Wolves

What an extremely frustrating franchise to follow. Good improvement in the effort last night, but they still blew a huge lead down the stretch at home. When will this misery end? Kevin Ollie taking clutch shots? Kevin Love going 2-9 on free throws? Maybe, they could have used Brandon Roy or O.J. Mayo? I'm glad Wittman is finally gone and that McHale is finally out as Vice President of Basketball Operations. However, how can you expect this team to truly turn the corner until the whole operation is blown up? Hopefully for all of us Wolves fans this will happen at the end of the season, but if McHale succeeds I could easily see his good buddy Glen Taylor keeping him around as coach. I personally don't care how much McHale succeeds as coach; he has made so many bad decisions over the course of his tenure in the front office that just from a PR standpoint he needs to go. I don't think there is any way this team can be successful with its current group of players. To succeed in the NBA today, you need at least 2, probably 3 legitimate stars. I don't believe any of the players on this team have star potential, other than Al Jefferson. Mike Miller is at best a third scoring option. Same deal for Kevin Love. To me, the O.J. Mayo trade more than any other recent move will come back to bite the T-Pups in the ass the most. The Roy-Foye deal is looking terrible right now as well, but at least Foye is a guy some thought had star potential. We knew that Mike Miller and Kevin Love probably didn't have star potential, yet we still made the deal. This is not the time to be surrounding Big Al with role players! Mayo is already proving that he is going to be an elite player in this league. Kevin Love is a terrific rebounder and Mike Miller can be a lock down shooter (if he ever decides to shoot the damn ball!), but they are good role players, not possible stars. You are never going to succeed at a high level without at least 2 stars. The Wolves are doing exactly what they did with Kevin Garnett by surrounding Big Al with solid role players. The one deep playoff run we had with Garnett included Sam Cassell and Latrell Spreewell having career years. To pass up on a possible star like O.J. Mayo, something you absolutely need to succeed at a high level, was to me absolute stupidity. This franchise has no plan, no identity, and no high level talent around Big Al. An O.J. Mayo-Al Jefferson tandem would be a nice core to build around, don't ya think?! And then consider this: We just awarded the guy who built this failure of a team with the head coaching position! Am I the only one upset by this decision? The problems start at the top with Glenn Taylor. He is one of the worst owners in pro sports for keeping Kevin McHale around year after year, not to mention Taylor also had a hand in the illegal Joe Smith contract that has destroyed this franchise. Until Taylor gets rid of his good buddy in failure Kevin McHale, this team is going nowhere fast. They had their best chance in years to re-invigorate this fan base and get another legit star by keeping O.J. Mayo. Instead, they set themselves back even more. Great. I'll be at the Lakers-Wolves game on Sunday. I'm sure Kevin Love will have no problem handling Pau Gassol and Andrew Bynum. Maybe I should just start cheering for a team who does things the right way. Unfortunately, my nature prohibits me from doing so. Damn.