Back-to-back, Part 2: Minnesota at Portland, 9 pm

[The KnicksFix]

The only positive is this team now has to know they are not the same team as last year. They can't rest on that better teams laurels. They need to find an identity of their own. At this rate they will be fighting for the play-in.

Bro, how does a trade manage to f**k up both teams, and significantly regress us both, this sh** is wild

[FrenchMinnyFan]

Stop watching after 3 quarter....only Rudy do his job and keep fighting. The others does not make any effort. And someone should tell ANT that trying to play same Steph is not something he is good at.

[Calinks]

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[Guest84]

Fell asleep before the game…seems like it may have been for the best according to the comments. Looks like another poor shooting night from key contributors.


I think we truly have a pg problem. Also, the trade single-handedly took away our advantage of length and identity.


I think Connelly is playing the long game and doesn’t really intend to keep Randle. Just wanted to get Kat off the books.

But man, DDV doing his best Mike Miller impression isn’t ideal either.

[Muskies97]

This team could really use a backup Center that can space the floor and also share the court with Rudy. That’d be amazing rn.

[winforlose]

The only positive is this team now has to know they are not the same team as last year. They can't rest on that better teams laurels. They need to find an identity of their own. At this rate they will be fighting for the play-in.

Bro, how does a trade manage to f**k up both teams, and significantly regress us both, this sh** is wild

Your team will be fine, ours is poorly constructed. We went into the season with a 37 year old starting PG, and a backup who is a 19 year old rookie with size and defense issues. Then we traded our starting PF who happened to be our backup C without getting a backup C back. We are also a 2nd apron team with 15 guys on the roster, one of whom is PJ Dozier who is a waste of space but loved by our POBO. So now we have an underperforming Conley, an underperforming DDV, no backup C and a Randle who won’t play defense. You guys will be fine when MR gets back, we are just stuck until guys wake up and we move on from Randle.

[winforlose]

The only positive is this team now has to know they are not the same team as last year. They can't rest on that better teams laurels. They need to find an identity of their own. At this rate they will be fighting for the play-in.

They have an identity. The identity is 3 point bombing and playing when they feel like it. So many guys are low energy at some point during the game or the entire game. Ant and Randle love to kill the rhythm and play ISO ball. Everyone else is afraid they won’t get their shots so they are tempted to do stupid things and hope someone can bail them out (driving into traffic and losing the ball.) When we do pass we miss the open shots. Defense was our identity last year, but without Karl our style must change. Especially when it is 5 on 4 when Randle and Reid decide they don’t to worry about defense.

This is 10 days old but tells the story.

https://www.reddit.com/r/timberwolves/s/WBQXlqGksn

[_AIJ_]

Donte is absolute trash

Man please give that dood back to us, what would it take to get him lol

We'll give you Randle and Donte for KAT

[winforlose]

Donte is absolute trash

Man please give that dood back to us, what would it take to get him lol

We'll give you Randle and Donte for KAT

Neither team can require plus we cut KBD. The math is *****. Kinda like our defense is ********.

[Klomp]

Welp. You guys can't blame Mike Conely for this one.

This is probably the biggest takeaway from this game. He might not be the solution, but he is certainly not the problem. Honestly, it might have cost us the game last night.

[Klomp]

The only positive is this team now has to know they are not the same team as last year. They can't rest on that better teams laurels. They need to find an identity of their own. At this rate they will be fighting for the play-in.

I wonder if the rest of the team took Ant's "we'll fit in around you" to Julius too literally. I know he was meaning it on the offensive end, but it seems like they are adopting it on defense as well.

[Klomp]

I think there needed to be some realistic expectations after the trade. It does take a while to adjust after such a significant trade.

Last year, in the first nine games, there was a loss to Atlanta, a loss to Toronto, and only a two-point win over San Antonio, leading to a 5-4 start to the season. I'm not talking about us last year, I'm talking about Milwaukee's slow start to the season in the first 30 days following the blockbuster trade for Damian Lillard. They went 17-3 over the next 20 games. We can still turn this around.

[FrenchMinnyFan]

Welp. You guys can't blame Mike Conely for this one.

This is probably the biggest takeaway from this game. He might not be the solution, but he is certainly not the problem. Honestly, it might have cost us the game last night.

Actually i believe Mike can be the solution. But this is a coach decision. After the first loss against Portland, Finch say he want the team to have more structure. The only way to have it is to let the ball in the hand of a good playmaker who won't TO the ball and who is able to find the right guy at the right position. Ant and Randle play alone way too much and ANT dream he is Steph. The solution is a collective one as long as Randle and ANT does not play like that and just look at their stats, we will not be good.
After the second point for me is about Randle? can he play defense or he just doesn't want to do it? If its' the case, trade him as soon as we can. Defense identity was what bring us to the conference final, if we loose this identity, we are not even a play-in team.