Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Links

by wyn on Sep 4, 2008 9:30 AM CDT in Links Comment 9 comments

Yes, two of these are posted as FanShots. But I've got to make it look like there's more going on out there than there really is.

Four-letter.com's prospect guru David Thorpe has rookie rankings out. Guess who he ranked #3 and #6 respectively? That would be Love and Mayo. He even goes as far as saying he doesn't see much upside (or downside) with Mayo.

The Oklahoman (hat tip to T-Wolves Blog) ranks "Minnesota Timberwolves" 20th on the NBA nicknames list. He also gives props to Los Angeles Lakers, which rolls off the tongue now, but was taken from the Minneapolitans. I don't find much to object to with his list.

HoopsWorld has a pretty extensive 2009 preview for the Wolves (now viewable in Google Chrome, thanks to Pants). Everybody's got them 4th in the Northwest, and I think it'll be very tough for them to overcome that. Utah, Portland and Denver should all be better than us this year, but Denver's the prime candidate for utter implosion.

Hardwood Paroxysm and The BlowTorch (two excellent general NBA blogs) have slaved away in their laboratory and created the NBA Blogger Periodic Table. Yes, Hoopus made the cut. In fact, we correspond with platinum. That's right, platinum.

In case you hadn't heard Timberwolves pick/Heat guard Mario Chalmers was busted for smoking grass at the Rookie Orientation with his Kansas teammate Darrell Arthur. We've talked a lot about wishing Chalmers was a Wolf, but what about now? This would've been awful press in Minnesota (not that it's good in Miami or Memphis, but I think our market would've been harder on him than those two).

Danny Granger's extension talk is heating up. As Pants commented in my post about Rashad, there's little downside to waiting. Nonetheless, I'm interested in seeing what classmates closer to his skill-level (than Paul and Williams) get.

If you read one part of this read this part: I'm re-opening the calls for our nomination of the biggest waste of space on our current roster. While I haven't gotten more clarification as to the criteria, I think it just indicates that it's an Open Bracket. So, I'm interested in what ya'all think. Who's our worst player? What's our worst contract? Worst attitude? Worst ____?

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Brian Cardinal… we have 3-4 guys (madsen, booth, collins) who will offer little to nothing on the floor. Cardinal has the biggest contract so I’ll nominate him for the worst.

by Pants_ on Sep 4, 2008 9:47 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I see more use in Cardinal than in Madsen (although we got more than enough at Cardinal’s position). Madsen was kinda a fan favourite in the past but I’ve grown tired of him. He just got a bit over the top (or was he always). So much that he’s not to be taken serious anymore (cfr the 3point chuckfest). Also, he’s one of the few leftovers from the KG era.

Last time (probably not) but I think McCants is the biggest bonehead on our team. That’s kinda controversial because he’s hasn’t gotten in any off the court problems since he started playing pro ball but he just …. you know, you can just tell he’s the kind of guy that tells you something that he thinks is funny and you just laugh because you don’t want to upset him, but then you turn around and roll your eyes thinkin’ “lol wtf?”.

I have to protest the nickname thing, the nickname is 80% of why I started being a (very modest) fan in the first place! Alliterations are so laaaaame.

by Wim (Belgium) on Sep 4, 2008 11:55 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

forgot to mention...

smoking weed is so overrated. Really, if everyone would smoke grass instead of drink beer the world would instantly be a much better place. Weed is a lot less addictive, you get calm instead of active, … Off course this is coming from a neighbour of The Netherlands .. but still. I would have absolutely no reservations for a 21 yr old smoking pot on my team.

by Wim (Belgium) on Sep 4, 2008 12:00 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don't think that is the issue...

…the issue is that they were pretty freaking dumb to smoke pot during what is essentially their new hire orientation.

Do it at home.

by Pants_ on Sep 4, 2008 12:52 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Off course, completely agree on that, my post was kinda off the issue I can see now. Sorry for that ^^

by Wim (Belgium) on Sep 4, 2008 2:10 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Unless..

he develops mental issues as a result. The literature on the long term effects of dope smoking is coming in thick and fast.

by Auswolf on Sep 6, 2008 2:32 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Chalmers

I can say one thing about Chalmers and it is not an “I told you so.” I, too, could care less about smoking weed and playing ball (Remember, Robert Parish and FedX). But, it does look like the Wolves will not regret trading away that pick now. You have to wonder if David Stern will even allow Miami to keep him on the roster. They were at a camp for rookies that is meant to educate them on how players need to represent the league. It’s an embarrassment to Stern and he doesn’t like to be embarassed. He might just be telling Miami to cut him and send him away, and make it known to the rest of the league that no one can sign him.

We are lucky he was not on our roster. That is the last thing the WOlves need. Perhaps, our front office actually noticed something in meeting Mr. Chalmers that put up a red flag. Smoking weed or not, players have to take being an NBA player seriously.

by Andy B on Sep 5, 2008 10:42 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs