With 2 days until camp, have you seen this man?
Come on. Please. Sign the guy.
As if I wasn't already invested in the upcoming season, should the Wolves sign him they will have accomplished something that has never happened to me as a sports fan: they will have made (nearly) every move I thoroughly advocated for in the past year.
- Acquiring Mike Miller from the Grizz (albeit my trade involved Darko and Ratliff's salary)
- Drafting Kevin Love
- Signing Shaun Livingston
Outside of passing on Chalmers and/or CDR, I'm damn near all-in on the moves the Wolves have made this off-season. In the past, this fact would have scared me but I'm actually feeling pretty good about it. Maybe it's time for a poll.
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Dude when you phrase the question that way...
…how do you not vote for the Ahearn option?
I know I did!
by plinytheelder on
Sep 28, 2008 10:39 AM CDT
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It is kind of tempting...
…when I put it that way. :)
If Ahearn makes the squad I think I just found his new nickname.
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by Stop-n-Pop on
Sep 28, 2008 11:30 AM CDT
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No kidding.
BTW: These next two games are pretty exciting for Twinkies fans. They’re sucking me back in this year. After steroids and the stadium I swore I’d never watch baseball again (and this is from someone who grew up watching the club from 1984 until 98) but this group is fun to watch. I don’t know if I buy into the whole “they play the right way” crap and I think they’re a better manager and a real GM away from really being dangerous, but…well, I guess I just don’t understand why they didn’t resign Santana, let Hunter go, and keep Garza and Bartlett. I think a front 3 rotation of Santana, Garza, and Liriano was what we were being promised a few years back. I’m baffled that those 3 won’t be opening the new stadium in 2010.
Actually, as a Wolves fan, it’s nice to see another local team with a guy at the front of the personnel office making worse decisions than McHale.
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by Stop-n-Pop on
Sep 28, 2008 11:36 AM CDT
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I've been depressed
with these last two.
by Twins Territory on
Sep 28, 2008 1:18 PM CDT
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Not bad making it to 1998...
My friends and I call the time from 1995 (strike)-2000 as the lost years. Those teams just reaked. I don’t agree that they should have signed Santana for the money the Mets gave him (and I don’t think he would have signed for less). He’d be worth it for the first half of the deal but a killer in the 2nd half (same goes for T Nutz).
by Pants_ on
Sep 28, 2008 10:43 PM CDT
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Damn I’m gonna be checking ESPN mor than I’m gonna be working tomorrow :d
by Wim (Belgium) on
Sep 28, 2008 11:01 AM CDT
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I think he’s worth the risk on a one year deal.
You’d like a non-guaranteed or partially guaranteed contract but I’d still be fine with his contract guaranteed. Most likely the team will have to wait on him, nurse him back to game shape, to find out if he can still play or not anyway … so he’d need time on the roster. That’s a big reason why I don’t mind the contract.
I wouldn’t give a second year. Perhaps a team option, a reward for taking a chance on him, but not straight up.
by NBR on
Sep 28, 2008 1:27 PM CDT
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I think that's fair....
…I’d go as far to guarantee both years, but a team option is good for the 2nd.
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by Stop-n-Pop on
Sep 28, 2008 2:05 PM CDT
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I'd go so far as to say...
the deal should be a 2 year stint. I don’t want the wolves spending rotation minutes on the guy only to have him walk after one year.
by Pants_ on
Sep 28, 2008 10:45 PM CDT
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Chalmers?
All right, I would have thought after last months NBA Rookie camp that we would have stopped hearing about Chalmers. I could care less about a little weed smoking (RObert Parish) and NBA ability, but it would have been a Wolves marketing disaster if Chalmers was on our roster when he was sent home by Stern. Give the front office boys some (perhaps deservered or just good fortune) for passing on Chalmers after meeting him at their preseason workouts. Perhaps, he was not the serious (Mentally and maturity-wise) player they wanted from their one on one interviews.
by Andy B on
Sep 29, 2008 6:51 AM CDT
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If your life depended on it....
…would you place a bet that no current Wolves smoke or have smoked weed?
This is where the NBA drug policy is kind of frustrating. Do we know if he smoked weed? Or did he and his Kansas buddy just cover up for Beasley? Granted, it was a stupid situation to be in but hardly anything that would disqualify a guy from being on a team. Hell, Riley will still keep him.
Marketing-wise, the Wolves aren’t the Vikings. There’s not a Love Boat aspect to the team, just a history-of-a-crappy-front-office one. Sure there would have been local press boobs to shout “JR Rider” again (as they started to do with Mayo), but they’ll do that regardless of evidence or track record if a young black guard screws up in this town. It’s their nookie-blanket for bad writing. If a white guard comes along and screws up, they’ll reach outside of the organization and bring up J-Will. It’s that predictable.
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by Stop-n-Pop on
Sep 29, 2008 10:20 AM CDT
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one of 2 no votes
It is a can’t lose, but I can’t get that U-tube video out of my head. If the Wolves sign him, I’ll not be able to watch when Love turns and throws the outlet pass to SL when he releases for a clean fast-break layup. I agree there is only an upside, but only because the downside is so apparent. The guy is broke.
by Andy B on
Sep 29, 2008 6:54 AM CDT
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I agree,
’bout weed and the NBA drug policy. It I just wonder how long Chalmers suspension will be. Do you know?
Will he suffer from Stern’s vitriol for being embarassed. I wouldn’t be surprised if Stern finds a way to banish him from the NBA for a year or two if not his whole career. That would have been bad for the Wolves, too.
by Andy B on
Sep 29, 2008 10:42 AM CDT
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It was never really made clear...
…he hasn’t been fined or suspended for drug violations but I don’t know if he could have been given a warning or not…or if he was even tested. His fine was for missing rookie camp, which he was kicked out of.
BTW: after searching around for some articles on his fine, I found out he is from Alaksa. I had no idea. Trajon Langdon and Carlos Boozer are about the only other Alaskan players I can think of.
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Sep 29, 2008 11:20 AM CDT
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