More on the “Brewer’s Blend” Most Improved Player Campaign
The “Brewer’s Blend” campaign site can be found here. I was pretty skeptical when I first heard about this, but I have to say I’m pretty dang impressed. He doesn’t actually have any shot of winning the award over guys like Aaron Brooks, Andrew Bogut, Josh Smith, or Kevin Durant, but it’s a good gesture on the Timberwolves part that says, “we support our players”. For a franchise that for so many years was the model for ineptitude (with all respects to the Clippers), this is a step in the right direction. It’s the second best campaign they’ve ever done, that I can remember, behind the awesome KG4MVP campaign (those KG4MVP license plates were frickin sweet!). With that thought on my mind, I had to watch Derok’s awesome “Can You Feel It?” video that the Wolves played on the Target Center scoreboard before games during the 2004 playoff run. It still gives me goosebumps.
Here’s the Associated Press writeup on the campaign
The Gainseville Sun takes a look at the former Gator’s career thus far
The 6-foot-9 Brewer has flourished at shooting guard in the triangle offense that Rambis brought from the Los Angeles Lakers. In the process, Brewer has put together some YouTube highlight-reel dunks over Los Angeles Lakers guard Derek Fisher and Phoenix Suns center Robin Lopez.
“That’s why I loved Florida because we pressed, I got to get out on the break, got a lot of dunks,” Brewer said. “Now to be able to do it in the NBA, to actually get some highlights, it’s good.”
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Here’s the link to the forum game thread for tonights game: Kings @ Wolves
It’s now or never if we want to end this losing streak. This is Ty Evan’s first game back from injury and last time we played the Kings, he had 29 points, 11 assists, and 9 rebounds. Anythiiiiiiiing is Possiiiiiiiiiiible!
Sportings News game preview
As one of two teams with 60 losses this season, the lowly Minnesota 
Minnesota goes for its first victory in nearly five weeks Wednesday night when it hosts a Sacramento Kings team that’s lost 10 of 12 on the road.
The Timberwolves (14-60) own the Western
“You definitely need a win,” Timberwolves coach Kurt
-I think frustrated is an understatement, Coach.
Jim Souhan really wants you to know how much the Wolves suck at everything
Instead, the position in which the Wolves invested the most has yielded the least.
They took three point guards in the first round of last year’s draft, signed a point guard in free agency, and 10 months later they still lack an NBA-quality starting point guard. To quote Charles Barkley, that’s “Tirble.”
Even Kevin McHale and Randy Wittman, the worst combination of general manager and coach in the history of the NBA, might not have been able to pull this off.
-If it’s any consolation, I didn’t even know Jim Souhan was still writing for the Star Tribune. And for the record, Mchale would have drafted 3 power forwards.
Jerry Zgoda examines the point guard class of 2009
A 2009 draft ballyhooed as the Year of the Point Guard is turning out to be all that, and then some.
“It’s pretty remarkable, isn’t it?” Sacramento coach Paul Westphal said. “It really is unprecedented.”
Ten point guards — 11 if you count Sacramento’s 6-6 hybrid Tyreke Evans, whose team visits Target Center on Wednesday night — were chosen among the draft’s first 25 picks.
In the words of The Situation, “we’ve got a Situation here”
The Nets want to overtake the Wolves in the standings & not finish in last place
The New York Daily News explains The Situation (if you’ve never seen Jersey Shore, click this link)
It seems like a long shot, but the Nets believe they can do it.
“We’ve got some winnable games coming up,” said point guard Devin Harris. “We’re playing better. There’s no reason why we can’t catch them.”
“You look at it from a variety of standpoints and obviously if you’re in the planning stages you want to get a great draft pick, and Ping-Pong balls are important,” said Nets GM/interim coach Kiki Vandeweghe. “But when you go out and take the floor, you want to win the game. I don’t care what else happens, you want to win the game.”
-Yea……riiiiiiight. I thought the Wolves circa 2005-08 had a patent on this strategy? Maybe we better keep this losing streak going just in case the Nets really do want to give us this early Christmas present…
The Funniest Thing I Saw on the Interwebs This Week
Jon Stewart and the Daily Show take on the racist idiot who wants to start an all-white basketball league. Enjoy.
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