Game 80: Mashington at Winnesota

[D1SGRUNTL3D]

Games like tonight I wish papa Glen,Lore or Arod take the mic about midway through the 4th, and offer fans who paid a lot of money their money back… in front of the team

[Neeva]

I want reid to go away from this team

We need to upgrade Reid and Mclaughlin no doubt.

[Dewey]

Games like tonight I wish papa Glen,Lore or Arod take the mic about midway through the 4th, and offer fans who paid a lot of money their money back… in front of the team

Would be nice!

[winforlose]

The absolute tragedy is that the Spurs are going to win. We could be one game back. In a season full of bad losses (Dallas with 8 rotation players out, swept by the Magic, ect…,) this one just leaves ash in the heart of the fans.

[life_saver]

It comes down to defense...you can't expect to win every game when you are conceding 130+ points. This is now 3rd straight game (and 4th time in last 5 games) where they have conceded 130+ points. Kind of reminds me of the phase right before All Star Break where defense fell off badly and the common reason I heard was fatigue. I hope that's not the case here again.

[winforlose]

It comes down to defense...you can't expect to win every game when you are conceding 130+ points. This is now 3rd straight game (and 4th time in last 5 games) where they have conceded 130+ points. Kind of reminds me of the phase right before All Star Break where defense fell off badly and the common reason I heard was fatigue. I hope that's not the case here again.

I have been saying for months our scheme has flaws. We don’t have the personnel to properly run it. It was smart to have KAT guard the 4 instead of the 5 to avoid foul trouble (Thibs used to do that with Taj,) but V8 is too small to handle KP. This and other size mismatches forces us to scramble and in this game go zone. Unfortunately Washington found all the soft spots and just murdered us with them. Add in our bench shooting poorly and Washington going off from deep and we were doomed. Standing pat at the deadline cost us sooo much more than people want to admit.

[Klomp]

Remind me to never make another game thread

[Domejandro]

Just devastating, this is going to probably be the game that determines that Minnesota is the seventh seed. Honestly wish Denver had just won, this sucks.

[shrink]

I was pretty frustrated last game, that when the Timberwolves are hitting offensively, they don’t work hard on defense.

I wanted to get the sixth seed, but hopefully this serves as a late-season wake up call that these guys need to work hard defensively every minute, every game. If they play like this on the play in, they don’t deserve to make the playoffs.

[shangrila]

It's disgraceful. They should not need a 33 (?) year old Pat Bev on the floor in order to be motivated to play defence.

There's a very real future where we've lost to the Clippers and Pelicans and wind up back in the lottery.

[Note30]

It's disgraceful. They should not need a 33 (?) year old Pat Bev on the floor in order to be motivated to play defence.

There's a very real future where we've lost to the Clippers and Pelicans and wind up back in the lottery.

If that happens trade DLo trade KAT. Every decent defensive team has a center that can anchor the defense. And seeing as how we refuse to play a two big lineup, trade for a C or PF that can play with KAT and anchor the defense, or move KAT to PF we might as well trade them both.

Defense gets teams into the playoffs. 75% of teams that have made the playoffs in the past 20 years have decent defenses and rank as such. Even if we make it, and play were gonna be eliminated in the future unless we get a decent big to anchor the defense.

Every one craps on Dlo, he's not that terrible he just can't run point for us. He'd make a great 6th man or starting SG. Doubt his ego would take that, or his contract.

We need substantial upgrades to both the PG and bigs positions.

The Spurs, Jazz, Rockets, Washington, Orlando are all potential trade partners for us this off-season. Let's make some good trades.

[Dalvin]

Well, I hope that one win for the Wizards makes the team before them in the draft lottery win the lottery

[minimus]

It's disgraceful. They should not need a 33 (?) year old Pat Bev on the floor in order to be motivated to play defence.

There's a very real future where we've lost to the Clippers and Pelicans and wind up back in the lottery.

We need find backup PoA defender...

[_AIJ_]

Good luck giving the Clippers a lot of open threes.
Gonna be a long game

[D1SGRUNTL3D]

It's disgraceful. They should not need a 33 (?) year old Pat Bev on the floor in order to be motivated to play defence.

There's a very real future where we've lost to the Clippers and Pelicans and wind up back in the lottery.

Agreed. We’ll see how we respond. I’d let Pat Bev sit against San Antonio too. If we look like last night and just flat out need PB to be playing to get any sort of effort in must win games, then it becomes a personnel issue.

This is a good well constructed team. Well balanced. But if you need a spirit animal to show up to games, then it’s the wrong mix of players. They should’ve adopted PBs intensity by now. Even with Jimmy, we were losing to the eastern conference bottom feeders.

[AbeVigodaLive]

They really think that they can defeat the Clippers??? Holy ****. Id be very surprised

Reggie Jackson is probably better PG overall than Dlo.. And PG13 can destroy this team by himself. Hopefully Prince, McDaniels and Vando can slow him down. Thank God they don't have a big who give towns issues.

In three games vs. the Clippers this season...

Towns is averaging 15.3 ppg on 42% fg.

The Clippers have used Batum on Towns... with a lot of help. It was much earlier in the year... but it worked wonderfully.

[Klomp]

In three games vs. the Clippers this season...

Towns is averaging 15.3 ppg on 42% fg.

The Clippers have used Batum on Towns... with a lot of help. It was much earlier in the year... but it worked wonderfully.

Games 7, 8 and 12.....this is a much different squad since then, with a 41-27 record since to show as proof of that..

[AbeVigodaLive]

In three games vs. the Clippers this season...

Towns is averaging 15.3 ppg on 42% fg.

The Clippers have used Batum on Towns... with a lot of help. It was much earlier in the year... but it worked wonderfully.

Games 7, 8 and 12.....this is a much different squad since then, with a 41-27 record since to show as proof of that..

I'd hope so.

Just pointing out that teams have effectively taken Towns out with smaller players sometimes by being very physical with him... and that the Clippers sort of created the blueprint.



[Note: My favorite moments are when those smaller guys like Batum push, shove, climb and clobber Towns, only to see Towns get called for the offensive foul after he receives the ball, turns around... and Batum or whomever flops immediately to the ground.]

[_AIJ_]

In three games vs. the Clippers this season...

Towns is averaging 15.3 ppg on 42% fg.

The Clippers have used Batum on Towns... with a lot of help. It was much earlier in the year... but it worked wonderfully.

Games 7, 8 and 12.....this is a much different squad since then, with a 41-27 record since to show as proof of that..

And 100% they’d be ready on whatever they throw on Towns and its up to him to react

[Calinks]

I don't think it will happen but it would be the ultimate Wolves destiny to lose both play in games and miss the playoffs. Like a quintessential Timberwolves scenario.