Official Utah/Minnesota/Philadelphia Pick Watch

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

T'wolves currently sitting at 13th in the West. Top-6 pick.

 

[Elizah Huge]

T'wolves currently sitting at 13th in the West. Top-6 pick.

Brooklyn and Philadelphia are both also tied for the #7 pick.

 

[Elizah Huge]

Here are some quotes from Minnesota fans:

We LITERALLY CANNOT "blow it up." We do not have our own picks. It would not help us. It would only help Utah. Any picks we would get in return would be low first-rounders from contenders. We have landed and burned the boats behind us. One way or another, we are gonna die on this beach.

I need you all to look at yourselves in the mirror, and repeat to yourself: "The Minnesota Timberwolves cannot blow it up and tank." The notion that we CAN is cope. We're stuck here, folks.

This team is broken. Connelly trading away all those picks and players (especially Bev) is turning out to be a horrendous move.

If you think it looks bad now, just wait until we're giving up premier picks in 2023, 2025, and 2027.

This franchise is so ****ed lol.

The front office deserves every iota of criticism they get.

They made a giant ****ing gamble on a “win-now” move that has the team losing more than winning. The fit everyone thought would be terrible is terrible, and the proposed fixes to rebounding and defense didn’t happen. This is the EXACT game Gobert was for and if anything they’re further from beating Memphis than they were last year despite JJJ being out with injury.

Holy ****, this is bad.

I thought we substituted Vando with Gobert to allow less O boards after Memphis series. They got 31 second chance points, +17 total rebounds, 15 O boards, and scored 62 points in the paint plus shot 27 free throws (most of them were on fouls in the paint). Rudy Gobert got 6 boards and got scored on a lot of times. It’s too early, but it seems like the trade was a huge mistake that will take years to recover.

Literally this team won’t be in MN by the time we have picks

Keep thinking about trading for Dejounte instead of Gobert

**** Tim Connelly. Guy completely ****ed this whole situation up. No reason to make that trade with DLo always going to be an expiring contract - sit tight and assess the situation before blowing the whole thing up.

Came in and blew all tradeable assets for Rudy who does nothing to fix the shortcomings on this team. Followed this team for 30+ years and he’s making a speed run for worst GM at this point, which says A LOT.

100%. This is what I have been saying. When did WE lose the leverage?? Utah was the one who needed to make a trade not us.

We can’t even talk about the basketball fit because they traded away all the guys who made the team go, now they just all clearly don’t like each other.

 

[HermanG]

Im feeling sorry for TWolves fans. They have never even properly tasted success, and now this year when they were meant to get their first sip it looks more like they are doomed through 2030.

 

[Coach Ellis]

This. Plus trading three of your best six players in the trade as well is less than ideal.

You mean like trading away 4/5 starters and two All Stars?

 

[Coach Ellis]

Im feeling sorry for TWolves fans. They have never even properly tasted success, and now this year when they were meant to get their first sip it looks more like they are doomed through 2030.

Screw them. I want all the best picks. I hope it gets worse. Eventually, they’ll have to trade Rudy or KAT and blow it up even more. This has been great to watch.

Build the core of your team with wings, stretch bigs and lights out shooting. Jazz learned the hard way that when you invest too much money and assets into point guards and centers, it completely screws you.

If the Jazz make the playoffs, but end up with a young franchise player (or two) because of the Timberwolves. . . that’s amazing.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Im feeling sorry for TWolves fans. They have never even properly tasted success, and now this year when they were meant to get their first sip it looks more like they are doomed through 2030.

You are a compassionate soul… but just remember their tear’s will provide a river of joy for us… like a witch eating childrens souls to stay young… so I say let’s double fist and drink up!!!

 

[LogGrad98]

You are a compassionate soul… but just remember their tear’s will provide a river of joy for us… like a witch eating childrens souls to stay young… so I say let’s double fist and drink up!!!

It doesn't work, I don't look a single day younger.

 

[Avery]

If you told me today that you could get two top ten picks and #29 overall, I’d comfortably take that and field a competitive team.

 

[Eddie Zero]

If you told me today that you could get two top ten picks and #29 overall, I’d comfortably take that and field a competitive team.

Yeah and the odds Danny Ainge uses more than 1 of them on actual players in this draft, if they continue to win games all season, is less than the odds,despite the early success,that he doesn't pull the magic carpet out from under this roster, at the deadline.
Hope he won't and lets them play for everything all season, but it is not a sustainable solution long term to not consider still flipping the burger. I can them spiraling into full tank skydivers. Just by trading KO and JC.

 

[slc]

Jazz and Ainge can't keep trading away players that are playing good
Eventually you have a team that has no good players
Getting Victor and having no good players to help him gets you no where
Not sure what Ainge is up too but so far so good

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

If you told me today that you could get two top ten picks and #29 overall, I’d comfortably take that and field a competitive team.

I mean for sure but we are likely looking at one top ten, one in the low 20s, and #30 plus a banner… but I guess we have to live with that.