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I wonder how Piston fans feel about getting rid of or keeping Jennings.

I know I'd rather watch this current team with Jennings, than without, even if a trade made them better.

Love watching Reggie play, Jennings play,Drum play, the same Morris play but, Jennings voicing his want to be a starter, dampens my hope

BJ is the homie, I hope he stays on the squad. I talked to him the other day...the future of that happening seems dim though. He does want to start..he also wants quite a bit of money..After maxing out reggie last summer and Dre next summer, I don't think they'll have the cap. I like what he brings to the team though. A completely different dynamic.


Talked to Marcus for a bit the other day too. Told him he needs to be trying to get Markieff over here. he said 'fam, trust me, we're trying, Phoenix won't let him go no matter what'

So, the homie is purposely trying to get traded lol. Sitting out games. Hitting the coach with towels. And they're still holding him hostage. PHX blows.

You goin to the sixers game


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steve nash has a twin sister?

towns to the knicks confirmed 
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Ledlows chest game is too trill.

Me, her and jamie maggio chopped it up a couple weeks ago. Her personality so ill. Jamie so thick and sexy tho.
 
Sam Mitchell just did a long Q&A with the MinnPost's Britt Robson, just need to post two of these paragraphs. Mitchell's just not a good communicator I think but someone who had good people teaching him maybe and airs out Lavine and others for not having it. He's not wrong but DAMN :lol: Never seen a coach do this in an interview.


On Zach LaVine:


You know I took Zach out of the game in Philly, because for three possessions in a row he couldn’t get the ball. Now, he was the point guard, right? But he just walked out there. What about setting your man up? What about taking two hard steps away, then stepping into your guy, holding off, then [claps his hands] burst! You would think that’s just natural. But who coached him? I don’t know his high school coach. I don’t know his AAU coach. I know who his college coach was, but he didn’t start or play but 18 minutes a game in college.

People think that learning is easy. But if it is not a habit — OK, you watch Kyrie Irving. Every time he goes to get the ball, he steps into his guy and then breaks off — every time. That’s all he knows. It is a habit. I learned it when I started going to basketball camp. But back then, that was professional coaches at those camps, high school and college coaches teaching us. It wasn’t some guy that owned a car wash and had some money and decided he was going to start an AAU team and he was gonna be the coach because he read a book or he watched basketball, and thinking he can coach. No, I had professional coaches.

So, we’re trying to teach him and others about spacing; about timing; when to cut; finishing your cut

MinnPost: Shot selection.

SM: Shot selection. Passing. Did you see that pass last night? [Denver] switched Jameer Nelson on to G [Gorgui Dieng]. Zach was at the top of the key. What pass do you throw, with Jameer Nelson at 5-9 [listed at 6-0] and Gorgui at 6-11? He threw him a bounce pass. Not only a bounce pass, but he tried to throw [Mitchell leans to the side and flicks his outstretched right wrist as if putting English on the ball] a pass as though it is going to spin back to G miraculously. And I’m sitting there thinking, this is an NBA player. This is the 13th pick in the draft. And Gorgui has a 5-9 guard on him who is 34 years old [as of Feb. 9]. And our second-year point guard tries to throw him a bounce pass, instead of just throw it up there toward the basket.

Now people will say, “He should know that.” Well, we can’t take for granted that he does, because he showed last night that he don’t. So we have to teach everything. If we forget one thing, it bites us in the ***. If we forget telling our guy not to walk up but to step in and now break and get open, then we don’t get open.

We have to teach them how to set a proper screen at the right angle. We put in something today and the difference is the angle of the screen. [He stands up to demonstrate, showing that the Wolves were setting screens in a manner that compelled opponents easy access to the player with the ball.] I’m saying, “Now why would you set a screen that way when we want are trying to get [the opponent] to go the other way?” And they looked at me, so I said, “OK, let me show you how to set the screen.”

These are things that veteran teams just take for granted. We have to teach all of that. So, OK, people think, “Well you told them.” But how long does it take to break bad habits, habits that you have had ever since you started playing basketball? You can’t just do it by telling them once. If no one has ever taught you how to set a proper screen, I have got to show you Monday, I have got to show you Tuesday, I got to show you Wednesday, on tape Thursday, on tape Friday — until it becomes second nature.

So how long does it take? For every guy it is different. The great ones, like KG — [snaps fingers]. Man, KG just picked it up. Other guys, it takes a while. But that is the difference between winning and losing. That is the difference between you being able to get down here [motions at spot on floor] with your first dribble instead of your third dribble. It makes all the difference.

MinnPost: Time wasted.

SM: Not just avoiding time wasted, but creating gaps and seams.

Binder talk:


MP: So where it says Phase II, that means what is next?

SM: What’s next. Every player. The Timberwolves have never done this before. We did it in Toronto. So at the end of the year, when my general manager would ask me questions about this, this, this and this—[picks up Wiggins folder and slaps it down on table] there you go on every player.

Every shot he took for the season, every weight he lifted, everything we talked to him about, everything we worked with him about. So then when someone wants to come in and say, “Hey now, Andrew Wiggins didn’t do this or this or this.” Wait a minute now, hold on. We got it documented. And we show this to the player and they sign it. This is what we have done with you. So they can’t say, “Coach we didn’t do that.” Every day we chart every shot they take in practice, and games. The Timberwolves have never done that. I started doing this in Toronto on every player. Every player. So that at the end of the season when the general manager had questions, I could pull that book out and show him every single day for the season.

And we update this three times a year. We start it at a certain point in the season and then another point and then at the end of the season. And the same thing is going to happen—we are going to have a player development program this summer. This is something the Timberwolves have never done that we have got to do — our summer program. Not summer league. Not come in here four days before summer league and try to do something. We want them here — they have three weeks off and then we need them here. They have got to get bigger, they have got to get stronger — but not just go pack on dead weight, that slow you down and cause injuries. Lean mass that adds proper weight.


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Sam Mitchell a straight ***** for airing Lavine out like that I don't care if it's true or not

Gotta get dude outta of Minny

And we talked about Flip :smh:
 
What Mitchell said needed to be said.
If these guys are at an NBA level with basics, time is of the essence. You don't patty cake it, slow play it, you put them on blast where they know the whole league knows their fallacies. Then, they correct it quick or get ran out the league. Brilliant if you ask me. There are a thousand ways to skin a cat, Mitchell just did it on the first try, kudos
 
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Need to be said and saying it in a interview is two different things

He knew Lavine was a project and flip knew it too...

Say to him and let him work on the holes in his game
 
Can't trust no dude 50+ w/ a head full of black ice and an earring. Warning signs were there.

Also...pains me to say this, but the Knicks are fun as hell to watch. Funny how things shake out, but if they play their cards right, they are a 2-3 years away from being a legit contender to come out of the East.
 
Some things you shouldn't share with the media. That is at the top of the list.

SMitch played KAT 6 seconds in the 4th quarter last night. And it's not like Gorgui was hot and made no mistakes. Absolutely love Gorgui and his role as our backup center, but SMitch is making all of us hate him :lol:
 
Some things you shouldn't share with the media. That is at the top of the list.

SMitch played KAT 6 seconds in the 4th quarter last night. And it's not like Gorgui was hot and made no mistakes. Absolutely love Gorgui and his role as our backup center, but SMitch is making all of us hate him
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He hasn't even had to explain to the Media why this is happening with KAT? KAT's not bothered?
 
Perhaps Sam was preserving him being the 1st game of a back to back? I really can't wrap my mind around why KAT didn't get in the game more last night late.

How about Lavine finally shooting out of that mild slump? Shabazz has been playing well too. Even Bjelica was gettin off a little last night.
 
 
Some things you shouldn't share with the media. That is at the top of the list.

SMitch played KAT 6 seconds in the 4th quarter last night. And it's not like Gorgui was hot and made no mistakes. Absolutely love Gorgui and his role as our backup center, but SMitch is making all of us hate him
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He hasn't even had to explain to the Media why this is happening with KAT? KAT's not bothered?
Perhaps Sam was preserving him being the 1st game of a back to back? I really can't wrap my mind around why KAT didn't get in the game more last night late.

How about Lavine finally shooting out of that mild slump? Shabazz has been playing well too. Even Bjelica was gettin off a little last night.
Tonight highlighted one of my main problems with Sam Mitchell as a coach.

After Gorgui gets outworked for 2 huge offensive rebounds, he’s allowed to stay in the game to blow a wide-open dunk. That’s the game right there. If that’s KAT, SMitch blows his stack on the first O-board given up, yanks him from the game, and he isn’t allowed back on the floor to blow another box-out or dunk.

95% of the time anybody on the bench goes off, like both Shabazz and LaVine did tonight, he plays Gorgui the entire 4th quarter while KAT rots on the bench. He is so damn superstitious that he refuses to believe that Gorgui might not have had an essential part in the scoring outburst.

We needed KAT on the court for the final 9 minutes. Instead, we got another 15 straight minutes of Gorgui.

I like Gorgui as a piece going forward on this team. As a 25-year old backup who has probably reached his ceiling.

KAT is the franchise player here. KAT is the first overall pick. KAT is the one putting up historic numbers,

Yet SMitch jerks him around, and plays Dieng entirely too long and entirely too often.

Another winnable game, blown. GG Thunder.
 
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