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Hard is trying to rebuild Philadelphia or the Lakers, who desperately need Simmons or they're punting the next three years. Or even a team like the Blazers who need to replace Aldridge but won't be bad enough to do it. With the Wolves, you have a great 20-year-old player in Towns and a great 20-year-old upside piece in Wiggins, Throw in a really good distributor and defender in Rubio, and you're not horrifically screwed. You're just not advancing because the people who should be winning games for you right now needed to be brought in during the Kahn years. Now it's just putting the pieces around them. You're essentially looking for one great shooter and one great defender to pair with them. Getting Ingram or Simmons would be great. But the reality is what you're looking for in the offseason is to trade for a Stanley Johnson, Justice Winslow or Aaron Gordon to get some more good youth that solve your lineup problems.
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I think it's like anything. Are there reasons to worry about the Wolves? Yes. Are there reasons to be optimistic? Yes. Simmons is being called the next LeBron, yet I'm not sure I'd trade Towns for him straight up. With that said, he's also a 20-year old center and he looks like it some nights, like yesterday. Wiggins can take a game over at moments, and brought the Wolves charging back last night. But there are still way too many plays where you shake your head. Lavine has just as high of a ceiling as Wiggins. But an even lower basketball IQ. Muhammed is probably never going to be a great defender. But every year he becomes a more effective shooter. Dieng, Belly, even Tyus, you see good. And you see bad. With that said, I don't think you'd see Garnett, Prince and Miller on the roster if the goal were the playoffs this year. They were always aiming two or three years down the road and looking for another lottery pick this year, preferably someone who can come in and take Prince or Garnett's starting spot fairly soon. Sadly, it looks like a pretty pedestrian college draft class after Simmons, Ingram and maybe Rabb.
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Pretty good read. https://www.minnpost.com/sports/2016/01/qa-sam-mitchell-weighs-zach-lavine-andrew-wiggins-and-wolves-season-so-far
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My question is can you create a system with two wings who like to attack the rim and questionable midrange games?
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Or, make a play for Nicolas Batum and try to extend him before he hits the open market.
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I like the thought of Tony Snell. Someone who can defend and stretch opposing defenses a little more. The flaw in the offense is that Towns is the best three point shooter in the starting unit and Rubio is the second best one. Wiggins is scoring 20 a night but he's not scoring efficiently in part to the fact that he's taking about one more three pointer per game than last year and making about 10 percent fewer of those shots. People will hate the name, but Wes Johnson would be an interesting addition too. Or, alternatively, just start Kevin Martin.
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Damning Rubio's shooting is all well and good. But the real problem is everything seems to go to hell when he steps off the court because Lavine isn't a point guard, Miller can't handle heavy minutes and, well, this:
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Labissiere isn't playing well offensively. But if you paired him next to Towns you'd have a potential lights out defensive combo for the next five years. His floor strikes me as Nerlens Noel. Ellenson strikes me as the type who's going to be a defensive liability. But he can shoot and rebound, and every so often a guy like him ends up being Kevin Love. Rabb is the one who kind of piques my interest the most. A little more basketball IQ than Labisserie. A little more athleticism than Ellenson. NBADraft.net has him going four. Draft Express has him going #15 in 2017. Which kind of shows how hit or miss this draft is after Simmons and Ingram.
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Random observations from a set of ill-gotten courtside tickets to yesterday's game: • Rubio is the straw that’s stirring the drink right now. He can’t shoot. But he’s doing just about everything else on the floor. And the ultimate compliment to him was the number of Nets fans saying “**** Jarrett Jack” as they left the arena yesterday. • Lavine needs to play off the ball. The second unit runs better with Miller at point, but he can only handle so many minutes. Jones isn’t ready. If the Wolves could find a decent second string point guard before the trade deadline, it would give them a shot at the 8th seed. • Kevin Martin is on the trading block. And yet you hold your breath when anyone not named Kevin Martin takes a shot from distance right now. • Bjellica is in a major funk. He came in picked up two quick fouls. Then took a seat on the bench never to return. How do you get him out of it is the $64,000 question? • Dieng is playing like the Dieng of last year. He played really well, especially offensively. But he also got abused when he had to defend Brook Lopez. • Fun question: Is this the best surrounding cast the Wolves have ever given Garnett? How far would this team go with the 2003-2004 version of Garnett at power forward right now?
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NBADraft.net in its early stages of infancy of a mock has the Wolves grabbing Skal Labisserie at #5. Five seems too early for the Wolves to pick when everything shakes out. But between Labisserie, Rabb, Bender, Sabonis and Ellenson, there should be a pretty good #4 there if they land between 6 and 11. And that would solve a big need heading forward.
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Spoiler: Darth Vader is Luke's father.
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+2 on cleanliness. The key is keeping everything clean and contamination free. Iodine solution is your friend. Good luck, and be afraid when you start ordering glass carboys and fancy outside burners
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Like It Or Not, May Is Bullpen Bound
ALessKosherScott replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
I don't mind it. May ceilings out as a pretty good starter, or a potentially elite reliever. -
Green is a great pickup for the Gophers. But at the same time, the rumor is Oregon saw him as more of a long-term project than Terry Wilson and were looking to push Green to receiver. I wouldn't expect him to be ready at QB for a couple of years.
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Drafting College Relievers
ALessKosherScott replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
My flaw with it isn't so much drafting college relievers. It's drafting college relievers under the guise of making them starters. College pitching coaches have made them relievers for reasons (usually mechanical ones).- 57 replies
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I think he's finally ready to quarterback Florida State.
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If I could flag this, I would for calling him Jose instead of Conseco.
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Sign Conseco now!
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The problem is if you want an 8-team playoffs, logistically, the first round has to happen this week. MSU/Iowa has made for some entertaining football today. Alabama versus the 4th best SEC team, not so much. The bloated conferences are nothing more than cash grabs, and the misnamed "Conference Championship Week is a major part of it. The Pac-12 was much better as a 10 team conference where everybody played each other and there were no excuses. The Big 10 made for better football when Ohio State had to play Iowa instead of Rutgers in conference play. At some point, something has to give.
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Stanford has evolved from the team that lost to Northwestern. Or more to the point if the two teams play today, McCaffery doesn't get only 12 carries because he's an unknown. More than likely, Stanford plays their game of power running and deep passing. On the flip side, Michigan State lost to a bad Nebraska team, should've lost to Michigan and were a missed wide open receiver away from losing to a bad Oregon team playing a QB with a broken finger. To use a common opponent, Utah blew out the struggling version of Oregon, beat Michigan handily, and still only finished second in the Pac-12 South. From my eyeball test, Stanford looked a lot better against a healthy Oregon team with a QB who was on fire. The computers and sabermetrical stats tend to like Stanford more than Iowa and are 50/50 on Michigan State and Stanford. I'd bet Stanford over either in the Rose Bowl.
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For me, the problem with Benson was never really swing mechanics as opposed to approach. The forerunning prospect to Benson was Mike Restovich and the end ceiling for both of them was some kind of version of Tom Brunansky. Neither one was going to hit .300, but their power would make them useful if they could be .250 hitters with good defense in a corner. To get there, both needed to be a little more patient, especially against right-handed pitching, and work themselves into better counts where right-handed pitchers had to respond with fastballs. Neither one could ever do that though, and they didn't walk enough or play defense well enough to justify a roster spot. You could almost say that ABW is the current version of Benson in the system, although he doesn't have the usual kills lefty/struggles against righties splits you'd expect. Let's hope Benson can figure things out this time around though.
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If you count Iowa/MSU and UNC/Clemson as the defacto playoff games they are, you do have a six team playoff. It's still arbitrary though. And the conferences are the ones to blame. As a Pac-12 superiority guy (and I'd make a case that Stanford walks all over either MSU or Iowa in the Rose Bowl), I readily admit that Utah and Colorado add about as much as Rutgers and Maryland do to the Big 10. But because you have these bloated conferences that are chasing $$$ you have a really bad Stanford/USC matchup this weekend for the Rose Bowl and a really bad Alabama/Florida matchup where an Alabama/Stanford for all the marbles would be exciting. If you could get back to traditional 10-team Pac-10, Big 10, SEC and ACC conferences, then pod together 2 or 3 more big, 10-team, regional conferences and have them all play a true nine game round robin where a true champion is determined. Then take the six or seven winners and one or two at-large team (the highest ranked teams from the field of non-conference winners and the other 50 something teams) and seed them 1 through 8 and have Championship week mean something, it would make for better football. Plus, you could bring traditional rivalries that actually mean something, like Penn State/Pitt or Texas/Arkansas in new conferences. It won't happen though as long as the Big 10 is seeking east coast ratings for the Big 10 Network and force fitting a Rutgers/Michigan rivalry in the process.
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My two cents is the real problem with the playoffs is that there aren't any great teams this year, merely a lot of good teams with a lot of grey areas. If there were 16 teams in it this year, any of the 16 could win it with a little luck and the right breaks. And that wasn't the case last year. But at the same time, I'd put my money on any of the four teams from last year's playoffs over any team this season. Ohio State is a good team and good enough to win it this year, but if they're matched up against last year's OSU they get rolled because they were more consistent with their line play and they never really found a replacement for Devin Smith, which is why Cardale Jones went from third string to first round pick to 5th round pick over the course of things. With that said, the level of parity should make for three pretty good games in January.
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Pretty good read. http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/14172961/the-cruel-tutelage-kevin-garnett
