Kenny Smith's thoughts on Minnesota

[Calinks]

He said that to win you need stability and veterans that hold young players together. He said that with the wolves last season, they didn't have any veterans. He said that when players are young and talented if they don't have vets to keep them accountable it's harder for them to respect their teammates in the way they need to and learn how to stick together and win. Kenny says that they have to get players for FA and trades to be good, just continuing to take on young talent is not going to be enough to get your team going. They need vets and they need to keep their good vets.

[Krapinsky]

Makes sense, but then how do you explain OKC's success?

I think having great players is a bigger factor that our boy Kenny is overlooking here.

[Cyborg21]

He is right, we are too young...

[Devilzsidewalk]

we don't want to win, we want to run and gun and be entertaining

[hijacktheparade]

And they just read a "Timberwolves are going to draft multiple point guards" joke off of Twitter.

If I hear one more of those...

[Calinks]

Makes sense, but then how do you explain OKC's success?

I think having great players is a bigger factor that our boy Kenny is overlooking here.

I think OKC is more of an anomaly. Even still. they always had some kind of Vet presence. On top of that, they got a player like KD. That's a HUGE boon to any franchise. A lot of us were saying similar things last year about the wolves. It seems like we continue to blow things up and keep restarting the rebuild. Now with the departure of Al and or Love we are once again getting rid of good players to bring in younger ones. I just don't think it's as easy as he makes it seem to grab FA's. Especially when your team is as young and horrendous as ours. We can always sign vets though.

[Calinks]

we don't want to win, we want to run and gun and be entertaining

That is kind of the vibe I get sometimes as well. How many run and gun teams have gone to the finals in the last decade? How about teams that focus on D and can grind games out? I don't know if the run and gun style is something I really want to build my franchise around.

[Klomp]

I think OKC is more of an anomaly. Even still. they always had some kind of Vet presence. On top of that, they got a player like KD. That's a HUGE boon to any franchise.

Thats what NBATV was sayin too

[Klomp]

we don't want to win, we want to run and gun and be entertaining

That is kind of the vibe I get sometimes as well. How many run and gun teams have gone to the finals in the last decade? How about teams that focus on D and can grind games out? I don't know if the run and gun style is something I really want to build my franchise around.

You can't expect to go from 15 wins to the Finals overnight.

[dunkonu21]

We will get a vet presence AFTER we finish our core. Until then who cares.

[revprodeji]

Lets focus on getting our KD first.

[Klomp]

Lets focus on getting our KD first.

Ricky Rubio? Haha, just kidding....

[revprodeji]

You know my love for Rubio, but we need an alpha scorer. Rubio is not that guy. He is Robin.

[shangrila]

Yeah we haven't quite hit the point where we load up on veterans.

[shrink]

Isn't that why we pay coaches? Aren't they supposed to make player's accountable?

Vets like to give reasons to give big contracts to other vets?