Luke Ridnour visiting with T-Wolves today.
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So, in other words...
Minnesota must have some deal in place to trade Sessions or Flynn, right? There’s no way The Wolves will keep Sessions, Flynn and Ridnour on the same roster…
Luke is better than them
and certainly not a third string PG he is a solid starter with the right players.
Tough to say...
I think Sessions is better than Ridnour, but it’s close. Maybe Kahn has a deal in place to move Sessions. I wouldn’t mind seeing Flynn go to the 6th-man role (which he seems destined for…) with Luke Ridnour keeping the PG seat warm for The Savior.
This from ESPN's Rumors page on Ridnour
Food for thought – I’m I nuts to think Ridnour isn’t worth NEAR that kind of money?
From Gery Woelfel of the Journal Times on Twitter: “Luke Ridnour visiting with T-Wolves [Wednesday].”
Though Ridnour is one of the top point guards in this summer’s free-agent class, this meeting is a bit puzzling.
The Timberwolves have Jonny Flynn and Ramon Sessions, and they’ve continually said they’re hopeful Ricky Rubio will join the squad when he has an NBA opt-out clause after the 2010-2011 season.
Adding another PG would seem like a strange move, especially one that could eat up all of their remaining $7 million in cap space, and when they’re also targeting David Lee at the moment.
How many articles about the Wolves offseason
have not included some form of the word ‘strange’ somewhere in them?
Actively looking for red flags since my 5th grade traveling team
How many of the Wolves offseason moves would you not consider strange?
heart of a champion, will of the warrior.
Here's the thing about it, however:
Each individual move is strange but I’m baffled by some of these national writers who cannot, at the very least, see what they are trying to do. These are probably the same writers who say that Love and Al cannot co-exist or that one of the Flynn/Rubio/Sessions trio needs to go. Yet, this is exactly what seems to be happening and they…well, it’s embarrassing. I’m not a big fan of Kahn but it seems to me like there is a pretty clear path he is taking forward: making way for deals with one of the points (probably Sessions) and one of the power forwards (Jefferson). He’s an easy joke but good lord, at some point it gets old and each article should be accompanied with a ba-dum-ching rim shot.
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My lack of faith in Kahn stems from a plan that doesn't seem to
be fleshed out. From what I can see, he’s a little scatterbrained right now. He should have drafted differently if these were his FA acquisition targets. So far, I see a lot of starts and stops and zigging and zagging.
He could have drafted Paul George if he was willing to deal Flynn. He could then sign Ridnour and have two backup PGs till Rubio arrives.
He could have moved Al for cap space and drafted DMC if he was planning on signing David Lee.
He didn’t need to draft Wes Johnson if he planned on trading Love for Batum.
Hypothetically, we could have
Sessions/Ridnour
Webster/George
Batum/Hayward
Lee/Pek
Darko/Cousins
with
Bjelica
Prestes
Hollins
He’s a guy hoarding assets just to hoard assets even when they don’t really fit together.
So far
that Paul George move is looking mighty smart. Apart from some high steal numbers, his summer league has been… unimpressive. He absolutely can NOT find the range. Last game, I saw him take maybe 4 3s (Don’t know how many he actually took) and 2 were way short, 1 was way long, and the other was just off target. It’s not looking pretty for him right now. Maybe he can figure it out, but so far he has made me glad we kept Flynn.
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The ability to make a 3 pointer isn't a deal breaker to me.
My point is that it doesn’t seem like Kahn has a cohesive plan. He seems to be all over the place trying to acquire assets instead of putting a team together.
i think...
…His crappy eye for talent is the big problem.
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by Stop-n-Pop on Jul 8, 2010 2:32 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Just because I like speculating.....
Trade Sessions to Indiana for Paul George?? Please?? The guy had 7 steals the other day!!
Ideal backup PG in the Triangle
that said, I don’t know if we are running the Triangle and I don’t see him coming for the right price just to backup Rubio.
At Sessions type money, I’d love to sign him and use Sessions as a trade chip (in my aforementioned Randolph trade where NY gets Sessions and pieces and we get Randolph with GS getting Lee). Or maybe we just like getting Skiles’ leftovers?
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One hit wonder
You have to be leery about a guy that trundles along with very middling stats year after year and then suddenly has a very good year in his late 20s. That screams one-hit wonder to me. He’ll regress to the mean.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3717/career;_ylt=Askbd1vKOPrh5mkDxfyaWwLVPKB4
Agreed...
sometimes it takes a little longer with PGs (Nash) but Ridnour turns 30 next year.
by fanslaststand on Jul 7, 2010 8:34 PM CDT up reply actions
We've already had that guy too.
His name is Mike James. The prototypical career mediocrity who has one good year before impending free agency and fools some dumb team into giving him a big check. Just check the year before we signed him and every other year of his otherwise barely mediocre career.
What...no...why are they looking at Frodo
We don’t need another point guard right now.
How soon could we trade him?
Ridnour + Jefferson for Granger + Filler(Murphy?)?
Ridnour + Wes for Granger?
Flynn & Jefferson couldn’t get it done, did they just want a better PG to go with Jeff?
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