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• #Hades keepsakes series#

“It will be a continuing process when you’re changing systems.”

“There are a number of things we need to clean up,” Saunders said. the Warriors and the Bucks (to name two), the fast pace will require defending another eight to 10 possessions per game.Īny signs the same uniforms Thibodeau couldn’t get to play defense are ready for that challenge? On defense, where the Wolves were seen waving at opponents as they went on by vs. There are things that you do adjust going into each game based on what an opponent is going to do defensively, but we’re committed to our system, committed to our philosophy. Saunders said: “Very much the way we play. Saunders was asked on the eve of Wednesday’s 31st season opener in Brooklyn: “Emphasis on specific game plans, or playing the way you play?” Unfortunately, James Harden ain’t walking through that door, and the Wolves’ five exhibitions were frightening: A collection of sub-mediocre shooters throwing threes and denting rims in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Indianapolis and Milwaukee. They have gone from Thibodeau’s game-planning for open shots from all ranges, to new basketball boss Gersson Rosas’ devotion to a three-or-layup philosophy. And I’d tell him that.”ĭisdaining the midrange two is now a requirement for Saunders, surrounded as he is by assistants that he didn’t hire, in order to ride out this latest dramatic redo for the Wolves. “I didn’t like the plays that led to midrange twos. “When my dad was back here and I was an assistant, I didn’t agree with him on everything,” Ryan said Tuesday.

Ryan treasures that playbook - as a keepsake, not as a guideline for an NBA offense in the fall of 2019. There are plays in there that Flip ran when playing for Musselman with the Gophers, plays he designed for the Wolves to run with Stephon Marbury (before he took a hike in 1999) at point guard. 1 seed and the Western Conference finals in 2004. He has in his possession the famed playbook that his late father Flip used when coaching the Wolves in their lone period of success - from a first playoff appearance in April 1997, to a journey to the No. Ryan Saunders was promoted to interim coach in January and now is the head coach at age 33. There were several reasons, including not playing well with others in the business side of the operation. He returned as coach and basketball boss for the 2016-17 season, game-planned every night for 2½ seasons, and then was fired halfway through the 2018-19 schedule. Tom Thibodeau was a young assistant fired along with Musselman. If only Gerald had come along in the 2019 draft - he might spend his rookie season shooting eight threes a night and finding forgiveness for other shortcomings. He was fired after the second season for refusing orders to play Gerald Glass, a thick rookie with no interest in playing defense. “They threw a defense at us we never had seen before,” Malone said.Įven though he was coaching the NBA’s version of Rutgers football, Musselman game-planned fiercely 164 times as the Timberwolves coach, going 22-60 in 1989-90 and in 29-53 in 1990-91, and bringing huge crowds to the Metrodome in that first season and sellouts to the new Target Center in the second. The Wolves received several technicals for playing zone, yet led by 10 in the middle of the fourth quarter before losing 110-104 in overtime. The theme of the season seems to having patience while gathering information.

#Hades keepsakes series#

Podcast: Will the Wolves top last year's win total? Will KAT average 30 points? Chris Hine and Michael Rand preview the Timberwolves season, which starts Wednesday in Brooklyn, with an overview of the offseason and a series of educated guesses.