Wolves at Hornets, 7:00 PM

criteriado · Post #271 » by **criteriado** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:19 am

If we lose Love for 2-3 weeks our playoffs hopes are done. I ripped him a lot for his playing tonight, but we need him to win.

TwInS1095 · Post #272 » by **TwInS1095** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:21 am

Basti wrote:And even if he indeed re-injured his hands it's not that bad. We have some depth at the power forward spot and his hand was obviously not fully healed anyway. Let his hand get back to full strength at first. We need a healthy Love for later in the season.

This. Although, it is still a big loss. Love was struggling, but he still drew a lot of attention, was rebounding as well as anyone in the game, and takes up a lot of minutes. Love playing his worst still makes more of an impact than Williams/Cunningham can for extended periods of time at there best. I wouldn't be as worried if we didn't have so many injured guys.

AK can play some PF and we can get buy with some minutes of D-Will and Dante there. We'll be ok, but it's definitely a setback.

TwInS1095 · Post #273 » by **TwInS1095** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:23 am

criteriado wrote:If we lose Love for 2-3 weeks our playoffs hopes are done. I ripped him a lot for his playing tonight, but we need him to win.

Not true. With Rubio back he can cover a lot of our defeciencies on Offense. Same with AK. Pek will need to continue to step it up, but we have a lot more depth this year you have to remember.

Shved, AK, Pek, Ridnour, JJ, and Rubio can all create some offense. We'll be ok. We'll probably even play better defensively. So it'll be ok. It's not ideal, but we'll be ok.

Post #274 » by **The J Rocka** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:23 am

criteriado wrote:If we lose Love for 2-3 weeks our playoffs hopes are done. I ripped him a lot for his playing tonight, but we need him to win.

Plenty of games left to be played and we'll have Rubio back.

[RCG] · Post #275 » by **[RCG]** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:24 am

Perhaps an injury to Love would push Kahn to move D.Will, a PG, 1st, etc for Varejao?

criteriado · Post #276 » by **criteriado** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:26 am

Timberwolves PR ‏@Twolves_PR
X-rays on Kevin Love's right hand were negative

Cyborg21 · Post #277 » by **Cyborg21** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:27 am

Probably dislocation

Grits n Gravy · Post #278 » by **Grits n Gravy** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:28 am

criteriado wrote:Timberwolves PR ‏@Twolves_PR
X-rays on Kevin Love's right hand were negative

nice

Post #279 » by **The J Rocka** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:28 am

[RCG] wrote:Perhaps an injury to Love would push Kahn to move D.Will, a PG, 1st, etc for Varejao?

We're just asking for an AV injury to occur by joining our cursed franchise.

Esohny · Post #280 » by **Esohny** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:28 am

[RCG] wrote:Perhaps an injury to Love would push Kahn to move D.Will, a PG, 1st, etc for Varejao?

Doubt it. By the time Kahn is ready to cut the cord on Williams, he won't fetch anything close to a starting quality player.

Swish4 · Post #281 » by **Swish4** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:29 am

I'll be more comfortable after an MRI. Xrays can miss things.

Grits n Gravy · Post #282 » by **Grits n Gravy** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:29 am

The J Rocka wrote:
[RCG] wrote:Perhaps an injury to Love would push Kahn to move D.Will, a PG, 1st, etc for Varejao?

We're just asking for an AV injury to occur by joining our cursed franchise.

at what point do we start the fire rick "curse your franchise" adelman petition?

Post #283 » by **Calinks** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:32 am

forgot ak47 is lebron james
forgot shved is stockton
forgot ridnour is reggie miller
so pekovic is karl malone.. cool
Can we sign JJ?? He is rubios backup and is clearly a starter in this league.

Jukeness · Post #284 » by **Jukeness** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:33 am

I thought that the Hornets played a good game tonight, but the Wolves played better, one of the best games so far.

Swish4 · Post #285 » by **Swish4** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:37 am

Hornets have some talent, but they played like the inexperienced team they are. They should be very good in a few years assuming Gordon comes back healthy.

LordBaldric · Post #286 » by **LordBaldric** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:40 am

WesJ4 wrote:I'll be more comfortable after an MRI. Xrays can miss things.

Maybe they should try gamma rays.

lewdog · Post #287 » by **lewdog** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:40 am

WesJ4 wrote:I'll be more comfortable after an MRI. Xrays can miss things.

And when they do that MRI, could they also check what's going on between his ears?

criteriado · Post #288 » by **criteriado** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:48 am

Timberwolves PR ‏@Twolves_PR
#TWolves Kevin Love suffered a right thumb contusion in the 4th Q of the Wolves win over NOLA. X-rays were negative and he is day-to-day.

Great news.

Mattya · Post #289 » by **Mattya** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:53 am

LordBaldric wrote:
WesJ4 wrote:I'll be more comfortable after an MRI. Xrays can miss things.

Maybe they should try gamma rays.

Maybe then when he gets mad he gets stronger like the Hulk and dominates instead of complaining to the refs.

Train · Post #290 » by **Train** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:54 am

Give us the thumbs up Kevin love.