Game Thread #5: @ Sacramento
by Stop-n-Pop on Nov 7, 2008 9:00 PM CST
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Starting Lineups
Minnesota
M. Miller G
S. Telfair G
A. Jefferson C
C. Brewer F
K. Love F
Sacramento
K. Martin G
B. Udrih G
B. Miller C
M. Moore F
J. Salmons F
A wolves-like crowd in sac town
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I'm so glad the Wolves didn't sign Beno
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The Crowd is Worse than the Target center
and we thought Basketball was unpopular in Minnesota, Wholy Cow
Love with the nice drive and dish
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Yep...
…he’s going to be good. If he could just grow 2-3 inches. Also, Mike Miller should wave a red flag on defense.
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We could see him before the end of the year...
…I think they are the minor league team for OKC. Tulsa’s a nice town.
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It Feels so good having Bassie at Point over Foye
I Dont Know what the Wolves are thinking but Foye is not a Point Guard
Indeed.
I also don’t know what Miller is thinking when he kicks it out to Bassy beyond 3 after passing up a shot.
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Your Not The Only One
I Thought the Brewer Selection Sucked to be honest, Shoulda Picked either Brandan Wright or Rodney Stuckey
If this game comes down to a last shot
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Whitman draw up a play so Kevin Ollie gets it…..
Greeting Guys
following the boxscore on a cloudy Saturday afternoon.
I do like that starting five. Perhaps long term Gomes at the 3 for Brewer.
Greetings from a snowy Minnesota
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I wish Witt would give Shaddy...
…as much rope as he does Miller on defense.
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Tony Parker out 2 weeks:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3689164
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I wondered why his numbers sucked so much...
Have we got the Spurs again soon?
Might be our chance with Parker and Manu in the stands.
Their win against the Wolves might be it for the 1st month
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Randy Foye...
…energy off the bench. His natural role.
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Bassy is really running some nice...
…change of pace moves.
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Surly...
…is the official beer of Canis Hoopus.
http://www.surlybrewing.com/index.php
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They'll pull it around...
…sacramento benefited from good shooting and bad d
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Love and Bassy
make a good p-n-r combo
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The Sacramento announcers...
…just said McHale got a lot of “unfair criticism”
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Unfair Critiscism
I mean nearly half of What we got for KG is gone in Ratliff and Green..Yeah, Pretty Unfair.
I think if you're a member of the Wolves organization...
…you have to sell the product 24/7 no matter what. Country club 4-evah.
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Ole!!!
Foye with the matador d.
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McCants is in...
…full stop-the-offense mode.
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Are Love and Bassy still on this team?
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Can this team make some layups?
And stop them too?
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It's pretty stunning...
…a lot of it is poor team d. On that last drive by Beno Miller got spun around and Big Al just stood there.
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competent defense is all that is needed...
And the team’s best defenders have been on the bench for a while now.
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Wow
We suck. The Kings are doing what they want. Salmons and Udrih! Oh, please.
I don’t see us play live very often, but the words the come to mind are disorganised and impatient.
And get Love on the court.
I wonder how many layups they've missed tonight
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Ths is getting Bad Fast
I Know we are young and Inexperienced but still, Our Defense Shouldnt Be this damn bad.
Over at the Kings site...
…they are joking about it too. You can hear individual fans yelling at the players.
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I'm going with the "bad-rotations" excuse....
…for the defense. What do they expect with shaddy, foye, gomes, smith, and ollie?
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If he had a unibrow...
…he would have parallel bars.
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How is Kevin Martin...
…getting superstar calls?
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Brewer lost it on the way up
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What the hell was up with that call?
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He'll be alright...
…he ain’t going anywhere. He’s still the team’s best man defender and he does a lot of nice hustle things.
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If i was Charlotte i wouldnt take brewer Foye and Cardinal
For Two Blowjobs and a Salami Sammich, Let alone Gerald Wallace
Foye
could still turn out, but I would think Cardinal would be the deal breaker since he is signed through next year. What the fuck was Memphis thinking giving him that contract?
http://www.fanhouse.com/2007/07/04/brian-cardinals-stupid-contract-explained/
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I also wouldn't take anyone from Charlotte...
…but Felton. MJ is a worse talent evaluator than McHale. Brewer is going to be just fine.
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they're one of those rosters...
…i wouldn’t trade for the world.
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they have some problems...
…i wonder if they’d be better shutting everyone down for the year, going for the top pick and making one final run next year.
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and by shutting down...
…i mean telling manu to sit out a year.
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too early for any of that
and the only way the #1 draft pick helps them out next year is if they trade it
Golden State and Memphis...
…engaged in worst display of ball this year.
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Records page
http://www.nba.com/history/records/regular_points.html
Fewest points, first half
19-L.A. Clippers at L.A. Lakers, December 14, 1999
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Brandon Wright...
…with block of the night on Rudy Gay.
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Usually not many people in here during games?
I am relatively new to the blog, seems like the guy does good work.
Not too many
It’s still the Wolves. ;)
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Last year...
..they had one game with a TV audience of 1700
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The Wolves have bottomed out as far as fan interest goes
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Kevin Martin...
….with another superstar call.
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Miiki Moore has always been a clown, hasn't he?
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Ok...
…here’s a key rotation spot.
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You've hit a bump with the rotation...
…and you need to adjust against their bigger lineup.
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Damnit Foye
No more long jumpers with one foot on the line. $500 fine.
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agreed...
….you could see that the Kings had adjusted their lineup….hell, i posted about it above
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and what do they do when the kings put out their optimal offensive lineup?
….he puts in the worst defenders.
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Hell...
…you may as well make it interesting by putting in something like Foye, McCants, Carney, Brewer, and Jefferson.
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Brad Miller with the moving screen
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Brewer with the iso play....
…off a time out. Please tell me that wasn’t scripted.
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This is ridiculous
Brad Miller runs into Brewer on a screen at the other end and the refs suddenly decide they want to call a moving screen at the other end when the Rhino pivots early.
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Foye on Martin...
…this is awesome.
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Imagine this!!!
A coach calling a TO because of poor defense.
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Sheldon Williams' forehead makes an appearance in the game.
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Martin with the most egregious travel non-call you'll see all year
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Is Witt still on the bench?
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Is there any worse...
…defensive 5 in the league?
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Where the f#$k is the time out?
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How big of a run do you need to go on to get a rise out of the Wolves' bench?
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Bobby brown for 3...
…i’m calling it.
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Ditto...
…plus, TV time is over now that the better half is back from her shift at the hospital. Night y’all.
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One observation
I think the Wolves have some quality young talent. I don’t care for Witt as a coach (we complain about Theus sometimes, but he’s not nearly as awful as Witt is), but the Wolves have really started from scratch, and unlike the Kings vs the Wolves rebounding from the better years, the Kings had more talent than the Wolves did starting over.
But as far as these 2 teams go, the Kings have MIller, and Martin, and Moore, and Udrih who’ve all played 4 years or more in the League. Very few players on the court for the Wolves even have that experience. Also, I think defensively nobody on the Wolves backcourt matchup can match Bobby Brown’s ability defensively on the perimeter. (If Jason Thompson wasn’t such a valuable cog, I would have said the most shrewd thing Petrie did over the summer was sign Brown to a 2 year contract. Most underrated thing I’ve ever seen Petrie do.) That being said, I think the Wolves have talent, but they are a year away from pushing to a 500 record because they don’t quite have a complete team yet.
The difference in Minnesota and Sacramento, is Geoff Petrie and Kevin McHale. I don’t wish to rub it in, but the Iron Ranger’s ineptness is killing the Wolves at every level.
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If I had a choice to switch rosters with the kings
I would turn it down, and do it rather quickly. I do agree that Wittman is a bad coach and McHale is an idiot though
Hmmm
So we can agree to disagree on that. Fair enough.
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I meant on the rosters
I have always wondered why McHale has stayed employed, or more accurately why the owner guy (whom I"m blanking on his name at the moment) has kept him employed. I mean really, what dirty pic’s of this guy does McHale have? I mean for crying out loud, being a Minnesota legend doesn’t entitle him to run the Wolves past Ground Zero? Right? And yes I knew all along his name was Glen Taylor. (Wink Wink)
P.S. Witt ain’t no prize either.
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