Any half-asleep basketball fan could have conducted this search better than Taylor. You hire the brightest up-and-coming GM candidate in the league, in this case Lindsey. You suggest that he hire the perfect Wolves coaching candidate, Sam Mitchell, but you let the new GM make that decision. You move decisively so the new GM can prepare for and conduct the draft. You get the heck out of the way and let the guy hire his own staff, and recognize that the name “Glen Taylor” is synonymous with ineptitude and nepotism and that you’re going to continue to scare your fan base away from $5 tickets until the populace knows you’ve gone into hibernation.
To summarize, all Taylor had to do was hire Lindsey, hand him the keys and get out of the way. Instead, whomever he hires will be viewed as his fourth choice at best, and if he chooses Hoiberg, nothing he does in the short term will alter the perception that Taylor is incapable of hiring anyone who hasn’t given him a foot massage or a three-foot putt in the past year.
Either way, that was a lot of starts for Kevin Ollie and Sebastian Telfair at point guard. And another member of the backcourt, Randy Foye, was second on the team in scoring but shot only 40.7 percent.