Okay dayamn i gotta admit i was wrong bout the big pecker, dude has game, while i will still be on the darko band wagon i gotta admit dat boy pekcer has some game, and im half drunk right now... Was fun to watch swill rollin rock n watch the snow come down here in the mile high city... Anyway we can convert B-EZ to a shooting guard? Ya im diggin Luke at SG but hes too small, great shot but lousy passer.... But hell were close to .500 last time we were at that was maybe in 04-05?? Hell its been a while round on mad dog,

It's a shame because if the Wolves played in the East, I would have no doubt about their ability to make the Playoffs, but The Western Conference is a damn zoo...Right now teams like Portland and Memphis would be on the outside looking in and that's just crazy...It's going to take a real improvement at home to even think about sniffing the playoffs..It starts with this Rockets game.. Im sick of getting on the verge of .500 and putting up a stinker..it's time to go

Murphs56 wrote: Yeah, the East is super top-loaded with great teams, but then it drops off after that REALLY quickly. We would easily be in the playoffs in the East. Easily.

Too bad the West is still so loaded, but that's how it has always been so no reason to expect otherwise I guess.

Hey Maddog... good to see ya back! .500 would be nice, and some of us here have wanted to try Beasley at SG for a while now. He couldn't do any worse than Ridnour or whomever else. I wish they would at least try it once.

the thing is minny could be in the east as easily in the west.... So CW how ya been???? its been to long since ive been able to get on here easily....

Mad_Dog04 wrote: Too bad we aren't in the East... they talked about realignment and us going to the East like a decade ago. We would be a playoff team then.

Why can't you get on here?

Right at the moment I prefer to be in the West, cause maybe the 2 best teams play in the East & will for a long time. And with Philly & Indiana there are another two teams, that can be extremly dangerous in the Playoffs, cause the play HARDCORE defense.
So I rather take (for a long shot) the West, even when it's harder to get a playoff-spot... (And actually I think the signs are good - or bad for as, as ever you wan't, cause he won't come to us - that DH12 stays in the east & that NJ's gonna be a really hard playoff team as well...)
In comparision: in the West there are only to really ultrastrong teams. The thunder & the Clippers (maybe the Lakers too, but they have no depth at all...) Only the depth all-around is better. But if you get over the hump, I think the chance of making a run is even bigger...

WE NOW HAVE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TWO WEEKS TO COME:
We play against the Grizzlies (in Memphis), and the Mavs and then against the Rockets again (at home). This three games against our direct concurrence for a playoff spot could be an early predecision. If we win all three and win a couple of the other games, like we should (against Orlando, New York, Sac & Charlotte), we probably should be on a playoff spot

Well this is quite important, cause we will get a hord couple of games afterwords: Philly, the Nuggets (in Denver), Utah, the Clips & the Lakers (both in LA)

But actually we will have a pretty favourable afterwards (in March & April), where we play quite a few of weaker teams. So we take a couple of big wins in the next to weaks & sustain more or less the following two weaks, then it maybe wouldn't look that bad.

In this sens:
* HUGE HOWL

I want my MTW wrote:
What a terrible schedule. They'll be back under .500 in no time. No way to avoid it.

at least were at the .500 mark, its been good this year compared to years passed, and who knows we have been beating good teams, soo who says we cant be still at .500 after some tough games

I think so, too. It's not impossible & now we just tied with Memphis. If we sincerly trying to be a playoff team, we have to beat especially the mid-strong teams, i.e. meanly the teams, that we're gonna play against, the next couple of weaks:
Memphis, Dallas, Rockets, Orlando, Knicks, maybe even Utah and the Lakers. And even the Clips, the Nuggets and Philly aren't unbeatable.
The hardest part will maybe be, to do our duty against Sac & the Bobcats.(These are MUST wins). I predict: if we get 2 of 3 wins out of the games in Dallas, Houston & Memphis, plus we get out of this month with only 1-2 games under 500, then it doesn't look that with a playoff spot...
But if I could wish, I'd prefer to be a little better, so we wouldn't have to play against OKC in the playoffs... I think if can make it somehow on the 6th spot, we would have quite a good chance to survive the first round...

CW, im honestly not sure why i couldnt it said something bout browser and cookies so i ate some cookies while browsing amazon didnt work, so i cleaned it like it recommended and it finally took so i can log in now...But honestly i am just glad i can log in now....Daddy nice to see you still around, whered bonk go??

He's still around, too, writing posts from time to time

By the way. I found some funny column on bleacher:

bleacherreport.com/articles/1046073-minn...rs-theme-song-so-far

Especially I like the fact, that he took Sigur Ros for Ricky (even it's surely not there best song..)

Is it just me or do the Wolves have the hardest schedule ever? And it sucks, because the games we should win (Tor, Mil, Clev) we end up losing

daddyfatsax wrote:
Easy to think, but us grumpy cynical Minnesota fans conditioned to Rambis keep getting proven wrong night in and night out and beating winning teams.

Wolves record with Rubio in the starting lineup = 9-5
Wolves record with Rubio off the bench = 3-7

Pretend the schedule has nothing to do with that. A lot of wins against a variety of records in the Rubio stretch. Look at the opposing teams' records and be surprised. Even the Nets have a surprisingly decent record. The Wolves are a good team. The West is extremely tight.

The Wolves are two games behind Portland and the Lakers for the 8th seed. We own the tiebreaker vs. Dallas and could vs. Houston here this week. UTA, POR, LAL, DAL, HOU, MEM are all big-to-semi question marks and are passable in a matter of days. The Wolves have a 93% healthy roster. Rubio isn't driving as much as he did early in the year which I strongly approve of. One ankle tweak for Ricky would be bad news.

Mad_Dog04 wrote:
My dude Mad_Dog, try the following to fix things:
1) Try a new internet browser, but never ever use internet explorer.
2) Clear your cache/history thingy.
3) New/different computer