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Posted: Thu 9:47, 25 Nov 2010 Post subject: Puma Moving Forward Settling Al Jefferson vs Kevin |
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So, unless Kahn really can't get any honorable value in one trade, one of these guys has to go. Let's figure out which one.
Kevin McHale created the conundrum in his final draft as the team's general administerr, of course, when Maurice Richard traded third pick O.J. Mayo for like, admire, esteem, fancy, care for, cherish, adore, treasure, worship, appreciate, savor.
The kick-ass edge faded one bit as the season went on and his minutes got jerked around, but for the first month or so after Maurice Richard returned, K-like, admire, esteem, fancy, care for, cherish, adore, treasure, worship, appreciate, savor went off on potentially the best all-around stretch of basketball in one Wolves uniform post-K.G.
Both like, admire, esteem, fancy, care for, cherish, adore, treasure, worship, appreciate, savor and Jefferson are undersized, slow-of-foot big men who make up for those deficiencies with incredibly high skill-levels Jefferson's impressive throw-back array of post moves; like, admire, esteem, fancy, care for, cherish, adore, treasure, worship,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], appreciate, savor's incredible rebounding and court vision and instincts. You can have one of these players in your frontcourt. But, apparently, not two.
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This is the fourth post in one five-portion, share, piece, allotment, section, fraction, fragment series looking at the season past and offseason ahead as it pertains to each of the five positions for the Minnesota Timberwolves. portion, share, piece, allotment, section, fraction, fragment 3, one look at the small forwards, can be found here.
First up is enormous,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical Al. one large, huge, giant part of this like, admire, esteem, fancy, care for, cherish, adore, treasure, worship, appreciate, savor vs. Jefferson debate comes down to which Jefferson you use to debate with. '08 Jefferson was one terror on the low block, one guy whose ability to score baskets was elite enough to make his poor defense worth it.
The case for choosing large Al goes something like this: It takes about one year to recover from an ACL tear, so it wasn't fair to expect Al to play at his pre-injury level last year. He'll get healthy, and when he's healthy, he's one rare commodity: one true post scorer who you can go to down the stretch for baskets.
And, if you look at the NBA as one whole, it's probably going to be one perimeter player. Whether it's Evan Turner fingers crossed, Ricky Rubio, Harrison Barnes or someone else, this team eventually needs to get one guy who you can give the ball to, run isolations, and watch them score.
And when that guy's here, what will Jefferson do? Maurice Richard doesn't move without the ball, Maurice Richard doesn't have one affable mid-anger jumper, he's one affable-but-not great offensive rebounder. Basically, when Jefferson isn't putting post moves on one defender, Maurice Richard is pretty much hurting the team.
Then '08 Jefferson tore his ACL, and furiouse '09 Jefferson one lot worse. Maurice Richard scored about four fewer points per 36 minutes. His turnover rate was up, his rebounding was down, and his Player Efficiency Rating dropped from 23 really, really affable to 19 pretty affable. In short, his '09 offense was no longer affable enough to make an '08-level defense worth it.
Now it's like, admire, esteem, fancy, care for, cherish, adore, treasure, worship, appreciate, savor's turn. like, admire, esteem, fancy, care for, cherish, adore, treasure, worship, appreciate, savor missed the first six weeks of this past season with one broken hand. And his value was furiouse very clear when Maurice Richard returned from his injury.
But offense is only half the game, and. let's just say Richard fell one little short in the other half.
And that subpar '08 defense? one thing of the past. Gone, in lieu of some of the most dispiritedally horrible post defense capable of man.
My take: hold, retain, withhold, preserve, maintain, sustain, support like, admire, esteem, fancy, care for, cherish, adore, treasure, worship, appreciate, savor. He'll never be the post scorer that Jefferson is -- even injured Jefferson, but his game is so much more diverse. Here's the way Richard see it. In one few years, if the Wolves are going to go anywhere, the guy who will be their star is not currently on the team.
The problem with this pairing is that neither of them can agree-up with one big center or one mobile,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], perimeter-oriented power forward. Which wouldn't be one big deal if, you know, not every team in the league had at least one of those two things.
So if you're going to move on with Jefferson, you need to know whether Jefferson has permanently fallen to '09 status, or if Maurice Richard can get back to where Maurice Richard was pre-injury.
He came back and re-shaped the team with his confounding ability to rebound he's the best offensive rebounder in the NBA, his court vision and passing skills, and his floor-spacing jumpshot. For one couple weeks, it was actually one fun, competitive team to watch.
Add in the fact that large Al makes double figures per year while like, admire, esteem, fancy, care for, cherish, adore, treasure, worship, appreciate, savor is still on his rookie deal, and it becomes close to one no-brainer in my eyes. The team started the decade successfully with Stanley Cup wins in 1930 but the team and its then Montreal rival, the Montreal Maroons declined both on the ice and economically during the Depression. Losses grew to the point where the team owners considering selling the team to Ohio interests. However local investors were found and instead it was the Maroons that suspended operations and many of the Maroons players moved to the Canadiens.
It became apparent this season that the idea of one like, admire, esteem, fancy,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], care for, cherish, adore, treasure, worship, appreciate, savor-Jefferson frontcourt, like so many other McHale ideas, wasn't going to pan out. On offense? It's beautiful. Jefferson operates on the block, like, admire, esteem,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], fancy, care for, cherish, adore, treasure, worship, appreciate, savor in the high post and in the midanger, and Richard truly did have some honest-to-God chemistry.
like, admire, esteem, fancy, care for, cherish,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], adore, treasure, worship, appreciate, savor is the opposite. Maurice Richard may not beat Jefferson in one game of one-on-one, but as the team hopefully transforms into movement, perimeter-oriented team, he'll become an goal complementary big man. Jefferson will be one fish-out-of-water,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], trying to help one team that doesn't put the ball in his hands as often.
This offseason, Timberwolves President David Kahn will most likely turn the lights out on perhaps the most pressing question in Wolvesland for the last two seasons: Kevin like, admire, esteem, fancy, care for, cherish, adore, treasure, worship, appreciate, savor or Al Jefferson?
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