49 comments

1. Rudy is an pouting idiot, DDV couldn’t put together a good shooting game if his life depended on it, and overall the average IQ on the floor resembles that of a goldfish. Team is looking cooked.

2. No chemistry, low effort to execute. What do we think Finch can actually do here to fix this?

3. What the fuck

4. This is all because Glen hasn’t sold the team.

5. Death, taxes, and losing in Toronto

6. At least Jaden found his offensive groove again. That’s something nice to take away at least…

7. that randle, rudy sequence was completely unacceptable and a microcosm of the season. BOOOOOOOOO!!!

8. I miss the vibes from last season

9. randle giving off dlo-rudy vibes just stinky stinky

10. Embarrassing performance. Literally behaved like children and rightly lost to a team who was actually focused and trying to win a basketball game. Terrible body language, dumb decision making and stupid fouling.

    These guys need to show some grit and maturity. Should not be losing games like this.

11. Rudy eating a 3 second violation because he didn’t get the ball in a tie(?) game was when the game was lost. Just insanely unprofessional

    At least Jaden was great. But really bad to come out like that after 3 days off which should’ve been a prime opportunity to fix our issues.

12. No worries guys we play Boston next

13. This team is really uninspiring. Vibes aren’t great, sloppy as hell on offense, playing down to their competition, dumb fouls, Divo has been straight up ass. The 2nd apron can suck my dick.

14. Ant just doesn’t seem ready to run a team. He can’t keep showing up for half a game (at most) and expect our team to win.

15. wtf does this team do good? No defense. Bad fouls. Bad momentum play. Bad TO’s. Finch has some bad lineups he keeps playing

16. I want off this Julius Randle roller coaster. It’s not worth it.

17. Lots of blame to go around, but I think Randle is the main one to blame. Just gives zero effort on defense.

18. We’re cooked

19. 38 years of wolves ball boys. I’ve seen some shitty teams. If cared about wolves ball as much as this team i would have quit watching long ago. Pathetic effort.

20. 16 total assists. I believe in the business they call this the “clogged toilet offense”

21. This team has a Randle/Rudy problem. There is no way that Randle pass at the end of game was Randle proving a point about Rudy not getting out of the lane earlier in the quarter.

22. Shocking the bad signs early have not gotten any better.

23. Finch needs to move the fuck on with this 8 person rotation shit. It’s clearly not working.

24. Randle is literally just bigger D’lo, capable of awesome games, hates rudy, dribbles the air out of the ball. Praying some team sees something in him and we can get something out of him. Also, DDV is ass

25. This team plays every game like they’re owed another WCF trip and are just going to the motions until then. Pathetic

26. Randle trolling Gobert for being a bitch with that last pass 😂 we’re so fucked. Leave Randle in Toronto, bring Poeltl with us cut Rudy’s minutes to like 25 and call it a day

27. Happy I got league pass and started following the Knicks this season. KAT alone brings a lot of last years joy and vibes to that team. They are fun to watch.

28. So many other fucking problems with this team, but I can’t ignore that Donte DiVincenzo personally handed the other team six points in a five point loss. He came in with 5 minutes left, game tied 95-95, and proceeds to:

    * turn it over for a Scottie dunk
    * commit a reach-in foul where both free throws were hit
    * miss a three
    * commit another foul with both points converted
    * miss *another* three to boot

    Genuine clown shit.

29. One overlooked part of the KAT trade is that there is no one to take all the heat anymore, so everyone gets their share of shit talk and hot takes lmao

30. Wovles back to being suck

    

31. it just feels like finch has no control on this group. if we are playing well and making shots it looks passable but when anything goes wrong he is seemingly incapable of making adjustments and turning it around. it just goes from bad to worse until we lose.

32. Over the next couple days we’ll here Ant talk about needing to be more focussed at the start of games, Finch talk about needing to take care of the ball better and execute, and everyone talk about working on getting the defensive intensity back, and then we’re gonna watch them give the exact same performance again

33. Conley washed.

    Gobert looks old.

    Randle is power forward DLo.

    Naz can’t make a shot to save his life.

    Ant is a cone on defense. 

    Donte is Alexy Shved. 

    At least we have the memories of game 7 against Denver!

34. Can’t wait for our fans to justify Randle doing this shit all because he hit a game winner last game. He might be scoring, but he never makes the flow pass. If he ever gets the ball with 12 seconds left on the shot clock, you know the possession is going to be him dribbling 8 seconds off the clock, then ending either with him taking the shot, or making the most difficult pass possible to someone after trying to draw multiple defenders. Randle is only ever willing to make a play that ends with adding a tally to his box score. The vibes suck. The offense is just so jarring and is completely dependent on making difficult shots.

35. Who else misses KAT?

36. Thanks McDaniels for playing hard.

37. I no longer feel as though I need to watch every game and I don’t like that feeling much after being so hyped for each one last season.

    Feels bad man.

38. I knew this was going to happen.. let slow mo. go and then trade Kat.. Two locker room guys and now chemistry is trash. You don’t get rid of guys that want to play in Minnesota.

39. Man im over all of ddv rudy and randle. Hopefully we just build around naw rob ant jaden naz down the line

40. KAT is having the best season of his career..

41. I knew the Randle and Gobert pairing wouldn’t work, but i didn’t think it’d be this bad. Randle really is just a negative player overall. Horrendous defense, poor rebounding, and lazy.

    I loved last years team so much but this years one is the polar opposite. Bad vibes. Such a terrible trade.

42. This is not a case like 22-23 where Gobert and KAT just had to learn how to play together.

    DDV is awful unless his shot is falling. It’s not falling.

    Randle does not, has not and will never play defense. He just won’t. And he’s showing what a pouty cancer he can be to team camaraderie after tonight’s game. 

    Tim Connelly really blew up a legit WCF contender

43. I think we’ve officially seen enough to know the winner of the trade. Many of us wanted to give it a good handful of games to see how it could work and what we’ve seen has been bad. Pretty crazy to see how a couple moving parts can completely ruin an identity. KAT wasn’t even that great of a defender but they played together well, hustled a lot more after loose balls and tradition D was so much better than this.

    I don’t enjoy watching this team right now. The basketball IQ is absolute trash and as a fan it hurts to see a WCF team turn into a bubble fringe squad in 1 year.

44. Whatever the coaches are telling these guys is either wrong, or they aren’t listening.

    Defensive identity is long gone, and the Celtics like 3 pt fest needs to end.

    The team is just not very good, and it doesn’t seem like they know what to do, because most of the games look pretty similar.

45. I hate this team right now.

    Naz Reid fucking blows when he isn’t shooting well. Turnover machine who rarely passes, plays terrible defense and doesn’t rebound.

    Gobert is not playing up to his standards with his defense or rebounding and continues to be a complete non factor on offense.

    Mike Conley has been all around terrible, not shooting well and not taking care of the ball either.

    Donte Divencenzo really has one main job – to be a good shooter. He’s failing at it and lately he’s turning the ball over a ton too.

    Julius Randle is being allowed to handle the ball and bring the ball up the court too much, leading to turnovers. He isn’t a fucking guard and he’s not a particularly good ball handler for a PF. WTF are we doing?

    Ant isn’t showing good feel for when he should be driving and shooting in the paint instead of shooting threes and kicking out to other shooters from the paint. His defense has been lacking.

    Our head coach sucks too.

46. I was a pro-Randle guy but he lost me tonight. Not a great look humiliating Rudy like that after he’s screening for you all game long while you dribble the air out of the ball. Locker room cancer get him out of here.

47. 😔

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48. Ant’s not there. He’s crazy talented and a baller but as much as ESPN and all those guys were saying he was the reason Towns and Gobert were ballin, the reality was that everyone was enhancing each other. Ant was the monster he was because Towns also empowered him to be that monster. They didn’t have a great on the floor two man game or anything but Towns’ sheer talent and PROVEN ability to carry an offense and team for nearly a decade allowed Ant to step into that number 1 role and go HAM.

    Now with KAT gone, Ant doesn’t have the emergency release valve. On nights like this, he always had Towns who would show up against any team, even a JV middle school team, and drop 24 points while grabbing 12 boards if he needed to because that’s the consistency KAT played with. With that gone our floor has dropped tremendously.

49. This team will be much better next year once Randle is off the team. He always has issues in any team he is on. The dropoff on the court & in the lockerroom between Randle & KAT is significant. Randle is an isolation player on offense & he is targeted on the defensive end.

    For cap reasons they had to make a move, but they would have been wiser to find a centerpiece other than Randle to get in return. At least he falls off the books next year & the Wolves can reset a bit