Countdown to heartbreak (*Draft thread pt.II)

[revprodeji]

83 days, 21 hours, 1min until the front office cause even more fans to lose interest...


(*other thread is too big, here is the new one)

[deeney0]

You going to keep updating that every minute to keep it current?

[Klomp]

Too bad that can't be a running countdown.

[Rakocevicftw]

The most popular pick ever among Wolves fans was J.R. Rider.

[revprodeji]

top left side of www.nbadraft.net

only accurate thing on that site.

[Calinks]

I like the title.

[revprodeji]

Thx, I am hardly joking. Unless we are professional this summer and show some kind of plan/vision I am done. I would prefer a new front office and a semi-major trade, but a draft that does not leave half the fan base pissed would work. I am just sick of supporting average effort.

[Rakocevicftw]

Thx, I am hardly joking. Unless we are professional this summer and show some kind of plan/vision I am done. I would prefer a new front office and a semi-major trade, but a draft that does not leave half the fan base pissed would work. I am just sick of supporting average effort.

So you're demanding that they have a better draft this year, but you have pekovic and love pictures scrolling through your sig. I don't get it.

[AQuintus]

OP is completely wrong. It's only about 50 days until heartbreak (draft lottery).

[Krapinsky]

Thx, I am hardly joking. Unless we are professional this summer and show some kind of plan/vision I am done. I would prefer a new front office and a semi-major trade, but a draft that does not leave half the fan base pissed would work. I am just sick of supporting average effort.

There's a difference b/t effort and incompetence.

Keep your head up though. We're making progress. Jefferson. Love. 2010 Cap Space. Bunches of draft picks. The tipping point is within reach.

[revprodeji]

So you're demanding that they have a better draft this year, but you have pekovic and love pictures scrolling through your sig. I don't get it.

I like Pekovic and love, but this year is such a make or break year. So many assets and obvious needs. We either need to set a foundation or give up. I just do not seem them doing it.

I like the choice of Love an Pekovic (*stupid Miami trade--should have kept chalmers/Jordan 2nd rd) but we need to fix up the roster and get an identity. Right now we lack that. At the beginning of the year OKC/Mem/Us were together in development. Now OKC has clearly passed us.

[Krapinsky]

So you're demanding that they have a better draft this year, but you have pekovic and love pictures scrolling through your sig. I don't get it.

I like Pekovic and love, but this year is such a make or break year. So many assets and obvious needs. We either need to set a foundation or give up. I just do not seem them doing it.

I like the choice of Love an Pekovic (*stupid Miami trade--should have kept chalmers/Jordan 2nd rd) but we need to fix up the roster and get an identity. Right now we lack that. At the beginning of the year OKC/Mem/Us were together in development. Now OKC has clearly passed us.

I think OKC was clearly ahead of us before the season started. They're way ahead in clearing their cap plus they had Durant AND Jeff Green and the #4 pick. Their cap space has led to the signing of more good assets in Krstic and Livingston. Hopefully, once we clear our dead weight contracts we can do the same. I think MEM and SAC are much better barometers.

[deeney0]

The key to this offseason for me is balance. Wolves have two starting PFs, and nothing else. If you're an optimist you can pencil in Foye or Brewer at SG. I'm willing -even interested- to see what Al and Kevin look like in the post together next year. What I don't want to do is draft a C and go into next year with the vision being some combination of Telfair, Foye, Brewer, Carney, and Gomes getting major minutes at 1-2-3. One of them, max. The back court has to be addressed, and the guys on the current roster are all suited to coming off the bench. The team is young enough, and the front court talented enough, to roll some dice and fail. Rubio, Harden, Henderson, Evans, Jennings, Holiday, DeRozan, Teague, Curry, Maynor, Lawson, Flynn, Collison... I'm not particularly attached to any of them, but I want to end up with at least two of them. They can afford to fail, but they can't afford to put off failing to later.

[Devilzsidewalk]

What I don't want to do is draft a C and go into next year with the vision being some combination of Telfair, Foye, Brewer, Carney, and Gomes getting major minutes at 1-2-3. One of them, max. The back court has to be addressed, and the guys on the current roster are all suited to coming off the bench.

yes sir, we need consistent backcourt threats. Foye went for .448fg/.425 3p%, 20 and 5 in our 10-4 January. He never touched that kind of efficiency in any other month, seemed to be the key between us being competitive and us being lame. If we can get somebody that can do that on a regular basis, then add a more experienced Kevin Love, and a PG that doesn't shoot 35%, then we might be onto something.

[shrink]

2009 Draft Lottery is May 19th - mark your calendars

[Foye]

2009 Draft Lottery is May 19th - mark your calendars

I really won't

Won't watch draft lottery, I do not believe that we'll finally move up. I guess we'll move down 1 or 2 spots

[john2jer]

We techincally moved up last year due to Chicago winning the lottery.

[Worm Guts]

We techincally moved up last year due to Chicago winning the lottery.

I don't understand that logic. We were the 3rd worst team and we got the third pick.

[john2jer]

We techincally moved up last year due to Chicago winning the lottery.

I'd don't understand that logic. We were the 3rd worst team and we got the third pick.

Well, if we were the third worst team, but Chicago won the lottery, if you go from there we'd have been pushed back to 4th, but we moved in front of Seattle back to third, and Seattle fell from 2nd to 4th.

They lotterize the top 3 picks.

Understand the logic now?

[Worm Guts]

I understand, I guess. I still think it's dumb. We were picked, but didn't move up.