Bynum is scoring on Love & Randolph like Charlie Sheen on a room full of hookers.

I think Webster is confused and still thinks it's the morning shootaround. 4-16 WTF?? Why is he taking 16 shots. You are a glue guy Martell, never take 16 shots again.

Rubio got stupid careless in the 4th quarter. By far the worst i've seen him play. Webster...smh. Need some practice so Webster and Miller can find out their role. Defense was horrible throughout, needed Darko badly for this game, Gasol and Bynum to much for Love. Like i said earlier if this team could play an entire 48 minutes they would be well above .500.

Close game amazingly. I think we needed inspired Darko or a real SG to win this game. Sadly one of those only shows up 5 times a season. Now I hope for Malcom Lee, how bad could he be after all?

Like the Beasley effort. 7 -15. I hope ricky gets out of the shooting slump soon. Am I the only one who thinks he should try to finish more too? Cause his shots at the rim are so fancy and smooth. (minus the block by bynum.)

They made it close in the end but the Lakers pulled off the W

Ricky had his moments but had one of his worst games of the season so far.

K-Lav w/ 33 points, gave up way more than that on the defensive end.

I'll never take Beasley for granted again. Even when he's ballstopping on offense, he's still so much better than Wes and D-Will. I like that New Beasley rebounds and plays defense. I hope it's not just because it's a contract year.

Pek another great game. 13 & 7 in the 1st half and then got in foul trouble early in the 3rd quarter and Adelman never put him back in, favoring Randolph instead. Terrible decision IMO. Randolph brought some good energy, but his defense is beyond horrible. Bynum & Gasol were scoring at will on Love & Randolph.

Wes "Kobe Stopper" Johnson completely shut Kobe down. Kobe couldn't do anything the entire game.

Why the hell is Webster shooting 15 times? Are we really that desperate for someone who can shoot? He's got some good glue guy potential as a poor man's Luol Deng, but man was he brutal on offense. No more 15 shot games please.

Ridnour's hot streak appears to be over. He's back to being the player we all know and want to trade.

Ellington, D-Will, & Miller did nothing worth mentioning.

We really missed Darko in this game to match up w/ Bynum & Gasol.

4TOs!!!!!! First time I've ever seen that too.

Kobe Bryant Hall of Shamer!

Rumblings of Gasoft's demise were premature it seems...

Am I allowed to criticize Kevin Love's defense and Rubio's offense or are we supposed to only blindly yell at Beasley and Darko still? Not sure...let me know so I can fall in line.

Poor game. Bounce back young warriors. good game by Beasley, get in that groove. Now put in the starting lineup and bring Wesley off the bench. Or don't let him off the bench...I kid...or maybe I don't kid.

Pek proving his worth. It takes several times to play against someone until you know where they like to get the ball and all that stuff. He'll learn how to defend players like Bynum better. At least his effort is there, unlike another member of the front court...

zookeeper wrote:
Wow, great observation. That's definitely a plus. If they have even a remotely average shooting night that's a good win.

Oh well, sh*t happens.

Damn, that result sucked.

Another game we could have won if we didn't have a PG (Ridnour) playing SG. And if we didn't have Wes Johnson playing at all. And if Martell didn't shoot 15 times in 23 minutes. My goodness. Ugh. So frustrating.

Try putting Beasley at SG I guess. Couldn't be any worse than what's been going on.

I still love Rubio. Horrible game though.

Pecker and Beasley and Love all rocked.

Only 4 turnovers for us. That is freakin amazing for real. Too bad we shot 38% FG, 24% 3PT, and only 70% FT. Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuutal.

I dunno... that's all I got. Just a really disappointing result after we had that huge comeback from being down 18 points and then took the lead from them in the 4th quarter.

Yeah..it sucked. It was a horrible shooting night. Wes(of course), Rubio, Webster, and I think Beasley all had a shot that was an air ball that completely miss the rim.

The comeback was great but we couldn't defend them. Kobe was Kobe and Gasol and Bynum were too big. The zone worked great for the comeback but the Lakers figured it out at the end of the game and got some easy shots.

roundhouse wrote:
He kept taking them because he was wide open on some of them. He needs to knock those down.

I hate the Fakers and Kobe so much. Why are we always losing against them?
And stop hating roundhouse. Wes was solid on defense, many of his points Bryant scored against Webbie. And yes it was fun to see Wes trying to hit some shots after Kobe scored against him. Question, who is a better shooter Wes or Ricky.

Our starting lineup should look like this:
PG: Ricky
SG: Webbie
SF: Skittles
PF: Beach Boy
C: The Big Montegrinian

MAN! That was a KILLER. I would have sacrificed a 60 point loss to SA to see the Wolves beat Kobe. The amount of Kobe/Laker fans in Minneapolis was utterly disgusting.

Look, I refuse to blame this one on Love's D other than in the first quarter when Pau got everything he wanted. The Wolves were playing in a zone nearly the entire 2nd half (which lead to a 32-10 run or something). It was team defense and really everyone's inability to defend a shockingly SHAQ-like Bynum late in the 4th when it mattered. All they had to do was dump it inside and the Wolves had no chance other than to foul. It was AR on Bynum down the stretch. The Wolves did a fine job getting stops on several of these attempts from LA.

This game comes down to abysmal shooting from everyone but Beasley and that is the ONLY reason we lost this game. Look at the team stats. If there was one game we absolutely needed Darko to q-tip the sand out of his vag, it was this one. Despite this, I was very surprised Adelman didn't put Pek in in the 4th to, um, put a body on Andrew Bynum. Bynum is the closest comparison to Shaq I have ever seen. AR had no chance. Bynum has what, 80 lbs on him? I mean, lord almighty that was a questionable decision.

Rough shooting for Telly, but you can see how he is going to be a key player for us. I am already fine with him taking Ellington's minutes despite Wayne playing well.

Already can see signs of how screwy the rotation is going to be unless we make a trade.

Metta World Peace ripped Adelman for putting Ridnour on him defensively. So says the guy who didn't hit a field goal and scored 2 points. Epic fail.

Love when Adelman is feeding the ball to Beasley. His shots were nearly all quality and he is a good passer when he wants to be. Hopefully a sign of things to come. Really want him to do well here.

Lastly, those of you rationalizing the Wolves's bad starts with good finishes need to adjust your perspective and see the forest vs. the trees here. The Wolves have, I don't think, ever once had control of a game and have to fight and scrap for every win. I don't know what is going on with this poor start anomaly we are seeing but it is not a good thing.

WallyWorld wrote:
It's only because Ricky isn't starting yet...oh wait