Losing doesn't feel that bad
We lost the Ray Allen, the KG, the Wiggins and the K Love trades. We've endured multiple horrible coaches and GMs. Our soon to be former owner sucks. Our new owners are difficult to trust. The arena sucks considering all the public funds dumped into it.
We just made one of the biggest trades in the history of sports for a player that most of us know is really good but didn't really like while also trading away a huge fan favorite Pat Bev and a fan favorite Vandy while also lighting fire to 3 or 4 draft threads. We aren't sure if this lineup fits the current NBA.
All that said, I'm still excited for what ANT & crew can do these next 4 years. Optimism feels better than bitterness.
Go Wolves!!!!
Posted Jul 2, 2022, 3:14 PM UTC
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Jazz fan here.
Y'all remember when u traded us Rubio, & you told us we had no clue what we were getting & how fucking lucky we were?
Well, consider that debt repaid w/crazy high interest.
Rubio is the fuckin man
Yeah. He is.
And him & Rudy were incredibly close pretty much immediately when he got here, and through till Utah moved him. That should tell you pretty much all you need to know about Gobert's heart, personality & intelligence.
Rudy's bullshit rep is ridiculous. Lots of players don't like him cuz he's not in the mold of a regular nba player. He reminds me a lot of Wiggins--in that he would probably be a lot happier as a tenure-track professor at Yale, than he ever would be as a basketball player.
But the talent is so overwhelming, it just wouldn't make sense logically to NOT make hundreds of millions of dollars by age 35, before pursuing your true passions that will still be there when basketball is done. But the difference is Gobert has a crazy competitive fire that drives him to be the best that just isn't quite there in Wiggings.
What you got is your new best player. He doesn't do it the way Steph, KD, or LeBron do it, but his impact is on their level. He is a misunderstood genius that is always the adult in the room, and I will seriously be shocked if you don't make multiple deep runs & at least one finals appearance in the next 4 yrs.
I'm convinced Quin left the Jazz bcz Ainge had gotten in the ear of our new owner, & convinced him to move Gobert, and Quin knew how stupid that was.
So congrats on Rudy. He's my favorite all-time Jazz player, and I've been a huge Jazz fan since Delaney Rudd was the starting PG under Frank Layden.
I'm also now a Wolves fan. I've loved & appreciated your fan base for a long time, but now you have Rudy, I'm all in. You're now literally the only other NBA team subreddit I've ever subscribed to, and--as you can verify-- this account is a decade old.
So don't be pissed about this trade, and don't feel defeated anymore. I suspect you'll look back on this as the move that finally makes your team into contenders, and breaks the Minneapolis curse.
I really appreciate that write up. I'm so unbelievably stoked. After years of being a laughing stock team, we finally are ready to compete with the best of them
I'm so glad to hear that! Cuz I am heartbroken. And I wrote it in hopes that some of you Wolves fans can begin to appreciate who you just got.
Y'all appreciated Ricky for who he was, and idk if there are more than 3-4 other fanbases that would have recognized & appreciated him the way you did. So I have no doubt you are the right home for Rudy! And I hope you'll let me join you for the ride! Cuz Rudy Gobert is a special player.
🤝