Minnesota Timberwolves- Re-re-rebuilding Time
08-28-2011
, 12:21 PM
While the next Tom Thibodeau (or someone like that) might be out there somewhere, we arent interviewing that person because it appears we want an established, proven head coach. If you want to be a nit and look at it the way you are, that's fine. The person you speak of may or may not exist. Based on what we know right now, and excluding Phil Jackson because there's zero chance he'd ever coach this team, Adleman is the clearly best candidate imo.
09-03-2011
, 03:11 AM
Ronzone leaves Wolves
I'll actually be optimistic about this as many are saying this has to be some precursor to hiring Adelman. Since it's been widely reported that Adelman wanted at least some say in personnel decisions, the front office was getting mighty crowded and it seems like Ronzone knew it.
If the Wolves hire Adelman, he almost assuredly will get some kind of front office power which would have likely regulated Ronzone to a second-tier job at best. Wolves will miss his international scouting connections, but if this was to make room for Adelman, it's justified imo.
Of course the mainstream media fools will be blathering on about "Why not fire Kahn?" Several reasons actually, however the biggest I would think has to be Kahn's expertise and knowledge of the NBA salary cap. Prior to the Wolves, he was the "cap whiz" under Donnie Walsh and has an extensive knowledge of how NBA contracts are structured and how they relate to the cap.
When you factor that in along with the fact that he's not paid a lot for being a GM/VP of basketball ops, if one of them has to go it probably should be Ronzone.
I'm sure Ronzone saw the writing on the wall and figured (likely correctly so) he'd be regulated even further within the organization so he felt it best to mutually part ways with the team.
Or maybe he thought that Kahn would just let him sit in limbo until next February and then finally ax him
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Please let this be a sign that we're bringing in Adelman one time!
I'll actually be optimistic about this as many are saying this has to be some precursor to hiring Adelman. Since it's been widely reported that Adelman wanted at least some say in personnel decisions, the front office was getting mighty crowded and it seems like Ronzone knew it.
If the Wolves hire Adelman, he almost assuredly will get some kind of front office power which would have likely regulated Ronzone to a second-tier job at best. Wolves will miss his international scouting connections, but if this was to make room for Adelman, it's justified imo.
Of course the mainstream media fools will be blathering on about "Why not fire Kahn?" Several reasons actually, however the biggest I would think has to be Kahn's expertise and knowledge of the NBA salary cap. Prior to the Wolves, he was the "cap whiz" under Donnie Walsh and has an extensive knowledge of how NBA contracts are structured and how they relate to the cap.
When you factor that in along with the fact that he's not paid a lot for being a GM/VP of basketball ops, if one of them has to go it probably should be Ronzone.
I'm sure Ronzone saw the writing on the wall and figured (likely correctly so) he'd be regulated even further within the organization so he felt it best to mutually part ways with the team.
Or maybe he thought that Kahn would just let him sit in limbo until next February and then finally ax him
.Please let this be a sign that we're bringing in Adelman one time!
hopefully Papa Glen is as well.