Some Quick Monday Evening Armchair GM Thoughts
by McCleak on Nov 24, 2008 11:04 PM CST
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1. Someone needs to tell Randy Wittman that his career depends upon giving players development time, not playing to win. I'd rather have Brewer and Love see more playing time a lose a few then have them unprepared for next season.
2. I'm not big fan of trading Miller, but if, if the Wolves feel it's necessary, I would look to Denver. They have a trade exception big enough to fit him, and I think he'd make a killer backcourt with Billups, especially with J.R. Smith doing a faceplant out of the gate. Get the exception and a pick.
3. Make that a pick for a year a two. Instead of having a glut of picks in a single year, from now on the Wolves should concentrate on having 2 picks (theirs plus another) every year. That would give them youth and flexibility moving forward. If that means swapping a pick this year for one next year, so be it.
4. Trade the Celtics pick and Smith for Joakim Noah. Noah is probably at what's going to be the low point of his career, and if he stays like this for two more weeks, the Wolves might be in with a chance.
5. If you get the trade exception for Miller, and get Noah, then even with two picks in the draft the Wolves should still be able to put together a package to pull Childress out of Greece. And this includes keeping McCants.
6. Next year the Wolves would have a rotation of 1. Foye/Telfair 2. McCants/Brewer 3. Childress/Gomes 4. Love/Jefferson 5. Noah plus a lottery pick and (probably) Miami's pick. That's as good as you can ask for in youthful talent.
7. That said, two things to note. First, if Minnesota had insisted on simply getting Miami's pick for the last lottery, they could have Love, Mayo, and Chalmers right now. And second: none of the above will happen with McHale in charge.
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1. I generaly agree on this point though it’s a fact that Love will need some time to get his conditioning up. There’s no point in playing Love big minutes now and having him crash halfway through the season because he’s completely out of energy. I think Brewer also can’t be given to many minutes until he learns to control his playing style better, he’s a high energy guy and a like that, but I’m not sure he would be able to sustain that style of play for 82 games when given more minutes.
I had the same tought about Witt and Minny in general not giving rookies enough minutes, I then went ahead and checked on some numbers and got this chart: http://users.telenet.be/wolvenclaw/chart.gif
As you can see, the minutes our rookies are getting are actually really normal compared to the other rookies.
2. Also not a big fan of trading Miller, I think championships (:o dare I talk about championships at a time like this?) are won with a good mix of talent in its prime and veterans. If we can get the veteran now we can make him gel with the core, that’s even better (I should really stop iterating this point)
4. Smith+something for Noah sounds excellent, give Noah all of Collins’ minutes
Some nice ideas, but I wonder how realistic they are? I don’t think Noah will end up here – probably every GM in the league is aware of his troubles, and other teams can simply put together more attractive packages than the Wolves, in my view. Also, I don’t know if he’s the answer to our problems – I like his length and athleticism, but he’s more of a 4 than a 5 isn’t he? And not very strong, and an offensive liability.
Re: Childress: why would anything the Wolves did bring him out of Greece? Honest question, I just don’t understand the logic here, can you say more?
Well..
As for getting Noah, check out the last part of 7. And while you could together better packages for Noah, I’m not sure there’s too many teams that are interested in him. At the very least, it’s worth putting some feelers out there. And he’s 6-11 with a 7’1" wingspan and solid leaping ability, so I’d say he’s got the size to play center. Also, his weird playing time this year and last year seem to disguise his ability. As an example, if he’d had 40 minutes of playing time last year (which is what you want your top starters to have) he would have had a double double.
As for Childress, the short answer is money. If we can put together an upwardly mobile team, the Wolves should be able to put together the cap space to put together a proper offer. For more on Childress, here’s a fanpost a did about two months ago:
http://www.canishoopus.com/2008/9/29/624978/one-fan-s-look-at-the-2008
Additionally, my understanding is that Childress has an opt-out option at the end of each season, which tells me he wants to come back to the NBA (or at least wanted to come back when he signed the contract).
Childress...
…would be everything Brewer should be. He’ll probably take a full MLE to get back here. Travis Outlaw and Childress are the two guys I would love to see one of in a Wolves uni. My ideal rotation for next season:
Rubio/Telfair
Foye/Curry/Brewer
(Outlaw/Childress)/Gomes/Brewer
Love/Noah
Jefferson/Noah
I think it’s doable but it would take a bit of creativity.
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can someone explain
why whitman gives collins minutes vs teams that don’t run huge big men (shaq yao d howard)
collins is pretty terrible and he eats up 15 mins a game of PT for love wtf
A few posts back notice was made of a podcast on the following link. Check it out from answers from Wittman.
http://kfan.com/cc-common/podcast/single_podcast.html?podcast=KFAN_Hartman.xml
He doesn’t really clearly answer the question but my reading between the lines conclusion is that they want to keep Love’s rookie mistakes from having to much of a negative impact on the game … what Witt seems to forget is that Collins negative effect is probably worse than that of Love’s rookie mistakes + Love could only benefit from improve minutes.
That, or my personal thought that Love would be completely worn out by halfway the season if he got 30 minutes every night from here on out. His conditioning needs time, you can’t force that my giving him too much minutes.
by Wim (Belgium) on Dec 1, 2008 4:04 AM CST up reply actions
I'm clearly in the minority
but I quite like Collins. I’ve missed the last couple of games but prior to that at least he was starting, and getting somewhere around 15 minutes a game. I like Wittman’s thinking here. I know it doesn’t show up in the numbers but I feel like having him in there sets a defensive tone, basically makes the Wolves a different team, especially defensively. At least you get guys thinking about whether it’s a good idea to drive the lane. Then when Smith/Love come in the opposing defence has to change their gameplan.
The one problem with this strategy for me is that I’d like to see Love getting at least 25/30 minutes a night, and having 4 guys for 2 spots is bound to take away some minutes. But lots of coaches bring rookies along slowly, and Love’s minutes are bound to go up if he keeps putting up numbers like the other night.
by plinytheelder on Dec 1, 2008 12:20 PM CST up reply actions
…oh as Wim points out interestingly in his last paragraph.
by plinytheelder on Dec 1, 2008 12:22 PM CST up reply actions
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