Untapped Potential

They break us. If Darko played as well as Love today, we blow them out. Love and Beasley are consistently going to be the two biggest reasons the Wolves are in games. If their teammates were at their level, we’d be a playoff team. It’s not their fault.

…going at a historically bad rate. It’s bad.

will be determined by which of Rambis’ rotation schemes is the aberration. If Rambis sticks to playing Beasley and Love more than 35 minutes per game apiece then we’ll probably remain competitive against all but a few teams. If he goes back to running the two platoons approach and splits the minutes more evenly, then we’ll probably see more of the blowouts. Although, with that being said, it may be more beneficial long term for the development of the entire roster to use the second approach. However, I’m of the opinion that learning how to pull out close games is of monumental importance for a young team; therefore, I believe we should stick to the rotation that creates the most opportunities for the Wolves to be close at the end of games.

I would love to have Thompson on this team. Plus, getting Flynn back would be a big help if they have him come off the bench and allow him to be the Vinnie “Microwave” Johnson 2.0 guard he seems to be.

(sorry, this is a real pet peeve of mine – every time someone wants to quote it being a bad signing they use the 4/20 numbers, not the 3/15 guaranteed numbers)

If you watch the Lakers run the triangle, you’ll see how this is true. They pass the ball into Gasol in the post, then the two other guys on that side of the court cut off of the pass. If Gasol doesn’t pass to either of those guys off of the cuts, then he has an iso situation on the post up and he goes to work creating his own shot there. If they eventually bring a second man to double, then he moves the ball to the open man.

When I see Darko putting up his hook shot it is usually coming from a similar set of circumstances. Granted, there have been a few times he should have passed it to one of the cutters, but whatever, that sort of thing happens. When it starts happening less we’ll be a better team because of it. If you were the coach of the other team, wouldn’t you tell your players to stick with their assignments and never double on Darko so as to encourage him to take as many of the Wolves’ shots as possible? Especially when he’s shooting so poorly.

He and Darko are ying and yang. What we’d gain on offense, we’d lose on defense, and after a week we’d all be wondering why the Wolves give up 120 every night

he’s only going to be playing 12-15 minutes a game anyway. If he can learn to avoid getting into foul trouble then he’ll start getting more minutes. The trouble with starting Pek now is that he’ll need to be replaced quickly because of foul trouble. It makes more sense to bring him off the bench when the starter needs a rest because otherwise the guy that would be starting instead of Pek will have to play the last 8 minutes of every quarter to prevent Pek from fouling out. I’d rather have the starter play 6 minutes at the beginning of the quarter and 2 minutes at the end of the quarter, with Pek filling in for 3 or 4 minutes in the middle, because it will keep the starter’s legs fresher.

like Lurch from the Adams Famly. ’You rang?"

He’s a career 45% shooter, which isn’t great, but isn’t terrible either. His offense has just fallen off the face of the planet this year

Talk about coming full circle

He’s very Craig Smith-ish

He needs the minutes to acclimate himself to the NBA.

He can’t do that average 13 minutes over his first 9 games in the league.

Let’s go with potential rather than try to resolve the riddle that is Darko the self-injurious.

But Oden has now had the injury occur in both knees more than once

but if I’m a Blazer fan, I’d be more concerned about Roy’s.

He would be perfect for us. I doubt he’s available. But I think he’d look great here.

if we could have pulled it off was Jefferson for Prince and the #7 pick in last year’s draft. We would have used it to take Greg Monroe just like Detroit did, but I get the feeling he would be a better fit with this team than with Detroit so far. We could trade Prince at the deadline for something of value because two types of teams would want him: 1) contenders looking for the last piece to the puzzle; and, 2) teams interested in a $10M expiring contract. Between the two of those groups we could probably find a deal that gives us at least a mid-first round pick.

But one can dream.

untapped potential ;-)

I wouldn’t risk it unless they threw in a sweetener.

While we’re lucky to get the “inside”-type insight from SnP and Oceanary re: what the FO is thinking/planning, but it’s not worth agonizing over the team trading Love at this point. If that is the idea (trading him), the better he plays (and the others, esp. Beas, play with him as a unit), the less likely it becomes. Don’t let it spoil what has otherwise been a pretty satisfying little stretch here :).

Ricky Rubio is in a rough patch right now. I hope he can pull out of it.

http://www.euroleague.net/competition/players/showplayer?pcode=LFW&clubcode=BAR&seasoncode=e2010

D-Wade = 24 points per game average
Lebon = 21 points per game average

I’d certainly stop watching the Wolves after supporting them for a decade, not that anyone cares.