FanHouse puts words in Kahn's mouth

He writes it as if DK has never considered this:

Look at Portland, the team that waxed ’Sota Wednesday night. You think this squad bloomed overnight, like a shoot of grass? Basketball teams are trees, man, and while you have to start with good seed (Jefferson, Kevin Love and Flynn qualify) and add food (there is where that vaunted coaching staff comes in), it takes time to get something solid in place.

Patience, bro.

This leads me to believe that this guy is a box score skimmer and hasn’t actually watched a Twolves game all year, nor has he followed (or heard) any of DK’s press conferences, let alone letters to fans and other media releases.

Shoddy. Or as we say here in Hoopus-land, very Shaddy.

But this was just uninformed and shortsighted. I agree that it was wrong to base that whole column on some misconstrued comments, and I’ll go one further in asserting that it likely was further based off of Ziller’s opinions and observations of what Kahn has (allegedly) done wrong already. Added fuel to a “perceived nincompoop” fire. And yes, I wrote that last sentence simply for the opportunity to use the word nincompoop.

Ziller’s actually a very well-informed, intelligent, talented writer. But I feel like his NBA knowledge covers a wider breadth than depth; depth at least as far as bottom-dwellers without monarchical monkers go.

Aside from some writers that have natural or fan-related interest in the T-Wolves, I can see how everything that’s happened with our team can feed into bad media perception without further inquiry and study. We’re actually pretty easy to pick on at first glance, and I feel like it will either take reasoned discussion to shed light on our future situation or great success down the road to change the perception of the way things “were” going right now.