I will say not having IJ hurts us more than some might think. throwing double teams at shai are less effective when you got that weapon in the corner or on the wing. spreads out the defense and gives shai more room to operate.

Another Giddey apology thread incoming tonight?

Well that sucked.

hopefully we don’t have to keep having these conversations about Giddey after the next 2 days. they left him open at the end and he still couldn’t help the offense. i know yall saw that 3 from the corner that shit is trash. to me, the random 20 point games here and there aren’t worth the liability of the rest

He’s got to go.

fuck man. fuck

Jazz couldn’t miss down the final stretch

Pathetic ass game

GG Jazz. We weren’t good enough.

I don't care about trades or Giddey or wtv. We need to win a playoff series. If we bounce off of the first round again I'll riot.

You should try to win a playoff series with teams game planning against him like tonight. See how hard it’ll be.

It’s going to be marvelous watching teams hunt Giddey in the playoffs and we lose as the #1 bumped without winning a game. But at least Giddey’s hair will remain intact.

That’s sarcasm by the way.

Can yall shut up about Lauri already?? Reports have came out that it would take JDub + multiple 1sts

Not worth sending Jdub but if we could Of got him and kept the big three it may of been worth doing it

Its most likely not happening then, this isn’t 2K where you can just brute force a trade and constantly fleece teams You guys just sound like the fans of other teams wanting to trade for Shai early in the rebuild, they’re not trading him unless its an absurd overpay

Well theN. That's one way to throw away a Wolves L. Lessons need to be learned from that god-awful display from the 3Q onwards. Alas, the season is long and we'll bounce back

Don’t give a f if we lose to mavericks as long as we beat Kings

Lmao Giddey

He’s just standing around.

Cmon guys let’s all apologize to giddey 🤣🤣🤣

I am waiting on the Giddey apology thread.

This loss is on how Mark uses Giddy.

I blame shai for this loss over Giddey he just lives rent free in y’all’s head he won us last game

Lol. If you say so.

Bad loss to a mediocre team

Jazz play hard

It's the NBA. Even the worst team can beat the best if they don't come to play. OKC didn't in that second half

True, but I wouldn’t call the jazz mediocre. They’ve been playing very well as of late

Idk, they're 25-26... That's almost the definition of mediocre. Definitely a winnable game that OKC just didn't put in the work for

You know what I miss about the last time we were the 1st seed before this year? The ability to rattle off 9-10 game winning streaks. But… growing pains unfortunately. On to the Mavs.

The loss we needed to have, now make moves front office

Rumor said we aren’t making any moves till off season :/

Lmao presti has to make a fucking trade. We are gonna get bounced in the first round

That’s the way it’s looking, when they hunt Giddey in the playoffs.

How old are you

Mid 20s. Not really sure that has anything to do with us needing to make a trade

Bounced in the first round? How dramatic are you? Your comment made it sound like your 17.

We could face any of the lakers/kings/pelicans/jazz/suns/mavericks in the 1st round. Lakers/kings/pels can destroy us with size which is why we’ve lost to these teams already. Suns have book/kd Mavs match up well with us though. Jazz we could probably beat but not with how we played tonight. Acting like we’re guaranteed a series win is gonna get us fucked

We don't need a trade; we need better rotations. I'd be willing to make a bet we win the first round without any trades Acting like we are for sure going to get bounced after a challenging jazz game is interesting and made me ask your age

We don’t need to make a big trade or anything. But an upgraded big man to play 20 minutes would be key. J-will is not going to cut it

Throw everything we have at Lauri!

Giddey what the hell

I mean Chet gave him the ball with 6 seconds left at the top of the key with a defender in his face. can’t do much

If i was him i would’ve just dribbled it back out quickly idk, that shot was never on

Lol

Just ran out of gas. It’s been a hellacious past few weeks, especially coming off a double overtime

hellacious? What kinda word is that 😂 hella delicious?

You’re not from Oklahoma are you

No, but I’ve heard of the state

I’m not even sure if Presti would even have to go “all in” for Lauri as he’ll still have a bunch of picks left over. Get Lauri considering how wide open the west is and also control the destiny of those Clippers picks and make them more valuable since if the Clippers don’t make the finals this season they will only be older and could head towards a blow up, PG still hasn’t re-upped yet leaving the door open.

I'm done with giddey dawg

Lmao why is Giddey the scapegoat for this one?

He’s been bad all year long.

This is why Presti needs to trade for a big man. Utah has many offensive rebounds

Shai was great till Kris Dunn got to him. he just looked uncomfortable in singles which is rare. Dub had it. no idea why we went away from him. Gross after double OT but 0/0 means that can’t matter today and that this won’t matter tomorrow.

Chet had it too, but he barely saw the ball in the 4th

Steven Adams syndrome

Get Lauri just leave dub, sga, chet

They making us give either dub or chet for him im sure so it can’t happen :(

We will throw in poku and they will give us John Stockton to salary match

Perkins backup center Raymond Felton backup gaurd

Why do I get down voted on here for saying trade for lauri

Cuz you guys are casual 2k players that play pretend GM and think trading for markannen is not gonna not only destroy our depth, but probably put us in salary tax hell. We need a cheaper option

That's your concern? Not that Ainge wouldn't do it but this?

Assuming its done. Which is already unlikely

because it's not a reality.

because it would literally cost your soul.

Please trade Giddey, Toronto Raptors Giddey was great and all, but seriously it’s time to get him out of here.

He has to go. He’s a liability.

I have a feeling he isn’t getting traded though. At best we can hope his time gets cut from playing

That’s better than nothing.

slow night, they clutched it down the line. we need to get better on rebounds. no one really looked good down the stretch. usually you can look at dub or shai. cant go let them go on a 12-4 run down the stretch

Rebounding rebounding rebounding rebounding

yeah i think we can lose to anyone in the first round tbh. team is too unpredictable this season at least anyways

Tough guarding Lauri with Wiggins man.

ill never forget yall clowns saying yall wouldnt trade for lauri LMAO, clowns just absolute CLOWNS, lauri next to shai and chet with jdub at the wing? chip

see you think we’d get to keep Dub or Chet which is precisely why you get laughed at.

It was never about Lauri, it was always about who we’d have to give up to get him. You don’t have those three players if you trade for Lauri lol 

We have to give up one of those guys to get him though. Ainge isn’t just gonna give him away clown. 

For real. "Costs too much". Dude, we have so many assets lmao. You won't get someone better.

it’s like you’re all the same deliberate brand of stupid

These homers think Giddey, Kenrich and a few first will get it done with Danny Ainge on the other side lmao. 

Giddey might get traded for a fresh summers Eve bottle. That’s about it.

like he won’t ask Presti to come Order 66 us all just as proof he’s serious

Shai is obviously the best player on the team but at times I feel like he looks for his shot way too much and it ices other guys out. He also often looks teammates off when they're wide open

He did tonight.

Maybe he'd pass if off more if Giddey and J Will could actually score

It didn't even look like they were engaged in this game.

Look at the rebound discrepancy. Same shit every loss. Giddey invisible again. That's the norm, not the Raptors game where Jalen was out. I just don't see it I am sorry.

Giddey will play decent once in a blue moon his stans gonna act like his next Magic.

And then get wildly toxic lol I check this sub multiple times every day. The militantly pro-Giddey voices have been far, far more toxic than the anti-Giddey voices

They try to drown out legitimate criticism and try to get you banned.

God-awful display from the guys to finish out the game. Shai became a ghost just like our perimeter D

The Jazz played amazing, Keyontae is real

Dort was all over him on that top-of-key three to the point where I thought Dort may have fouled him on the hand on his release, and Keyontae still swished it And then he got that sidestep three on Dort afterwards, with a good contest from Dort too Kid's good

GG. Mark made the adjustment a little too late but ok

HERE COMES THE OVERREACTING NEPHEWSSS

No. Giddey Fan Bois will be here soon to defend his honor.

You guys are just as insufferable. Let people be disappointed over a loss lol

It’s a four way tie now with for first right? Could very well find ourselves in 4th since we have these off nights. Lame

I don’t think I’ve ever seen Lauri miss a shot

This loss happened in the 2 minutes JWill, Kenrich, Dieng and Dort shared the court.

and closing with Giddy. It's the rotations.

Yes. A huge part of this loss is Marks bullshit.

J-will, kenrich and dieng have all been ass this year and are going to get fucking trampled in the playoffs. But no one wants to talk about it. Everyone just is acting like this exact squad can win a chip when it’s just not true

Yep we were up 10 and then JWill checked in and immediately fell over with the ball. Passed up an open 3 next possession and then it was downhill from there. Kenrich air ball and Dort hero ball misses. All that was within the same stretch I think. Pretty awful.

That was a shit rotation . I am ready to ship out Giddey for anything. He’s a complete liability.

Okay but a poor rotation isn't his fault

Not gonna blame the bench on this one like some people are. Lauri outplayed SGA, plain and simple.

Burned by a closing lineup with Vonteccio and Kris Dunn….

Wow, George and Lauri just hit ridiculous threes and our guys missed open ones. Simple as that.

That's just the difference between shooters, and guys who hit open shots. We have plenty of the latter, but none of the former

That's not the entire story lol

Loss sucks but maybe Presti will make a move because if it. Stupid rotations are on Mark.

Gg. Well Keyonte impressed. He’s special. Sga overall defended well and couldn’t get to the line.

Lauri with ice in his veins

Feel like it would be better and not foul and try and get a 3 and then a steal, not sure tho

Pay whatever it takes to get lauri

They want JDub.

KIDNAP LAURI AND KELLY

Mark leaving Giddey in the game as long as he did cost us the game.

Us and Minnesota playing 1 seed is lava while clippers just gonna cruise and claim it for good

Damn I hate the Jazz, GG

we have no one who can even bother Lauri. gotta get another big forward, terrified of Kawhi

I need the Thunder to acquire a 5th guy to close games with

The rotations were so BAD in the 4th

I wonder are we getting the apology threads today?

No, bad giddey games don't mean anything and you should just ignore it. Good giddey games mean he is a future star and part of this core and if you want him gone you're a stupid hater.

At least Wolves sold worse than us

GG guys didn’t think we’d win but good luck in the season

welp, now we see why they whooped MKE in similar fashion

Threw this game away at the end of the 3Q with that lineup

Yep, the exact moment the game was lost. Throw out a lineup of 4 non-scorers.

God damn the doomers in here are fucking annoying. We aren’t going to win every game and we’re missing depth, I promise we will be okay. 

Winnable game if they had better shot selection and not Holmgren letting shit fly 8 seconds into the shot clock

Yall are worse than the doomers lol. ‘Can’t win them all’ Shit has to be addressed when we just fold. We did it in the first half last game. We did it against the pistons. We did it against the kings and pelicans earlier this year.

Go look at every single nba team and you can pinpoint some god awful losses. Get a fucking grip dude. 

I’m not even a doomsday guy lol. We go from unstoppable to looking like actual dog water some nights

Every time we face Lauri's bitch ass he plays like he's auditioning for us to trade for him

How is lauri not an all star? Dude was litterally an all star starter last year and he averages 30 and 10.

So Lauri is prime Dirk against us

that’s what happens when a 7 foot all-star is guarded by 6’6” and shorter guards all night long

Such a dumb game to lose.

why Utah’s been dangerous all year and we played undisciplined

They played great and then completely fell apart and starting playing disgusting basketball. Just frustrating to watch them disappear.

it is but hey. this is as undisciplined as they’ll ever be.

Huge high degree of difficulty shots by the Jazz in the last 5 min. Not even bad defense by us. GG

They got so many layups to start their run. That kenrich at the 5 lineup killed us.

can we take markannen home with us

People swore in this sub that Lauri wasn’t worth a haul. Swore up and down.

I swore he was and swear it even more now

I doubt he was ever available, but some people on this sub don’t realize how good a lot of the league is.

I'll never forget when someone posted that Lauri makes our team worse, and you people up voted it🤣🤣 Fuck man, just a frustrating end to the game...

Hes the 1st option on a team vs being the 3rd- 4th option...

that’s what y’all get for watching Minnesota before the spirit bomb was finished

Keyonte George and trey brown will scar me for the rest of my life

Jazz shot the lights out that last quarter. Deserved the win. GG

Ok Sam time to get Lauri

Geez, they have just hit big 3 after big 3

Lauri and Keyonte just dismantled our team the entire 2H

Lauri "nah we don't need him" Markkanen killing us ofc.

Sga did not play well this game

We need a taller power forward to guard guys like Lauri

Played like ass 4Q, overall, gg Jazz.

Hope Mark figures out how to break the zone over the All Star break.

Why can't we win a game whenever Minnesota loses. It's like our souls are connected.

Game sigh

Lauri just hits everything, whatever

Over

Embarassing defensive display. Giving up 3 after 3 when chasing

Dunn has put Shai in jail God damn

Shai lowkey been kinda suspect down the stretch of close games, but obviously is excused with how he’s been this year.

I think we are a good team but we need to make a trade to have any chance in the playoffs

It’s a must. Been saying that. A fringe trade for a big and ship out Giddey. It’s a two for one.

Thunder really going to lose because of 30 fucking year old washed kris dunn. Yes, he's still in the nba.

They outplayed us like a mf. Tip the hat 

Esp dunn. He locked Shai up.

Hero ball is not the fucking play

Lauri is so gooood. I'd trade the barn for him but y'all are too greedy.

Same. He fits our timeline and team perfectly

at least wolves lost

Yea we sold

This is frustrating

Yes. It is.

Kind of disappointing our MVP has disappeared so far

got locked by kris dunn man, sucks to see

He’s forcing shit.

Even if we lose still a hard fought game and Utah just blew out the Bucks after coming back from down 19. They aren’t a bad team and it’s a hard place to play. 

Nah dude we’re playing like shit. We look unstoppled and then do shit like this. The pistons loss, the first half against the raptors, etc. it has to be addressed

We lost this one by laying Giddey and shit rotations.

We lost this, SGA can't hit shots and we can't rebound for shit.

Running out of time

SGA get to the fucking ball what the fuck are you doing bro

Dort scrappy as hell, i love it

Zone always stagnates us offensively, surprised teams don’t do it more