KG commercial

[mandurugo]

I think probably my main problem is that I don't share your guys' enthusiasm for the youth movement.

I'm not convinced that:

1) Foye can play point guard, though I'm sure he can't play 2-guard.

2) McCants can start as a 2-guard.

3) Smith's offense can make up for his defense.

4) Gomes can be more than a 6th man

5) Telfair can be more than a back-up point guard

6) Snyder could be more than a 7th man (despite being the 2nd best player on the floor for the wolves half the time he plays)

I'm still holding out hope for Brewer, though without a motion offense I don't think he'll succeed in the pros.

So all this youth doesn't have me too excited, I'd just as soon trade any of them as keep them. This has been a discouraging season. I know a big part of my problem is the offense the wolves play, I hate watching Jefferson at center and the feeling that every offensive set starts with ball isolation is really boring. Do these guys know you're allowed to pass to guys cutting to the basket or that if you drive you can dish the ball? Oh well, I'll just hope that you guys are right and this is an opportunity to build a more competitive team. But man, I feel like KG in the John Thompson interview when he was explaining how worn out he was...

[horaceworthy]

mandrungo, I think even some that don't mind the youth movement agree with the problems you stated.

I think much of the appeal of the youth movement is necessarily the players we have in fold, but A) The players we might get with our high draft picks, B) That we aren't locked into long-term contracts for mediocre players, C) That the slim margin for error this management gave itself during the final KG years has been widened, and D) That as opposed to KG's ticking clock, the pressure placed on this management to win now isn't as great.

I guess you can make the argument that with KG in fold, we were always one or two players away, but the easy counter is that there wasn't enough faith in the front office's ability to surround him with those one or two players in time to make a difference. Yes, it's still the same management in place now, but instead of being locked into having to tank for mid-lotto picks , having no money and owing multiple draft picks, we're starting from scratch. We'll have money to spend next year, we're actually owed more picks than we owe, and we'll have a high lottery pick without having to tank (not exactly a great thing, but I prefer watching a bad team play hard rather than a slightly less bad team make excuses for mailing it in).

[D1SGRUNTL3D]

the half who was in favor of the kg trade and the half who opposes it are just spinning their tires.

nobody can convince anybody what was and what wasnt the right move.

[deeney0]

One of my favorite commercials of all time during one of my favorite times of all time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V720aZXySjQ

That just made me tear up.


I'm not ready yet.