I think AK will thrive under Adelman. Haters will hate forever but I expect great season from him. Look at even today's game on the road vs Bucks - 8pts, 10reb, 4ast, 6stl, 1blk in 26 min only. 5x5 is coming back!
I think AK will thrive under Adelman. Haters will hate forever but I expect great season from him. Look at even today's game on the road vs Bucks - 8pts, 10reb, 4ast, 6stl, 1blk in 26 min only. 5x5 is coming back!
The Black Swordsman - a self proclaimed man of science who believes in flying winged horses.
Jerry Sloan: "I have to blame myself for Andrei's failure to be able to play at times because maybe I haven't handled him the way he'd like to be and done the right things"
Good thread. It'll be fun seeing how AK does this year. I think he'll do very well.
Originally Posted by UGLI baby, Commissioner of the BF League of Doom
I Loved AK in the first couple of years after Stockton and Malone were done. After Deron and Booz showed up it seemed like AK was a lost peace. AK was always one of may favorite players to watch and I hope that he has a great season and can get back to playing the way he did back in those early years for us and when he plays for his national team. Except for the 4 games he plays against the Jazz that is.
I'm not sure what will cause AK's inevitable failure this season.
Will it be when he gets injured? You can almost count on him getting injured at some point.
Or will it be when he becomes disinterested because the offense doesn't involve him enough? When Love, Rubio, and Roy are clicking at full strength, with a bit of Williams mixed in, AK will almost certainly be an after thought. If he was complaining about his role in Utah, he is really going to hate it in Minnesota.
Nah he will love it. He got his 10 million a year. That's all he is interested in.
He was making way more than that in Utah.
I don't think AK will veer much from his career stats this year. Maybe a little more production than usual before some of their injured players get back.
I'm going to be looking at T-Wolve boxscores every morning though, but hopefully the Jazz are good enough that I won't have any desires to watch too many Minny games in and of themselves even though they probably are my second favorite team right now because I like watching Rubio and like AK. Although, I wouldn't even want to watch any of these early games with Barea/Ridnour running the show.
Will AK all of a sudden not be injury prone?
Will AK all of a sudden develop shooting range?
Will AK all of a sudden add an offensive move (not just that spin into the key yelling, "AIIII" while losing the ball and asking for a foul)?
If not, then I wouldn't expect him to average more than 8-10 pts per game and 4 rbs while missing 1/4 of the season to various aliments. He might sometimes have some highlight blocks. But for every block there will be 3-5 times where his gambles lead to easy looks for his man.
Quite honestly, teams just don't have to defend him. Opposing defenses love it when guys like Brewer and AK play. That means they can cheat off those guys to focus on the real stars. It was amazing how good we were despite playing 3 on 5 most of the time on offense and playing Boozer as our primary big man. Damn Sloan was good.
Corbin sucks.
Just when I thought I saw it all comes this newest absurd from Thriller. Can't wait to see what you say after AK is back to his usual 5x5 self under Adelman. Sloan sucked as coach since NBA allowed zone defense and was constantly outcoached by Pop,Jackson and others who knew how to utilize three ball and wing play, thankfully he is retired and we do not need to worry about him anymore. Oddly enough he did his best coaching job when he deviated from his PG to PF dominated offense in 2004 ( led by AK ). To bad he had no guts/brains to continue with something new and fresh and needed to recreate his Stockton to Malone clone with DWill and Boozer. Somehow no other NBA team offered him the job... GM's must know how outdated Sloan is and his losing playoff record speaks for itself.
The Black Swordsman - a self proclaimed man of science who believes in flying winged horses.
Jerry Sloan: "I have to blame myself for Andrei's failure to be able to play at times because maybe I haven't handled him the way he'd like to be and done the right things"
AK: The only player in pro sports' history whose underachievement can be blamed on a coach.
Who is AK?
Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!
Sloan has been interviewed for a couple of jobs before withdrawing from consideration. I think he's earned the right to be picky about what head coaching job he wants, if any.
Adam Keefe? Oh wait, he's retired.
Ditto for Arvesta Kelly, Alec Kessler, Albert King, Andy Kostecka, and Arvid Kramer.
I'm stumped.
That move has been trademarked: it's called the "Spastic Octopus."
When one door closes, another doesn't open....instead, I find myself being locked in a room with padded walls and no windows.
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