Latest Basketball News:Kurt Rambis tries to change Timberwolves
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The Minnesota Timberwolves have never been very good except maybe the year they went into the playoffs with Kevin Garnett, Latrell Sprewell, and Sam Casell. How that team had enough basketballs to shoot is still
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NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
The Minnesota Timberwolves have never been very good except maybe the year they went into the playoffs with Kevin Garnett, Latrell Sprewell, and Sam Casell. How that team had enough basketballs to shoot is still a mystery to many fans, but they did go to the Western Conference finals to be eliminated by the Lakers after Casell went down with a back injury. The TWolves are banking on Kurt Rambis to bring a little of that Laker magic to Minnesota.
How about Kurt Rambis?
Rambis is doing a great job at Minnesota, but will it ever show up in the win loss column? Maybe not. He needs more experienced players that have been there. His best player is Al Jefferson, the infamous player traded from the Celtics for Kevin Garnett. Beyond that he has Jonny Flynn, Corey Brewer, Kevin Love, and Ryan Gomes. The rest of the team is just unknowns, except for recent NCAA champion Wayne Ellington who has failed to score in double figures all season.
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Still Kurt presses on coaching the Triangle offense he learned as a Laker.
Rambis, a former Lakers player who was a Jackson assistant the previous five seasons, received his 2008-09 championship ring before the game — but that’s where the Lakers’ hospitality ended.
The Lakers found themselves in a similar position as the Raptors early, clinging to a 56-54 lead at halftime. Rambis is a Jackson disciple who is trying to teach his team the triangle offense, which Jackson said has its advantages because it’s difficult to coach against. That might be true for other teams, but certainly not for Jackson, who has won 10 NBA championships utilizing the scheme.
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So how can a team be 3 – 20 and there is nothing but flattering things to say about the coach? That is not a complicated question really, because Kurt has built the TWolves in his image. They play hard, they don’t give up and they play the Triangle offense which gives teams fits if they don’t see it very often.
Kurt will most likely never be real successful at Minnesota due to the fact they have a history of not getting enough quality players, but he will be a successful coach somewhere before his basketball career is over.
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