He makes a valid point. Outside of Edwards they don't really have that "put your head down, attack" type guy. TSJ can serve as a counter and provides that spark.
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Rookie Terrence Shannon Jr.’s Playoff Impact Shows the Value of Older Draft Picks
With the Minnesota Timberwolves’ backs against the wall, they received an unlikely spark from rookie Terrence Shannon Jr. Down 2-0 to the Western Conference one
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This may be the most infuriating thing I've read in a minute - paragraph 4. "The former Illinois Fighting Irish". After the AI fiasco they suffered you'd think that level of sloppiness would be vetted at Sports Illustrated, but alas
very much hoping he gets traded.
I actually think he will be ok in Minnesota, Alexander-Walker is a free agent and Conley looks pretty washed so good chance if they add someone significant it’ll be a PG
Also hard to get over ownership saying “that’s the future right there”
His turn is coming. I'd rather he stay in Minnesota, and play for a winner. He and Ant are the same age. Their window is just opening up.
If they plan to keep Julius and Naz, something has to give. They are going to need contributions from guys on team friendly contracts. TJ's is about as friendly as it gets for what he provides. NAW is as good as gone. Conley is making 4X what TJ makes, DiVincenzo makes even more than that...
Some of these vets are going to have to go.
As far as PG, eventually they will have to see what they have in Dillingham, or trade him away.
They are already extended well past the salary cap next year. Should be an interesting offseason.
tsj comes in and nails a three. looks like twolves are in for an onslaught of a beating.
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Shannon 3 and then a strong baseline drive. Only T'Wolve playing well. Should have played much more earlier in this series and maybe they wouldn't be down 3-1
minnesota coach needs to be shown the door. for wtvr reason tsj played literally zero until this series, that zone d game plan was horrid. in all truth, their gm messed up with the KAT trade.
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There's talk that a coach is supposed to pick the players to win the games, but most of the time, especially in the NBA, playing time is correlated to pay, or "I pay the man so I play the man."
I think trading away KAT was the right move, but they made the wrong trade. (I don't know what the right one would've been, but I know it's not the one they made.) I mean, at this point every trade that occurred before the Luka trade this season has me asking- did they check if the Mavs would take X for Luka?
The Wolves made it to the Conference Championship I don’t know what else could be done. They were not better than OKC and nothing could change that. The trade was not bad for the Wolves. Randle played pretty good for them and they love DeVincezo. They were not going to be able to pay KAT and keep some others they like. Also KAT is not known for playing big in big moments, fair or not.
Don't think they'd trade Shannon after his rookie year regardless of what they thought about his prospects. Most teams, I think, would be spooked by a team trading away a guy that early, like what do they know that we don't?
If you want to take it further back, the Gobert trade was not great either. Walker Kessler (who went out in that deal) could give them most of what Gobert did for a whole lot less $$ and allowed the T-Wolves more flexibility so the KAT trade wouldn't have been needed.
It reminds me of the Luka trade. Does anyone else in the league trade 5 first round picks for Gobert (even with where they are projected)?
FightinIllini30
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I can confidently say that TSJ would have been front running the ROTY race if he played 25 minutes or more per game. In literally every game that he got significant minutes, he made an impact and played well. Also he is better than Stephon Castle and my mind won’t be changed about that
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No one EVER thought Luka was available for trade. For whatever reason Nico wanted Anthony Davis & AD only. They could have gotten tons more if they had shipped him around the League.
Rumor was they talked to the T-Wolves about Edwards, too, but of course that got turned down. I do think they should have gotten a better deal. They should have totally traded Brunson back.
Because he knew he was getting the 1st pick in the upcoming draft.
/winkwinknudgenudge
Bigtex
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Dallas upper mgmt was concerned with Luka conditioning/weight gain for years. Plus contract expiring. Horrible deal but it is gonna work out OK with Flagg.
TheDukeUIUC
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The Wolves would have never beat the Warriors without the Curry injury. They exposed the Lakers inability to play defense, but got lucky to make it to the finals. We're lucky they did, or Shannon would never have had the minor postseason breakout that he did.
The owner/GM builds the team. The stupidest thing for the coach to do would be to ask who are the 5 highest paid players and make them the starters. Dollars paid shouldn't have anything at all to do with PT. It's the stupidest thing in the world, yet people believe it is right. An organization who follows that practice is incompitent. This is fact, not my humble opinion.
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