winforlose wrote:skywalker33 wrote:winforlose wrote:
The paragraph is a direct response to someone asking how it will work. Earlier you had another such question from Tuna Fish. I answered it. If you want me to rate the west for you I will.
1. Timberwolves
2. Clippers
3. Healthy Nuggets but until then Suns
4. Nuggets until they get healthy then Suns
5. Tie between GSW and Memphis
6. Tie between GSW and Memphis
7. Dallas
8. Pelicans (I don’t think Zion can stay healthy or in shape,)
9. Portland
10. OKC
11. Lakers
12. Kings
13. Rockets
14. Spurs
15. Jazz
I have reasons for every ranking If you want them.
T-pups as the #1 is obviously a troll as they're not even a top 5 team in the WC, Connelly has mortgaged their future, kicked their salary cap to the curb and nobody here cares about you favorite team, shove off tpup boy
T-pups SUCK.
Just for fun, how do you guard us? Jokic guards Gobert who guards Towns? How do you out rebound us? Are you gonna reign 3s with a 5 out and bench Jokic? I doubt it, but it would be fun to see. The question is who is better than the Nuggets this year but you are intolerant of any discussion of any team other than Nuggets. How does one answer when they cannot speak about the other 14?
LMAO, you really should learn about a team before trolling. Maybe you don't realize it, but MPJ measured in at 6'!1" at the combine when he was 19 and looks like he grew another inch, he is more than prepared to guard Gobert, and actually considering his big weakness against bigs is when they post him up, he will do just fine against KAT as well. If he gets in foul trouble, then we have NNaji off the bench who is also 6'11" and graded out as our 2nd best perimeter defender last year before he got injured. Even better we have Gordon who can guard 2/3s, Russell is guarded by KCP, and Murray can capably guard both.
The real question is who guards the Nuggets? Jokic has a long history of tearing up both KAT and Gobert, Murray and Jokic when last active had the most effective 2 man game in the league. MPJ has a career 63.1% TS%, KCP shot 42% from 3 on spot ups last year, hell even Gordon shot 36% on spot up 3s last year and is reportedly working on that right now. Off the bench we got even more defense and shooters.
There is really 4 very funny things about you trying to troll here.
Last year the Twolves had the 2nd least amount of games missed in the league last year due to injury or covid with about 155 missed, the Nuggets had the 2nd most by teams not tanking last year with over 360 (and that is with trading 2 guys out for the season at the deadline which would have had them 1st overall for games missed). The odds that the Twolves will be that healthy or that the Nuggets will be that unhealthy next year are low, yet we still finished above you in the standings.
Last year by all reports Beverly was the emotional and vocal leader of your team, he is gone, but who fills the void? Russell and KAT have long proven not to be leaders, Gobert was not even close to a leader in Utah and reportedly not well liked by teammates, Slo-MO has never been known as a leader, so are they all going to listen to 2nd year Edwards? Is he ready or even able to lead? Are his teammates with years more of experience going to pay attention when he talks?
Your backup 2 and 3 next year appear to be our 3rd string from last year, the thing is we had the 2nd worst bench in the league throughout the 1st 2/3rds of the season with it only turning around when Bones took over, we signed Reed to a two way and started playing him, and we signed Cousins. We upgraded both of them with a proven starter from a playoff team last year who is a considerably better scorer and ball handler then either and re-signing Reed who outplayed both last year down the final stretch of the season.
Tim Connelly has a blind spot, it is something that every Nuggets fan knows deep down, it is something that has kept us from being a true contender since Gary Harris got hurt. Connelly does not value perimeter defense, especially guard defense. From what I see you guys lost 4 of your top 5 perimeter defenders since last season, you replaced them with a guy known as slow mo who has always struggled to keep up with quick guards, and Austin Rivers who is only effective against a handful of guys. IN a league where 42% of all shots are from 18 feet out, who is going to defend those guys?
Fact is if I were you I would be embarrassed by your post, putting the Twolves 1st while they have proven nothing at this point? Not just over the Nuggets which is stupid to start with, but over the Warriors who just won a championship, over the Suns, over the Clippers? Nobody considers the Twolves contenders outside of the biggest Twolves homers out there. Then trying to say that we have nobody to cover your two bigs, when we start 3 true bigs, two of whom are quick enough to play SF as well, talk about knowing nothing about a team when you are trolling. It is bad enough that you came over to try to brag about getting our scrubs that nobody wanted back, but then to follow that up with this post just makes you look sad and ignorant, I actually feel bad for you.
