Since the glory days when we had Kevin Garnett it's been a struggle to fill the Target Center. Fans aren't going to show up to watch a team lose over and over again. Luckily, there is a new Kevin in town. Kevin Love is the main source of hope for fans. This year he transformed his body loosing weight and getting in shape. Love also managed to become one of the league's leading scores and represent the West in the 2012 All-Star game. The Timberwolves line-up is finally starting to improve with Ricky Rubio, JJ Barea, Michael Beasley, and Anthony Tolliver to back up Love. Now if only the Timberwolves could win a game, which K-Love is confident they can.
Going to work every day with these guys, whether it's the coaching staff or the players out there on the floor, we had a good camaraderie, a good electric group of guys that are ready to take the next step. I know its been a tough year, the battle of attrition that we had guys goingout and gettting hurt. But I figure if we keep putting things together, we know what we're capable of next year and we'll continue to get better.It's pathetic that fans, players, and coaches are excited about a season that which they finished well below .500! Although the team did improve this year there is still so much work to do. I'm sorry but I just can not get excited about the fact that the Timberwolves were in 8th place in the Western division for a short period of time. One of the major challenges the team faced was finishing a game. There were a handful of games where they lost by 5 points or less. They started out hot but crumbled midseason, vanishing the miniscule playoff hopes that were sneaking into the minds of hopeful fans.
Some of the common sayings among Minnesota sports fans are:
- "Next year will be better."
- "Remember how good they were just a couple years back."
- "It doesn't help that (insert name here) was hurt."
- "They are just going through a rough patch."
- "Well if we could get a decent draft pick then we might have a chance."
Instead of using excuses, looking ahead to the future, blaming injuries, or reminiscing the past let's figure it out now. Having a decent sports team makes rooting for them so much more fun. Is it too much to ask that one of our major sports teams end a season with a winning season? Give us something to cheer for. Please Minnesota Timberwolves please, give us some hope here and win more games than you lose next season.
There should be a comma after "I suppose." The NBA playoffs are an exciting time. No apostrophe needed in Timberwolves. There should be periods in JJ.
ReplyDeleteIt was at a time when NBA basketball was trying to get out of the Jordan era and we, in Fiji, were only privy to certain games. When the ESPN channel finally arrived, it was the time of the beast Kevin Garnett (K.G.) who was undoubtedly Timberwolves first true star and the biggest player ever for the franchise. He was the shining light for the franchise despite a very dreary supporting cast which boasted Tom Gugliotta and Stephon Marbury. K.G. won the NBA's Most Valuable Player Award there in 2003-04 and guided the Wolves to the playoffs 10 times, justifying the $126 million contract extension he signed in 1997. However in the 2006/2007 season, the Wolves traded Garnett to the Celtics for Al Jefferson, Ryan Gomes, Gerald Green, Theo Ratliff, Sebastian Telfair and two first-round draft picks. It didn’t make sense then and it still doesn’t make sense now. The players that went over to the Wolves did absolutely nothing for the franchise and if anything, brought it down to where it is currently at, the doldrums of the National Basketball Association.
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