The thing that I think people outside of MN forget is that this going to be a 2-3yr process and according to Kahn we are going to be a player developing team. Going by this it makes perfect sense to put Flynn in the triangle system and teach him how to pass and be more versatile.

I question the strange subbing he often does too but I have to believe they have a plan in place and they are sticking to it. I think we should confidence in our coaching staff that they are doing the right thing, even if sometimes it doesn’t make sense.

Comments like these from the national press make me wonder how many games they’ve watched the Wolves play, or rather more specifically, how many games they watch the Wolves play from our perspective. What I mean is if you watch, on average, 40? 50? NBA games a week, you’re going to see an awful lot of the same types of things over and over and over again. Generally speaking I would imagine that the good teams all tend to do the same things well and the bad teams tend to do the same things poorly. So when watching a team like ours, when you don’t have a lot of time or necessarily energy/interest in them, you’re going to view them within the context of the other 40-50 games you’ve just seen. And so you’re going to see Flynn and think of the other half dozen guys you’ve just seen that he could be like and say, ‘Well, if Rambis just did this then Flynn would be able to what these other guys did.’ Same goes for personnel and substitutions – in essence, national writers are always going to critique back to the NBA mean as they see it (the ‘mean’ of how NBA teams and players perform when you watch 40-50 games a week or whatever), and from within whatever their own personal biases or attitudes about how the game should be played.

Now, doesn’t necessarily mean that his points are wrong. But I do think that most of us here have fully accepted that this is a flawed year for us in that it was never intended for all the pieces to fit and work together. It was a year of development and learning for the players, the coaches, and the FO. Most national writers don’t have the time to consider the fact that this organization is essentially completely revamping itself within one calendar year – almost all new coaches, heavy heavy turnover of player personnel, new POBO working with a FO staff and scouts he may gut pretty severely once their contracts are up. Not sure about the business side, but that’s about as complete of a new start as a sports franchise gets these days. It’s going to be a long process, and next year is the year when we can all start firing shots at this team and expect answers/responsibility taken.