[ESPN] Wolves picking Rubio over Love for a max deal a wise decision

OHMSS is that you?

 

Love is also the best combination of long outlet passes and rebounding in the nba, and by a country mile (how would that synergise with a fast break team....)

 

if we trade for love he isn't a rental, for about 27 other teams he is, the only team i could possibly see him resigning with who has any trade assets at all is cleveland, and i still have doubts he'd want to be in cleveland (sure kyrie is great but the rest of them....plus i think cleveland feel their best hope is the third lord of the rings book).

The lakers don't have **** to trade and the clippers already have an all star pf.

 

Just to tag on to this. Love is also a very low turnover player. In fact he has a lower turnover% than anybody on our roster save for Greg Smith and Carlos Delfino and his turnover% has been coming down. Consider that in regards to how many touches and possessions he uses. He keeps his TO% low while flinging all those long balls down court and taking all those shots. Of all the dominant scorers and rebounders in the league, only Lamarcus has a lower TO% over his career than Love does.

In my opinion, Love would actually make us a much improved defensive team because:

1. He would be the second superstar to help Harden bear the load offensively. This would cut down on Harden's turnovers and Harden forcing too much. Both guys would find themselves more open for their shots in half court sets, which means fewer turnovers and less run outs by the opponents which are the possessions that make our defense look the worst.

2. He is a dominant rebounder. So we could have at least one of him or Asik on the floor for the whole game, leaving our third big to be a guy that can come in and really concentrate on defense. I don't know who that third big would be but Love with Asik means all we need is that third long defender (more of a long PF type since Love would move to 5 when Asik sits) to play rotation minutes alongside Love/Asik. (I'm thinking a guys like Brandan Wright would be terrific.)

 

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Love is really overrated here. The guy has a bad attitude, he's got a huge ego, he thinks he is above his team, he's a huge stat padder, he plays for stats and not his team, he's injury prone, and he never plays a lick of defense ever.

In addition to that, he often chooses to try to pad his rebounding stats rather than try to get back on defense.

He's the classic example of all stats and no wins. He's about the most shallow stat padder and loser the NBA had in recent years, even more than T-Mac.

The term "empty stats" would have Love's picture next to it. That should actually be Love's nickname, "Empty Stats".

 

Actually it is the opposite. He is Bizarro-Love. Bad stats, high impact.

 

love's shooting ability would make him a monster in a pick-n-pop with harden. it would be as difficult for opponents to defend as the yao/tmac pick-n-roll. he would add an extra wrinkle to the offense by giving us an actual post option. and he would team with asik to dominate the boards. whichever poster said his rebounding won't fit well with asik's rebounding is just plain laughable. everyone can and should rebound! get them all!

I would put love as option 1b after dwight. its close because even though dwight gives you the defense and post option, we would still have a hole at the 4, and he's very reluctant to participate in pick-n-roll plays. harden is one of the best in the league at that, and i think it would be best to find a big guy who can play with him.

 

What post game is this you speak of? Love? Kevin love?

 

Image JLin had a run like this and DM was considering giving him the max deal.

I live in MN and Rubio's shot has no arc. Every shot is going straight to the basket and I do not know how much you can improve from this.

 

Rubio will never be a great shooter. He will improve somewhat over time but shooting is not what Rubio is there for.

Can't you see it? He controls the whole game, forces the opponent to play the game at his pace, and he cuts them up with his penetration through double teams and triple teams and then he demoralizes them after he cuts them up with those sensational passes finding guys. Then on the defensive end he plays at such a level that he drives the opponent nuts, not just by defending one guy but by switching on and off the ball and his ability to read offenses and the ability to skip ahead of them.

Rubio is 3 plays ahead of the opponent on both ends. He's a great point guard. He'll become a legend.

 

Lay off the pipe.

 

He;s not high impact. He's a liability on offense. If he was high impact, then he would not have been benched in the 4th quarter of games when he played in Euroleague.

If he was high impact then he would not be playing on one of the worst teams in the NBA in the last 2 years by record, despite having plenty of good players to pass the ball to.

 

The thing is a lot of his White Chocolatesque fancy passes could be just as or at times even more effective through a simple pass. I do think he's a solid PG but he is severely overrated. Too many ignore his bad games because I don't think they watch the Wolves on a consistent basis.

 

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Yes, but isn't his little beard just so cute!!?

Anyone agreeing with the anti-Love poo is seriously deluded.

Besides, if we had Parsons and Love, we'd sell out games, just on drunk white women alone.

 

Rubio is a top 8 point guard without being able to shoot a lick. IF he ever improves his shot, he'll be right up there with Chris Paul.

 

Not sure I'd agree.

In no particular order...

- Kyrie Irving
- Tony Parker
- Chris Paul
- Russell Westbrook
- Steph Curry
- Jrue Holiday
- John Wall
- Deron Williams
- Rajon Rondo
- Derrick Rose (when healthy)
- Damian Lillard

All those guys I'd definitely take above Rubio. There's even more you could make arguments for.

 

Don't be silly.

He'd be top 5 in the NBA. Right up there with LerBon, Durant, Lin, and Dwight.

 

I cannot believe that the wolves are actually trying to keep their max contract for rubio. In the nba there are many great point guards. And right now rubio is not yet great. He is not even a top 10 pg yet. Giving rubio an 80 million dollar contract will be grossly overpaying him.
So to say you are not gonna give a max contract to arguably the best pf in basketball makes no sense to me.