roundhouse wrote:
Well that's not quite fair because Denver pretty much sucked down the stretch. They played absolute bad basketball.

Love kept them in it much of the first half. He sort of unraveled in the second half before he hurt his finger (jesus Love, stop hurting your shooting hand). It doesn't matter since he's getting traded for Favors and Hayward or Anderson, Aminu, and a pick or Ibaka & PJ3.

So obviously I want everyone on our team healthy and available to play. But I really think the injury to love was a blessing in disguise. PLEASE have him sit out for a week or whatevers. He definitely needs to rest that hand.

Also is it just me or is everyone minute played by someone one this team is better than last year, aka everyone outside of love/rubio either improve or is an upgrade. And we are .500 (ish). So we need Love to come back to 90% at least, and rubio to hopefully come back as much as possible.

Either way great win for the wolves.

Sweet win!!

JJ Barea - Always liked that guy

Ridnour, Dante, & WIlliams were so solid.

And SHVED owned, of course.

daddyfatsax wrote:
Record w/ Love: 8-9
Record w/o Love: 7-5

Last season w/ Rubio: 21-20
Last season w/o Rubio: 5-20

Hmm.

roundhouse wrote:
Well, what teams did they play WITH and WITHOUT Kevin Love? What other players were out throughout those games? Can a handful of those be coincidence, since it's really just a handful of games?

You'll get no argument from me that a completely healthy and in-tune Rubio is more important so...

Kevin Love & Ridnour for Ibaka and Martin!

why are you all so negative about this team. Wolves battled head to head with the best teams this year and the reason was that we dominated most on the boards.

you'll have to be more patient with Love. If he can get his shot back he and a healthy Ricky will be unstoppable later on this season. you cant just give up on a player like that

BiggDogg wrote:
Good first post to balance out us Love haters. You're wrong, though, and you'll see just how wrong when Ibaka and Kevin Martin replace him...

17 rebounds in 24 minutes is nothing to sneeze at against one of the best rebounding teams in the NBA. It's not like Pek played good at all either. He was sitting on the bench for quite a while in foul trouble

roundhouse wrote:
He had 17 rebounds in 23 minutes.

The Ham was +22, great player, and we got him for Wayne

JJ hero mode activated. Cool guy. Can't believe he's 183cm tall. Can someone confirm this? He can't be almost 10cm taller then Nate Robinson.

George Karl:


“Creo que Minnesota a veces juega mejor sin Love. Son una especie de máquina ofensiva. Son realmente buenos”, dijo George Karl al finalizar el encuentro. Los Nuggets (18-16), que no tuvieron la misma inspiración de cara al aro como frente a los Clippers, tienen un registro de 4-13 esta temporada cuando encajan 100 puntos o más.

English;

"I think Minnesota sometimes plays better without Love. They're kind of offensive machine. They are really good, "George Karl said after the match. The Nuggets (18-16), who did not have the same inspiration as facing the hoop against the Clippers have a record of 4-13 this season when fit 100 points or more.

www.nbamaniacs.com/noticias/nueva-victor...ion-para-kevin-love/

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daddyfatsax wrote:
I'm sooooooooooooooooooooo glad we didn't trade K-Lav for Iblock and Harden. SIGH.

(Insert epic punching myself in the face repeatedly smiley emoticon)