doubledribbler
The guy is an idiot. He had back to back years of just loading up on guys that played the same positions. He even traded for for Martell Webster then later wanted the NBA to do something about it because he felt that Portland knew they traded him an injured player. Pretty sure they should have caught that during examinations, unless they decided to overlook it.
Minnesota is one of those teams that they need to find talent at every position, not just get a bunch of guys that play the same one. Sure you can say that in the 09 draft pgs were the best prospects, but to me it’s a big problem when you have one that doesn’t want to come over and you end up trading the best one you drafted. You get left with the one that didn’t even have a great upside and there were so many better players to draft on the board after you selected him. Beasly is a good addition even if he doesn’t turn into what was expected of him, but Miami was pretty much trying to give him away and Minnesota happened to be a team with cap space making the deal much easier. He also didn’t acquire Kevin Love, that was McHale. I’m not sure what Randolph will become, it’s still too early to tell, but even in that situation I see it as "oh look, one of the few teams with enough cap space to help facilitate a deal." I don’t think that deal was about being so much of a mastermind, as the Knicks probably sought them out and the Wolves were not concerned with being under the cap because they were too busy wasting it on useless bench players.