Mathletics - Wayne Winston on the Timberwolves

if only because we really cannot survive with Pecherov, Hollins or Jawai getting a lot of minutes."

This argument for keeping Jefferson doesn’t make any sense. Do you really think the Wolves would trade him with no alternative for center than this three-headed monster of crapitude? Or that Jefferson wouldn’t bring back a wing player who could perhaps defend on the perimeter, making life easier for the Wolves’ people in the paint? Or that the wing player could perhaps actually create his own shot, hit the three consistently, or even pass the ball to an open man?

The Wolves could certainly be made worse by trading Jefferson. But it’s highly unlikely that they would receive absolutely nothing in return that could at least partially offset the loss of his talents.

Interesting = idiotic.

Several disappointed Wolves fans and readers of this blog have asked me to analyze the Wolves.

I was one of the disappointed fans who emailed him. He wrote me back and had this up within the day, kinda cool!

As I predicted, Love would have a ridiculously good +/-, Sessions would be much better than Flynn, and Pavlovic and Hollins are garbage. I didn’t expect Gomes to come out so well though.

The 5 man unit stuff seems less useful to me. With those, you’ve got 5 times as many variables, but your amount of time to analyze for each is dramatically less. The most you can really conclude is “this unit has shown success before. Maybe they should try it more.”