All Things 2024-25 Minnesota Timberwolves In-Season Thread

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kg21 said:
They just can't rebound to save their a ss.
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There's a guy in NY averaging a career-high 13.9 rebounds per game for 2nd best in the NBA behind only Sabonis at 14.3 per game.

The silly turnovers and offensive rebounding allowed led to MEM having 25 more FGA's than the Wolves tonight. You just won't win games with that formula.
 

Why in the hell would you have Julius Randle handling the basketball in a clutch situation at the end of a game? Not once, but twice!
 
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The Wolves continue to be a dumbass team. Atrocious passing. Silly fouls down the stretch. Finch wanting Randle to run the offense when he always screws up. I hate watching Randle play so much.
 

Finch's offense doesn't exist. He has no offensive philosophy that I can detect. Yet, for some unexplainable reason, I like him as a coach. As for the team, am I the only person that thinks they have developed a talent for laziness on offense?
 

Slim Tubby said:
There's a guy in NY averaging a career-high 13.9 rebounds per game for 2nd best in the NBA behind only Sabonis at 14.3 per game.

The silly turnovers and offensive rebounding allowed led to MEM having 25 more FGA's than the Wolves tonight. You just won't win games with that formula.
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I’m sure that guy is good but surely Naz can do everything he does with no drop off. Right?
 




Slim Tubby said:
There's a guy in NY averaging a career-high 13.9 rebounds per game for 2nd best in the NBA behind only Sabonis at 14.3 per game.

The silly turnovers and offensive rebounding allowed led to MEM having 25 more FGA's than the Wolves tonight. You just won't win games with that formula.
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That's basically the same team that destroyed us in the playoffs a few years back. They killed the Wolves on the board then.

We don't get up for the ball. We don't jump well. Just dominated on the boards. That's usually the story in games like that.

DDV had 10 boards and was the only one interested.
 



Gophers1992 said:
Not mad at Naz himself, he’s a fine player. He’s just not in the same class as KAT and it was unfair to him for anyone to expect he would be.
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He also doesn't play nearly as much as KAT. When he does, he puts up really good numbers. I would still like to see a starting lineup of DD, Ant, McDaniels, Naz, and Rudy.
 




GopherWeatherGuy said:
You're mad at the guy who scored 19 and was a +2 last night? Randle also still starts over Naz.
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One (1) guy is arguably the best shooting big man in the NBA, a perennial All Star and 2-time All NBA player. The other guy was the 6MOTY.

Naz is a fine player but he's not on KAT's level and never will be. We traded a Top 15-20 guy in an effort to have Cap Space to resign two other guys (Naz and NAW) that can still walk away after this year regardless of what we do.

Teams build their rosters and make Salary Cap decisions around their best players by adding quality supporting players, not the other way around.

Not to mention, we could trade Randle into another team's available Cap Space for literally no salary coming back and still be over the Cap.

The KAT trade will most assuredly go down as more destructive to this franchise than the Joe Smith debacle IMO considering where we were at as an ascending team last year when the deal was made.
 

fan of Ray Williams said:
Brilliant of Edward’s to raise his middle finger not once, but twice. Grow up a little.
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Ant's immaturity on and off the court is a sign of a young kid getting too much, too soon. Rumors around the team suggest he's surrounded himself with a core group of "friends" that never tell him "no".

Stop making babies and start making teammates better. The latter is actually what you're paid to do, Mr. Kemp.
 

Slim Tubby said:
One (1) guy is arguably the best shooting big man in the NBA, a perennial All Star and 2-time All NBA player. The other guy was the 6MOTY.

Naz is a fine player but he's not on KAT's level and never will be. We traded a Top 15-20 guy in an effort to have Cap Space to resign two other guys (Naz and NAW) that can still walk away after this year regardless of what we do.

Teams build their rosters and make Salary Cap decisions around their best players by adding quality supporting players, not the other way around.

Not to mention, we could trade Randle into another team's available Cap Space for literally no salary coming back and still be over the Cap.

The KAT trade will most assuredly go down as more destructive to this franchise than the Joe Smith debacle IMO considering where we were at as an ascending team last year when the deal was made.
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Just like the Rudy trade was the worst trade ever until they went to the Western Conference finals. I'll let a few seasons play out before making ridiculous statements like comparing the trade to Joe Smith when the Wolves are still 20-18 and should have a better record if they didn't continually shoot themselves in the foot.

I never said Naz is just as good as KAT, but KAT isn't worth his contract and he had to go. Trading KAT isn't the #1 issue with this team. Meanwhile the Knicks have lost 4 of 5 and KAT is having knee issues again.
 

GopherWeatherGuy said:
Just like the Rudy trade was the worst trade ever until they went to the Western Conference finals. I'll let a few seasons play out before making ridiculous statements like comparing the trade to Joe Smith when the Wolves are still 20-18 and should have a better record if they didn't continually shoot themselves in the foot.

I never said Naz is just as good as KAT, but KAT isn't worth his contract and he had to go. Trading KAT isn't the #1 issue with this team. Meanwhile the Knicks have lost 4 of 5 and KAT is having knee issues again.
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We traded four (4) Unprotected 1st Round Picks, two (2) Unprotected Pick Swaps and Walker Kessler because our long-term vision was playing Rudy and KAT together as twin towers. And it worked.

A year after the trade and our best season in 20 years as a franchise, we bailed on that vision. Why? Did Connelly not comprehend how the Cap works and what our most important players were currently under contract for prior to the trade?

For discussion sake, let's say that the Gobert trade was a huge success...and it was. Now ask yourself:

Why trade away our future and all of our valuable trade assets for a chance to play as the biggest, most versatile roster in the NBA only to trade away the most versatile component of that plan for a virtual salary dump a year later?

Mind you, a salary dump trade that doesn't get us below the 2nd Apron or provide any help signing another Max player, let alone guarantee we can keep our own valuable bench players like Naz and NAW?

The KAT trade was undeniably disastrous on the heels of the Gobert trade and anyone that can't comprehend the bigger picture of what's happened here in the last 18 months isn't worth having a discussion with on the topic any further.
 

Slim Tubby said:
We traded four (4) Unprotected 1st Round Picks, two (2) Unprotected Pick Swaps and Walker Kessler because our long-term vision was playing Rudy and KAT together as twin towers. And it worked.

A year after the trade and our best season in 20 years as a franchise, we bailed on that vision. Why? Did Connelly not comprehend how the Cap works and what our most important players were currently under contract for prior to the trade?

For discussion sake, let's say that the Gobert trade was a huge success...and it was. Now ask yourself:

Why trade away our future and all of our valuable trade assets for a chance to play as the biggest, most versatile roster in the NBA only to trade away the most versatile component of that plan for a virtual salary dump a year later?

Mind you, a salary dump trade that doesn't get us below the 2nd Apron or provide any help signing another Max player, let alone guarantee we can keep our own valuable bench players like Naz and NAW?

The KAT trade was undeniably disastrous on the heels of the Gobert trade and anyone that can't comprehend the bigger picture of what's happened here in the last 18 months isn't worth having a discussion with on the topic any further.
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The twin towers wasn't going to work at a championship level against guard heavy teams like Dallas, OKC, and Boston.

As for trading away the future....people need to stop overrating these 1st round picks. Anything outside of the top 1 or 2 is about as big of a crapshoot as baseball or hockey. And yet the Wolves were still able to get the #8 pick in last years draft.

KAT isn't the future. He's 29, often injured, and way too expensive. Connelly was right to move one of his oldest, and largest salary burden to give this team more flexibility to build around their 23 year old star. They will move on from Randle, and potentially move some other pieces as well. There are plenty of options going forward.

You seemingly want the Wolves to do whatever it takes to win it all now, when Connelly believed last years roster wasn't going to get them there, and I agree. That's how you end up with a 25-26 year old Ant with no one around him.

You're the one not seeing the bigger picture. Have more patience than 38 games.
 

Well, they did send dillingham down to Iowa.

He didn't shoot well from three, but did have a good game.

 

Just heard on PTI that 🐜 leads the Association on techs (9) and $250K - that’s gotta change 🤦‍♂️
 

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