Game Thread GAME# 30: TIMBERWOLVES @ BLAZERS - DECEMBER 21, 2019 - SATURDAY, 7:00 PM, NBCSNW

Bones i got to disagree with about every one of those takes right up to Pat Con and Layman.
Arron Afflalo could very well have been the solid piece they needed to contend. See Mathews injury
Aldridge had said he was staying right up to the last month or two.
Nic Batum AKA "Frenchy" was about as inconsistent as any player i have ever seen and was absolutely killing team chemistry.
You want to talk about contracts in a summer when just about every GM in the league that had money to spend overspent then so be it. There were a bunch of people who thought Turner was going to be better. He just didn't fit well. I remember about half the board saying Crabbe was gonna break out! We all watched Meyers play well and then pretty much get sidelined by injuries. He is well worth 10 million a year the way he has been playing when healthy. Even Jimmy Butler is giving a Million in bounty for him!
You already know all this so why would you post that is my only question?

 

The only team in there that didn't get lucky and draft a league MVP at #15 and has won a Chip is Toronto. Got to say that might have been lucky also had Durant and Klay been playing. The List of things Olshey has done well is just as long. Not saying he is the best GM in the league by any stretch but he has not been bad either.

 

What great basketball posts we have here. Trade a struggling young player when his value is at it's lowest point. That's how you maximize trade value!

 

Well he’s not good

 

Dumb as hell. Kid is 20 years old, has been playing for 2 month and has obvious potential, yet they want to get rid of him for nothing. Good thing those guys aren't in charge I guess.

 

Give the kid another 1000 minutes and then scrub everything you have ever thought about him clean and watch him play. Don't bring any preconceived notions or expectations. I'm betting at that point your opinion would change drastically.

This is exactly what people could not do with Meyers Leonard. Meyers came in at 19. But on top of that he was trying to learn to be a Center. Usually takes 4-5 years. In his case it took 5-6 years. But if you think he is not a decent center now then you have not read a Miami Heat board recently.