butler is definitely not blameless here, but he has some valid criticisms. esp wrt wiggins. maybe he thinks kat should be better defensively and feels it's a "playing hard" issue


edit: how much would people disagree with the effort questions if they came from thibs? not saying the source is irrelevant and butler is obv wildin in a lot of ways, but to what extent do people disagree with his criticisms of kat/towns? for example seadood said towns is being misused. yeah he is, but butler said he wasn't playing hard not that he wasn't good. also called him soft lol, but again i'm not saying butler is in the clear

he obv has to get traded now and i want to see it. dying to see how the wolves play w/o him after all this

If Im the Jazz, Im letting the Wolves know straight away Im not trading Jinglin Joe for Jimmy.

Hey did Neil Olshey do anything good? No? Let's go season!

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zomg this is getting hilarious. the dumpster has no bottom



But then Jeff Teague makes his first twitter post in over a year to say



But Jimmy says it happened



John Lucas III seems to say it did not



I mean, i'm just speechless here.

To be fair, does Jeff Teague even count?


TWolves fans are just taking their hate out on their dumpster fire of a franchise on a player who is rightly calling out their dumpster fire of a franchise

I can't decide which would be funnier if true. Butler straight up fabricating the players-only meeting to Rachel Nichols and getting called out via Twitter, or a meeting happening but with a bunch of Wolves players left uninvited only to find that out via Twitter.

For one shining moment Jake Layman looked good!

I think too much has been made about him taking the third stringers and beating the starters:

1) DLose was probably a starter
2) they play what, 20 possessions total?

My guess is Tyus destroyed in the scrimmage.

I feel bad for saying this, but it would be hilarious if Jimmy blew out his achilles in one of these tough scrimmages and then KAT/Wiggs kept @ing him with GIFs of money.

Jimmy has a player option for next year. That's a bad scenario.

Something called Darius Johnson Odom (wolves camp player) also tweeted that there was no meeting.

Is it possible Jimmy just actually lost his mind this offseason?

You should feel bad.



And yeah, Tyus is sweet. FREE TYUS

This seems to be what Seadood is saying, and if true, if he's still putting the work in but he's just not 'a killer' or whatever, then all of the lols at Jimmy B. I personally get the impression that it's not just that though, that KAT is actually lazy/unprofessional. Wouldn't be surprising for someone so young and talented. In that case I think Jimmy B's attitude is pretty understandable, that'd be super frustrating as Thayer said (especially when deep down Jimmy would know that despite his laziness KAT is still probably better than him).

EDIT: Oh, and def agree with all the lols at Butler for his "All I want to do is win, now trade me to one of the New York teams" stance.

yeah i was thinking tyus might have been the 3rd string pg when he's maybe actually their best pg. even in a practice scenario the other starters should still basically never lose though. the reactions of former players, league personnel, etc. suggest as much

Maybe Wolves GM is like we'll only trade you if you pretend like you're willing to play for us

From an article on SB Nation:

"He also beat the Timberwolves starters — Towns, Wiggins, Taj Gibson, Derrick Rose, and Jeff Teague — with second- and third-string players, according to The Athletic, including Luol Deng, James Nunnally, and two-way guard Jared Terrell."

That's a pretty bad bunch haha

Also a tweet I'd missed:

"Jimmy Butler yelled to the VP of Marketing "get me a salad for lunch. Balsamic vinaigrette!" and then dropped a 3 over Wiggins. This guy is incredible. #wolves"

Lolol

I mean if it's a player's only meeting how would Jeff Teague know about it

lol, do people really think it's important who won some scrimmage a week before the start of the season? I mean, Butler comes out like it's the NBA Finals and the other guys probably don't give a ****. It's a preseason scrimmage for ****s sake.

Butler is easily the villain in this story.

And that's tough to do in Minny.

I also say that as someone that likes Butler a lot more than anyone else on the Wolves. He's just a dick and what he is doing is a dick move.

Kings in mid-season form. Diggin' Cauley-Stein's look tho

How does Frank Mason Jr get legitimate minutes for an NBA team?

looks like butler had two objectives

-- demonstrate that towns/wiggins wouldn't come at him when challenged.
-- wild out so hard the wolves had no choice but to trade him

i mean it's incredibly petty from butler, but also hilarious

edit: i think even if you grant that the starters didn't gaf about the scrimmage, it's still a bad look that they just kinda let butler run his mouth without interference

Doris clowned on Butler.

Conclusion: lolJimmay

The Kings are awful

que?

hahah