Wolves Updates 5/20 E-mail
Written by SG   
Wednesday, 20 May 2009 01:08
The Timberwolves told at least one longtime season-ticket holder, trying to get him to renew, that the team's plan to improve this summer is to sign a big player to complement center Al Jefferson, sign a top free agent and find a big point guard.

It's starting to look like Wolves assistant general manager Fred Hoiberg could get the GM job by default.

Former Toronto coach and ex-Timberwolf Sam Mitchell won't be on ex-Wolves coach Flip Saunders' Washington Wizards staff, which now has ex-Wolves coach Randy Wittman, ex-Wolves guard Sam Cassell and Saunders' son Ryan, a former Gophers assistant.



Any half-asleep basketball fan could have conducted this search better than Taylor. You hire the brightest up-and-coming GM candidate in the league, in this case Lindsey. You suggest that he hire the perfect Wolves coaching candidate, Sam Mitchell, but you let the new GM make that decision. You move decisively so the new GM can prepare for and conduct the draft. You get the heck out of the way and let the guy hire his own staff, and recognize that the name "Glen Taylor'' is synonymous with ineptitude and nepotism and that you're going to continue to scare your fan base away from $5 tickets until the populace knows you've gone into hibernation.

To summarize, all Taylor had to do was hire Lindsey, hand him the keys and get out of the way. Instead, whomever he hires will be viewed as his fourth choice at best, and if he chooses Hoiberg, nothing he does in the short term will alter the perception that Taylor is incapable of hiring anyone who hasn't given him a foot massage or a three-foot putt in the past year.



• Minnesota Timberwolves: Al Jefferson and Kevin Love never got the chance to play big minutes together. Love was brought along slowly and Jefferson tore a knee ligament in February, and there went the important chance to gauge whether two undersized but strong inside players could fit.

Either way, that was a lot of starts for Kevin Ollie and Sebastian Telfair at point guard. And another member of the backcourt, Randy Foye, was second on the team in scoring but shot only 40.7 percent.



Don't completely rule out the possibility of the Minnesota Timberwolves playing in Xcel Energy Center after their lease runs out.

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