Stop making sense

But Love’s rebounding and 3s make up for that.

His letters were well-received, his opening press conference got lots of good responses.

I’m not giving SnP crap here. I would qualify as a ‘Kahn basher’ as well, in that I think he deserves to lose his job immediately.

I’m taking this stance more out of respect for Love than defense of Kahn. I think Love has blown away what most people said he could do, even though most people said he could do more than the Wolves seemed to think he could.

turtles, hamsters. players change. they don’t often change types/levels.

Maybe we have a definition-based disagreement. I think talent gets results. Instead of watching the otherworldly Kevin Love run up and down the court pretty much by himself (and Tolliver), this year Rubio, Barea, Tolliver and a patchy Randolph/Williams join him (sometimes Ridnour). Hopefully the rising tide will lift even the crappiest boats, just by a little. I just don’t think it will change things into what they are not.

bad players, who show no production very rarely improve.

One year of poor play (see Wes) may be a bit early, but there are very few examples of players who don’t at least play well, for a rookie, who become good players. I feel comfortable giving up on Wes because he has the added problem of age. He needs to have shown something by now.

Beasley has had 3 season and failed to play well in any of them. He is what he is.

Good players get better, bad players play the same. There are always outliers, but historically this seems to be the way it works.

But I also know that "players never change" is repeated here more often than is reasonable, especially in regards to very young players – the type you see change and evolve in any profession.

The same people you’re blatantly misquoting go well out of their way to emphasize that usually, the younger a player is on entering the league, the better.

I’m not saying he will, either.

Those are all skills he has shown the “ability” to do at an NBA level….to me it’s just about putting it all together and doing it consistently….which, sure might be a stretch, but I think that’s well within his “breed” (keeping the tone of your turtle/hamster argument).

He always passed the “eye test” for me as well… so he had both things going as far as I’m concerned.

The scoring and awesome 3 point shooting surprised me a bit last year, and I was wondering how exactly he could improve from there (aside from less obvious things like better defensive positioning and maybe improving his passing game). It didn’t seem like there was an obvious next step in terms of adding new skills.

Well, he came back in ridiculous shape and with entirely unexpected new facets to his game (step back 3’s!?!). The fact that he did that tells me he hasn’t touched his ceiling yet if he stays that hungry. That kind of offseason work is the difference between him having a very good career vs. having a HOF type career and being in the MVP discussion multiple years.

So… I always thought he was going to be very good. But this good? Possible MVP caliber? I have to admit that I’m surprised.

was that after Love emerged he used him as an example of how we shouldn’t assume we can predict who’s going to be good. Based on his line of reasoning, we were supposed to remain completely open-minded to the idea of Wes, or Jonny, or whoever else emerging in the same way. Darko, too.

He took the example of someone who’d been pegged by people who knew what they were doing as a potential star, and he used it to toss the lesson out the window.

Of course he didn’t put any time thinking into that comment. It has all been by the seat of his pants. Now that the ship has been put out to sea and is floating, he needs to be put on the next life raft back to shore so he can’t sink it. Thanks for the 5th pick, thanks for not getting in the way of Team Adelman, here’s a parting gift/watch, thanks for playing.

Whatever he’s done, it has been on a razor’s edge to disaster. We could very easily be watching a Flynn/Thabeet Don Nelson led disaster. That type of potential is still in the building. No more tight rope/razor walking.

and I’ll make them.