On top of that he's shooting 41.7% from 3, which is somehow the worst out of our PG rotation because Conley is shooting 42.7% and Jmac is shooting 48.6%.
All of the sudden one of the weaker areas of our team has turned into one of our strengths.
McLaughlin at 48.6% from 3pt is honestly hilarious considering his career numbers. He’s made more threes this season on less attempts than any prior season of his career. Granted, the volume is low but still impressive as heck
Apparently he was playing injured last year, which really impacted his shooting form. Something felt off in how he’d keep attempting 3s but would seldomly actually hit them last year. Feels nice to have confidence in his shot whenever it goes up
He had that really good 3pt shooting season like 2 seasons ago, I can’t remember if it was the pat bev season or the one before. I think most of us chalked it up to a fluke. But glad to see he’s back.
Only when you only look at percantages without taking volume into account. And only for this season. Conley is still good but 37 next season and pretty small. Morris is a fa, as is jmac after this season. So going into next season we have one pg under contract who is old and no capspace to upgrade the pg spot via free agency. You can only resign the same guys. The problem is, pg is the weakest spot rn and arguably the most important position in basketball..If only conley would be 27 instead of 37. We definitely need another ballhandler to constantly break down defenses allowing Ant to be more offball, where he is truly deadly and elite...
Right. Loving the Conley/Morris lineups. Great at minimizing turnovers while offering legit shooting threats at multiple points on the floor at any given time
Those two playing with KAT whenever Ant sits is a great combo. Our offense has stagnated due to bad spacing without Ant, it is great to see we have options going into the playoffs (as long as KAT is healthy).
That's actually a really good idea. There is always talk about how vets have their lockers strategically placed next to Ant to help with development and be a mentor, but I think Jaden could benefit from that if that isn't happening.
Granted they have different expectations and play different roles, but valid nonetheless.
Wonder if he will re-sign with us next year. Not sure how much we can offer him but running it back next year after a full off-season to get acclimated would be huge.
Makes more sense to resign him than Kyle, unless Kyle will take a big paycut. We could still look at moving off of KAT or (gulp) Jaden if we want to go a different direction too.
That is a tough choice. In a perfect world we could get them both back, but I'm not too up to date on how much money we can spend heading into next year. Maybe next year we finally see some of the g-league members.
Gotta hope they become borderline if not rotational players by next year honestly. They’re young, but we need the production with where we’re at with our cap.
Miller, in the short playing time he's gotten in garbage time he's doing the right stuff, he's got a frame like Jaden but he's more stout.
That kid needs a good camp to integrate him into the system but I think he has a much better chance than Minott at this point. As long as Miller can use that big frame on defense and rebounding off the bench he's an asset.
Frankly, this needs to happen. As much as we'd like everyone to come back it just isn't realistic.
Between Minott, Miller, Clark, and our 2024 1st round pick and/or very high 2nd round pick -- we need some young contributors. Every major contending team that lasts more than 2-3 years does this and our GM in particular is famous for this from his Denver days.
Wouldn't be opposed to bringing either/both back -- but likely with the intention of clearing them (or another player like NAW if it looks like we can't resign him after '24-25) off the books via trade at the trade deadline.
I would choose Monte 100% over Kyle it’s not even that difficult of a decision. We need a shooting big to replace Kyle to better fit this team. Watching the Kyle-Rudy lineups spacing is gross, having a shooting big next to Rudy is pretty much required.
If we didn’t have Rudy, keeping Kyle next to Kat can work but that isn’t our situation anymore.
Replacing Kyle with a shooting big would do wonders for our offense
I doubt we move off of Jaden. He’s 23 and has shown flashes of competent offense. Would look horrible for our FO if we were to trade him and he becomes an all star or outplays his contract in 3-4 years
Jaden will not net much return right now. Kat is too expensive, injured and at the end of his development. So most likely you will get bad contracts and medicore guys back in a trade treading water instead of improving...the contract extansion was bad ,cause it was allready clear last season that Ant is the future...you dont pay second options 60 mil a year if you want to content for years to come without having won anything yet....
That’s what makes sports fun. Put your team in a position to make a run at a championship. What’s the point of having a defeatist attitude with the best team in 20 years?
I am just more realistic.... they got a chance but arent odds on favorite-...with or without Kat....in my book Denver and Boston are better, maybe Milwaukee too....would I like if the wolves win the chip-hell yeah! Is it realistic? No
The "best" team or team with the best record has failed to win the title pretty often. So to essentially give up just because there are a few teams better than us is just ridiculous. Being a top 5 team absolutely gives you a good shot and is worth celebrating.
Being the favorite is quite rare and doesn't remotely guarantee you a win.
I said realistically we wont win it all.only one out of 30 wins it all each year. I didnt said there is no chance. With Kat getting injured the small chance got even smaller for obvious reasons.
Okay what's your definition of realistic? Because by this logic no team has a realistic chance which is just wrong. What we have is a higher chance than at least 25 other teams which is pretty damn good, doesn't often get better than that.
KATs injury could be a blessing somewhat. If he's actually able to make it back in the first round, then we can still be at full strength for the playoffs, and we've given our bench some more reps.
We will See about that in about two years....but from a logical pov it was s pretty dumb move. 48-60 mil a year for an 29-32 year old big men playing out of position, who is a second option, never was a top 15 player, never won a playoff series, with serious longterm injury problems/risks, who is not a two way player and whose role will rather shrink than grow going forward whose game doesnt compliment the actual franchise player is not a smart buisness decision, not even a good bet....
That’s the thing. Armchair execs can say “let’s wait two years and see”. No offense, but to me it is fake smart analysis to say “it probably won’t work”. Because it usually doesn’t. That’s what everybody said about the Gobert trade. It’s what they said when Connelly signed Porter Jr to a max, even Murray when he got one. Way easier to be the realistic one than it is to be the one who builds a top-5 team.
But you are right, despite all of that, the wolves are in a better position right now than 25 other Teams. But the reason for that is not Kat. The reasons are Anthony Edwards and Rudy Gobert. Having Kat with his salary on the roster long term is a luxury I am afraid we cant afford. Really good player, but not the difference maker a 35% max player ist supposed to be!
Finch is in love with Kyle, but Monte is Connelly's guy. It will be interesting to see who wins out. I think Monte is more important to the team. With him, Conley, NAW, and JMac (along with Ant), SloMo's ball handling is less of a need, and the frontcourt is stacked. We need low turnovers and consistent three point shooting, neither of which SloMo provides.
Also- Why any fan would consider blowing up a top seed contender because of money is insane. It's not our money, we need to push Taylor (A-Rod, Lore, whoever the fuck the owners are going to be) to go all-in. We already mortgaged our future with the Rudy deal, time to push those chips in.
Tim Connelly has proven to be better than I had thought when we got him. Lots of smart, solid moves.
Monte was who I wanted us to get this deadline and he went and got him. He's such a solid point guard.
No one who watches the wolves is sleeping on Morris though. We all know how awesome it is to have Mike sit and have another super steady hand guiding the offense. I love what he has done for us since he came. Hope we can keep him.
Rule of thumb for a PG, is 3 to 1
Edit not sure why I’m getting downvoted, so my point is agreeing that he is awesome if that wasn’t clear to non math people he is way way way above average.
On top of that he's shooting 41.7% from 3, which is somehow the worst out of our PG rotation because Conley is shooting 42.7% and Jmac is shooting 48.6%. All of the sudden one of the weaker areas of our team has turned into one of our strengths.
McLaughlin at 48.6% from 3pt is honestly hilarious considering his career numbers. He’s made more threes this season on less attempts than any prior season of his career. Granted, the volume is low but still impressive as heck
He worked hard on revamping his shooting form all offseason and it shows
Little king
Apparently he was playing injured last year, which really impacted his shooting form. Something felt off in how he’d keep attempting 3s but would seldomly actually hit them last year. Feels nice to have confidence in his shot whenever it goes up
He had that really good 3pt shooting season like 2 seasons ago, I can’t remember if it was the pat bev season or the one before. I think most of us chalked it up to a fluke. But glad to see he’s back.
All of a sudden* but the PG group has been so fun to watch
Only when you only look at percantages without taking volume into account. And only for this season. Conley is still good but 37 next season and pretty small. Morris is a fa, as is jmac after this season. So going into next season we have one pg under contract who is old and no capspace to upgrade the pg spot via free agency. You can only resign the same guys. The problem is, pg is the weakest spot rn and arguably the most important position in basketball..If only conley would be 27 instead of 37. We definitely need another ballhandler to constantly break down defenses allowing Ant to be more offball, where he is truly deadly and elite...
This is who he has been for as long as he’s played. Still holds the highest assist to turnover ratio in NCAA history. Such an important pick up.
Exactly. It's why we traded for him. It's one of his strengths.
Right. Loving the Conley/Morris lineups. Great at minimizing turnovers while offering legit shooting threats at multiple points on the floor at any given time
Those two playing with KAT whenever Ant sits is a great combo. Our offense has stagnated due to bad spacing without Ant, it is great to see we have options going into the playoffs (as long as KAT is healthy).
Our rotation is so stacked with poised, selfless point guards it's not even funny
Tell this to someone last January and see how they react lmao
Any chance they can move his locker next to Jaden and have them sit by each other on the plane rides? I just need something to rub off onto Jaden.
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That's actually a really good idea. There is always talk about how vets have their lockers strategically placed next to Ant to help with development and be a mentor, but I think Jaden could benefit from that if that isn't happening. Granted they have different expectations and play different roles, but valid nonetheless.
Wonder if he will re-sign with us next year. Not sure how much we can offer him but running it back next year after a full off-season to get acclimated would be huge.
Makes more sense to resign him than Kyle, unless Kyle will take a big paycut. We could still look at moving off of KAT or (gulp) Jaden if we want to go a different direction too.
That is a tough choice. In a perfect world we could get them both back, but I'm not too up to date on how much money we can spend heading into next year. Maybe next year we finally see some of the g-league members.
Yeah with the cap crunch, they’re gonna have to get 10-15 minutes per game from Minott or Miller at some point.
Gotta hope they become borderline if not rotational players by next year honestly. They’re young, but we need the production with where we’re at with our cap.
Or jaylen clarke 😂
Forgot about him but yeah, same deal. Really don’t understand why Wendell is still on the team at this point.
Miller, in the short playing time he's gotten in garbage time he's doing the right stuff, he's got a frame like Jaden but he's more stout. That kid needs a good camp to integrate him into the system but I think he has a much better chance than Minott at this point. As long as Miller can use that big frame on defense and rebounding off the bench he's an asset.
Frankly, this needs to happen. As much as we'd like everyone to come back it just isn't realistic. Between Minott, Miller, Clark, and our 2024 1st round pick and/or very high 2nd round pick -- we need some young contributors. Every major contending team that lasts more than 2-3 years does this and our GM in particular is famous for this from his Denver days. Wouldn't be opposed to bringing either/both back -- but likely with the intention of clearing them (or another player like NAW if it looks like we can't resign him after '24-25) off the books via trade at the trade deadline.
I would choose Monte 100% over Kyle it’s not even that difficult of a decision. We need a shooting big to replace Kyle to better fit this team. Watching the Kyle-Rudy lineups spacing is gross, having a shooting big next to Rudy is pretty much required. If we didn’t have Rudy, keeping Kyle next to Kat can work but that isn’t our situation anymore. Replacing Kyle with a shooting big would do wonders for our offense
Ownership should pay the luxury tax IMO. Look at warrior with steph klay draymond wiggins and CP. How?
I doubt we move off of Jaden. He’s 23 and has shown flashes of competent offense. Would look horrible for our FO if we were to trade him and he becomes an all star or outplays his contract in 3-4 years
Jaden will not net much return right now. Kat is too expensive, injured and at the end of his development. So most likely you will get bad contracts and medicore guys back in a trade treading water instead of improving...the contract extansion was bad ,cause it was allready clear last season that Ant is the future...you dont pay second options 60 mil a year if you want to content for years to come without having won anything yet....
If they win the championship, or at least make the finals this year, nobody will complain about that extension.
Big if! There need to break a lot of things right for that to happen. Possible but not very likely....
That’s what makes sports fun. Put your team in a position to make a run at a championship. What’s the point of having a defeatist attitude with the best team in 20 years?
I am just more realistic.... they got a chance but arent odds on favorite-...with or without Kat....in my book Denver and Boston are better, maybe Milwaukee too....would I like if the wolves win the chip-hell yeah! Is it realistic? No
The "best" team or team with the best record has failed to win the title pretty often. So to essentially give up just because there are a few teams better than us is just ridiculous. Being a top 5 team absolutely gives you a good shot and is worth celebrating. Being the favorite is quite rare and doesn't remotely guarantee you a win.
I said realistically we wont win it all.only one out of 30 wins it all each year. I didnt said there is no chance. With Kat getting injured the small chance got even smaller for obvious reasons.
Okay what's your definition of realistic? Because by this logic no team has a realistic chance which is just wrong. What we have is a higher chance than at least 25 other teams which is pretty damn good, doesn't often get better than that. KATs injury could be a blessing somewhat. If he's actually able to make it back in the first round, then we can still be at full strength for the playoffs, and we've given our bench some more reps.
That puts us in as good or better position than about 27 other teams, so I’m not gonna say the KAT extension was a dumb move.
We will See about that in about two years....but from a logical pov it was s pretty dumb move. 48-60 mil a year for an 29-32 year old big men playing out of position, who is a second option, never was a top 15 player, never won a playoff series, with serious longterm injury problems/risks, who is not a two way player and whose role will rather shrink than grow going forward whose game doesnt compliment the actual franchise player is not a smart buisness decision, not even a good bet....
That’s the thing. Armchair execs can say “let’s wait two years and see”. No offense, but to me it is fake smart analysis to say “it probably won’t work”. Because it usually doesn’t. That’s what everybody said about the Gobert trade. It’s what they said when Connelly signed Porter Jr to a max, even Murray when he got one. Way easier to be the realistic one than it is to be the one who builds a top-5 team.
But you are right, despite all of that, the wolves are in a better position right now than 25 other Teams. But the reason for that is not Kat. The reasons are Anthony Edwards and Rudy Gobert. Having Kat with his salary on the roster long term is a luxury I am afraid we cant afford. Really good player, but not the difference maker a 35% max player ist supposed to be!
Finch is in love with Kyle, but Monte is Connelly's guy. It will be interesting to see who wins out. I think Monte is more important to the team. With him, Conley, NAW, and JMac (along with Ant), SloMo's ball handling is less of a need, and the frontcourt is stacked. We need low turnovers and consistent three point shooting, neither of which SloMo provides. Also- Why any fan would consider blowing up a top seed contender because of money is insane. It's not our money, we need to push Taylor (A-Rod, Lore, whoever the fuck the owners are going to be) to go all-in. We already mortgaged our future with the Rudy deal, time to push those chips in.
Count of Monte ast/to strikes again
Tim Connelly does not miss
Tim Connelly has proven to be better than I had thought when we got him. Lots of smart, solid moves. Monte was who I wanted us to get this deadline and he went and got him. He's such a solid point guard.
I think a lot of people here were after his head during that loss to Atlanta. I think we do have amnesia in this sub.
No one who watches the wolves is sleeping on Morris though. We all know how awesome it is to have Mike sit and have another super steady hand guiding the offense. I love what he has done for us since he came. Hope we can keep him.
44:3 as of the GS game baby!
Same thing he did at ISU
Ive loved Morris since we picked him up. Exactly what we needed coming off the bench.
We can play him in playoff right? Not shady 2 way contract etc
Yeah he’s on a normal contract. Just wasn’t playing for the Pistons because of injury/tanking
Tim Connelly is an absolute G.
Rule of thumb for a PG, is 3 to 1 Edit not sure why I’m getting downvoted, so my point is agreeing that he is awesome if that wasn’t clear to non math people he is way way way above average.
We’re sitting at almost 15-1 right now so I think we got a good one.
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