Unicorn gazing

Oh, great and powerful lord of Timberwolves interwebs ;).

Kevin Love IS a better rebounding Dirk!

The guy just blows through people’s expectations of him every year.

Think it’s croup.
Rocking her in the hospital right now.
Should be okay.

It was Rubio, Barea, Tolliver, Randolph, and Williams for a while; and then Ellington came in for Barea. The game was ugly clutter for a long stretch, and went from something like 25-25 to the mid-30s without either team showing much. I was getting a little impatient: put our best players in together.

Rest assured, Adelman sees the obvious.

Several times, he made space for himself with deft little footwork things that did not exactly scream “I had a 6-foot vertical leap at the combine.” That there is hard work showing up. Tim Duncan would be proud.

just sayin…

I remember KG really liked playing with Fred, because he opened up the floor so much. If the his man doubled down, KG would just kick it to Fred and dagger! Do you think Wes Johnson + filler could get Reddick?

Freddy got plenty of run in the WCF run. Even hit a game winner against the Lakers.
And, the next year, he lead the league in 3 point % playing healthy minutes. (Unless I’m misremembering and that was 05-06.)
You could even argue that year that he should have been getting Spree’s minutes, not Wally’s.

He ripped them out of AIR traffic…

Will check it out, but anything auto-tuned will immediately get the Gas Face…

But his music is so unbelievably personal. He absolutely nails human emotion…

They’ve actually recorded a song together.

The posts may have continuity issues, but will be very poetic, with many mispellings.

My strong desire that we trade him ASAP is partly due to his paltry college boards. I remain skeptical…but with a glimmer of hope.

Check this out. Not only is this team performing better as a team than last year’s, our worst defender this year (according to Drtg) is performing far better than our best defender last year.

That’s why Dirk’s holding his elbow in the close-up shot.

it depends on what kind of players Adelman brings in. Since someone mentioned Phoenix as a potential trade partner I started going through a whole bunch of combinations and scenarios and what not. What ultimately became clear to me is that it would be, in fact, doable to load a team up with execution guys surrounding our two Super Glue guys. In essence what you’d get is Spurs-lite – a do everything big and a playmaking non-scoring point surrounded by a bunch of guys who would defend (let’s say Josh Childress or Jared Dudley + Martell Webster types), who could find the open spots and knock down shots, who might be completely average night in and night out but also would be consistently average night in and night out. As we’ve seen so far, this team could be pretty dangerous with Love, Rubio, and 4-5 consistently average guys.

sucks. Period.

No potential misunderstandings there either. ;)

at Basketball Reference is interesting, in that how much it verifies what one sees on the court:

1. The Wolves’ success is basically coming from phenomenal play from Love and Ricky “Real Deal” Rubio.
2. But the defensive rating is much improved across the board (thank you Coach Adelman), with 102 being the worst number
3. They’re getting competent play from Barea, Ridnour, Darko, and Tolliver
4. They’re getting much more volatile play from RickWill and Randolph
5. Wes and Michael “Long Two” Beasley are worse than last year

True, we’re only four games in, and there’s a good chance that the regression will go in the wrong direction. But they have played the former champs and the current WCF and ECF favorites.

But why wouldn’t the goal be to kind of find another cornerstone player by moving him?

Gortat and Martin are both excellent at what they do, but they both concern me as being what we trade Williams for

note: I remember people talking about a Beasley or Wes Johnson/Pek/Ridnour for Martin trade people kept mention….any day of the week I will do that btw….just not Williams

I couldn’t find our Gordon/Martin convo from the other night. But where I was going with why I’d take Gordon (I apologize, I was tired had to be up early etc), is that yeah-Martin has been putting up 20 PER for a few years now, but he’s also 28 and we see all the time these SG’s….once they lose it they lose it….I’m not saying Martin will lose it at 29,30,31…but maybe he will….his game is predicated on athleticism which might be very helpful in his aging as he is already used to playing with out an excellent base of athleticism….but it also might mean that once he looses it he REALLY loses it as he will turn from an average athletic wing to a completely non and almost a hindrance of an athlete at wing. Gordon is 23 and putting up, I guess it’s basically a 19 PER and he also has a nice athletic base/BBIQ skill set where he’s not just a guy who plays basketball the right way, he’s also a guy who is “long and athletic”

He’s the guy I would have most wanted out of the N.O. deals….and for Williams I would be much more comfortable and happy trading Williams for Eric Gordon than for Martin

I disagree with the we know what we have sentiment. We know who these guys are with an awful coach. I’m all for letting Adelman have more time with them.

His shot looks solid, and he’s been hitting them in motion, with hands in his face, spotting up from three . . . his mechanics aren’t typical, but the results have been impressive. Several of his shots have hit back iron and dropped right through without disturbing the net. They’re on target and have great rotation.

I guess what I’m saying is, if he continues to take the shots that are available (and he doesn’t seem the type to start jacking out of desperation), I don’t see any reason why he can’t maintain a high TS%. (Though you’re right in that .723 is stupid good).

SnP and TimAllen and others have set a really solid tone that the majority of poster at least try and roll with, obviously it’s not perfect but one of my absolute favorite reasons for coming here for hoops talk is that most people at least post/debate in a respectable way….even if it’s in a heated disagreement

and it works so well I never notice it. I forget how aggravating IE was.

You could throw $10 Million at SG in Free Agency next offseason. But that leaves no asset but Williams, if he still has value, to throw at SF and C issues.

The idea of trading Williams for older, non-all star players

I think it’s only fair if I’m criticized for counter the opinion too much to also criticize the notion of moving Williams….because I basically only bring this up in response to those sentiments

But it seems to me like we’d have to give up Williams in either of those deals (Iggy and Gortat/Dudley).

I thunk you’re gonna need a volume guy somewhere.

Doesn’t have to be Williams….but I do believe in having at least one volume guy…maybe iggy can be that but he has kinda of settled into the ultra efficiencet guy he’s been over the last two/three seasons

Igodoua seems to be the ultimate compliment to love and Rubio but there are other players out there to be gotten

HIs Win Shares are now positive for the season. I feel like I have more hope for AR than Beasley in maturing both on and off the court and learning how to play within their skill sets. AR definitely looks engaged on the court, especially defensively. If he just stops taking long jumpers, even though he made one against Dallas, I can live with some of his brain farts, because he’ll be productive.