If the Timberwolves trade Naz Reid, a good free agent pickup would be Sandro Mamukelashvili who could replace the outside shooting and rebounding of Naz.
One of best bargain trade candidates is Justin Champagnie of the Wizards. Champagnie is good two way player like his twin brother in San Antonio but got several DNPs last year. Its criminal to DNP him except when you are hard tanking like the Wizards.
KAT was a league leading plus 258 for the playoffs. Meanwhile, Julius Randle was negative 67. If my calcs are right per https://t.co/fUuO8jLXbG, 2 years ago when trade was made KAT had a regular season career plus 902 (now +1658) while Randle's had a negative 1,111 (now - 713).
@honestlysadie Ha! Flip Saunders had best winning season for Wolves not Finchy and he did so with less. Finchy is so overrated. Any decent coach would have done better than back to back 6th place finishes with this roster.
KAT was a league leading plus 258 for the playoffs. Meanwhile, Julius Randle was negative 67. If my calcs are right per https://t.co/fUuO8jLXbG, 2 years ago when trade was made KAT had a regular season career plus 902 (now +1658) while Randle's had a negative 1,111 (now - 713).
@TundraSportsNet@DietBeginsMon Taking a stacked roster that he inherited and turning it into a sixth place team two years in a row. Plus throwing away 7 FRPs for a bust and an old player with brickhands.
@SargentJason11@BrockLanders14@JonKrawczynski Not true. Flip Saunders had better winning seasons than Finch ever did and coached in 4 conference finals. Plus Saunders did it with only one star player. Finch had both Ant and Kat plus DPOY Rudy and Jaden. Saunders did more with less.
Tim Connelly made 3 idiotic trades w Utah. He traded Donovan Mitchell for Trey Lyles & Tyler Lydon. He traded Rudy Gobert for Erik Green & cash. He traded Walker Kessler, Keyonte George & 3 more FRPs, one of which helped acquire Jaren Jackson for Gobert.
Tim Connelly traded away 7 first round picks and KAT and somehow made the roster he inherited worse. David Kahn must be laughing at Connelly's incompetence.
Some of the Timberwolves fans will be hatewatching their team this year hoping Finch and Connelly get fired. Can't blame the fans as these two morons are ruining any hope of building a championship team around Ant.
@AROD, @MarcLore Some of the Timberwolves fans will be hatewatching the Wolves this year hoping Finch and Connelly get fired. Can't blame the fans as these two morons are ruining any hope of building a championship team around Ant.
Timberwolves have had a few semi-competent GMs in Rosas (Ant & Jaden), Flip (KAT) & McHale (KG) & some terrible ones-Kahn, Thibs & Connelly. Unfortunately, the best one died & the next best one was caught in a sex scandal. Being a Wolves fan involves having to endure torture.
@phenomenonsense@alexhellie@ItsReallyR27@JonKrawczynski Yeah, Connelly has been given a free pass by local media & I've known he was an idiot as soon as he did the Gobert overpay. This was cemented by stupid Wendell Moore pick. Then there was stupid Dillingham trade & the final nail in coffin was trading KAT for Randle. Total Bozo!
@___daner Bones Hyland??? He sucks big time. He likely wouldn't even be in the NBA if Tim Connelly wasn't crushing on him. We sure can trust him to take bad shots, play bad defense and turn ball over.
@NBA How is @AROD even allowed to own an NBA team? Wasn't he suspended for violating the MLB's drug policy? Doesn't the NBA have any ethical standards for NBA ownership?