Portland @ Minnesota Recap: Gross
by wyn on Nov 16, 2008 10:53 AM CST
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Quoth Skyner last night:
It is physically impossible to shoot a basketball when you have both hands wrapped around your throat.
Hoopus was attending the game last night, drinking and chatting a lot, but it was still a terrible game obvious enough how bad last night was. Not only is the fan psyche either in shambles or rioting, think of how down the team must be. Sure would be great if we had a coach people were confident could pull a young team used to losing out of a downward spiral. Alas, our coach has a career 32.8 winning percentage.
Here are some links to solidify what a terrible game last night was:
- Yahoo! Box Score. While technically accurate, this doesn't show how many times Blake nailed Telfair.
- PopcornMachine's GameFlows are something you should check out regularly. Let me warn you about looking at last night's GameFlow: the Wolves were ahead for what looks to be about 90% of the game.
- BlazersEdge has their game recap up ahead of us. Perhaps celebrating gives you more energy than crying yourself to sleep. They hit all the points: Portland won the end of a road trip, Portland took more 3s, Przybilla and Oden did a good job minimizing the damage of our paint scorers.
Summation: One quarter of decent offense and poor defense. Two-and-a-half-quarters of anti-inspiration. Six minutes of energy and the ballgame. It won’t work every night, but it did on this one.
- The Star Tribune roundup and the Pioneer Press roundup. Also, Al wonders if there is a "curse" on the team. There may be. The curse could be spelled "W-I-T-T-M-A-N," or "M-C-H-A-L-E," or "T-A-Y-L-O-R." But I'm no witch doctor, so you tell me.
- There were "boos" at the buzzer last night. I just hope that the 27 fans left in the stands booed loudly enough for Taylor, McHale, Wittman and the players to hear.
- Having said all that, Hoopus was actually a guest of the team last night. So a huge thank you goes out to their ticketing team! Unfortunately you can't market your way out of a 1-7 hole.
[Editor's note: my editing sucked the first time around. Apologies.]
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I just posted this on the previous thread
before this went up. I’ll repost it here
Small Ball
I’m not as large a critic of small ball as Britt, but Wittman’s insistence upon playing Al Jefferson only at the center spot is a bit troubling. It is nice to see a Jason Collins sighting, but its the same thing as last year and Ratliff, when he was available. WIttman used Collins when he wanted to rest Jefferson. He never played Collins alongside Jefferson. Its only one game, but if past history is any indicator, I con’t think we will see Jefferson as the power forward for this team.
Why not run out a front line of Jefferson, Collins and Love for some minutes or even Jefferson, Collins and Smith. WIth Portland and all the long bodies they have, the Wolves can play bigger and stronger against these guys and make a guy like Roy think twice before driving into the lane. Obviously Collins can’t play a lot of minutes, but there’s still booth, Maddog and even Cardinal as possibilities to throw out there when you want to give Collins a rest.
But, the bigger problem is the guards and how to use Brewer. I read a little from Z in the Strib this morning asking where Miller and Love were in the 4rth qtr. And, Miller has to get some minutes going at the 2 in the 4rth. But, WHere was Brewer in the 4rth. Wittman must have been reading Britt and all the other Blogs since the road trip and everyones praising of Gomes playing the 3 and how he should not be playing PF for the WOlves. Well, Goves can’t play the 3 when he has to guard players like Roy, Manu, Kobe, TMAC or other quick shooting forwards either. ROy was toying with him and after blowing by Gomes he had a soft undersized frontcourt waiting for him who had to worry about Pryz Aldrich and Oden too. It was a disaster. But did Wittman even think that he might want to think about how he does not want to let Roy beat the WOlves in the 4rth and that his best on ball defender is sitting on the bench. Just like he doesn’t think about playing Collins alongside Jefferson, he doesn’t give a thought to playing Brewer when he most needs him. disgusting.
The WOlves really need a point Guard, too. Really need one. I don’t have any suggestions, but I tell you its getting harder and harder to root for this team. Foye, McCants and Telfair… last night were, well… yuck
by Andy B on Nov 16, 2008 10:59 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
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