Sorry Dan H, but Kahn is kind of an idiot

[TrailDucker]

So it was reported this morning that the Timberwolves are asking the league to probe the Blazers if they knowingly traded them a injured player in Martell Webster; who underwent back surgery from an injury he said he first got in the Playoffs against Phoenix.

Now it is being reported that people in the NBA front office are laughing at the Timberwolves and Kahn about this whole thing. Considering they could have done a physical (like OKC did with the Tyson Chandler trade) and reject the trade if Webster doesn't pass.

This is a simple case of Kahn being Kahn. What's next? He's going to sue the league because no one told him Ricky Rubio was Spanish?

Kahn is quite the special fellow

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Not to mention they refuse to give more playing time to Kevin Love... not a big deal, until you realize he's the BEST F***ING REBOUNDER IN THE LEAGUE! Yes, I said best. You give him starter's minutes and he will win the rebounding title every year.

Also, I was talking to a friend of mine from back home about this (he's a die-hard T-Wolves fan), and he started talking about how good the team could be if they hadn't been so stupid. I asked him what he meant, and he said he wished the lineup looked like this:

Jennings
Curry
Wes Johnson
Love
Jefferson

At first I thought it couldn't be possible, then I realized, "Shit, that could be their starting 5 right now." I mean, they'd be awful defensively, but they would be fun as hell to watch... and who knows, they're all young, they could get better on defense.

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BONEHEAD move by Kahn and the entire organization then on Webster. You should give EVERY player you are set to acquire a physical. Idiot.

I actually like that they sat Love most of the 4th quarter. He is viewed as a team leader (and one of the elder statesmen on a roster that experienced high turnover). He was not playing great defense (I know, I watched it) so he sat, partly to send him a message to play better defense. The team gave up 117 points at home against a Reke-less Sac. Kings team and 30 in the 4th quarter so no one was playing great defense. So, you send a message to everyone by sitting your team leader who was playing crappy defense too that no one is above getting sat on the bench for bad defense. Let's not kid ourselves, this is not a playoff team. So if you lose an extra game or two getting players adequately motivated to play better defense and get a point or two and team philosophy across than that is more important than another win or two.

And yes, Curry will haunt the franchise forever. I was even a bit perplexed that they took Flynn over him. Jennings, come on now, lets not use revisionist history here. He was a lottery pick guy entering the draft and one that has succeeded but he did not have this type of cred then...not like Curry had.

[Mighty Mouse]

Oct 28, 2010 17:37:52 GMT -5 @miege22 said:

Not to mention they refuse to give more playing time to Kevin Love... not a big deal, until you realize he's the BEST F***ING REBOUNDER IN THE LEAGUE! Yes, I said best. You give him starter's minutes and he will win the rebounding title every year.

Until Greg Oden is healthy.

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Oct 29, 2010 0:16:25 GMT -5 @minnesotagm said:

BONEHEAD move by Kahn and the entire organization then on Webster. You should give EVERY player you are set to acquire a physical. Idiot.

I actually like that they sat Love most of the 4th quarter. He is viewed as a team leader (and one of the elder statesmen on a roster that experienced high turnover). He was not playing great defense (I know, I watched it) so he sat, partly to send him a message to play better defense. The team gave up 117 points at home against a Reke-less Sac. Kings team and 30 in the 4th quarter so no one was playing great defense. So, you send a message to everyone by sitting your team leader who was playing crappy defense too that no one is above getting sat on the bench for bad defense. Let's not kid ourselves, this is not a playoff team. So if you lose an extra game or two getting players adequately motivated to play better defense and get a point or two and team philosophy across than that is more important than another win or two.

And yes, Curry will haunt the franchise forever. I was even a bit perplexed that they took Flynn over him. Jennings, come on now, lets not use revisionist history here. He was a lottery pick guy entering the draft and one that has succeeded but he did not have this type of cred then...not like Curry had.

That was my friend talking, not me. I agree that Jennings probably wasn't a realistic choice.... which I found ridiculous at the time, and still do. Not just for the Wolves, but for every team before the Bucks (and after the top-3).

I argued in one of my leagues that Jennings was the top PG in the draft... 2 months before his rookie season even started. Also in the same post, I said the following things:

I can't endorse Hasheem Thabeet. Not after watching the guy get destroyed by Blair twice, and seeing him get manhandled by the smaller MSU Spartans in person. He is weak, and rarely shows moments of destroying the other guy (like Oden used to do. For all the hating on Greg, there would be times where he would just say "Fuck it, Im bigger than everyone else," and absolutely kill someone).


I think the sleepers are DeRozan, Curry, and Harden. They aren't guys I see becoming superstar alpha dogs, but who can definitely be the second best player on a playoff team.

I think the uber sleepers are Austin Daye, Gerald Henderson, and Earl Clark. All of them aren't even on sleeper list because no one expects much, but if they get their shit together (varying reasons for all three) then they could be in the top 5 of this class looking back.

I feel like two of the sleeper PG's, Maynor and Collison, both got unlucky draws by getting stuck behind Williams and Paul.

I don't know what to make of Holiday. I know he was out of position at UCLA, but so was Russell Westbrook (at least, that's what he wants you to believe), and he was just fine.

I'm convinced Terrence Williams will become the ultimate glue guy. He will do a little bit of everything, and could be a triple double waiting to happen.

On a similar note, Tyler Hansbrough will be a very good glue guy. I wouldn't use a draft pick on him because I think there are at least 50 other players you can get who will do what he does on the FA market.

Lawson can be very good if he ends up in an uptempo system... Jordan Hill's #s will be inflated in NY, and I really don't think much of him.... I really have no idea what to think of James Johnson.....

I am not sold on Jeff Teague. Outside of the game against UNC, he really didn't stand out to me. His assists to TO ratio in college was AWFUL for a PG, and he is incredibly small, so we'll see what happens with him.

More or less nailed everything. What does this have to do with David Kahn? Well, nothing really. I just like being right... makes me feel smart.

But even geniuses like myself slip up every once in a while. From that same post:

Finally, Tyreke Evans. I've soured on Evans a lot lately. I thought Sacramento passing on Flynn and Rubio was a HUGE mistake. Evans, to put it bluntly, is not a PG. He never has, and he never will be a point guard. Evil, you compared him to Curry, but that would be a huge insult to Curry. Neither Curry or Evans are true point guards, but at least Curry showed the ability to learn the position. Combine that with the fact that Steph has the passing ability, good enough vision, and BBIQ, and that at least gives him the chance to be a decent point guard. I don't see any of those things with Evans. Playing in Memphis' system, even playing 4 fewer mpg than Curry, Evans should have had better stats. Compare him to Rose, they played the same number of mpg, and Rose blows him away (outside of points... which should be the first hint that Evans isn't a PG). When I saw him in person against Maryland, it was clear he was not a PG. He had no idea how to beat a zone (not that you need to beat a zone in the NBA, but it shows a lack of BBIQ), and was only comfortable driving to the basket with no intention of kicking it out. His shot.... ugh, abysmal. Unlike Rose, who at least had a decent form, Evans just flings it at the basket. My point is, the Kings are going to try to run this guy at the point, and its going to blow up in their face because he's not a point. They have gunners on their team like Martin and Garcia, making Rubio the LOGICAL choice. Instead they went with Evans. That's why the Kings suck.

In hindsight, I think my dissing of Evans was more a product of me liking Curry and being pissed that people were saying Evans was better. I watched Evans play in person, and, for some reason, only remembered him missing three pointer after three pointer. What I blocked out was him getting to the rim at will. He would do that again later in the tourney against Mizzou. All in all though, I'm almost always right and arguing with me will only make you look silly.


(For those reading this, if you can't tell that all the parts about me being a genius are sarcasm, then I don't know what to tell you. I guess, from an IQ standpoint, I technically am a genius, but I would never go around acting like I'm better than everyone else... even though I am.)


((For those still not getting it, go to sleep. It's probably past your bed time anyway.))

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For the record, I drafted Reke #8 overall in the other league and openly stated I would have picked him #1 overall had I had that pick once I selected him. So, I guess that makes me the smartest member of Mensa. And if you don't know what Mensa is then you are not as smart as me (sarcasm) and should Google it. If you don't know what Google is you should just crawl under a rock.

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Oct 29, 2010 11:33:53 GMT -5 @minnesotagm said:

For the record, I drafted Reke #8 overall in the other league and openly stated I would have picked him #1 overall had I had that pick once I selected him. So, I guess that makes me the smartest member of Mensa. And if you don't know what Mensa is then you are not as smart as me (sarcasm) and should Google it. If you don't know what Google is you should just crawl under a rock.

One could argue that those that have never heard of Google would actually take the advice of crawling under a rock seriously.

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I guess it wouldn't be much of an advice since there's virtually no possibility that the person in question wouldn't be under a rock already, for quite some years.