@@Goatlikeitornotto be fair tho part of that is because Tibbs refuses to play the young guys or guys outside of the rotation so they can’t be incorporated into the system
@@Goatlikeitornotmoose mitch comes back are defenses will be really good and we already the 1 offensive Knicks won the trade Randle did not fit with the team
@@sethc2241well he’s actually been shooting 37% from 3 so far this year so the spacing hasn’t been nearly as bad as everyone thought. obviously he’s never going to get the same attention as kat or even naz from 3 but jaden mcdaniels has been way worse for our spacing than randle
Future still is bright, If they kept KAT they would've had no room to improve in upcoming years now they can get better players in the future, Randall will be traded when his contract is ended
Why would Minnesota tear up a team that made it to the WCF and had a great future ahead? Just when you thought the Wolves were finally becoming a well run organization they do some shit like this.
@@NEWLOOKKNICKSI mean the team has gone as Rudy has gone recently. That four game win streak was based off of Rudy’s success, primarily on the offensive side compared to what he normally does.
Teams chase rings so much now & are so greedy & impatient that unlike the old days, they no longer value when their team significantly progresses season to season but doesn’t make the finals. Minnesota didn’t realize that their run in the playoffs was actually a big SUCCESS roster-wise, not a failure! Their game strategy & team needed a few minor tweaks, not trading away one of their most productive starters! Oh yeah….They f*cked up.
Agreed. Form your core players from the draft and/or free agency. Then you work to fill the gaps with useful role players. You don't fire your head coach and trade core players away for another player that 'might' fit. This is why the Spurs made the playoff 20 years in a row. Same coach, same core for almost the entire run. They're still searching for a new core, but I think they're getting closer each year.
That’s because they see teams like Denver get a championship that are smaller markets, and then they think that their world beaters because they beat a couple of good teams like them in the playoffs, but in this case, Denver has the last laugh because they know how hard it is to get to the top of the mountain……Let alone repeat
Bro, I’m a proud Knicks fan, but we got to pump the brakes! Minnesota didn’t play well after trading for Gorbert only to make it for WCF a year later! Trades of this magnitude are rarely instant successes. And Ju-Ju shooting 37% as a PF is still pretty solid. And his rebounding numbers are down for the same reason Kat’s rebounds were down- Rudy gets a large amount of them. The Wolves will be fine! Put it this way, they are one of the last teams in the back half of the West I would want to face in the first round of the playoffs!
Let's really consider the Wolves for a minute because I think you're missing a major issue: their lack of a PG. You have a guy that can't really create his own shot in Randle. Another guy that REALLY can't create his own shot in Gobert and a ball-dominant star that likes to iso (Edwards). That is a recipe for disaster and poor chemistry without having a floor general to piece it together. Notably, Mike Conley did a lot more last year and I think that played a big role in helping to regulate the offense and KAT had more self-creation ability than Randle does.
J Randles absence in NY with the success they had without him…He would’ve remained their problem. MN front office ownership is stupid as hell. Breaking up a finals team.
As a Knicks fan, one thing I learned with the Julius Randle experience, was he is good every other year. He comes to the Knicks and wins MIP and shoots 41% from 3 and got All NBA 2nd Team. Then he fell off. Then in year 3, was an All Star and All NBA again. Then fell off again. Last year he was great until he got hurt. So now he’s in his bad year, next year he SHOULD be fine but don’t quote me on that.
Barely into a season 😂😂😂 one team is 12-11 in the West, and another is 15-9 in the perennially weak east 😂😂😂😂 sounds like someone needed to make some drama content for clicks 💰💰💰 can't wait to see where things are for the ASG
By 25 games and you know what your team looks like if you’re paddling like a dog at 500 you’re screwed no middle of the road teams make a dent after the first two rounds of the playoffs and that’s just the gods honest truth. Miami proved it a couple of years ago. They became a play team and went to the finals and could barely keep up.
That's the problem though. You just came off arguably the Wolves best season ever. Fans are ecstatic and the players are ready for their 2nd chance. Now what? You tell them all it's going to take a couple years to get back there? They might not have won it all with KAT but there was a legit chance. Now it seems like it's going to take a couple years to build a team that MAYBE has that chance again
The trade would absolutely make Minnesota a beast if Randle was willing to come off of the bench. The Wolves should have put Reid in the starting lineup to replace Kat and bring Randle, Donte, NAW off of the bench.
They went from being one of the most exciting fun teams to watch last year to being one of the toughest miserable watches this year, even their wins are tough to watch.
i kept saying that the awkward fit with rudy and kat needed a trade to fix. but trading KAT was the wrong move, they should have traded gobert. kats skill set is much harder to replace, and he fits much better with ANT because he can pull the opposing big out of the paint to allow ANT to drive. the trade should have been to deal gobert to atlanta, where he could just run pick and rolls and catch lobs from trae young, and cover up their defensive deficiencies. atl sends dejounte and filler to orlando, and the wolves get jonathan isaac and jalen johnson as wings that can help hide kat on defense.
Timberwolves have arguable a top 5 NBA player in Ant and one of the NBA's best rim protectors. The Wolves are still over the 2nd apron and will only have about $15 million in space to sign another star if they drop Julius Randle. Julius is going to be tough to trade therefore resigning him is a must. The Knicks were looking to get rid of him years ago, but no one wanted him or his contract. I'm not sure what Minnesota saw in him they could have done better for giving up Kat.
I said it the moment I saw it lol and as a mavs fan I’m so thankful 😂. That trade made zero sense whatsoever. KAT played a pivotal role last year. They should’ve just kept the same team and added some wing defenders. They should’ve traded gobert for a good 2 way post as well.
@ he’s freaking dumb bro. Gobert is a minimum contract player. He shouldn’t be getting deals like that. He brings absolutely nothing offensively. If anything he’s a huge liability offensively.
The Knicks won something, big cap hits from KAT. He looks great now, congratulations! 😂 24-25 $49 Mil 25-26 $53 Mil 26-27 $57 Mil 27-28 $61 Mil People can say the Wolves, “lost” this trade today and that’s fine. But we will see at the trade deadline, free agency this summer and the Pistons pick we got with it.
Every player in a professional sports league makes a lot of money. It’s sad that we live in a world that is very greedy. The trade that the Minnesota Timberwolves blockbuster trade might of ruined their franchise. I have no power to say anything but I hope everyone does better each day no matter what life brings even if life is super hard.
i told this to my brother and ima tell it to yall we goooooood. we either get the chem and start playing like a top team or we solo trade randle for another piece. he has good value around the league and can probably get a good bench piece and start naz or even a like randle +1 and get jimmy. either way i doubt we win a chip this year even if we didnt make the trade but that trade is gonna win us a chip in 2-4 years, bc donte is rlly like that and can change a series
Idk who really wants Randle when teams see the effect he's having on the Wolves right now. A lot of people though Randle was just as good as KAT because they both put up very similar numbers. And now here we are. DDV has been horrendous this year and there were even articles saying what could Minnesota flip him for. But besides ALL that. Imagine coming off arguably a franchise's best season ever. Saying it's not enough. So you trade away a key piece then tell everyone, hey 2-4 years from now, we'll be back! You think Ant's cool with wasting a couple years of his career just waiting on the front office to MAYBE put together a championship caliber supporting cast? Even though they literally had it last year
You think???? They beat Denver in a 7 game series last year with the three headed Monster (Naz, KAT and Gobert) and you get rid of KAT for Julius Randle??? Bigs that can shoot don’t fall from 🌲 🌳 🌴
Nither team really improved. NY was the 2nd seed last year and now they are the 4th seed. Minnesota on the otherhand was 3rd last year and now they are 9th. Neither team really has improved.
Lol. The Knicks didn't win the trade. They haven't beaten any top teams, any good teams or teams with all of their all star or super star players. What some Minnesota fans aren't getting is that the issue is likely the coach. Look at Randle's stats when he was with the Knicks. Notice that it's IDENTICAL to the one that KAT has now. Now look at KAT's stats on the Knicks and remember that it was IDENTICAL to what Julius Randle had last year. In fact, Julius Randle was better last season. And think about it: Notice that Donte DiVincenzo isn't playing nearly as well either. This seems like a coaching issue. The coach needs to push the players to: move well without the ball, pass fast in general, pass faster out of double teams, cut to the rim for passes that lead to easy baskets on the run, get out in transition to outrun the other team's defense, speed up the pace, do more ally oops & do more pick n' rolls. He should be starting Naz Reid and Donte DiVincenzo and should have Jaden McDaniels and Rudy Gobert coming off the bench. How is it that Randle was able to play so well with Jericho Sims and Mitchell Robinson but somehow can't fit with Rudy Gobert? Also Jaden McDaniels seems unable to average more than 10 points. Why is he starting? Another issue is the front office. They need to get a young point guard. Mike Conley was great in his prime. However that prime is in the rearview mirror. What they should do is get a young point guard & 2 three point shooters. They should also get a young center. What about Wendell Carter? He can shoot 3s, finish on ally oops, finish on pick n' rolls, rebound, defend & block shots. They can also try to rescue DeAndre Ayton from Portland or Nic Claxton from the Nets. Jalen Duren is a good option as well.
New Yorkers are so obsessed with the Timberwolves. Wolves haven’t gotten off to their best start but this has happened before and is to be expected considering. To call them a hot mess is a joke, they’ve been inconsistent to start the season but they’ve beaten several very good teams by more than twenty points and keeping teams below 90 scoring. Knicks are 15 and 9 which is a good start. Timberwolves are 12 & 11. The reality is if the Wolves won three more games they’d have a better record than the Knicks. A three game spread between the two teams doesn’t signify a hot mess. Timberwolves fans have seen this before after a majorly shuffling of key players it takes a bit of time for everyone to jell. I’ll bet Gambling Mike the Wolves have a better record than the Knicks by the end of January. I encourage others to put a bet down on that prediction as well because it will pay off big and Mike will be spouting some weird excuses.
In my opinion, Kat would have been the same player if we hadn't traded him. He would constantly turn the ball over when he drove to the paint. Would vanish the times the team needed him the most. Julius can always be traded, for what idk but as long as the got something to prove it doesn't matter to me
Being from Minnesota, I was overjoyed with the trade. I still don't mind it. Though KAT is an amazing shooter and talent, he was soft, overly emotional and disappeared in big moments...especially playoffs. His basketball IQ isn't great. Randle has the intangibles that KAT doesn't...toughness and the ability to go get a bucket. True, KAT is an elite 3 point shooter (among other talents), but I feel like Randle being adequate there and DiVincenzo being a very good 3 point shooter, that offsets. Overall, I think Minnesota overperformed last year, they're underperforming this year. McDaniels and DiVincenzo are off to rough-ish starts (though NAW is off to an exceptional start). These things will tend to balance...especially with DiVincenzo performing better over the course of the season. The chemistry is a question mark. But ANT's ceiling is super high and he may lift his own game and his teammate's games (potentially) over time.
We already know they start slow. It takes this team time to build chemistry. We jumped on them for bringing in Gobert. Then following season they cooked. If they keep Randle or if he decides to stay they’ll be a decent team. Especially when Dillingham fully develops.
How long is that supposed to take though? Took 2 full years to see the Gobert trade as somewhat of a success. Will it take that long to find success with Randle and DDV?
Trade Randle and Gobert fir Kat back. Bench conley for Rob and start Reid wot Jaden bein the defensive core pressuring everything. We got 3 30+ year olds startin and cant keep pace anymore especially wit the pace and teams not bein younger.
Idk how people fail to realize Randle isn’t the end piece for MN he will be traded by the deadline they can only resign Naz or Randle not gonna re sign both of them they gonna re sign Naz he is a better all around player and younger. Randle’s contract is expiring & he is an all star very valuable contract for any team then they have pieces they can add into it like minnot TS even McDaniels if they want. Minnesota will make a trade by the deadline for a piece that fits well with Ant. They did the trade to stay below the 2nd threshold anyway otherwise certain rules like only being able to do business with other teams over the 2nd threshold apply + they liked Donte on that team friendly deal that’s a good piece to have long term with Ant & no I hated the trade I would of tried to trade Rudy even attached a pick for someone to take him and keep Kat Rudy is a hell of a player under rated but he just gets lost in playoff basketball it’s a whole different chest game when the playoffs come & 7 game series hit.
NO SHIIIIIIIT IT BROKE OUR TEAM LIKE WHY THE FUC DO WE STILL HAVE RUDY OVER KAT LIKE WTF LIKE WHY THE FUC DO WE KEEP THE GUY WHO STARTS FIGHTS AND SPREADS COVID OVER THE DUDE WHO BEEN THERE FOR US SINCE DAY 1
Gobert thrived with just a rookie Donovan. KAT and Ant had plenty of time before Rudy. GMs in league drove his trade price to highest I've seen. They aren't casuals like some......
Shoulda took Kat, and one other guy (preferably not Rudy but I see no other option) for Embid 🤣. If you’re gonna ball? Ball. Don’t go grab a low to mid center, trade your core center, then extend that mid center by 5 years 🤣. They could’ve taken that money and traded Kat and probably Rudy for Embid, kept their depth and had a dominant force in Joel. Ant and Embid would be like a young Shaq and Kobe potentially. Ant is shooting WAY more threes this year. He’s doing good at evening it out, but he showed last year that he’s nasty in the midrange. He could take a play out of Kobe’s book and dominate with Midrange and Threes with occasional dunks/layups. Not to mention the pick and roll/pop threat Embid offers.
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New York won the trade
Both lost
@@Goatlikeitornotna Kat is averaging more points and rebounds in NY. Randle is a team cancer
@@sndchamp9949 KAT didn't make the Knicks better tho. We already knew KAT is better than Randle. Knicks got no cap space and no depth.
@@Goatlikeitornotto be fair tho part of that is because Tibbs refuses to play the young guys or guys outside of the rotation so they can’t be incorporated into the system
@@Goatlikeitornotmoose mitch comes back are defenses will be really good and we already the 1 offensive Knicks won the trade Randle did not fit with the team
Randle's always been a headache with any team that he's in.
Randall makes the Wolves so much more unlikable
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This my team and I’ll say i didn’t like him at all at first but he’s actually really good no better than kat but Julius have his nights
@@SOTAxion he killed your spacing lol. If you knew ball you can see how hes ruining the team
@@sethc2241well he’s actually been shooting 37% from 3 so far this year so the spacing hasn’t been nearly as bad as everyone thought. obviously he’s never going to get the same attention as kat or even naz from 3 but jaden mcdaniels has been way worse for our spacing than randle
@@sethc2241u dont know balll fosho lil bro
KAT is obviously on another level than Randal. I never understood the trade.
It's simply economics; if they kept both Edwards and Towns, they would have paid a $100 million+ luxury tax bill.
Unfortunately that's definitely true due to the new cba it's messing up a lot of teams that otherwise would have keep their players
@@ScrumpyWingnuts201 yea I figured it had to be money because it made no basketball sense. They eliminated Denver last year. The future looked bright.
Future still is bright, If they kept KAT they would've had no room to improve in upcoming years now they can get better players in the future, Randall will be traded when his contract is ended
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Why would Minnesota tear up a team that made it to the WCF and had a great future ahead? Just when you thought the Wolves were finally becoming a well run organization they do some shit like this.
The new CBA would have crippled them for years, it was a forced move.
Luka affect
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I thought that was what the T-Wolves front office always did. Business as usual, no?
I think Ant is trying his best to get along with Randle but he is just not clicking with Minnesota 😂
Towns fits Brunson better. But Randle does fit ants aggressive nature they jus gotta get it flowing
Hard to get anything flowing when there's a giant French man who clogs the paint because of his incredibly limited offensive bag
@@nathanaelgion2762 lowk if rudy goes to the lab and finds an offensive game the wolves will be bettter then ever
@@nathanaelgion2762Rudy will be open but Randle won’t pass
@@NEWLOOKKNICKS He's been in the league for 12 years. You think he'd start doing that tomorrow or something?
@@NEWLOOKKNICKSI mean the team has gone as Rudy has gone recently. That four game win streak was based off of Rudy’s success, primarily on the offensive side compared to what he normally does.
Everything Randall does looks so hard. He was the knicks biggest problem.
It didn’t matter who they traded for breaking up Ant & Kat was always gonna be a mistake. Their chemistry was the main reason that team succeeded
They had plenty of time before Gobert showed up....
@@rcbarnson6488 And they continued to improve year over year during that time....
@@rapstallion6615 Well there is salary cap. You can't have 3 max level players and a decent role cast. KAT had to go.
World B. Flat might be my new favorite nickname for Kyrie 😂😂
Sadly, he didn't refer to Harden as World B. Fat. 😉
mike is just mad still about kyrie exposing Jewish culture vultures
Spurs trading Dillingham for the Wolves' 2030 and 2031 picks may've been a good idea.
Shout out to Mike, man's been on his grind, never stopping these detailed takes
Teams chase rings so much now & are so greedy & impatient that unlike the old days, they no longer value when their team significantly progresses season to season but doesn’t make the finals. Minnesota didn’t realize that their run in the playoffs was actually a big SUCCESS roster-wise, not a failure! Their game strategy & team needed a few minor tweaks, not trading away one of their most productive starters! Oh yeah….They f*cked up.
Agreed. Form your core players from the draft and/or free agency. Then you work to fill the gaps with useful role players. You don't fire your head coach and trade core players away for another player that 'might' fit. This is why the Spurs made the playoff 20 years in a row. Same coach, same core for almost the entire run. They're still searching for a new core, but I think they're getting closer each year.
That’s because they see teams like Denver get a championship that are smaller markets, and then they think that their world beaters because they beat a couple of good teams like them in the playoffs, but in this case, Denver has the last laugh because they know how hard it is to get to the top of the mountain……Let alone repeat
They missed KAT’s Zesty chemistry
I hadn’t heard KAT speak until last year. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. 😂😂
Bro, I’m a proud Knicks fan, but we got to pump the brakes!
Minnesota didn’t play well after trading for Gorbert only to make it for WCF a year later!
Trades of this magnitude are rarely instant successes. And Ju-Ju shooting 37% as a PF is still pretty solid. And his rebounding numbers are down for the same reason Kat’s rebounds were down- Rudy gets a large amount of them.
The Wolves will be fine! Put it this way, they are one of the last teams in the back half of the West I would want to face in the first round of the playoffs!
Let's really consider the Wolves for a minute because I think you're missing a major issue: their lack of a PG. You have a guy that can't really create his own shot in Randle. Another guy that REALLY can't create his own shot in Gobert and a ball-dominant star that likes to iso (Edwards). That is a recipe for disaster and poor chemistry without having a floor general to piece it together. Notably, Mike Conley did a lot more last year and I think that played a big role in helping to regulate the offense and KAT had more self-creation ability than Randle does.
Facts. Conley was key last year. He old and hoping his drop off is slow.
J Randles absence in NY with the success they had without him…He would’ve remained their problem. MN front office ownership is stupid as hell. Breaking up a finals team.
"world B flat" 🤣
Shit had me rolling 🤣
@@jefflaing2565shit was outta know where to😂
New York definitely won the Towns trade. Minnesota regrets the trade. They should have kept there team together with Towns for one more year.
Why’s ant need to be the black Spider-Man 😂
That’s the same thing I said. The scene where Peter is stopping the train he doesn’t even have the black suit on like come on Mike lol😭
@@NunbutvibesantLowkey, bro could of at least put a gif of Miles…my guy had Toby up there 😂
@@jamiest.patrick9794 facts lmfaooo I had to rewind to make sure I wasn’t bugging
Because Don is already Spida. So he gotta be the venomized suite Spidey.
@@Nunbutvibesantit's an entirely different movie.. That scene is from spiderman 2😆
4:04 Mike sayong the word LITERALLY ✅
Always hear Mike saying the word LOTERALLY in all his videos like LIFERALLY
Defense gets you to the Playoffs, depth and coaching wins your series
As a Knicks fan, one thing I learned with the Julius Randle experience, was he is good every other year. He comes to the Knicks and wins MIP and shoots 41% from 3 and got All NBA 2nd Team. Then he fell off. Then in year 3, was an All Star and All NBA again. Then fell off again. Last year he was great until he got hurt. So now he’s in his bad year, next year he SHOULD be fine but don’t quote me on that.
Barely into a season 😂😂😂 one team is 12-11 in the West, and another is 15-9 in the perennially weak east 😂😂😂😂 sounds like someone needed to make some drama content for clicks 💰💰💰 can't wait to see where things are for the ASG
"World Be Flat" IS CRAAAZY - 😂😂😂
It’s not even the middle of the season yet. They haven’t gel yet, be frustrated if they’re duds if it’s 3/4 of the season with no playoff hopes.
By 25 games and you know what your team looks like if you’re paddling like a dog at 500 you’re screwed no middle of the road teams make a dent after the first two rounds of the playoffs and that’s just the gods honest truth. Miami proved it a couple of years ago. They became a play team and went to the finals and could barely keep up.
When they traded for Gobert, it took time for them to be good. All it takes is time!! Everyone gotta calm down
That's the problem though. You just came off arguably the Wolves best season ever. Fans are ecstatic and the players are ready for their 2nd chance. Now what? You tell them all it's going to take a couple years to get back there? They might not have won it all with KAT but there was a legit chance. Now it seems like it's going to take a couple years to build a team that MAYBE has that chance again
Both teams won the trade. T'wolves are just taking longer to learn to play with each other.
8:06 Imagine not having spell check before posting that article live for the entire world to see
Worst trade of all time?
problem is that ant didnt take a leap. He regressed. Became a shot chucker who gets low rebounds/assists
Julius Randle for Brandon Ingram
Butler to the wolves
Why aren’t they playing their rookie? They sacrificed a lot to get him and now they don’t play him at all makes no sense
I assume you mean Dillingham, and I was wondering how much court time he was getting. Question answered. 🤔
@ yes and Minnesota might have one of those coaches who don’t like playing rookies
Currently injured I think.
You and AM Hoops are my teo favorite pages and it's so fun when you cover my team!
The trade would absolutely make Minnesota a beast if Randle was willing to come off of the bench. The Wolves should have put Reid in the starting lineup to replace Kat and bring Randle, Donte, NAW off of the bench.
They went from being one of the most exciting fun teams to watch last year to being one of the toughest miserable watches this year, even their wins are tough to watch.
i kept saying that the awkward fit with rudy and kat needed a trade to fix.
but trading KAT was the wrong move, they should have traded gobert. kats skill set is much harder to replace, and he fits much better with ANT because he can pull the opposing big out of the paint to allow ANT to drive.
the trade should have been to deal gobert to atlanta, where he could just run pick and rolls and catch lobs from trae young, and cover up their defensive deficiencies.
atl sends dejounte and filler to orlando, and the wolves get jonathan isaac and jalen johnson as wings that can help hide kat on defense.
Keep it up, keep grinding, and keep your head up when life brings you down.
IMAGINE: getting rid of Big Kat & keeping Gobert instead 🤷🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
"World b flat" is an awesome burn 🤣🤣🤣
Timberwolves have arguable a top 5 NBA player in Ant and one of the NBA's best rim protectors. The Wolves are still over the 2nd apron and will only have about $15 million in space to sign another star if they drop Julius Randle. Julius is going to be tough to trade therefore resigning him is a must. The Knicks were looking to get rid of him years ago, but no one wanted him or his contract. I'm not sure what Minnesota saw in him they could have done better for giving up Kat.
Can ant start getting some blame. Skilled beyond belief. His personality is a concern
Yep. The second he takes off the sneakers, he starts screwing up by talking to reporters.
Ok Cindy.
what about it is concerning cindy
Nice vid bro 👍👍
I said it the moment I saw it lol and as a mavs fan I’m so thankful 😂. That trade made zero sense whatsoever. KAT played a pivotal role last year. They should’ve just kept the same team and added some wing defenders. They should’ve traded gobert for a good 2 way post as well.
Bro the fact they extended Gobert for the next three years for 31 million per year how the fuck does their gm have a job
@ he’s freaking dumb bro. Gobert is a minimum contract player. He shouldn’t be getting deals like that. He brings absolutely nothing offensively. If anything he’s a huge liability offensively.
People called me crazy when I said that the Knicks fleeced the Wolves.
Because of this trade I foresee Ant leaving in a few seasons.
basically 2 minutes of waiting for intro and ads until video really started lmao
KAT is way better than Randle.
Never take a versatile skilled big man superstar for granted
Knicks fan here. Respect to Ju & Donte
The Knicks won something, big cap hits from KAT. He looks great now, congratulations! 😂
24-25 $49 Mil
25-26 $53 Mil
26-27 $57 Mil
27-28 $61 Mil
People can say the Wolves, “lost” this trade today and that’s fine. But we will see at the trade deadline, free agency this summer and the Pistons pick we got with it.
This is probably the toughest nba season so far, all teams except for 3 are struggling
Anthony Edwards already has a winner’s mindset don’t mess this up Minnesota Timberwolves.
They deserve this the front office are certified idiots.
8:38 Zion can’t say that word 😭😭😭
‘World B. Flat’ has got to be the greatest Kyree nickname of all time..🎉
Every player in a professional sports league makes a lot of money. It’s sad that we live in a world that is very greedy. The trade that the Minnesota Timberwolves blockbuster trade might of ruined their franchise. I have no power to say anything but I hope everyone does better each day no matter what life brings even if life is super hard.
They should trade for Walker Kessler
i told this to my brother and ima tell it to yall we goooooood. we either get the chem and start playing like a top team or we solo trade randle for another piece. he has good value around the league and can probably get a good bench piece and start naz or even a like randle +1 and get jimmy. either way i doubt we win a chip this year even if we didnt make the trade but that trade is gonna win us a chip in 2-4 years, bc donte is rlly like that and can change a series
Idk who really wants Randle when teams see the effect he's having on the Wolves right now. A lot of people though Randle was just as good as KAT because they both put up very similar numbers. And now here we are. DDV has been horrendous this year and there were even articles saying what could Minnesota flip him for. But besides ALL that. Imagine coming off arguably a franchise's best season ever. Saying it's not enough. So you trade away a key piece then tell everyone, hey 2-4 years from now, we'll be back! You think Ant's cool with wasting a couple years of his career just waiting on the front office to MAYBE put together a championship caliber supporting cast? Even though they literally had it last year
You think???? They beat Denver in a 7 game series last year with the three headed Monster (Naz, KAT and Gobert) and you get rid of KAT for Julius Randle??? Bigs that can shoot don’t fall from 🌲 🌳 🌴
Nither team really improved. NY was the 2nd seed last year and now they are the 4th seed. Minnesota on the otherhand was 3rd last year and now they are 9th. Neither team really has improved.
Lmao the dumbest thing i have ever heard .....compare seeds from 82 games to 20 odd games 😅
Lol. The Knicks didn't win the trade. They haven't beaten any top teams, any good teams or teams with all of their all star or super star players. What some Minnesota fans aren't getting is that the issue is likely the coach. Look at Randle's stats when he was with the Knicks. Notice that it's IDENTICAL to the one that KAT has now. Now look at KAT's stats on the Knicks and remember that it was IDENTICAL to what Julius Randle had last year. In fact, Julius Randle was better last season. And think about it: Notice that Donte DiVincenzo isn't playing nearly as well either. This seems like a coaching issue.
The coach needs to push the players to: move well without the ball, pass fast in general, pass faster out of double teams, cut to the rim for passes that lead to easy baskets on the run, get out in transition to outrun the other team's defense, speed up the pace, do more ally oops & do more pick n' rolls.
He should be starting Naz Reid and Donte DiVincenzo and should have Jaden McDaniels and Rudy Gobert coming off the bench. How is it that Randle was able to play so well with Jericho Sims and Mitchell Robinson but somehow can't fit with Rudy Gobert? Also Jaden McDaniels seems unable to average more than 10 points. Why is he starting?
Another issue is the front office. They need to get a young point guard. Mike Conley was great in his prime. However that prime is in the rearview mirror. What they should do is get a young point guard & 2 three point shooters. They should also get a young center. What about Wendell Carter? He can shoot 3s, finish on ally oops, finish on pick n' rolls, rebound, defend & block shots. They can also try to rescue DeAndre Ayton from Portland or Nic Claxton from the Nets. Jalen Duren is a good option as well.
New Yorkers are so obsessed with the Timberwolves. Wolves haven’t gotten off to their best start but this has happened before and is to be expected considering. To call them a hot mess is a joke, they’ve been inconsistent to start the season but they’ve beaten several very good teams by more than twenty points and keeping teams below 90 scoring. Knicks are 15 and 9 which is a good start. Timberwolves are 12 & 11. The reality is if the Wolves won three more games they’d have a better record than the Knicks. A three game spread between the two teams doesn’t signify a hot mess. Timberwolves fans have seen this before after a majorly shuffling of key players it takes a bit of time for everyone to jell. I’ll bet Gambling Mike the Wolves have a better record than the Knicks by the end of January. I encourage others to put a bet down on that prediction as well because it will pay off big and Mike will be spouting some weird excuses.
What was the point of trading KAT? Why not trade Gobert? Why did they trade for an undersized power forward who can’t shoot from the outside?
Ant gonna end up optioning out his contract when is up and become a free agent
It would be peak Minnesota if that happens. I just expect my state to blunder every sports move forever
Ofc why he wanna stay ?
"BEST BLACK SPIDERMAN IMPRESSION" be fuckin fr dog.
In my opinion, Kat would have been the same player if we hadn't traded him. He would constantly turn the ball over when he drove to the paint. Would vanish the times the team needed him the most. Julius can always be traded, for what idk but as long as the got something to prove it doesn't matter to me
Best reason to fix this is to trade randle and put naz at the 4 and get a decent pg and a backup center and maybe trade Donte while you’re at it
Buy high, sell low right?
Jimmy getting traded soon I seen it on Yahoo fantasy report 🫣
Being from Minnesota, I was overjoyed with the trade. I still don't mind it. Though KAT is an amazing shooter and talent, he was soft, overly emotional and disappeared in big moments...especially playoffs. His basketball IQ isn't great. Randle has the intangibles that KAT doesn't...toughness and the ability to go get a bucket. True, KAT is an elite 3 point shooter (among other talents), but I feel like Randle being adequate there and DiVincenzo being a very good 3 point shooter, that offsets.
Overall, I think Minnesota overperformed last year, they're underperforming this year. McDaniels and DiVincenzo are off to rough-ish starts (though NAW is off to an exceptional start). These things will tend to balance...especially with DiVincenzo performing better over the course of the season. The chemistry is a question mark. But ANT's ceiling is super high and he may lift his own game and his teammate's games (potentially) over time.
Kats literally been more of a dog this year than randle
“World be flat” 😂😂😂
What you are missing is, NOBODY WANTED GOBERT! So they couldn't trade him away
I'm sure nobody peeped that "World B. Flat" reference 😂😂😂
We already know they start slow. It takes this team time to build chemistry. We jumped on them for bringing in Gobert. Then following season they cooked. If they keep Randle or if he decides to stay they’ll be a decent team. Especially when Dillingham fully develops.
How long is that supposed to take though? Took 2 full years to see the Gobert trade as somewhat of a success. Will it take that long to find success with Randle and DDV?
Timberwolves are championship contenders
No
Being 12-11 and claims your team is a championship contender is crazy
Trade Randle and Gobert fir Kat back. Bench conley for Rob and start Reid wot Jaden bein the defensive core pressuring everything. We got 3 30+ year olds startin and cant keep pace anymore especially wit the pace and teams not bein younger.
I think you’re completely forgetting the fact the CBA had the new deal KAT would’ve never been traded if the aprons weren’t there
The trade that ruined them happened a few years ago, not this summer.
Timberwolves and Knicks in the finals
our owner still hasn't retired KEVIN GARNETT's jersey bro - decision aren't any minnesota teams strong suit.
Randle was not built for a championship contender team.They should trade him.
I think it’s hilarious that they have Rudy Gobert and Julius Randall and they think they’re going to win a championship
"Black Spider-Man impression.. "👀
Trust me we are pissed they traded KAT away over Gobert 😔
Speak for yourself. Gobert made the team into a defensive power.
@ you sound slow 😂😂😂
Idk how people fail to realize Randle isn’t the end piece for MN he will be traded by the deadline they can only resign Naz or Randle not gonna re sign both of them they gonna re sign Naz he is a better all around player and younger.
Randle’s contract is expiring & he is an all star very valuable contract for any team then they have pieces they can add into it like minnot TS even McDaniels if they want.
Minnesota will make a trade by the deadline for a piece that fits well with Ant.
They did the trade to stay below the 2nd threshold anyway otherwise certain rules like only being able to do business with other teams over the 2nd threshold apply + they liked Donte on that team friendly deal that’s a good piece to have long term with Ant
& no I hated the trade I would of tried to trade Rudy even attached a pick for someone to take him and keep Kat
Rudy is a hell of a player under rated but he just gets lost in playoff basketball it’s a whole different chest game when the playoffs come & 7 game series hit.
I been saying since the trade happened as a wolves fan theyve traded the wrong big man. I stand corrected
anyone knows music at 3:30,atmospheric track i keep hearing in videos
Kat was finally turning back into kat unfortunately theres a big ass french men getting in everyones way 😂😂😂
Y’all always do this with Tim Connelly deals. Step one of the cycle
Ruthless trade -Mike Korzemba😂
NO SHIIIIIIIT IT BROKE OUR TEAM LIKE WHY THE FUC DO WE STILL HAVE RUDY OVER KAT LIKE WTF LIKE WHY THE FUC DO WE KEEP THE GUY WHO STARTS FIGHTS AND SPREADS COVID OVER THE DUDE WHO BEEN THERE FOR US SINCE DAY 1
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@GabrielleTheGreat0718 I think it has something to do with Gobert playing defense.
Gobert thrived with just a rookie Donovan. KAT and Ant had plenty of time before Rudy. GMs in league drove his trade price to highest I've seen. They aren't casuals like some......
@@zdanger8479 Casuals don't like D and don't bother to look up adv stats that show players impact on their teams.
randle want to be the number one option unlike KAT already know his role to compliment ANT.
Trades not over yet, Randle could be gone before the trade deadline.
(+30 Year LA Lakers Fan)
Lebron will join the Timberwolves in a swap for Julius Randle very soon.
Say you never watched basketball without saying it lol
Did anyone think exchanging towns for Randle was a good move?
It was a blockbuster move for the Knicks not the Wolves
Mike’s shirt 🕺
Move Randle immediately! They should trade him for elite role players.
Shoulda took Kat, and one other guy (preferably not Rudy but I see no other option) for Embid 🤣. If you’re gonna ball? Ball. Don’t go grab a low to mid center, trade your core center, then extend that mid center by 5 years 🤣. They could’ve taken that money and traded Kat and probably Rudy for Embid, kept their depth and had a dominant force in Joel. Ant and Embid would be like a young Shaq and Kobe potentially. Ant is shooting WAY more threes this year. He’s doing good at evening it out, but he showed last year that he’s nasty in the midrange. He could take a play out of Kobe’s book and dominate with Midrange and Threes with occasional dunks/layups. Not to mention the pick and roll/pop threat Embid offers.