Feel free to bash away and whine about Stephen Curry, Darko, and Jefferson/Love.
#1 MN Fan wrote:Just listened, here's my summary:
-Kahn said jokingly he has lost count of how many losses the Timberwolves have had.
-Reusse said "this is the worst ever defensive team he has ever seen in sports", Kahn responded and confirmed that they're awful defensively. Kahn says it's because of Al and Love out on the court and the fact that they're undersized. He also said that transition and half court defense is bad, and with Flynn trying to learn the NBA game on the defensive end, that's tough for the team to overcome too. He says they need to grow from within and solve from the outside-in also.
-Reusse asked him "if Love and Jefferson both give full effort on the defensive end". Kahn said both kids need to step it up effort-wise. He said some of it has to do with them lacking that dynamic explosive-ness. Through positioning and hard work, he said they can be a whole lot better next year. He says he's going to demand better from both of them next season.
-Reusse said that Jonny Flynn has the intangibles, and that he should be a better defender next season. Kahn says that people lose sight of the fact that both Love and Flynn would be juniors in college right now, and that they need to have SOME of their expectations lowered.
-Kahn says Flynn has made great strides during the second half understanding how to coordinate the offense, has a better understanding in terms of intangibles but still says he's light years away from being the player that they see he can be. Kahn says he still has tremendous upside.
-Mackey asked him if he thinks Flynn works in the triangle...Kahn says that he's always played zone defense and transitioning to the man-to-man defense was hard. He also said people overstate the triangle....and he said that Rambis has changed the triangle. Traditional triangles have a two guard front, and we have a one-guard front. He says a big thing that is going to help Jonny is him. He has to bring in better players for Jonny to work with.
-Kahn says they're still not a player away. He said in "one sense" they are a player away, because they need a great player.
-He says in each games they play really well in 15 minutes, and then it goes to hell in about 6-7 minutes and they don't have anyone to get them out of that "hell". He says their gaps are numerous, not singular. He says a lot of that can be addressed in the draft, the players over in Europe, etc.
-Kahn says that the first time he did feel that players weren't giving full-effort was on Sunday against New Orleans. He said he felt when the lead started to get away players were hanging their heads and not trying nearly as hard as they could.
-Kahn says he thinks in the locker room it has been a tension-free season, and he values that considering how tough of a year it's been for the players.
-Kahn says it's unlikely we'll be a brand-new team next season, but he said EVERYTHING'S on the table. With so much in front of them (draft picks, cap room) they need to keep their minds completely open in order to make this team better. He says what is most important to him now is that they examine everything.
-Kahn says if they keep making improvements, that people will stay loyal to the team. He feels that the last two-three years the fanbase has turned off a bit....and that they need to get the fan base back to where it was four-five years ago.
-Kahn says that he has spoken to Larry Brown about Darko's time in Detroit, and Brown says he wasn't used because they had a very veteran team that was going for the championship. He says that the NBA development league is a very positive thing, but they still don't have a good minor league system like baseball does. He compared Darko to Steven Strasburg from the Washington Nationals. People understand that the kid could be a great player one day, and it's going to be good for Strasburg to develop in the minors, while Darko had to develop coming into the league on a team that was going for a championship. He says Darko and Rambis' relationship is one that is good. He said the fact that Rambis campaigned for Darko at the deadline gave Darko a sense of comfortableness in Minnesota because he felt "wanted". Kahn says he's pleased with Darko's poise and development, and he thinks there's a realistic chance they retain him.
That was it. Hope my summary isn't too long for some of you :lmao:
