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Originally Posted by dcv
....that's the first team (non-lockout season) that I would consider having worse wings than the Wolves did last year. The Wolves wings were so horrifically bad last year that they could improve by leaps and bounds and still be, far and away, the worst perimeter team in the NBA.
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Remember the moment of the #5 trade, when we all nodded and said to ourselves "Okay, both teams' rosters are now so out-of-whack that we know there's going to be re-aligning to do"? And then there was a flurry of trades that didn't accomplish that.
The Minnesota weakness at the 2 and 3 in 09-10 was so bad so obviously that I actually went through the exercise at year's start of looking for teams in the last decade who could be considered that soft there. Nuthin', and it wasn't close.
The other angle that occurred to me was glancing at expansion teams. Even the Wolves' own first year team featured Tony Campbell and Ty Corbin, with Doug West on the bench as defensive energy at that point and another rookie in Donald Royal. Sam Mitchell was on the team too. How do you assemble a roster that's so much shallower
than your own expansion team?
MIA 88-89 had a bunch of
bodies, at least, though they were all raw as the 38 pounds of bison in my freezer right now.
R Kevin Edwards
R Sylvester Gray
R Todd Mitchell
R Craig Neal
3 Billy Thompson
R Anthony Taylor
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