy's passing (especially in the 1st quarter) but his pass-catching. Ant threw a bullet to him from outside the 3-point arc that he actually caught. I couldn't believe it! He even made a couple of 5-footers over people.

I probably have more faith in Rudy's ability to make decent passes than catch them, so perhaps half of what we saw from him yesterday is sustainable. Still, we needed a big signature win and he helped the Wolves deliver.

I think Abe needs a new screen name - "Josh" as in Giddey. Or we can just call him Josh going forward. BTW, does Josh have the wins prediction contest locked up yet with his low ball entry?

Coolbreeze44 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2025 1:48 pm I think Abe needs a new screen name - "Josh" as in Giddey. Or we can just call him Josh going forward. BTW, does Josh have the wins prediction contest locked up yet with his low ball entry?

Hey! I'm still in the running. The only thing that might trip me up are those 6 games surrounding the all-star break, which include Cleveland, Milwaukee, Houston, and OKC 3 times...