Karl-Anthony Towns: I Have A Lot Of Things That Have To Be Talked About

Post #1 » by **RealGM Wiretap** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 12:59 am

Karl-Anthony Towns hosted a basketball camp on Wednesday and was asked if Minnesota still feels like his second home.

“I think I’ve done a lot of things here. I’m very proud of the things I’ve been able to do so far,” Towns said in response to the final question of the session about whether he considers Minnesota a second home. “But I have a lot of things that have to be talked about, so I’ll move on.”

Towns is eligible to sign a max contract extension this offseason, but his relationship with the Minnesota Timberwolves is uncertain.

There have been reports of issues between Towns and Tom Thibodeau.

Via Michael Ran/Star Tribune

baldur · Post #2 » by **baldur** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 2:27 am

Trade kat, wiggins and butler. Start it all over.

BigHustle · Post #3 » by **BigHustle** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 3:10 am

I can’t even understand what he’s saying in the second part, he sounds like a politician. Doesn’t sound good for Minny.

TheDominator273 · Post #4 » by **TheDominator273** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 3:32 am

If it comes to a choice of Thibs or KAT even Glen Taylor isn't dumb enough to choose Thibs

PDXKnight · Post #5 » by **PDXKnight** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 3:44 am

baldur wrote:Trade kat, wiggins and butler. Start it all over.

I think KAT is a building block even if they do rebuild

Johnny Bball · Post #6 » by **Johnny Bball** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 4:16 am

Rebuild? They just built? They made the playoffs one year!

shangrila · Post #7 » by **shangrila** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 4:38 am

Sounds out of context.

Taken in a vacuum it sounds bad like he needs to talk about things before signing an extension or whatever. But taken as an answer to one question among many, saying "I've got a lot to talk about so let's move on" sounds more like he just wanted to talk about other subjects at the time.

Post #8 » by **Harry Garris** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 5:01 am

lbj273 wrote:If it comes to a choice of Thibs or KAT even Glen Taylor isn't dumb enough to choose Thibs

Well this is the guy who wanted to give Wiggins $150 million despite no evidence that Wiggins is actually good at basketball.

gordoncatrell · Post #9 » by **gordoncatrell** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 5:29 am

as ive been noting since BEFORE the playoffs; their is a real personality clash in Min, and it isnt as basic as Thibball v KAT.

Old School (Thib/Jimmy/Teague/Taj/DRose/Crawford) were on a different page than the New School (KAT/AW/Dieng/etc).
KAT/AW have been alienated...OLD SCHOOL dominates this team. OLD SCHOOL has a declining ceiling. FO is not strong enough to beat Old School in a turf war.

cheese318 · Post #10 » by **cheese318** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 5:59 am

gordoncatrell wrote:as ive been noting since BEFORE the playoffs; their is a real personality clash in Min, and it isnt as basic as Thibball v KAT.

Old School (Thib/Jimmy/Teague/Taj/DRose/Crawford) were on a different page than the New School (KAT/AW/Dieng/etc).
KAT/AW have been alienated...OLD SCHOOL dominates this team. OLD SCHOOL has a declining ceiling. FO is not strong enough to beat Old School in a turf war.

So KAT for GIANNIS... let’s do it and you will be nostragordon

Simmons25 · Post #11 » by **Simmons25** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 11:55 am

BigHustle wrote:I can’t even understand what he’s saying in the second part, he sounds like a politician. Doesn’t sound good for Minny.

I think it is pretty obvious what he is saying. He wants out of there ASAP.

Derek11 · Post #12 » by **Derek11** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 12:15 pm

Simmons25 wrote:
BigHustle wrote:I can’t even understand what he’s saying in the second part, he sounds like a politician. Doesn’t sound good for Minny.

I think it is pretty obvious what he is saying. He wants out of there ASAP.

Yep

He gone

commentatorer · Post #13 » by **commentatorer** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 12:26 pm

Karl-Anthony Towns is a teenage girl in a man's body.
Whenever this guy talks, I cringe.

gpoon · Post #14 » by **gpoon** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 12:49 pm

Raps will take him for a year rental too...

contract · Post #15 » by **contract** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 1:28 pm

Ship him out before you foolishly max him and he blows up in your face. Teams need players, not issues and opinions.

contract · Post #16 » by **contract** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 1:30 pm

We've reached a point in the NBA where some players are too dumb to even realize that they are talking themselves out of tens millions of dollars.

contract · Post #17 » by **contract** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 1:35 pm

Simmons25 wrote:
BigHustle wrote:I can’t even understand what he’s saying in the second part, he sounds like a politician. Doesn’t sound good for Minny.

I think it is pretty obvious what he is saying. He wants out of there ASAP.

He wants to dictate how the team is run. He wants to pick the coach. :nonono:

mplsfonz23 · Post #18 » by **mplsfonz23** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 1:50 pm

shangrila wrote:Sounds out of context.

Taken in a vacuum it sounds bad like he needs to talk about things before signing an extension or whatever. But taken as an answer to one question among many, saying "I've got a lot to talk about so let's move on" sounds more like he just wanted to talk about other subjects at the time.

That's exactly what it was. He was at his BBall camp for kids and didn't want to talk about anything else. In fact, his camp told ALL of the media before it started that if they brought up anything outside of his camp, the interview would be shut down.

So stop with this click bait and bring real news.

alienpick · Post #19 » by **alienpick** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 5:34 pm

contract wrote:
Simmons25 wrote:
BigHustle wrote:I can’t even understand what he’s saying in the second part, he sounds like a politician. Doesn’t sound good for Minny.

I think it is pretty obvious what he is saying. He wants out of there ASAP.

He wants to dictate how the team is run. He wants to pick the coach.

They are taking the second part out of context. He was telling the person that was asking him the question at his basketball camp that he doesn't want to talk about it. They have more things that are basketball camp related to talk about so he wants to move on to the basketball camp related questions. The second part is not about Minny at all, but about the situation going on at the time during the question period of his camp.

Poor article titling and pure clickbait RealGM. Pretty much a pure example of fake news.

gordoncatrell · Post #20 » by **gordoncatrell** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 9:24 pm

alienpick wrote:
contract wrote:
Simmons25 wrote:
I think it is pretty obvious what he is saying. He wants out of there ASAP.

He wants to dictate how the team is run. He wants to pick the coach.

They are taking the second part out of context. He was telling the person that was asking him the question at his basketball camp that he doesn't want to talk about it. They have more things that are basketball camp related to talk about so he wants to move on to the basketball camp related questions. The second part is not about Minny at all, but about the situation going on at the time during the question period of his camp.

Poor article titling and pure clickbait RealGM. Pretty much a pure example of fake news.

NBA Stars go through extensive "media" training.
they know when/how they get quoted.
they all have a dozen ready-made quotes for these types of questions.
if asked something remotely similar to this: he would say something sim to "i love MIN, this is my home, let's try to win a chip next year" aka a noncommittal committed answer

OUT OF CONTEXT is not relevant. the refusal to answer is an ember that will catch fire. they know how to answer these questions.