<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Shooting guard Rashad McCants hasn't scored a point for the Timberwolves this preseason and probably won't over the first two months of the regular season, either, as he continues to rehab his surgically repaired right knee. But that won't stop him from earning an extra $1.7 million or so this week. Kevin McHale, Wolves vice president of basketball operations, said Monday that the team will exercise its option on the third season of McCants' rookie contract by the Oct. 31 deadline. "We like Shaddy," McHale said Monday after the team's practice. "We're going to pick it up. The only way we wouldn't have was if his rehab wasn't going well, to the point where you said, 'The poor kid is never going to do it.' That's not the case."</div> Source Where does the nickname Shaddy come from? I'm curious to see how the TWolves deal with 3 tweeners in the backcourt, McCants, Foye, and James.
<div class="quote_poster">shapecity Wrote</div><div class="quote_post"> Where does the nickname Shaddy come from?</div> Rashad Good to hear his option picked up as well as him doing good in rehab. I can see this kid becoming a pretty solid player.
McCants could be a bright spot for the T-Wolves after all this rebuilding has been finished. Too bad the kid's out for the year.
He is hopefully not out for the year, that is kind of the worse-case-scenario if he tries to push his rehab to hard like Amare. The wolves have said that February would be the earliest he could get back. I agree that he will be a big part of the team in the future so hopefully he just concentrates on getting healthy, even if it takes longer than they hope.
Good to hear, I hope he gets healthy by the end of the year. to shape, I really don't think that we have a problem with"tweeners". Mccants has been said to be able to play the sf position with his length, and at 6'4" with his athleticism he is just fine as a sg. Foye is more of a combo guard than a tweener, similar to Dwade. James is the oly one that is really a tweener in my mind, but he can play the point pretty effectively, so he is fine.
