Lamrock wrote:Kevin Love's defensive rating is 97, and the team's is 100 so he could just be a product of playing for a good defensive team. However, this shouldn't come as a surprise as that was perhaps his biggest selling point at one time.
Rubio's very promising, but like Jennings a couple years ago, will look less good when he stops hitting threes at such a high rate.
When did Jennings ever look promising? Sure he's capable of going for big nights if his shot is hot, much like Mo Williams but he doesn't make his teammates better. Even when Rubio's %'s drop, which they are starting to, he still makes teammates better.
Lamrock wrote:Last season Luke Ridnour was by far the Wolves' second best player. Firing one of the league's worst coaches and hiring one of the best, adding two top 5 draft picks, and actually playing defense are the reasons for the Wolves' early "success". Sounds crazy now but if they get rid of Beasley, Utah falls off and the Grizzlies struggle without Zach, they could be in the hunt for the 8 seed this year.
Rubio has enjoyed a strong start so far, but once he hits the rookie wall (does anybody seriously think Rubio of all players can keep up that 44% 3pt clip?), Ridnour will be the clear choice at PG for Minnesota short-term.
I have to disagree with you here. Whilst Ridnour has a good shot & is solid, he's not a starting level PG like Rubio. Darko has Foye or some midget on him but Ridnour won't recognise this but Rubio will get it to Darko straight away. From watching quite a few T-wolves games this season, that's the recurring theme I get from Ridnour. A good quality backup PG but that's it. Advantage is you can play him next to Rubio because Rubio will set him up for open looks.
We all know Rubio's shooting %'s will drop but at least he's got confidence to shoot them when he's open, even when he's missing. That's what I've been impressed about.
What's your take on Derrick Williams & some of other T-wolves? I think he's been turrible so far. Maybe it's because he's just not comfortable coming off bench, I dunno. I would've liked to have seen them start him just to see what he's got. Wes Johnson's done nothing again. Ellington has been good of late, Ridnour's been solid as you would expect, Love's been good, they finally played Darko some minutes & he played well against Clips. He made DeAndre Jordan look ordinary (which he is anyways
). Barea was a nice sparkplug off bench. I think Beasley still has some use on the team since Derrick Williams isn't there yet. Maybe when Rubio & Love are off court, let Beasley do his thing, because he can score & not many others on the T-wolves can at the moment.
