Immoral defeat

There were multiple offensive lapses that I thought he could help in. He must be doing some things coach doesn’t like, that I’m missing.

I thought I would say that Wes Johnson is a very bad basketball player.

If guys are missing, then you live with that. Missing free throws? It happens. But throwing the ball to your opponent? That hurts. There were about half dozen or so ridiculous turnovers that should never, ever happen.

At halftime we had 9 assists and Ricky had 8 of them.

Is teams are scouting us and planning for our plays. They are clogging up the passing lanes. Really trying to take away Love’s 3s.

Now we have to adapt.

Too lax in the shootaround. We won 2 games and some guys are acting like we did something. We haven’t done anything.

Good to hear.

That’s just the way it is. Be thankful we have a team with promise. This game was within reach, even with all the mistakes from us. Turnovers are fixable, so are ft’s, talent isn’t.

We have a really good team. Go Wolves. Goodnight.

How does a 17 win team have a letdown game? Do they believe their own hype? Tonight and the Bucks game were ridiculous. Just unacceptable. I’m a baseball fan first so I get schedule problems, but up and coming teams need to go all out every single game. Playing to the level of your opponents leads to a lot of losses.

And not just because the Wolves options are scrubs.

Is the team really just hoping that Webster comes back and is the answer? I certainly hope not, but that’s how it appears to have been played with the signing of Barea. They could have had Crawford (or somebody, anybody, I don’t know), but they picked up another point.

Letting other guys rebound. Which sounds silly because he still had 14 boards. Last year he really fought for every board, even from his own teammates. This year he is playing smarter and using his energy better. Beas had 10 boards and Darko had 8. All positive signs.

-We fought back from some big holes to get close
-We had a chance at the end though we were down by 7 late
-Ricky was amazing burying a stone cold killer 3 at the end and finishing with 12 pts, 11 assists
-Love continues to wow
-Positive signs on D (most of the time)
-Adelman is the man

is horrible. That Kevin Lynch, blatantly blames Beasley, as well as Jim Petersen (imo is terrible as well) for the loss. I like Hanny, fire the other two. theyre fucking horrible.

when hes on the perimeter he makes terrible decisions and cant create good shots

Turnovers, yes, but also too many shots/possessions used by Beasley, Darko, Wes, and Wayne. Gotta find a way to have more of those possessions being used by better players, even if it’s not Love/Rubio.

Wolves need Barea back to play more at SG. Honestly, 34 minutes for Wes/Wayne combined is still too much—they are a black hole of suck.

He looks lost out there when Ricky’s on the floor. Correct me if I’m mistaken, but it really looked to me that he can’t effectively run a pick and roll. He can set a flimsy pick and pop, but who can’t? Love ‘gets’ Rubio, so does Tolliver, so does Williams. Beas just doesn’t. He’s only effective with him in transition.

We’ve all talked about how poorly Beas played (and then some poor sap will mention his D or his double double on 5-16 shooting for 11 points with 5 turnovers), his maturity issues, his potential, blah blah blah. But the more I watch him play, the more he think he has systemic issues with his game that cannot be overcome, namely 1) he sucks at the PnR (that’s a problem an Adelman/Rubio team); 2) he’s no good at finishing layups when getting contact; 3) preference for the long two doesn’t seem to be changing; 4) overall focus issues which surface in every game.

If he can’t run a pick and roll well and if he can’t take it to the hoop with contact, then we got us a guy shooting long twos who should be shooting long threes (and that might be the only thing he’s good at). Because of his FGAs, I think he’s the most detrimental player we have, moreso than Wes.

Just pick Rudy from Denver, check youtube vids with Rudy and Ricky playing together with DKV Joventut and tell me what you think…

JJ is good. He can create his own shot. We needed someone in the 1st quarter to do something. Maybe he’ll help.

Martell is a pure mystery given his lack of availability.

These are the two guys I trust in the crunch. Neither afraid. Both good.

But, we really do lack a wing to break down a team on his own when we need a bucket. Rudy Gay was great last night. We have nothing close.

JJ may be closest.

Opposing teams are hitting 82% of their FTs against us.

We have a 69% average, good for 27th in the league.

We should benefit as this stat normalizes but not before blowing 4 games that were well within reach.