Cup of Coffee: November 12, 2008

November 12th, 2008 by SBG

Any day now, I'm expecting a column from Top Jimmy about how much more fun it is to watch the Wolves now that they've ridded themselves of that selfish, stats-oriented, me-first cancer named Kevin Garnett.


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E-6 replied on November 12, 2008 at 9:51:57 am

I'm beginning to think the Tony Campbell-Pooh Richardson-Sam Mitchell era Woofs were as much fun to watch as these guys. And that team sucked. How much longer does Wittman keep his job?

SBG replied on November 12, 2008 at 10:13:49 am

I think those teams were more fun to watch. This team is like Chinese water torture. And the decision to can Dwane Casey and replace him with Randy Wittman was another great idea. Casey's back in the league as an assistant to Rick Carlisle in Dallas. Here's hoping that he gets another shot at the big time. He was certainly not the problem here.

By the way, in fewer than 300 games coached in the NBA, Wittman is now more than 100 games below .500. That's an incredible achievement.

E-6 replied on November 12, 2008 at 10:23:42 am

...in fewer than 300 games coached in the NBA, Wittman is now more than 100 games below .500. That's an incredible achievement.

Wow. Just wow.

SBG replied on November 12, 2008 at 10:44:10 am

Let's not forget that almost 15% of those games included teams with Kevin Garnett on the roster. Tim Floyd's record was much worse 93-235, including 52-194 in Chicago(!), but he didn't have KG or BAJ on those teams.

 
 
 
SBG replied on November 12, 2008 at 10:50:24 am

The Wolves, in seasons 3-6, had four consecutive seasons with records worse than last year's record, including seasons of 15, 19, 20, and 21 wins. Ye-ouch. Plus, they had such fan friendly players as Christian Laettner and Isaiah "J.R." Rider. But, they also had Kevin Harlan calling the games, which made it a little more palatable. Plus, they were still a young franchise. The first two seasons were quite exciting, but 3-6, yeah, not so good. It was prior to season 7 that they drafted KG. By season 6 it was very bad. Very bad. We are now in the fifth season since the Wolves last playoff appearance. It's not very hard to envision the drought extending past the first seven seasons of the franchise. As I pointed out in last night's game log, they have almost nothing to show on the current club from the first round of the draft for the last 10 seasons. Owie.

 
 
Rhubarb_Runner replied on November 12, 2008 at 9:57:39 am

Cup of Coffee corollary: Also how much less fun it was to watch the Twins without that selfless, team player FotF named Torii Hunter.

 
GreekHouse replied on November 12, 2008 at 11:27:23 am

Last nights game (or How to Lose a Game in 4 Minutes starring Rashad McCants) was dreadful to watch. The team has a 9 point lead with 4 minutes to go and is in the best shape to win a game that it's had all season. Then, they just turned into a complete trainwreck. Every possession was sloppy and they took way too many threes. It started when McCants took a quick 3, which is about the worst thing you can do in that situation. The team looked like they were desperate to win and stopped trying to play actual good basketball. When you are in that situation, you need to have deliberate possession and making a 3 should be way down the list of things you are concerned about. As it turns out, had the Wolves scored even a single point in the last 4:30 of regulation, they would have won. WTG guys.

I'm thinking that Wittman is gone at around game 20 if he doesn't turn it around. His substitution patterns are awful, and other than possibly Telfair, who on this team has shown significant improvement in the last year? Witt is just not getting it done.

SBG replied on November 12, 2008 at 11:36:55 am

I'm glad I missed it. There's no way I can stay up for a West Coast game, so I didn't see any of this one. It sounds like GS had a pretty depleted roster and still pulled it out. Almost no shot for BAJ in the last 12 minutes of the game. Where have I seen the Wolves fail to get the ball to their #1 option down the stretch before? It was called the KG Era.

GreekHouse replied on November 12, 2008 at 12:25:41 pm

Golden State was doing a pretty good job of keeping us from getting the ball into BAJ. On the plays where we did try to get it to him, we obviously had no counter. The guy just stood at the top of the key trying to dump it in, then eventually gave up and passed it out to the guy at the top of the key and GS went back into their normal defensive set. When they do stuff like that, the Wolves need some sort of counter attack. Instead it was more like "ok, we give up". Wittman needs to have something up his sleeve for spots like this because teams know that's where we want to go.

 
 
 
Jeff A replied on November 12, 2008 at 2:58:49 pm

Phoenix scroed three in the seventh and one in the eighth to overcome a 5-2 deficit and pull out a 6-5 victory. Rob Delaney got the win in relief with a scoreless eighth inning, giving up one hit and striking out two. Twins batters contributed nothing to the victory--Steven Tolleson did not play, and Danny Valencia and Dustin Martin each went 0-for-4 and each struck out twice. The victory increased Phoenix's divisional lead to 5.5 games.

In Aragua, Caracas scored in the tenth to win 3-2. Bobby Korecky came on in the sixth with runners on first and second and one out and struck out the next two batters. He started the seventh by giving up a leadoff single, but got the next batter to ground into a double play. At that point, Carmen Cali came in and retired the only batter he faced on a fly out. Jose Mijares came in to start the tenth and took the loss. He gave up back to back line drive singles, then a walk to load the bases. What proved to be the winning run then scored, oddly enough, on a triple play. There was a fly out to left, and the runners on first and second were each caught off base. One assumes they thought the ball was not going to be caught. The runner on third, presumably, was tagging all the way and scored before the runners could be caught off base.

 
Jeff A replied on November 12, 2008 at 3:55:39 pm

R.I.P., at age 75, Cleveland Indians pitcher and broadcaster Herb Score.

 

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