Ouch

I don’t mind missed shots. I do mind bad shots. There were plenty of those tonight.

Hey, maybe he can play.

He tortures me that way.

the fact that they sound more like Vikings or Twinkies threads means the Wolves are finally drawing in casual fans, right?

Normal functioning people can’t talk about pro sports 3 days in a row.

Kevin Love 1-8 in fourth quarter. This “closer” hasn’t gotten coffee in about five games!

Wolves on their third game in a row and Suns playing first in about a week.
That was a “should have” that got away.

They would figure out our entire system

love your uninhibited nature, and the transparency with which you convey your emotions…

In order for others to step up someone needs to step back.
I think we can agree that as long as Love is on the floor he is going to take shots (and important shots) regardless of how poorly he is shooting. This is the menality of a star player. We’ve seen this from him all season.
When he shoots 8-25 (1-8 in 4th) and turns it over 4 times, it’s pretty hard to overcome.
The reason others “stepped up” v. Clips was because RA had Kevin (and RR) on the bench. Meanwhile the DWill/Beast magic show was a complete outlier.
When K and R are on the court they are going to rightfully dominate possessions. While the Wolves have underperformed at the 2/3 this year you can’t just rubber stamp every game KL and RR play poorly and blame “wings” every time they wet the bed (which has been a concerning regularity lately).
Last night Beast and Johnson split the 3 and shot 7-17 with 8 boards and 1 to. Webster went 3-6 at the two. Ridnour split time between 1-2 and shot 5-9.
Love hasn’t played like an all-star lately. When he’s on the court he dominates possessions. Should teammates wrestle the ball out of his hands when he is underperforming?
KL needs to play better. So does Rubio. I’m confident they will. (Ricky had two assists last night to Nash’s 16.)
They dominate the ball when on the court. For the Wolves to play consistently well we need our two stars to play like two stars nightly. They haven’t lately.
Hoping for a superhuman bail out performance like from DWill and Beast the other night seems an unlikely and unrealistic alternative. The wings need to play consistent basketball and fill their roles. The volume players need to play like stars.
(either that or we should all stop kneeling at their feet).

I didn’t see the wolves do anything particularly bad… They got beat on defense a few times, coughed it up a few times… But mostly just missed shots. A lot of shots.

And I keep thinking about what either you or snp said at the beginning of the year and it still holds true: “Some nights this team will go 12/25 from 3 and win big, some nights they will go 1/15 from 3 and lose.”

Also the wolves continue to be very susceptable to ‘loosly called games’. When the other team is very physical with ricky or love and there aren’t calls coming, might as well just put up the flag because it’s over.

It’s a real problem and the drop in both the level of play by our big contributors and their general body language is often pretty striking to me as of late. And I think this is true even when it’s not our third game in as many nights. I’m not sure there’s anything to be done about it, though, because we simply aren’t going to be in some of these games without big minutes from Love and Rubio (who look dog-tired most of the time right now). They are young and they can recover, sure, but mileage is mileage.

The need for a wing has been beaten to death, for sure, but one of the easily forgotten benefits of having a competent wing would be the ability to steal a few more minutes of rest for the guys doing heavy lifting right now. Eliminating the ongoing power-play turribleness of our wing production is paramount, of course, but how nice would it be if we didn’t find ourselves thinking how badly we need to get one of the current big hitters back into the game as soon as possible? Ugh.

Dwill plays much better when he plays his game instead of trying so hard to fit into what is happening. He is improving on driving to the rim, and the second step will be to look for open shooter on perimeters or cutter when he drives while staying aggressive going to the rim.

Are heavily scouted now and other teams are doing whatever they can to take away their favorite plays, moves, etc. So it’s adjustment time for us. Knowing when do exert our will and do what we want even if they know it’s coming, and knowing when to mix it up and throw a curve or two.

It leaves Love more free to roam around near the perimeter, get put backs and rebound. All things that he is so good at and are not as tiring as fighting for position and spotting up like he is now. Beas seems to be better about passing out of double teams and dishing lately. I think it would be a better compliment to Love’s game rather than having Johnson start.

He did the same to Yao Ming when he was in Houston. I think that had something to with YAO’s frequent injuries. You can’t let a 7’2 guy pound his body every game for 40 min, that bounds for injury.

2. Can we have Randy Foye back? We’ll give you…. ?? Brad Miller’s expiring contract I guess.

-your top 5 picks and why.

… to respectable, how did the fanbase react? Did folks want to push harder earlier on? How did the timing of it all feel?

Or do you feel dirty, like you should?

(phrasing could use a little work)