Wolves webpage rundown of the PG Battle Royale
The Wolves' site has a page filled with interviews from the festivities. Good stuff.
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Here is a great article on the TrueHoop blog on ESPN as a writeup from a fan season ticket holder who attended the PG festivities today.
Kahn's interview
Liked Kahn’s comments that Big Al and Love are valuable pieces of the team. Unless another team knocks our socks off with a deal, expect both in a T-wolves uniform next season… However, he didn’t mention anyone else…
I still think Miller + #18
could get us Washington’s pick, as long as we’re also willing to take some salary back. They need a 3-point sniper and Miller offers that and then some. Plus they still can get a solid 9th or 10th man at #18. They need Haywood against the likes of Perkins and Howard in the Eastern Conference playoffs next year, so I think we’d be looking at getting Etan Thomas along with #5. We could potentially remake our back court in one fell swoop, all the while keeping Love and Jefferson.
by Rascal Flatts on Jun 19, 2009 7:32 PM CDT up reply actions
This is a great feature.
I’m starting to come around on Tyreke Evans. You can’t teach size, and I like his high steals and rebound numbers. Hopefully his shooting can become much better once he stops unnecessarily fading away on every shot. That’s the kind of thing that can become better quickly, unlike, say, shortness.
I'm still heavily against Tyreke
- Off course he was much bigger than the others. The others are point guards and he’s a Shooting Guard. Yes he played some point but come on people, even Randy Foye had more PG outlook…
- He’s a selfish ball-hog. Off course that doesn’t show in this kind of setting…
- He can’t shoot. Do we really want Corey Brewer and Tyreke Evans in the same back-court? Rubio might have some of the same troubles but I think it’s to a far lesser extend than Evans.
If we draft Evans I think it be a terrible draft no matter what happens next…
Beater of the early Thabeet drum ... but not so much of the late one
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Both Rubio and Curry are excellent p’n’r players to complement our front court. Evans… don’t think so?
Beater of the early Thabeet drum ... but not so much of the late one
by Wim (Belgium) on Jun 20, 2009 5:41 AM CDT up reply actions
"If we draft Evans I think it be a terrible draft no matter what happens next…"
Even if they find a way to get him and Thabeet, suddenly becoming the longest (and poorest outside shooting) team in the league with Evans, Brewer, Gomes, Jefferson, and Thabeet in the starting 5? It would be even more entertaining if they got Daye at 18. I think that would have to set a record turn-around from shortness to longness.
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Ha
that sure would be hilarious. Too bad Love is short for his position or we would have had 4-in-a-row in players picked because of size for their position.
I didn’t clarify enough:
Even if they trade or pick a player who should be a good complement to Tyreke I still wouldn’t like it. Or, in other words. Even if they somehow get a player like Curry or Monta Ellis. Guys who would give us an extremely long back-court and can share PG duties. Still wouldn’t like it.
Beater of the early Thabeet drum ... but not so much of the late one
by Wim (Belgium) on Jun 20, 2009 4:41 PM CDT up reply actions
Heh heh heh...
Drafting by height — I guess it makes more sense than drafting alphabetically …
Wim, I have to disagree with some of your points
He did quite well as a PG at Memphis, and isn’t a “Selfish ball hog.” He has much more of a PG memtality than Foye.
He’s actually a very good passer.
He is a terrible shooter, and I’m not eager to draft him either, but I think you are wrong about him.
by Eric in Madison on Jun 20, 2009 8:10 AM CDT up reply actions
Tyreke Evens
scares the bejesus out of me. I don’t want him any where near the target center unless it is in a visitor uni.
Will the Real Thor Please Stand Up ... ?
by the Real Thor on Jun 20, 2009 8:55 AM CDT up reply actions
Evans-Part Deux
I would disagree with several of these points
1. He had a pretty lousy PPR at Memphis- I can’t imagine it improving much as he hears into the NBA.
2. Foye’s issues have never been about being selfish or passing capablitity. Foye’s issues have to do with Decision-Making as he tends to overdribble than have to force the issue. This is the same type of weakness people see in Evans’ game.
by Jose Cordoba on Jun 20, 2009 9:52 AM CDT up reply actions
Sure
I don’t want to defend him to the hilt—I also would prefer not to draft him. I just think Wim went overborad, and it behooves us to be realistic in both directions, for the guys we like and the guys we don’t. Curry isn’t a surefire, no doubt all-star, and Evans isn’t necessarily Jamal Crawford without a jumpshot, either.
Actually, if they get the 5th pick from Washington, would an Evans-Curry combo be so bad? It gives them size in the backcourt, two guys who can handle, a great shooter and a guy who can get into the lane…I could come around on that.
by Eric in Madison on Jun 20, 2009 10:05 AM CDT up reply actions
The selfish ball hog was on player profile on ESPN
- Negatives:
- Can be selfish
- Over-dribbles
I admit I haven’t seen him play and ESPN has a tendency to sometimes be a bit of.
I’m not sure about the good passer either. I was I had seen a few of his games but there weren’t any here so well… Foye and Jaric are also good passers, they really are. There still is a difference to the typical “point guard” .. or should I say “facilitator” or “organizer”; “floor general”. I really can’t believe Evans is that guy.
He can play the point but he needs another ball handler besides him and even then … I can still not embrance the 2 combo guard system, I still want a true facilitator on the floor. Maybe it’s because I think it’s more fun to view games with someone like that (opposed to just isolation after isolation play) or maybe it’s the love for my own way of playing … I dunno. Just can’t embrace it.
So we’ll agree that you’re probably right but I still stick by my view that he has 1 of 2 two that made us trade McCants (headcase being the one he might not have) and does not have the thing that made us keep McCants for a while (shooting). For the rest I think they’re players in the same mold .. Microwave off the bench create for self kind of guys.
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by Wim (Belgium) on Jun 20, 2009 4:50 PM CDT up reply actions
I agree with Wim...
Whenever I’ve seen Evans, he’s had ballhoggish tendencies and not looked like a natural point. I’ve also heard rumors about his attitude that scare me. I’d definitely rather not draft him. Just because he can get to the rim in a 3-on-3 game doesn’t mean he’s a good fit here.
For those who were there...
Would it be safe to say that it shook out this way?
Tier 1
Evans, Flynn
Tier 2
Jennings, Lawson, Holiday
Tier 3
Teague
by pagingstanleyroberts on Jun 20, 2009 1:14 PM CDT reply actions
yes...
…and you can probably rank tier two like this:
Lawson, Jennings, Holiday
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