Don't speed it up: Wolves sign Slo-Mo Kyle Anderson (2yr/$18M)

[JayTWill]

Question for Wolves fans, do you think Kyle could be a positive contributor as a backup 5 for another team? He is not a traditional rim protector and he does not have the size but how do you think we would perform offensively and defensively in that role?

[winforlose]

Question for Wolves fans, do you think Kyle could be a positive contributor as a backup 5 for another team? He is not a traditional rim protector and he does not have the size but how do you think we would perform offensively and defensively in that role?

Kyle is a like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are gonna get . Now assume that box has 20 pieces. So replace 4 pieces with turds disguised to look like candy and you have a good picture. His offense at its best is a solid 8-10 points on decent efficiency usually at the rim or from around the free throw line. He is a non shooter from deep and outside the paint usually. His offense at its worst is 4 on 5 with other teams literally instructing their players to back away from him when he gets the ball to encourage him to shoot and to clog the paint.

Defensively Kyle is fairly solid, and while he does not do a great job on the Jokers and Embiid’s of the world, he is pretty good against the Luka, Zion, and Chets of the world. Kyle is a self described PG who can play the SF/PF and small ball 5. His best role is on ball so opponents cannot cheat off of him, and defensively he excels when he has a size advantage or a quickness advantage, or both.

[jpatrick]

Question for Wolves fans, do you think Kyle could be a positive contributor as a backup 5 for another team? He is not a traditional rim protector and he does not have the size but how do you think we would perform offensively and defensively in that role?

Maybe spot minutes in ultra small lineups, but he’s too small to be the primary backup center defensively. Offensively, he’d be fine as long as he’s surrounded by shooters.

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Question for Wolves fans, do you think Kyle could be a positive contributor as a backup 5 for another team? He is not a traditional rim protector and he does not have the size but how do you think we would perform offensively and defensively in that role?

Kyle is a like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are gonna get . Now assume that box has 20 pieces. So replace 4 pieces with turds disguised to look like candy and you have a good picture. His offense at its best is a solid 8-10 points on decent efficiency usually at the rim or from around the free throw line. He is a non shooter from deep and outside the paint usually. His offense at its worst is 4 on 5 with other teams literally instructing their players to back away from him when he gets the ball to encourage him to shoot and to clog the paint.

Defensively Kyle is fairly solid, and while he does not do a great job on the Jokers and Embiid’s of the world, he is pretty good against the Luka, Zion, and Chets of the world. Kyle is a self described PG who can play the SF/PF and small ball 5. His best role is on ball so opponents cannot cheat off of him, and defensively he excels when he has a size advantage or a quickness advantage, or both.

Good post. I would add that Kyle is surprisingly good at using his dad-strength to body up bigs without fouling, and he has active hands for steals. Smart defender. I heard a vague stat the other day that every year SloMo has been in the league, his team put up good defensive numbers when he was on the court.

[JayTWill]

Question for Wolves fans, do you think Kyle could be a positive contributor as a backup 5 for another team? He is not a traditional rim protector and he does not have the size but how do you think we would perform offensively and defensively in that role?

Kyle is a like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are gonna get . Now assume that box has 20 pieces. So replace 4 pieces with turds disguised to look like candy and you have a good picture. His offense at its best is a solid 8-10 points on decent efficiency usually at the rim or from around the free throw line. He is a non shooter from deep and outside the paint usually. His offense at its worst is 4 on 5 with other teams literally instructing their players to back away from him when he gets the ball to encourage him to shoot and to clog the paint.

Defensively Kyle is fairly solid, and while he does not do a great job on the Jokers and Embiid’s of the world, he is pretty good against the Luka, Zion, and Chets of the world. Kyle is a self described PG who can play the SF/PF and small ball 5. His best role is on ball so opponents cannot cheat off of him, and defensively he excels when he has a size advantage or a quickness advantage, or both.

Good post. I would add that Kyle is surprisingly good at using his dad-strength to body up bigs without fouling, and he has active hands for steals. Smart defender. I heard a vague stat the other day that every year SloMo has been in the league, his team put up good defensive numbers when he was on the court.

Yeah, i'm a Knicks' fan. Not trying to poach one of your players but I wasn't sure if you guys would want to retain him with all the other money you have on the books and players at his positions. The Knicks just lost Hartenstein and the center market is pretty thin. They could attempt to trade for another center but I was curious how Kyle would look as a back up 5.

Hopefully Mitch would miraculously be able to stay healthy and on the floor so Kyle would not have to bang with the Jokics and Embiids of the world but I wasn't sure how he would function in less physical matchups and on the boards. He seems like a high IQ defender that provides some versatility from that position but I wasn't sure if we would get manhandled on the boards at the 5.

Offensively the Knicks have plenty of 3 point shooting with Brunson, DDV, Mikal, OG and McBride where they easily hide Kyle's lack of perimeter shooting and their second unit could really use another ball-handler. I was just trying to imagine what Kyle would look like against the non back to the basket centers surrounded by shooting at 3 or 4 of the other positions.

What type of offer could you imagine he would receive in free agency?

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Yeah, i'm a Knicks' fan. Not trying to poach one of your players but I wasn't sure if you guys would want to retain him with all the other money you have on the books and players at his positions. The Knicks just lost Hartenstein and the center market is pretty thin. They could attempt to trade for another center but I was curious how Kyle would look as a back up 5.

Hopefully Mitch would miraculously be able to stay healthy and on the floor so Kyle would not have to bang with the Jokics and Embiids of the world but I wasn't sure how he would function in less physical matchups and on the boards. He seems like a high IQ defender that provides some versatility from that position but I wasn't sure if we would get manhandled on the boards at the 5.

Offensively the Knicks have plenty of 3 point shooting with Brunson, DDV, Mikal, OG and McBride where they easily hide Kyle's lack of perimeter shooting and their second unit could really use another ball-handler. I was just trying to imagine what Kyle would look like against the non back to the basket centers surrounded by shooting at 3 or 4 of the other positions.

What type of offer could you imagine he would receive in free agency?

I appreciate that post.

At his exit interviews, Anderson talked about how grateful he was for the opportunity, but he is aware of the financial situation, and sounded like he wouldn’t come back. However, there were two things that made it possible. First, he loved how Finch used him, recognized he had a unique game and really flourished when he could playmake. He had ridden the benches when other coaches wouldn’t allow that. He also mentioned his autistic son was doing really well in Minnesota schools.

But Anderson is approaching 30, and likely needs a bigger paycheck than MIN can afford. Connelly and Finch really want him back and talk about it all the time, but SloMo is looking for a deal at the MLE, which MIN simply can’t afford. I would suggest $5 mil, but if he gets $8-12 elsewhere, I think he’ll have to take it.

[BlacJacMac]

Kyle is a like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are gonna get . Now assume that box has 20 pieces. So replace 4 pieces with turds disguised to look like candy and you have a good picture. His offense at its best is a solid 8-10 points on decent efficiency usually at the rim or from around the free throw line. He is a non shooter from deep and outside the paint usually. His offense at its worst is 4 on 5 with other teams literally instructing their players to back away from him when he gets the ball to encourage him to shoot and to clog the paint.

Defensively Kyle is fairly solid, and while he does not do a great job on the Jokers and Embiid’s of the world, he is pretty good against the Luka, Zion, and Chets of the world. Kyle is a self described PG who can play the SF/PF and small ball 5. His best role is on ball so opponents cannot cheat off of him, and defensively he excels when he has a size advantage or a quickness advantage, or both.

Good post. I would add that Kyle is surprisingly good at using his dad-strength to body up bigs without fouling, and he has active hands for steals. Smart defender. I heard a vague stat the other day that every year SloMo has been in the league, his team put up good defensive numbers when he was on the court.

Yeah, i'm a Knicks' fan. Not trying to poach one of your players but I wasn't sure if you guys would want to retain him with all the other money you have on the books and players at his positions. The Knicks just lost Hartenstein and the center market is pretty thin. They could attempt to trade for another center but I was curious how Kyle would look as a back up 5.

Hopefully Mitch would miraculously be able to stay healthy and on the floor so Kyle would not have to bang with the Jokics and Embiids of the world but I wasn't sure how he would function in less physical matchups and on the boards. He seems like a high IQ defender that provides some versatility from that position but I wasn't sure if we would get manhandled on the boards at the 5.

Offensively the Knicks have plenty of 3 point shooting with Brunson, DDV, Mikal, OG and McBride where they easily hide Kyle's lack of perimeter shooting and their second unit could really use another ball-handler. I was just trying to imagine what Kyle would look like against the non back to the basket centers surrounded by shooting at 3 or 4 of the other positions.

What type of offer could you imagine he would receive in free agency?

There was a recent tweet that he's looking for the full MLE.

I don't think he'll get it, but he's going to try. Maybe he settles for the Taxpayer MLE.

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Right now, Connelly has probably offered Anderson a low number, and said he and his agent should check the market to see if someone will offer him more. SloMo likes it here, so I imagine he’s agreed to give Connelly a chance to match it.

I think it’s unlikely Anderson stays, but I was more convinced Naz was going to leave, so who knows?

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FWIW, losing Monte Morris early makes it more likely we bring back SloMo, not just financially, but he can be insurance to do some playmaking if Conley goes down. I just hope they can agree on a number.

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[JayTWill]

I can't believe he did this to me after I showed a little interest.

[younggunsmn]

Question for Wolves fans, do you think Kyle could be a positive contributor as a backup 5 for another team? He is not a traditional rim protector and he does not have the size but how do you think we would perform offensively and defensively in that role?

Outside of the giant bigs like Jokic and Embiid, he can guard anybody and will be a plus defensively.
Offensively, he will singlehandedly destory your spacing.
He not only can't shoot, it takes like 5 seconds for him to get a shot off.
He will make the right play with the ball, but if he doesn't have the ball you are playing 4 on 5 like a hockey team trying to score while killing a penalty.

[KGdaBom]

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Well something is better than nothing and it should give us a better 2nd round pick.

Pretty much all the dominoes have fallen. Morris and Kyle gone. Hopefully Dilly, Miller and Shannon are ready to play some meaningful minutes.

[shrink]

Question is what do we get?

The value is getting a TPE, usable because it was created in this season. And under the new CBA, TPE’s can be used to sign FA’s.

GSW doing us a favor for the pick swap, and so is SloMo, who could have simply signed with GSW

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Question is what do we get?

The value is getting a TPE. And under the new CBA, TPE’s can be used to sign Free Agents.

GSW doing us a favor for the pick swap, and so is SloMo, who could have simply signed with GSW

I used the tweet to show the exchange, it wasn’t my actual opinion. Good to know about the TPE in this situation. That is honestly all I wanted from him in the first place.

[younggunsmn]

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We didn't even get a 2nd?
They blew their MLE on another player, so they couldn't have signed him without our help.
Should have at least got a 2nd.
Maybe just TC doing Kyle a solid and low-key tanking the Warriors by making them play him.

Surprised he got 3/27 with his shooting falling off a cliff.

Well we get a ~9 milllion trade exception now that will cost us 55 million in salary plus luxury tax to use all of.
Good luck with that TC.

[winforlose]

Question is what do we get?

The value is getting a TPE, usable because it was created in this season. And under the new CBA, TPE’s can be used to sign FA’s.

GSW doing us a favor for the pick swap, and so is SloMo, who could have simply signed with GSW

Forgot to ask, if we use the TPE like an MLE can we break it up, or does it have to go to one player?

[KGdaBom]

Question is what do we get?

The value is getting a TPE. And under the new CBA, TPE’s can be used to sign Free Agents.

GSW doing us a favor for the pick swap, and so is SloMo, who could have simply signed with GSW

I used the tweet to show the exchange, it wasn’t my actual opinion. Good to know about the TPE in this situation. That is honestly all I wanted from him in the first place.

I remember you wanting us to sign him now to trade him midway through the season. Do we get a TPE for the full value of his new deal?

[Klomp]

Question is what do we get?

The value is getting a TPE, usable because it was created in this season. And under the new CBA, TPE’s can be used to sign FA’s.

GSW doing us a favor for the pick swap, and so is SloMo, who could have simply signed with GSW

Is this enough to get us in the Tyus Jones sweepstakes?