Minnesota Sports Forum

Camden0916 wrote:

Robert Covington was late to a team event -- that is why he did not start tonight.

Ryan Saunders said he was holding Covington accountable, but also said he believes the tardiness was accidental.

That's cute.

Man what a punishment. 4 minute punishment. I'm cool punishing a player but suspend him from the game

The depth on this team is the problem. Rosas did nothing for that this year. Who knows about next but so far its been shit. Culver is not ready. Napier sucks. Bell and Vonleh are for emergency only. Yes this is still very much Thibs' roster but Rosas made the call to go very bottom barrel bargain shopping. Its ugly.

thedoper wrote:The depth on this team is the problem. Rosas did nothing for that this year. Who knows about next but so far its been shit. Culver is not ready. Napier sucks. Bell and Vonleh are for emergency only. Yes this is still very much Thibs' roster but Rosas made the call to go very bottom barrel bargain shopping. Its ugly.

Yep of the guys Rosas has brought in Layman looks like the only for sure NBA player out of the bunch and that is including the #6 overall pick. That is really sad.

We simply lack the talent for this 5 out free for all offense.

Take out kat or wiggs, and we are in a whole lot of trouble.

Cov tried to take up wiggs spot in the offense, but he struggled. Teague struggled. Napier struggled. And these are our 3 best offensive players after kat and wiggs.

Its crazy, but graham or dieng was probably our 2nd best offensive player tonight.

Okogie is a 10th man based on his offense.
And it looks like they might have oversold culvers ability on offense, although its still early.

Both guys not being average offensive players hurt us.

And saunders having this unconditional faith in some of his players is baffling. Dieng? Graham? Teague, Napier? Vonleh needs to see the court, it doesnt matter if diengs feelings are hurt.

thedoper wrote:The depth on this team is the problem. Rosas did nothing for that this year. Who knows about next but so far its been shit. Culver is not ready. Napier sucks. Bell and Vonleh are for emergency only. Yes this is still very much Thibs' roster but Rosas made the call to go very bottom barrel bargain shopping. Its ugly.

Depth is a problem because no one has panned out.

Okogie and culver have not taken the step they should have.
Layman is hurt.
Vonleh is quality, but Saunders wont play him from fear of hurting diengs feelings.
Bell, graham, and napier are minimum guys that shouldn't be relied on.

We have teague and dieng making 34 mill a year combined.

When do we start ripping Rojas? We stink at shooting, so he drafts a wing with a broken shot? Would Herro have helped us more?

papalrep wrote:When do we start ripping Rojas? We stink at shooting, so he drafts a wing with a broken shot? Would Herro have helped us more?

Given this team, he either wouldn't be playing or he wouldn't be shooting well.

papalrep wrote:When do we start ripping Rojas? We stink at shooting, so he drafts a wing with a broken shot? Would Herro have helped us more?

I'm not ready to completely give up on Culver, but I'm pretty positive that Herro and Saric would have helped us a lot more than he has.

Let's stop pretending Okogie is a real NBA rotation player. You could lock him in the gym overnight, and he would emerge scoreless when you let him out in the morning.

CoolBreeze44 wrote:Let's stop pretending Okogie is a real NBA rotation player. You could lock him in the gym overnight, and he would emerge scoreless when you let him out in the morning.

:-d

We are actually missing Layman a bit, he was able to drive and score relatively well. Though relative to what we have is not much.

I'm not sure what happened but when it was apparent this team was going tank mode, the defense and player intensity went to zero. The defense was 12th in the NBA, then since then they are last. Defense is all about intensity and desire to win. We just are not playing with any. Yes having no one else besides Wiggins, KAT and RoCo as legitimate NBA starters is a problem. Maybe Layman is actually OK too but he's hurt. KAT's out so of course you won't win any games when you are down to 1 or 2 NBA players.