Game 12: Los Angeles Clippers at Minnesota Timberwolves
Posted by SBG on Saturday, November 25th, 2006 at 5:24 pm
Last night, KG reached 9700 rebounds for his career.
Tonight's game pits the Wolves against a good young team with a cagey old leader in SamIAM Cassell. I mentioned the Baby Bulls the other day. Just think if the Bulls had held onto Elton Brand instead of trading him for Tyson Chandler. Wow, they'd be good. But, they didn't, of course.
The Wolves really need Mike James and Rickey Davis to provide consistent production to have any chance of competing in the West. Davis is someone who will get his points, it's all a matter of how many shots it will take to get there. James, on the other hand, is a much more iffy proposition. James has started his T-Wolves shooting surprisingly poorly, or so it would seem. But, has he really? Here is his true shooting percentage over the last four seasons: 53.3, 53.3, 58.3, 53.5. It would seem that last year was, um, a fluke. His shooting production this is pretty similar to his production in the previous two years. In other words, he's not the guy that averaged 20 points a game last year for Toronto. Rather, he's the guy we are seeing now. But, we should have known that.
Ah, cold water thrown on this team by SBG after a couple of nice wins. A win tonight would be really nice.
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Personally, I think we should start keeping track of how many times we get the "Randy Foye grew up tonight" quote.
Can we drink every time we get that quote?
Hot Stove: Not exactly front-page news, but the Brewers have pulled off an interesting deal. They sent starter Doug Davis (a league-average lefty starter), a Majors-ready lefty starting pitcher prospect (Dana Eveland) and a junk Minor League OFer for Johnny Estrada (AJ without the attitude??), a league-average righty starter (Claudio Vargas) and a righty reliever (Greg Aquino).
Davis and Estrada are both arbitration-eligible. Eveland looks like the prize in the deal. He's entering his age 23 season. This year at Nashville: 110:40 K/BB in 105 innings with a 2.74 ERA and 1.07 WHIP, 0.34 HR/9.
Looks to me like Estrada had better be an All Star-caliber catcher for the Brewers or they will have gotten robbed. Not Brian Sabean-level crime, but with similarly dark implications for Milwaukee.