Timberwolves

Post by **glg** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 6:55 pm

HornedMessiah wrote:

Heard on ESPN radio today a rumor that the Lakers offered Pau Gasol to the TWolves for Kevin Love and the 2nd pick in the draft. Seems like a pretty crappy trade offer, for the TWolves that is.

Sounds like a good offer to make if you're the Lakers and know that Kahn is a moron

Now its our time · Post by **Now its our time** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 11:44 pm

Rambis is out as coach

HornedMessiah · Post by **HornedMessiah** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 6:54 am

LOL...this is one of the worst handlings of the HC spot I've ever seen. Fire your coach on draft day?!

Plus, the whole homework essay thing...what coach is going to want to come here and work for bosses like this?

purple guy · Post by **purple guy** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:57 am

HornedMessiah wrote:LOL...this is one of the worst handlings of the HC spot I've ever seen. Fire your coach on draft day?!

Plus, the whole homework essay thing...what coach is going to want to come here and work for bosses like this?

Exactly. Im sure the Wolves will attract a big time HC with the way they run the team.

Post by **glg** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 10:19 am

Wow, check this out. Bill Simmons uses two trades to turn the TWolves into a contender.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/669 ... de-picture

Phoenix trades Marcin Gortat (50 cents) and Jared Dudley (quarter) to Minnesota for the no. 2 pick (50 cents), Jonny Flynn (dime), and Nik Pekovic (dime). Final tally: Phoenix (70 cents), Minnesota (75 cents).

Minnesota trades Michael Beasley (quarter) and Martell Webster (nickel) to Detroit for Ben Gordon (dime) and Austin Daye (dime).13 Final tally: Minnesota (20 cents), Detroit (30 cents).

unfortunately, he notes that Phoenix isn't willing to let go of Gortat, so it won't happen.

PurpleMustReign · Post by **PurpleMustReign** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 10:49 am

glg wrote:Wow, check this out. Bill Simmons uses two trades to turn the TWolves into a contender.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/669 ... de-picture

Phoenix trades Marcin Gortat (50 cents) and Jared Dudley (quarter) to Minnesota for the no. 2 pick (50 cents), Jonny Flynn (dime), and Nik Pekovic (dime). Final tally: Phoenix (70 cents), Minnesota (75 cents).

Minnesota trades Michael Beasley (quarter) and Martell Webster (nickel) to Detroit for Ben Gordon (dime) and Austin Daye (dime).13 Final tally: Minnesota (20 cents), Detroit (30 cents).

unfortunately, he notes that Phoenix isn't willing to let go of Gortat, so it won't happen.

They need a new GM too.

TrenchGoon · Post by **TrenchGoon** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 8:20 am

it gets worse for the wolves

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_d ... nba-wp5562

The second round of Thursday night's NBA draft was full of obscure players from foreign leagues, but no one selected has as unknown a profile as Tanguy Ngombo. A 6-6 forward from the Qatar League, Ngombo was virtually unknown by even the most committed draftniks until Jonathan Givony of DraftExpress.com tweeted about his potential selection by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the second round.

Sure enough, Givony was right -- Minnesota took Ngombo on Thursday night with the 58th overall pick. ESPN appeared to have ripped his highlight video straight from YouTube and his profile photo from Google Images, while analyst Fran Fraschilla compared him to Sidd Finch, a baseball phenom George Plimpton made up for a now-notorious April Fool's Day hoax in a 1985 issue of Sports Illustrated.

It turns out that Fraschilla was at least partially right: Ngombo exists, but his story doesn't check out. When the Wolves selected him Thursday night, they thought they were getting a 21-year-old golden nugget hidden from all other times. Instead, they found pyrite, because Ngombo is really 26 years old. Givony tweeted the truth on Friday afternoon:

this should be enough to get the gm fired.

PurpleMustReign · Post by **PurpleMustReign** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 10:19 am

TrenchGoon wrote:it gets worse for the wolves

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_d ... nba-wp5562
this should be enough to get the gm fired.

PLEASE Taylor fire this moron.

Post by **glg** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 10:21 pm

PurpleMustReign wrote:
PLEASE Taylor fire this moron.

It's a second round pick in the NBA. The failure rate is astronomical, so really, who cares. If you want to fire him, do if for his past drafts, not this pick.

TrenchGoon · Post by **TrenchGoon** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 5:22 pm

glg wrote: It's a second round pick in the NBA. The failure rate is astronomical, so really, who cares. If you want to fire him, do if for his past drafts, not this pick.

I don't really follow basketball, and for all I know this kid will turn out to be great, but it just seems to me like a real bonehead move to select a guy knowing so little about him.

Post by **glg** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 10:55 pm

TrenchGoon wrote: I don't really follow basketball, and for all I know this kid will turn out to be great, but it just seems to me like a real bonehead move to select a guy knowing so little about him.

It was the 57th of 60 picks, there's nobody with any serious talent left, so you take a wild flier on a guy.

TrenchGoon · Post by **TrenchGoon** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:02 am

glg wrote: It was the 57th of 60 picks, there's nobody with any serious talent left, so you take a wild flier on a guy.

fair enough, I stand corrected

vikeinmontana · Post by **vikeinmontana** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:23 pm

i'm with goon on this one. obviously there is not a plethora of nba ready guys who are drafted in the fifties. but that is still no excuse to get a guy you know nothing about. i mean, you could take the two best players from every team that cracked the sweet 16 this year and find a guy with talent and one that you can have even basic knowledge about. i'm not questioning the overall talent of these guys picked later.....but they may as well drafted me! no excuse for drafting a guy that you know so little about.....

Now its our time · Post by **Now its our time** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 2:10 am

Isiah Thomas was still there

Post by **glg** » Thu Jun 30, 2011 8:02 am

Now its our time wrote:Isiah Thomas was still there

No, he's busy running the Knicks via backchannels. Isaiah, however, was there.

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