Wolves Updates 7/8 E-mail
Posted by SG   
Tuesday, 08 July 2008
The Timberwolves site posts the team's full summer league roster as well as the summer league tv schedule.  
 
 
Although the leaguewide consensus remains that Brand will return to Hollywood to form a new partnership with Clipper-to-be Baron Davis, sources said the Sixers are growing increasingly confident in their ability to create additional salary-cap space by finding a new home via trade for swingman Rodney Carney and then make a sufficiently rich offer to Brand.
 
Dealing away Carney -- with Memphis and Minnesota quickly emerging as possible destinations -- would shed nearly $1.7 million from the Sixers' payroll next season as long as the trade doesn't require new GM Ed Stefanski to take any salary back.
 
 
 
But the Clippers are in the playoff conversation. So is Portland, a .500 team last season without Greg Oden playing a game. Denver remains a player, as does a suddenly improved Minnesota team. Only Oklahoma City, Sacramento, Memphis and Golden State appear destined to be on the outside looking in.
 
   
 
Just kidding, I think the pups might have a little something to say next year. It would help if Rashad McCants could shake the title of 'Can't Get Right'; always looking like he is staring at a circus mirror. Just teasing, but McCants is very important to the Timberwolves future potential.
 
   
 
Bob Ociepka, a Wolves' assistant for the past two years, will join Vinny Del Negro's Chicago Bulls staff for the 2008-09 NBA season. Also heading to Chicago is Bernie Bickerstaff, father of Minnesota's J.B. Bickerstaff.
 
Minnesota's coaching staff and players won't be the only ones in town to miss Ociepka, who was a regular and colorful contributor to timberwolves.com. Never turning down an interview, Ociepka frequently hooked us up with scouting reports like these: (Bucks and Warriors) and filled us with information based on his over 30 years of coaching experience. 



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1. Wally McCants
Written by Rooz Dawg, on 08-07-2008 14:10
McCants cannot not be the key to any winning team. Not with a prominent role. He has the same problem as Wally did, among a host of other issues. The problem is that he is perpetually trying to prove that he's "got game." Every bucket, every slash to the basket, every three pointer he makes, is to serve his own ego and to help him show others that he is good. It is not to help the team win, it is to help prove that Rashad McCants is a great player. Look, McCants can score in this league, but so could Wally, and so could Ricky Davis. It takes more than that. I do not believe that any of those guys are team guys, and KG was forced to play with all three of them as they tried to show that they have game.

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