In your opinion, what's the biggest, most painful loss that the T-Wolves endured?

-Scout

the joe smith signing!!!! lol i cant remember all the losses hurt...too many to remember just one big blur

Didn't we already do this?

www.twolvesblog.com/forum/minnesota-timb...rwolves-endured.html

I guess I'll still say Malik Sealy. That was a huge loss and took its toll on KG.

The Joe Smith draft picks lost hurt, but they were all going to be very low picks anyways. Not saying it didn't hurt, but I don't think any star players or anything would have come from them.

well i donno about that man
2001 we coulda got Z. Randolph, Gerald Wallace, Tony parker, Gilbert Arenas, okur
2002 john salmon, roger mason, carlos boozer
2003...wtf...ebi....
2004 Anderson Varejão, chris duhon

i know some of these arent super allstars but 2001 if we got Randolph with billups at point coulda been nice

JSTN1586 wrote:


Easy to say in hindsight when you go through the draft and handpick a few good players. It's not that easy at the time, and almost any pick outside a lottery pick is more or less a crapshoot.

Even then, Roger Mason? Chris Duhon? What would they have done for us? And there's no way we were getting Tony Parker or Varejao, as we just didn't draft good European players back then, because we had no international scouts.

College Wolf wrote:


As you said, we JUST did this and it was even posted by the same person initially. I don't get it.

Personally I don't think the Malik Sealy thing hurt the Wolves as a team very much at all. I'd say the Billups move was the killer. He could have been enough to never need to trade KG and go off the ledge. You never need to make the horrible trade with the clippers, overpay Marko or T-Hud.

pants wrote:


I know... but I didn't want to delete the only active thread in the forums not started by me.



Anyways, good call about Billups. You never know if he would have continued to develop for us like he did in Detroit, but he would have been better than the alternatives of Marko/T-Hud/Mike James/Foye/Flynn/etc etc etc etc

Not only did losing Billups hurt, but getting Marko and T-Hud REALLY hurt.

I think Billups is probably the winner.

Given how long Chauncey has been good I think his development is a virtual certainty.

Ok I better go start a thread.

pants wrote:


Please do. There's sooooooooooooooo much to talk about in regards to Billups and the Wolves Organization/future (at the time.)

- I mean, what would we have been like if we kept him (and then KG of course.)

- How much better off would we have been talentwise and financially if we kept him and didn't have to acquire all the shitty PG's we did after he left.

- The reason behind him leaving. I know most of how that all went down, but does everyone here? Especially the younger posters? Surely not.