air gordon wrote:we would criticize Thibs with some of his offensive sets in his bulls days. the twolves makeup is almost a complete opposite. can thibs adapt? was it the case of maximizing of what he had to work at (jab at hoiberg) or is thibs just not an offensive innovator?
As I've mentioned before in the Bulls thread, it will be for the better for Thibs to have an offense expert by his side. His stubbornness on sticking with the same rotation, not giving enough minutes to/experimenting with the rookies and weird substitutions are my main gripes with him.
you should start a twolves thread. i wont tell
Nah, just revive the old one or try asking Kevin or bail out Corymach. IIRC, I posted a Wolves related thread back then when they re-signed Pekovic and that's all I can have for you...
Rubio traded?! Ha I would lead the band wagon. Honestly his defense and facilitating is a major boost for the team.
I hope Thibs sees him that way since I love seeing him run the offense but my familiarity with Thibs somewhat tells me that he would rather have somebody like Dennis Schroder than him on his offense since the Wolves' wings and bigs are agile enough to cover every places. Lavine's improvement is an obvious factor also and Rubio is pretty injury prone nowadays.
Playing with the trade machine earlier and came up with this...
http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=hd4cjxsJimmy Buckets loves Thibs and he obviously have problems with Hoiberg, the Sixers will have Embiid next season so you can put Noel in there also instead of Okafor and they will finally have their PG in Rubio and Mirotic as a second unit scorer. Maybe add some draft picks, trade exceptions or whatever to those you reckon were not given enough and off you go...