Ben Polk of "A Wolf Among Wolves" is quickly becoming one of my favorite Wolves bloggers. Heres a gem of an interview he had with Kevin Love.
Do you think that you and Beasley and Darko can be the frontcourt going forward? Do you think that that’s a trio that can work?
I think we’re still very young but yes I do. I mean Darko’s what 25, 26? This year we’ve seen flashes of brilliance, like what they said about him coming out of the draft. As long as he’s happy and having a positive attitude, he’s gonna play awesome. He doesn’t even need to score or necessarily even rebound at a high level to be effective because he changes so many shots at the defensive end.
With Mike and I we know [defense] is where we need to get tremendously better. Our defense between Mike and myself the biggest thing as far as how far this team is gonna go. And part of being a little young and hardheaded is energy and effort defensively. But as far as young players go, from what I’ve heard and what I’ve seen, I think defense is one of the last things that picks up.
Why is that?
I don’t know. For me it’s just figuring things out, different matchups. I can’t say that it’s effort for me because I’m trying to go 110% every time that I’m out there. A lot of it is rotations a lot of it is knowing personnel a lot of it is game planning. But we’ll definitely get there. As far as us being a formidable frontcourt we can definitely be that. Because we haven’t played together very long and once we do, we could be very, very good.
I guess it's just 2 different approaches to the job: interactive vs. a bit more removed. Maybe Kahn is possibly trying to avoid emotional attachments to the players to make the most rational decisions possible rather than those based on emotion.
