<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">In their final game away from Target Center this season, the Wolves need a victory to reach double digits in road victories (they're 9-31). The last time this team finished with fewer than 10 was 1995-96. ... They have lost their past three at Conseco Fieldhouse. ... Guard Rashad McCants, who missed Wednesday's game at Houston because of a sprained right ankle, is questionable. STEVE ASCHBURNER INDIANAPOLIS - One day Marko Jaric shows up as the gaudiest piece in the Timberwolves' offseason improvement plan, penciled in as the team's starting point guard for now and for years to come. The next day, 79 games have whooshed by and Jaric is standing there slack-jawed, scratching his head and wondering: What was that all about? When Jaric started in the Wolves' backcourt Wednesday night at Houston, it was his first start in more than two months and, in a fitting punctuation to his difficult, disappointing 2005-06, it wasn't even at point guard. Jaric started alongside Marcus Banks and played 32 minutes, but wasn't on the court at the end when the Wolves completed their rally from 18 points down to win 82-79. Basically, he did what he was told, then stepped aside. Much as he has all season. "Definitely this is very disappointing," Jaric said. "Definitely not the way I expected my season to go and this team's season to go. "I'm trying to forget. I'm trying to look forward." Forward? That isn't so rosy, either, with the Wolves heading into a summer in which plenty of observers feel a proven playmaker with scoring ability remains the team's No. 1 need. "I am under contract. But I don't want to be part of a team that I'm not in the plan," Jaric said. Jaric, 27, wanted to be clear that he wasn't speaking out of anger. "I don't want to make this out to be very fiery," he said. "Just confused. I don't know what happened." What happened was, in early February, the Wolves had just lost four out of five games. Head coach Dwane Casey, aching for a point guard who would push the ball, see the floor and pressure other teams' playmakers, wasn't getting enough from Jaric. Banks had arrived in the Jan. 26 trade with Boston but wasn't ready to start. So Jaric fell behind third-stringer Anthony Carter in the rotation and -- with confidence that is brittle even in the best of times -- soon was lost. "I'm the kind of person who, if I do something bad, I expect someone to come to me and say, 'Marko, we are losing because of you.' Then I'm going to sit down and say, 'OK, I'm going to work on this or that.' I didn't get that." Casey said Jaric did. "We've told him, 'Marko, just do your job. You're a point guard, you're running the show,' " Casey said. The coach also said Jaric might benefit from a summer without international competition. Last September, he played for the Serbia & Montenegro national team in the European Championships. Three more games, then Jaric can try that approach. But come October, he doesn't want to be somewhere he isn't wanted. "And so far," he said, "they don't show me that they want me so much."</div> Source
I have never liked Jaric's game. He'd more more valuable playing the 3 for Minnesota. He an ovesized shoot first PG. I like Troy Hudson running the point better.
Jaric seems to need the ball in his hands to do anything on the court. I'd like to see him expand and rebound the ball more, play the 3 position like above stated, and be more verstatile than stricly a pg. Marko Jaric's situation reminds me somewhat of Jalen Rose's, when Rose first came into the league and was a pg, but now primarily plays the 3. If you don't develop in the nba, you'll either become a niche bench player or out of a nice NBA contract.
