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  1. Why no talk about Wesley Matthews?  He's a lock-down perimeter defender and he's one of the very best 3 pt shooting off-guards in the league.  I think he fits us perfectly, and he's not the Blazers future the way Leonard is the Spurs future.

     

    Obviously Marc Gasol would be a huge get for anyone, but Matthews seems more signable and far less likely to get max money thrown at him.

  2. Compared to BK's lottery failures and Babcock's everywhere failures...well, lots of people stand to look pretty decent. It is a low bar to clear!

    BK was at his best in the mid-first, though. He had two shots at #17 and #21 and nailed them both. If you count late lottery, Acie pulls that down some.

    This reminds me of being in a casino and watching some guy hit a couple of times in roulette and someone commenting on his system.

    Drafting in the lottery is easy. Drafting in the mid/late first is a crapshoot. BK's drafting in the lottery is proof that he was a horrific drafter. The circumstances behind the Smoove and Teague picks drove them more than BK's skill. One was a hometown boy and the other was whichever PG was left of the mid-round three

    Compared to BK's lottery failures and Babcock's everywhere failures...well, lots of people stand to look pretty decent. It is a low bar to clear!

    BK was at his best in the mid-first, though. He had two shots at #17 and #21 and nailed them both. If you count late lottery, Acie pulls that down some.

    This reminds me of being in a casino and watching some guy hit a couple of times in roulette and someone commenting on his system.

    Drafting in the lottery is easy. Drafting in the mid/late first is a crapshoot. BK's drafting in the lottery is proof that he was a horrific drafter. The circumstances behind the Smoove and Teague picks drove them more than BK's skill. One was a hometown boy and the other was whichever PG was left of the mid-round three

  3. You can't deny he's failed on 2 out of 3 mid-1st round picks. I can give him a pass on Jenkins but his 1st round drafting is no better than I'd expect any of us to be able to do. Thankfully he's good in the 2nd round, good at finding value in free agency and he's lucky we had a good PG and C to start with.

    If we're thinking of it probabilistically, then hitting on 1/3 isn't bad at all. Let's say a genius drafter hits on 2/3 of his mid-round picks. Over such a small sample, he will hit on 1 or fewer of 3 picks 26% of the time. So it's very possible ferry could be an outstanding drafter but has just been unlucky. And if u add in his 2nd rounders he looks pretty good. Pete Babcock, however does not have a small sample.

    Go to basketball reference and just scroll through the drafts from the 90s and 2000s. See how prevalent 25 win players (win shares) are in the mid first.

  4. I'm not sure how you're able to predict the Wolves' playoff prospects for the next half decade with such clarity based on their past yet Payne's present role on this team has little bearing on his future. Fact is that no matter how well you think he is THIS year he would never realize it on THIS team.

    No chance millsap walks? No chance Pero gets hurt? No chance Al tears another pec?

    He may well have gotten a chance, but I'm giving bud the BOTD. He didnt see much from Payne in practice

  5. Someone explain this to me: why are we always nowhere near on rebounds? Is it because we overplay perimeter and passing lanes? Is it because we sell out for transition and to get back on D?

    I've noticed that when we attempt a 3, there are no hawks in the vicinity of the basket when the shot is missed. Maybe it's statistically more advantageous to sell out for D and prevent the transition basket?

  6. Good posts. Ugh Al Harrington! Ugh trading Jason Terry for Antoine Chucker. Tyronn Lue...I kind of liked him. He wasn't starting material tho.

    Remember when Darvin Ham used to "go to work" on the post? Remember when we had a "new Sharif in town"? Remember when our big free agent signing was Ken "the snake" Norman? Ok that last one very few of us remember.

    The point is, it's great to just be relevant, because we haven't really since 1994--even when we were the #3 seed a few years back (we were blow-out swept by Orlando that year)

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