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Jusef Nurkic went to town on Taj Gibson this week. 280 lbs. and an aggressive post player and rebounder. Gary Harris and Nurkic for McDermott could turn out to be a great draft night deal for the Nuggets.
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Wow. Julius randle with suspected broken right leg.Comment
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Yeah that was one of the weirdest break of the leg I've ever seen. It seems like he kicked his own leg and that was enough force for it to break?iblastoff wrote: View Post"Both teams played hard my man" - SheedComment
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Nah, it was how he landed. You can see it was a super awkward landing. I think its more of a 'fracture' as opposed to a break. Not nearly as bad as Paul Georges tibia break.Last edited by Joey; Wed Oct 29, 2014, 11:05 AM.Comment
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Wiggins damn. Let the game come to you! There's no need to rush.Comment
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Wiggins with the big rookie mistake at the end to bite on Jimmy Butler's pump with 0.2 seconds left and send Butler to the line. Wiggins clearly knew he made a mistake and it showed on his face. Butler swished both free throws and the Bulls win 106-105.
Oh rookie lessons...Give me liberty or give me a bran muffin! - Colin MochrieComment
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Noel sits a top nba.com's rookie ladder 9 days into the season. Wiggins is third and Stauskas who is shooting at a rate of 23% is at number 6.
http://www.nba.com/2014/news/feature...k-2/index.htmlComment
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Hopefully he learns his lessons and they have patience with him he had a bad offensive foul as well.kopite91 wrote: View Post
There are some times out there you can see his athletic gifts.Comment
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Wiggins had a solid game last night in Brooklyn. The New York Times took notice:
Full article.Andrew Wiggins, the No. 1 pick of this year’s N.B.A. draft, had one of those inglorious moments last Saturday that can eat at a young player’s mind for days. With his team, the Minnesota Timberwolves, protecting a 1-point lead over the Chicago Bulls and less than three seconds to play, Wiggins, 19, bit on a pump fake, committed a foul to concede two free throws, and essentially gifted the Bulls the victory.
Fearing that the frustration might fester, Timberwolves Coach Flip Saunders told Wiggins a story about the first 19-year-old player he coached, Kevin Garnett. In 1996, in the 30th game of Garnett’s career, Saunders drew up a play in a close game that left Garnett open 10 feet from the hoop. The Timberwolves were trailing by a point, and in Saunders’s memory, Garnett missed the shot by two feet, and the team lost.
Saunders told Garnett — who is now with the Nets in the 20th season of a decorated career — that he would find himself in those situations many more times in his career, and that he would succeed in a lot of them. It is a concept he has been trying to pass on to Wiggins, too.
“That’s all just part of the learning process,” Saunders said Wednesday after recounting the story. “Is it frustrating at times for fans and everybody? It might be. But in the long run, it pays off.”
That is the mind-set of the Timberwolves, an organization that is treading on uncertain ground this season after a turbulent summer. The hope is that their stockpile of talent, nurtured with a dose of patience, can engender a big payoff.
There is a feeling of newness in the team, particularly without Kevin Love, the star power forward who was traded this summer to the Cleveland Cavaliers. The package the Timberwolves received in return included Wiggins and Anthony Bennett, 21, the top pick of the 2013 draft. The obvious raw gifts of the two — along with a crop of other young, athletic players — has laced the team’s uncertainty with excitement.
Wiggins, a hyper-athletic forward, scored just 22 points in his first three games while shooting 37.5 percent from the field. He said Wednesday morning that he was still upset about Saturday’s error. Then, on Wednesday night, he scored 17 points to help the Timberwolves beat the Nets, 98-91, at Barclays Center.
“It looks like he’s been working on his game since college, and he’s very polished now,” Garnett said of Wiggins, who made 7 of 12 shots. Garnett added, “It’s the first time I’ve seen him shoot the ball this well.”
Saunders, the Timberwolves’ coach from 1995 to 2005, became the team’s coach again this summer, taking the job after a widespread recruiting and interviewing effort fizzled out, partly because of the uncertainty surrounding Love. Saunders, who was already the president and a part owner of the club, used classroom metaphors Wednesday to describe the state of his team. He said he enjoyed working with young players at practice and added, “I look at games as the report card.”
Saunders said he was trying not to put pressure on Wiggins, but he did not hesitate to invoke Garnett, who on Wednesday became the fifth player in N.B.A. history to log 49,000 minutes in his career. (The others are Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Jason Kidd and Elvin Hayes.) Garnett was once a much-hyped prospect who, in the first two months of his N.B.A. career, averaged 6.3 points per game.
“You’ve got to take it day by day, really, and just set goals for yourself, expectations that you want to see,” Wiggins said.Last edited by stretch; Thu Nov 6, 2014, 11:14 AM.Comment
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Garnetts comments were douche-a-liciousComment
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Wiggins with 29 points, 5 rebounds tonight in the loss to Sac. With KMart down, Wiggins is really going to get an opportunity to grow on the court.Comment
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