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Re: WCF Game 5, 5/28: Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 7:30 pm 

Post#81 » by m2002brian » Thu May 29, 2025 1:44 am

Neeva wrote:Finch has to go, wolves will not win anything meaningful under him. No other teams fan bases want Finch as their head coach, he’s mid. Two west finals but his coaching had nothing to do with it, and he was badly outcoached both times in the finals, really badly!

sign and trade Naz, should have traded him at trade deadline or this past off season when his value was at all time high, oh well.



If Curry doesn’t get hurt we probably get beat by the 7 seed all while have home court advantage.
So while technically correct that Finch coached us to two consecutive WCF appearances. It a little disingenuous.
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Re: WCF Game 5, 5/28: Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 7:30 pm 

Post#82 » by Folklore » Thu May 29, 2025 1:44 am

Williams doesn't waste time dribbling the air out of the ball he just gets to the point.
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Re: WCF Game 5, 5/28: Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 7:30 pm 

Post#83 » by Domejandro » Thu May 29, 2025 1:44 am

Neeva wrote:Finch has to go, wolves will not win anything meaningful under him. No other teams fan bases want Finch as their head coach, he’s mid. Two west finals but his coaching had nothing to do with it, and he was badly outcoached both times in the finals, really badly!

sign and trade Naz, should have traded him at trade deadline or this past off season when his value was at all time high, oh well.

Couple points.

1. OKC is insanely more talented than Minnesota. It's not even remotely close, Minnesota has zero business being back in the Western Conference Finals against a team this good, if we are being real.
2. Minnesota matches up horribly against OKC.
3. Pretty much no pathway to reasonably sign-and-trade Naz Reid and get value back. That ships is sailed, barring it being part of a bigger and more complicated deal (or just getting a second back).
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Re: WCF Game 5, 5/28: Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 7:30 pm 

Post#84 » by _AIJ_ » Thu May 29, 2025 1:46 am

Lets go Pacers!
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Re: WCF Game 5, 5/28: Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 7:30 pm 

Post#85 » by _AIJ_ » Thu May 29, 2025 1:47 am

Domejandro wrote:
Neeva wrote:Finch has to go, wolves will not win anything meaningful under him. No other teams fan bases want Finch as their head coach, he’s mid. Two west finals but his coaching had nothing to do with it, and he was badly outcoached both times in the finals, really badly!

sign and trade Naz, should have traded him at trade deadline or this past off season when his value was at all time high, oh well.



3. Pretty much no pathway to reasonably sign-and-trade Naz Reid and get value back. That ships is sailed, barring it being part of a bigger and more complicated deal (or just getting a second back).


Good. He **** sucks
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Re: WCF Game 5, 5/28: Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 7:30 pm 

Post#86 » by Domejandro » Thu May 29, 2025 1:48 am

As a note, I want it on the record that I was a proponent of trading a ton of value for Alex Caruso around Draft time.
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Re: WCF Game 5, 5/28: Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 7:30 pm 

Post#87 » by Nick K » Thu May 29, 2025 1:49 am

Rookie-Mistake wrote:They are checked out.. I sense there is a bit of disharmony in the change room..

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I was thinking the same thing about disharmony among the troops. It sure looks that way.

It's hard to watch being embarrassed on national TV like we are.

I think I'm vindicated on hating the Kat trade. Both players we got for him have been disappointing. When you trade away the best player in the deal it's almost always a loser.
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Re: WCF Game 5, 5/28: Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 7:30 pm 

Post#88 » by _AIJ_ » Thu May 29, 2025 1:50 am

Keep NAW and get rid of reid and randle. Let conley retire
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Re: WCF Game 5, 5/28: Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 7:30 pm 

Post#89 » by jpatrick » Thu May 29, 2025 1:53 am

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Rookie-Mistake wrote:They are checked out.. I sense there is a bit of disharmony in the change room..

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I was thinking the same thing about disharmony among the troops. It sure looks that way.

It's hard to watch being embarrassed on national TV like we are.

I think I'm vindicated on hating the Kat trade. Both players we got for him have been disappointing. When you trade away the best player in the deal it's almost always a loser.


That trade was inevitable once we traded for Gobert. Can’t be in the second apron multiple years under the current CBA without serious punishment. Can’t fit Rudy, KAT, and Ant reasonably under that apron.

To be fair, the CBA didn’t get announced till shortly after we traded for Gobert, and I don’t believe we make the Gobert trade if we knew the details of the CBA.
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Re: WCF Game 5, 5/28: Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 7:30 pm 

Post#90 » by Guest84 » Thu May 29, 2025 1:53 am

All the bigs on the team can go. Idc what they do with naw. DDV can go too. The only good thing about this game is it’s not on TNT.
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Re: WCF Game 5, 5/28: Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 7:30 pm 

Post#91 » by Rookie-Mistake » Thu May 29, 2025 1:56 am

This game will mean a lot of people will lose their jobs.

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Re: WCF Game 5, 5/28: Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 7:30 pm 

Post#92 » by jpatrick » Thu May 29, 2025 2:00 am

Can we get value for Rudy? He just doesn’t have a place in the playoffs against really good teams. Great regular season but gets exploited in a seven game series like this. If we could somehow move Randle/Rudy for Lauri/Kessler, I’d do it. Get younger and save money.
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Re: WCF Game 5, 5/28: Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 7:30 pm 

Post#93 » by FrenchMinnyFan » Thu May 29, 2025 2:00 am

Randle is a big question. As his Rudy, as are NAZ and NAW and probably DDV. TC will be busy this off season.
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Re: WCF Game 5, 5/28: Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 7:30 pm 

Post#94 » by Guest84 » Thu May 29, 2025 2:01 am

This could be a 60pt loss potentially
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Re: WCF Game 5, 5/28: Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 7:30 pm 

Post#95 » by FrenchMinnyFan » Thu May 29, 2025 2:02 am

jpatrick wrote:Can we get value for Rudy? He just doesn’t have a place in the playoffs against really good teams. Great regular season but gets exploited in a seven game series like this. If we could somehow move Randle/Rudy for Lauri/Kessler, I’d do it. Get younger and save money.


That's could be a good deal. But i doubt the Jazz will be interested. Rudy bringing elite defense but he play many PO last 5 years and his limits are obvious when level up, intensity up. And at this price...
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Re: WCF Game 5, 5/28: Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 7:30 pm 

Post#96 » by jpatrick » Thu May 29, 2025 2:04 am

FrenchMinnyFan wrote:
jpatrick wrote:Can we get value for Rudy? He just doesn’t have a place in the playoffs against really good teams. Great regular season but gets exploited in a seven game series like this. If we could somehow move Randle/Rudy for Lauri/Kessler, I’d do it. Get younger and save money.


That's could be a good deal. But i doubt the Jazz will be interested. Rudy bringing elite defense but he play many PO last 5 years and his limits are obvious when level up, intensity up. And at this price...


Jazz would have no interest in anyone that helps them win next year. But maybe a third team would give value. Some like the Hawks, who need to make a big jump soon or they’re going to blow it up.
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Re: WCF Game 5, 5/28: Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 7:30 pm 

Post#97 » by BlacJacMac » Thu May 29, 2025 2:04 am

jpatrick wrote:Can we get value for Rudy? He just doesn’t have a place in the playoffs against really good teams. Great regular season but gets exploited in a seven game series like this. If we could somehow move Randle/Rudy for Lauri/Kessler, I’d do it. Get younger and save money.


It makes no sense for Utah. They get older and have no future.
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Re: WCF Game 5, 5/28: Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 7:30 pm 

Post#98 » by moss_is_1 » Thu May 29, 2025 2:06 am

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Re: WCF Game 5, 5/28: Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 7:30 pm 

Post#99 » by Klomp » Thu May 29, 2025 2:14 am

Just have to remind myself that only 4 teams ever won more games in a season than OKC did.
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Re: WCF Game 5, 5/28: Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 7:30 pm 

Post#100 » by Calinks » Thu May 29, 2025 2:26 am

m2002brian wrote:
Neeva wrote:Finch has to go, wolves will not win anything meaningful under him. No other teams fan bases want Finch as their head coach, he’s mid. Two west finals but his coaching had nothing to do with it, and he was badly outcoached both times in the finals, really badly!

sign and trade Naz, should have traded him at trade deadline or this past off season when his value was at all time high, oh well.



If Curry doesn’t get hurt we probably get beat by the 7 seed all while have home court advantage.
So while technically correct that Finch coached us to two consecutive WCF appearances. It a little disingenuous.

I don't buy that. I think we were clearly better than Golden State. I just think that OKC is FAR superior to everyone else. That said, huge props to Denver and Jokic for taking them to 7.
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