See Video of Brook Lopez Getting His Shot Blocked By the Ivory Tower

...you forgot about Love’s awesome outlet passes!!! He’ll negate any oppo transition baskets by his 3/4 court heaves :)

(You know that will be a J-Pete talking point if he gets drafted by the Wolves.)

The elephant in the room is that this just might not be a great draft for the Wolves, simply because, at least at this point, it looks like the deepest position of talent might be, by far, the 4’s. Beasley, Love, Speights, Hendrix, and even guys like Thompson and Dorsey all dominate Win Score/40, Efficiency/40, PER, etc. And Beasley, Love, and Speights are all extremely young, to boot, and even Hendrix is still an underclassman. And moreover, it’s questionable whether or not there’s a big guy out there who could really provide the Wolves the athletic, defensive-anchor type presence they really need up front. Even if the Wolves decided to “settle”** for that type of player, the guys who are supposed to do that (Robin Lopez, Devon Hardin) don’t exactly have out-of-this-world defensive/rebounding track records.

• (I think McHale has a bias against big men who lack requisite post moves/offensive mindset-nevermind that the best season in Wolves history featured Ervin “Stone Hands” Johnson at the 5-which is why this franchise has continued to roll the dice with guys like Rasho Nestorovich, Mark Blount, and Olowakandi while passing on guys like Joakim Noah in the draft. Even in his brief time with the Wolves, 87-year-old Theo Ratliff seemed like a revelation compared to Mark Blount, but I have little doubt that if McHale had the choice of two young players with similar skillsets to Blount and Ratliff, he’d still take the young Blount.)

Personally, I like Love a lot and think he’s going to surprise a lot of people, but as you said, he’s really not what you’d ideally like to run out there with Big Al. You’d have a front court that would really need to exert itself to keep up with a lot of the quicker and/or bigger frontcourts in the league, as well as worry about help defense and rotation on the screens and dribble drives due to the Wolves atrocious perimeter D. Offensively they’d probably be productive and actually could compliment each other quite well, but then again, you’d like to have a little more shooting from the outside to help them out, not to mention guards/wings who will consistently feed them the ball.

I guess we’ll have to wait and see. I think at this point they’re fine waiting to see if Miami passes on Beasley. If not, they’ll move.

...you’re preparing yourself for the inevitible. :)