Love or Rubio?

[Narf]

The point is not who you'd give up for Durant goofballs.
Don't make me introduce Rubio to your mother.

[younggunsmn]

I was hoping Devilz would save this thread and my hopes were answered.

Indeed. Give him the max.

Loving the bullet/gun/werewolf metaphor.

[Dual]

RU-BI-O

[metalinguss]

Rubio.

[koko]

I would let rubio rape my mom. And i would record it if he wanted.

I lol'ed

[Kurosawa]

The beautiful thing is, we can and will keep them both. When Love opts out of his contract in three years, he'll have acquired full Bird rights, meaning the Wolves can resign him for more years and more money than any other team. If we're in the playoffs every year as I expect we'll be, no way he's leaving Minnesota.

That same offseason, the Wolves can use the one-time, first-contract-max-extension (the one that all the talking heads thought we should have used on Love) on Rubio. By the time the 2015-16 starts, we'll have locked up our two stars for five years at the ages of 26 and 24.

Life is beyond good.

[Saltine]

I really doubt his mom would let him record that.

[Richard Miller]

Rubio of course

"I just play," Rubio said. "Stats are fun to watch, but it's nothing if you don't win. You just want to win, no matter how many points, no matter how many rebounds, no matter how many assists. The most important is the team win."

[Zeitgeister]

Honestly if it were Durant, I'd give em both. That is not a joke. We have two special players, but Durant is modern day Larry Bird. Once in a generation talent.

But between the two I'd rather have Rubio as well, but only for his potential to make others better. I feel like tonight we don't win that game with Love in and Rubio out. Love is the better talent right now, but Rubio has the potential to be just as special.

Oh wow. Durant is not that good. I certainly would not give Love and Rubio for him straight up. Definitely better than those two but not combined. Durant is a bit limited though, he's not a great playmaker for the rest of his team. Great scorer, standout rebounder but that's about it as far as the things he's exceptional at.

[A1FromDay1]

As much as I love Kevin, I'd rather keep Rubio. His vision and playmaking changes a team completely. As someone said a while ago, this is basically last year's team plus Rubios and Adelman, and we can all see the difference.

[Zeitgeister]

I think Rubio is more important to this team's success than Kevin Love. That's not taking anything away from Kevin Love's abilities. He's a great player but Rubio has a bigger impact on the game, IMO. If Rubio could just be a 15 ppg guy on decent efficiency he'd be a borderline top 10 guy, no doubt in my mind, and that's probably playing it a bit conservative.

It's difficult for any other type of player to impact a team's offense like an elite passing point guard like Rubio. His defensive contributions far outweigh Love's as well.

[TMo519]

If given a choice between a star PG and a star PF, I take the star PG almost every time. The game just isn't the same, it's a guard driven game more than it used to be. If Rubio turns out as good as we all hope he does, he will be invaluable down the line.