Some of the shots Jonny was taking tonight had me literally cringing. Kind of like some of the shots Corey used to take.

Without decent PG play, you have no chance. Just like we are finding out what interior D can do, we should give Sessions a chance to start at PG/play more minutes for at least a 5-game stretch. Let’s see what we have. Time for a change.

Dec & Jan shooting percentage was around 47%… now between 41 and 43%……and dropping…

Not sure what has changed? shot selection….not balanced again or what?

He averaged a double-double in December and January, about 19 and 11. He’s at 14 and 7 in Feb. Yes, his minutes are down. But, for a while, he still looked pretty unstoppable in the low post. Now, he looks stoppable. He’s hurt. I don’t just think it’s that teams have figured him out. He’s just not moving that well.

Jefferson’s hurt and not playing well.

Flynn was definitely not my first choice either, but from the hysteria around here it’s like he never does anything right. Watching Flynn, I see some very positive things that go along with the negatives.

1) Flynn almost never gets his shot blocked around the hoop, making him the direct opposite of all of our other players in this regard.

2) Flynn does a great job of getting past his man, then slowing down and keeping his defender on his back hip. So far, he’s not doing a great job of turning this situation to his advantage and sealing the deal consistently with a good shot or a sweet pass, but it’s a key point guard skill that is relatively rare, and is the number one way in which Flynn resembles Chris Paul. And it’s good to see. Foye was never really able to do this.

3) Flynn can shoot. He’s not a deadeye accurate shooter, but his shot’s not broken, his percentages are not that bad, and his shooting will improve as time goes by.

He doesn’t really set up the big men for easy shots, and he does stop the ball with his pointless dribbling, but he is a point guard and he is capable of improving. The level of panicking about him is embarrassing around here.

Whoever included that quote in their response, thank you. The low assists numbers do not mean Flynn is a disgrace as an NBA PG. His scoring did get us that all-important two points at the end, did he not?

As far as the questionable decision-making, does anyone here really think he takes that three pointer and then commits a foul on a three pointer at the other end – two or three seasons from now? He’s a rookie. Like it or not that’s significant.

Why turn this into a Team Jonny and Team Darko thing other than to hate on Flynn? I think mixing scorers and facilitators is a good thing. That in mind, these two combinations make the most sense in my opinion: 1) Flynn, Brewer, Gomes, Love, Darko; 2) Sessions, Ellington, Gomes/Brewer, Al, Hollins.

We also really need to get Al in there with Darko so we can see what he looks like next to a defensive-minded 7 footer.

Jefferson apologists are out there in full force. Fact: he’s been on the team for 3 seasons now and never showed any signs of consistent defensive effort. Pull any excuse that you want: injuries, bad teammates, out of position, but that fact remains.

I think Gomes needs to pick a side, either Team Darko or Jonny. He is not Kuwabatake Sanjuro.

There were a number of times that I found myself yelling at the TV as a result of Jonny’s horrible decisionmaking. I still don’t think this means Jonny is a bad player or was a bad choice at #6. All I’m saying is that in last night’s game, Flynn clearly should have been benched in the fourth quarter.

… in two years we’ll all be asking each other, " Who was that Milicic guy?"

S-n-P askes (can someone please explain the “potential” thing?):

Potential is the difference between Corey Brewer two years ago and Corey Brewer today, the difference between Kevin Love’s three point shooting last year and his three point shooting this year. Potential is the reason young teams never win championships. Potential is the reason that players like Jordan, Bryant, and LBJ couldn’t lead teams to championships until they had been in the league several years. Potential is the fact that players usually do get better during their first few years in the NBA. Sometimes players do not get better, and those usually have very short careers. So to speak of Flynn’s potential is to project that he should be a better player next year and a better player yet two years from now. But he won’t be a different player with different tendencies.

… but it strikes me as pathetic that so many Wolves fans are this excited about Darko. I know that some people only expect Darko to be here temporarily and are enjoying the ride, and other people are really excited because they get a preview of what it means to have a seven foot defender, and I know SnP did some pop psychology and his diagnosis was that we’re excited about Darko because Darko is a symbolic representation of the average Wolves fan, but let’s not lose sight of the following fact: WE’RE TALKING ABOUT DARKO MILICIC, PEOPLE!

Darko stinks. He always has, and probably always will. He has stunk on every team he’s ever played on, he’s been given multiple chances on a number of teams, and he’s considered among the biggest busts in NBA Draft history. There’s near certainty that he won’t be with the Wolves next year, and even if he reverses course and comes back, how much better off can we really expect to be? Seriously, how much?

I’m not trying to make fun of anyone or pick any fights, but to suggest that a two-game “Darko effect” is evidence—some seem to view it as incontrovertible evidence—that we should trade our best player, who’s one year off of a 23/12 campaign that ended in knee injury, and find a “Darko-like” guy to pair with Kevin Love would sound like lunacy to most of the outside world.

Let’s get a grip, Canis commenters. Darko didn’t ride in a white horse, and neither he nor another other seven-foot disappointment like him will change the fact that we’re a team with fundamental problems that can likely only be addressed through good luck in the lottery—i.e., drafting John Wall or Evan Turner.

Sorry for the negativity of this post, but I think we need to ingest a large dose of reality and bring the Darko hype down a few thousand notches.

I really hope we can re-sign this guy. Darko! Darko! Darko!

As for Flynn, I remember an interview with Rambis last year when he was asked how long it would take for Flynn to learn to play in the NBA, and he said “years”. I think Rambis figures that Flynn will not listen to him unless he is a) playing and b) losing. The unspoken part of Rambis’s answer is, of course, “maybe never”.

Seems like our best bet as far as acquiring a Darko-type player in the near future if Darko decides to leave. He’s not quite as big, but he’s still got a mammoth wingspan, a nice frame and seems every bit of 6’11. Give him a few years to fill out and I think he’ll be an excellent paint-clogger and all-around defensive big guy with a high BBIQ.

He may well go too high to be obtainable without using our #1, but he should be at the top of the list of targets to move up in the draft for.

He doesn’t know who he is right now, there are too many voices in his head. Rambis needs to break down his bad habits and teach him what kind of player he can be: an excellent rebounder and defender; a good high/mid post passer + garbage man offensively. And teach him to enjoy that role.

I suspect it’s too late, but hopefully I’m wrong.

until we see what the offseason does to him. That’s the time where most rookies should be able to figure it out. He’ll get a lot of time to rest and think about what he has to do to get better. And hopefully he’ll use that time to rest to do anything but rest. If Jonny comes back next year in Vegas and the first few games of the season and he looks the exact same, I will write him off completely. If he comes back and shows any sort of improvement, I’ll hold out hope. If he doesn’t though, that’s when I look to trade him ASAP and pick up a guy like Telfair again (who may or may not want to come back at this point, his entire team is almost gone or could be by that time) to back up Sessions.

Also I’m gonna say it again, how nice would it be to have Josh Childress right now?