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12-20-2015 , 06:36 PM

#8826

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Classic Rubio. Amazing at everything but shooting which he is terrible at.

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12-21-2015 , 02:57 PM

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12-21-2015 , 02:59 PM

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KG with the celebration after the previous play:

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12-21-2015 , 02:59 PM

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12-21-2015 , 03:00 PM

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12-21-2015 , 04:06 PM

#8831

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lol...KG's celebration

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12-22-2015 , 10:59 AM

#8832

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Kmart is just done imo. So awful.

Bjelly might be Shved 2.0

Bazz super inconsistent on offense, consistently terrible on defense, and is a negative defensive rebounder. Never seen anyone knock so many easy rebounds away from teammates.

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12-22-2015 , 11:48 AM

#8833

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I suspect Bjelly is not 100% recovered from that knee injury. He is not the same player he was before that injury.

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12-22-2015 , 11:49 AM

#8834

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And the youngest players to EVER record a 25-15 game
Lebron James.
And Karl-Anthony Towns.

http://www.canishoopus.com/2015/12/2...-garnett-towns

From the comments below the article^

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12-23-2015 , 02:52 PM

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Rookies with highest PER since 1985:
26.3 David Robinson
25.8 Michael Jordan
23.1 KARL-ANTHONY TOWNS 😻
22.9 Shaquille O'Neal
22.6 Tim Duncan
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Some nice company there. And he's younger than all of them were as rookies.

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12-23-2015 , 09:59 PM

#8836

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Missed most of the first half due to Directv being out. Tyus looking ok out there?

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12-24-2015 , 12:47 PM

#8837

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Tyus looked like a capable PG. That was about the only bright spot from an ugly game last night. Hopefully the end of Lavine at PG is in sight.

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12-25-2015 , 12:34 AM

#8838

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KMart DNP-CD. Trade incoming?

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12-25-2015 , 01:08 AM

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Remember last year when I was begging to trade KMart and this thread told me I was crazy?

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12-25-2015 , 03:06 AM

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Remember last year when I was begging to trade KMart and this thread told me I was crazy?

yes

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12-25-2015 , 12:31 PM

#8841

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I can't imagine I was against it. I've been on the trade Kmart bandwagon pretty much since he got here lol.

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12-26-2015 , 12:49 AM

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Let's roll tape!

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I'm gonna be a little annoyed if none of Martin, Thad, or PEK get traded before the deadline.

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Originally Posted by bbones31

I wouldn't hate it. Mo would be my priority to trade. I'd trade Thad for a mid-late first I guess. Martin and Pek are important to have a good team while the young guys develop. Plus Martin's contract is not too bad (2yrs@7mil) and I doubt anyone would want Peks contract.

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Thumbs down to trading Martin. His contact is pretty great value in the new NBA.

Mo will be traded. He's been pretty terrific lately so somebody should want him.

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Pek's contact makes him untradeable most likely

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Originally Posted by andyhop

Don't see the point in trading Martin or Thad if you aren't getting something worthwhile back , I'd dump Pek if it didn't cost anything major just because he isn't going to stay on the court enough but don't see that being an option and I wouldn't add anything of value to move him at the moment.

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What's the point of keeping Thad? Think you guys are vastly overrating 32yo Kevin Martin.

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Originally Posted by JayTeeMe

You are vastly under rating him. He's been good

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Originally Posted by minnesotasam

Am I? He's a reasonably efficient bulk scorer who is absolutely awful defensively, but is a decent creator. He's shooting 42% from 3 this year (or was, before tonight) and yet is sporting a pretty meh 17.4 PER for an offense only guy. As I mentioned he is badly on the wrong side of the aging curve for this team.

And far more importantly, he doesn't really do a ton for us given the overlap between him and Wiggins--at least future Wiggins.

The last four seasons (counting this year) he has missed:
26 games
5 games
14 games
35 games

edit: that means he has played in ~71.5% of his team's games over the last four seasons.

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If you could get something useful for KMart it's okay to trade him. But don't just give him away. He's good and you'd have to pay a lot more to sign a similarly talented replacement. He makes less than Jodie Meeks ffs.

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Martin's skillset doesn't really decline in age though. He's a shooter that's tall, he'll have value for a few more years.

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Originally Posted by Speel_Posher

It's not that Martin is an uber valuable piece and virtually untradable at this point, it's that he's only making 7 mill per and is a good offensive player that provides spacing(much needed on a rubio/pek team) and has played really well with Rubio on the court.

There are other roster moves that could/should be made first before him imo, because he's valuable to this specific team(esp for that contract).

His injuries, although numerous in the last few years don't look to be chronic. It's not like he's had numerous acl injuries or anything.

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Server crashed on me for a minute after I wrote something else out lol.

I honestly was pretty pumped about our start of the year when healthy, albeit over a very very small sample size. We played a lot of close competitive games before our entire starting lineup went down with injury. I'm not going to say I thought we were going to playoff(i didn't), but our win projections were in the 30 range...after the first few games and this recent streak i'd say the 40 mark would have been feasible if we were lucky with some injuries. 40 wins in the west with the youth on our team would have been pretty impressive imo.

It's a tough spot flip is in now because if we want to tank we really need to ship out 2+ players and hold bazz out for as long as possible to keep losing with the other teams; Philly and LA aren't going anywhere. However, we are still 7 games behind Utah with 31 left to play...it's probable we finish in the bottom 6-8 teams in the league with a very high draft pick.

I'm definitely no expert on college prospects, but to me it looks like it's very top heavy with mudiay/okafor/towns as the top 3 and then a slew of other guys with upside but question marks. If that's the case and we have almost no shot at the bottom 2-3, I'm ok with keeping this roster as is and rolling with an improving Rubio/Wiggins/Bazz/Lavine core as well as a probable top 10 pick after this draft.

edit: so personally, I'm ok with shipping martin out for more Ls this year and a potentially higher pick, but I also don't think he's a must move due to his contract and skillset. I think we're closer to a playoff team than we are to the worst team in the league, so keeping him is more than fine.

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Yeah, I like that post and I agree with the first (full) paragraph. I can see why you guys are cool keeping Martin, I just think he's too old and one-dimensional to be apart of something good given how stacked the West is. But you guys are right, he's not making very much (especially given what is supposed to happen to the cap soon).

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Originally Posted by Speel_Posher

He definitely is one dimensional and I completely agree that if we're shipping anyone he probably yields the highest return and interest from other teams. Also, with Bazz/Wiggins/Lavine on the roster, if Flip likes their progression it does make Martin replaceable(for even cheaper!). This year though and probably next year this Wolves team needs his ability to shoot and create his own shot if they want to win games imo.

Things have no changed to the point that i'm ok giving Martin away.

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12-27-2015 , 04:29 AM

#8843

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12-28-2015 , 01:48 AM

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I can't figure out why Prince, a career 37% three point shooter who shot .421 over the last two seasons on 894 attempts, needs to step in rather than shoot the corner three. Wtf is that about?

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12-28-2015 , 02:17 AM

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I can't figure out why Prince, a career 37% three point shooter who shot .421 over the last two seasons on 894 attempts, needs to step in rather than shoot the corner three. Wtf is that about?

Let me change that to career 37% three point shooter who shot .375 over the last two seasons on 136 attempts in 134 games. 894 was his total FG attempts obviously.

Was shooting 15% of his FG attempts as 3s, now shooting 9%.

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12-28-2015 , 06:36 PM

#8846

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Yeah I don't understand that either

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12-29-2015 , 06:00 AM

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I got Lauren Holtcamp as the worst ref in the NBA, narrowly edging Tony Brothers.

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12-29-2015 , 11:43 AM

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I got Lauren Holtcamp as the worst ref in the NBA, narrowly edging Tony Brothers.

Ken Mauer & Joey Crawford (the giant penis) have to be in that discussion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fm2WxX6vtw
Kurt Rambis' one positive highlight as the Wolves coach is ~1:18 into this video^

https://sports.vice.com/en_us/articl...d-is-the-worst

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12-30-2015 , 06:16 PM

#8849

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lol @ my martin posts. god damn has he fallen off a cliff.

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12-30-2015 , 06:46 PM

#8850

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https://twitter.com/DWolfsonKSTP/status/681951021342560256?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

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Update on Pek: Told he's looking good, and good-to-go for full contact practice this week. Moving ever so closer to real action.