http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4222582/
Say you put a young NBA team together over the years, say you had experienced some remarkable success periods with the team last season, say there is no going back to the front office as your old position has been filled. Say your alternative option is a year of ice fishing. Would you be so indecisive about taking on the job as coach or not.
The lines that crack me up are the following:
Kahn declined to provide more specifics.
"Kevin is still very much, as I am, in that situation," he said. "We're still very much in a process to determine if he, or whoever, will be the coach."
And
Another half-dozen were due in the afternoon, with more workouts scheduled throughout the week.
Timberwolves assistant coaches were there, too, but McHale was missing.
"It would put too much pressure on him, in my opinion, and it would probably make it very uncomfortable with other people here," Kahn said. "I think that it's not appropriate yet until we resolve it. It would be more appropriate once we have it resolved."
So we don't know if our coach wants to be part of our team anymore and seeing young talents in the draft workouts would put, ahh, way too much pressure on his fragile soul.
It even gets better....
The future for the rest of the front office isn't resolved, either. Taylor didn't decide on Kahn until more than after the end of the regular season, leaving roughly the same amount of time for him to prepare for a draft in which the Wolves currently hold three first-round picks: Nos. 6, 18 and 28.
Changes, if Kahn so desires them, would be disruptive during this critical month. So everyone is status quo, including Stack and Hoiberg, who were candidates for the position that went to Kahn.
So we have a 3 weeks old GM, no decision on coaching, no decision on the future management of the team, 3 first rounders, expiring contracts, cap space...
My points are the following:
Does anyone have a vision for the upcoming draft/draft night trades?
Who draws the long term plans for this team?
Who explains to Foye and Telfair what their future role on the Wolves team is supposed to be if we draft DeMar DeRozan and Patrick Mills?
If you were another team's GM wanting to screw somebody over on draftnight, wouldn't you call who-ever-is-in-charge in Minneapolis?
Thoughts?
You're cute.