Playoff picture thread

Guest84 · Post #81 » by **Guest84** » Sat Mar 11, 2023 5:34 am

It’s shaping up for the Lakers to play the wolves in the play in (9v10) and knock them out with a DLo game winning 3. Lakers and warriors get the last 2 spots as much as I hate to say it. Just be the wolves luck…

Post #82 » by **Calinks** » Sat Mar 11, 2023 6:01 am

We cannot afford losing streaks.

Battletrigger · Post #83 » by **Battletrigger** » Sat Mar 11, 2023 1:00 pm

This is going to be fantastic, we are going to lose the position against a Lakers teams without Bron thanks the players last year where with us and gave to make the team worst.

Note30 · Post #84 » by **Note30** » Sat Mar 11, 2023 5:01 pm

Battletrigger wrote:This is going to be fantastic, we are going to lose the position against a Lakers teams without Bron thanks the players last year where with us and gave to make the team worst.

Yet people will still defend the Gobert trade. Absolutely ridiculously.

Colbinii · Post #85 » by **Colbinii** » Sat Mar 11, 2023 6:07 pm

Note30 wrote:
Battletrigger wrote:This is going to be fantastic, we are going to lose the position against a Lakers teams without Bron thanks the players last year where with us and gave to make the team worst.

Yet people will still defend the Gobert trade. Absolutely ridiculously.

We would have like 20 wins if we didn't trade for Gobert with Towns being out all year.

shrink · Post #86 » by **shrink** » Sat Mar 11, 2023 6:41 pm

Colbinii wrote:
Note30 wrote:
Battletrigger wrote:This is going to be fantastic, we are going to lose the position against a Lakers teams without Bron thanks the players last year where with us and gave to make the team worst.

Yet people will still defend the Gobert trade. Absolutely ridiculously.

We would have like 20 wins if we didn't trade for Gobert with Towns being out all year.

Yeah, I don’t understand why people keep comparing today’s team, without Towns, with last year’s team, with Towns.

Guidus88 · Post #87 » by **Guidus88** » Sat Mar 11, 2023 6:48 pm

Colbinii wrote:
Note30 wrote:
Battletrigger wrote:This is going to be fantastic, we are going to lose the position against a Lakers teams without Bron thanks the players last year where with us and gave to make the team worst.

Yet people will still defend the Gobert trade. Absolutely ridiculously.

We would have like 20 wins if we didn't trade for Gobert with Towns being out all year.

yes, but with a big Wembanyama hope

Colbinii · Post #88 » by **Colbinii** » Sat Mar 11, 2023 6:54 pm

Guidus88 wrote:
Colbinii wrote:
Note30 wrote:
Yet people will still defend the Gobert trade. Absolutely ridiculously.

We would have like 20 wins if we didn't trade for Gobert with Towns being out all year.

yes, but with a big Wembanyama hope

No chance. We would be at worst the 4th worst team, which is 12.5% odds. ANT would be struggling to develop on a non-competitive team while developing poor habits with piss-poor talent around him.

jpatrick · Post #89 » by **jpatrick** » Sat Mar 11, 2023 8:09 pm

Colbinii wrote:
Note30 wrote:
Battletrigger wrote:This is going to be fantastic, we are going to lose the position against a Lakers teams without Bron thanks the players last year where with us and gave to make the team worst.

Yet people will still defend the Gobert trade. Absolutely ridiculously.

We would have like 20 wins if we didn't trade for Gobert with Towns being out all year.

Since we already have six wins without Gobert this year (6-4), I doubt we’d only have 14 more wins in the other 56 games if Rudy didn’t play (26-30 with Rudy). Just saying.

And that’s without factoring in that we’d also have Vando, Beverly, Beasley, Kessler, etc. I’m confident we’d actually have a better record without the trade. Current Kessler isn’t quite current Rudy yet, but he’s already close. Factor in all those other pieces, I think we’d at least be 500.

Note30 · Post #90 » by **Note30** » Sat Mar 11, 2023 10:28 pm

jpatrick wrote:
Colbinii wrote:
Note30 wrote:
Yet people will still defend the Gobert trade. Absolutely ridiculously.

We would have like 20 wins if we didn't trade for Gobert with Towns being out all year.

Since we already have six wins without Gobert this year (6-4), I doubt we’d only have 14 more wins in the other 56 games if Rudy didn’t play (26-30 with Rudy). Just saying.

And that’s without factoring in that we’d also have Vando, Beverly, Beasley, Kessler, etc. I’m confident we’d actually have a better record without the trade. Current Kessler isn’t quite current Rudy yet, but he’s already close. Factor in all those other pieces, I think we’d at least be 500.

Not to mention if we had an actual top 10 player like Giannis, Steph, Embiid we'd probably be way better off.

But no a 30 year old Gobert is def top 10 and was a worthy trade target to blow all of our picks on.

cmoss84 · Post #91 » by **cmoss84** » Sun Mar 12, 2023 12:26 am

Are/were top 10 players available?

Battletrigger · Post #92 » by **Battletrigger** » Sun Mar 12, 2023 12:32 am

Durant and Irving were traded few weeks ago. But we didn't need a top 10 player, we only needed to not **** it off.

shrink · Post #93 » by **shrink** » Sun Mar 12, 2023 1:15 am

You just saw Durant and Irving successfully demand to be traded. They aren’t coming, or staying, in Minnesota.

cmoss84 · Post #94 » by **cmoss84** » Sun Mar 12, 2023 1:28 am

Durant is too injury prone...and as well as Irving has played, Dal record not great since he joined.

jpatrick · Post #95 » by **jpatrick** » Sun Mar 12, 2023 3:18 am

If a top 10 to 20ish player isn’t available, you don’t push ALL your chips in like we did.

cmoss84 · Post #96 » by **cmoss84** » Sun Mar 12, 2023 3:28 am

I get why people are mad how much we gave up. But being a MN sports fan for so long, I'm perfectly happy swinging for the fence for a chance to win a championship. I'm over settling for mediocrity.

Post #97 » by **Calinks** » Sun Mar 12, 2023 4:10 am

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Clippers won and the Warriors made a come back to beat the Bucks who didn't freaking Giannis. Bad luck, that Brooklyn loss is big.

Folklore · Post #98 » by **Folklore** » Sun Mar 12, 2023 4:31 am

cmoss84 wrote:I get why people are mad how much we gave up. But being a MN sports fan for so long, I'm perfectly happy swinging for the fence for a chance to win a championship. I'm over settling for mediocrity.

Buddy, mediocrity is exactly the position the trades put us in.

cmoss84 · Post #99 » by **cmoss84** » Sun Mar 12, 2023 4:39 am

Folklore wrote:
cmoss84 wrote:I get why people are mad how much we gave up. But being a MN sports fan for so long, I'm perfectly happy swinging for the fence for a chance to win a championship. I'm over settling for mediocrity.

Buddy, mediocrity is exactly the position the trades put us in.

Agree to disagree. We're mediocre without KAT.

Battletrigger · Post #100 » by **Battletrigger** » Sun Mar 12, 2023 11:15 am

cmoss84 wrote:
Folklore wrote:
cmoss84 wrote:I get why people are mad how much we gave up. But being a MN sports fan for so long, I'm perfectly happy swinging for the fence for a chance to win a championship. I'm over settling for mediocrity.

Buddy, mediocrity is exactly the position the trades put us in.

Agree to disagree. We're mediocre without KAT.

Were we better with Kat and Gobert?

It's funny how people likes to obviate the truth or past situations.