For being one of the few on here to not buy into the hype that is Thibs. This Minnesota thing is even worse than I suspected and he has to share in a great deal of the blame. Top 5 coach? please. They look like they are going to struggle to get to 25 wins. 27 point loss at home to the Detroit Pistons. The wheels are falling off and he appears to be a guy with no answers. There was lot of Thibs love around this time last season and he is flopping big time.

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Denied.

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Matches also a huge Trump supporter. Just keeps on winning .

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Matches Malone murdered a guy.

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Only as a favor.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Same guy who said give Hoiberg a chance with a veteran roster with lots of playoff experience is taking a victory lap after a young team that's never won anything is struggling a quarter of the way into Year 1

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I was in the back of a pickup with Matches Malone and an honest to god live deer. Matches gets this look in his eye, grabs the deer by the antlers and says "Say It!!" He then squeezes the deer in such a way that the deer says "Matchesmalone!" It wasn't exactly it, but it was pretty good for a deer!

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

Why not? Hoiberg started 23-15 and people were still saying he was terrible. There are no signs that Minnesota is going to play much better. Hoiberg had injuries Thibs doesn't. They are getting blown out on a regular. It is safe to say that Thibs isn't the "second best coach" in the league.

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Did I ever tell about the time Matches Malone showed up at my sister’s wedding? You know my sister, she’s a beautiful girl. Well, Matches shows up and you know he’s a big fella. Well, he’s standing right between me and my sister at the ceremony. He’s got no right to be there, but he’s drunk and he’s Matches. Well, long story short, the priest accidentally marries me and Matches. We spend the weekend in the Poconos — he loved me like I’ve never been loved before.

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One time Matches showed up to my nephew's birthday party. He rang the doorbell, and was standing there on the porch with a burlap sack full of human teeth. Then he punched me in the face, and had sex with my wife right there on the living room floor.

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I once saw him scissor-kick Angela Lansbury.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Did I ever tell you about the time I went horseback riding with Matches, but there weren’t any horses around? Well Matches throws a saddle on my back and rides me around Wyoming for three days. Well, wouldn’t you know it, my stamina increases with each day and I develop tremendous leg muscles. So anyway, Matches decides to enter me in the Breeders’ Cup, right, under the name Turkish Delight. And I’m running in second place, and I’m running and I break my ankle! They’re about to shoot me. Then JoeOrr, who bet a lot on me so he really cleaned up, well he yells out from the grandstand "Don’t shoot him, he’s a human!"

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Sex isn't dirty, sex isn't a crime. It's a loving act between two or more consenting adults.

-Hank Kingsley

and VDN is outta a job

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Timberwolves were 9-14 after 23 games with Sam Mitchell last season.

They are 6-17 after 23 with Thibs.

Same young players and Mitchell didn't take over until right before the start of the season. Towns was just a rookie and Wiggins was nowhere near being established. Lavine either. This is bad.

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Your obsession with this is unhealthy.

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Me and LTG are right about Thibs. Nomination approved!

As for the other posts...



When you're a day-walker you can get away with a lot of things.

And obfuscation is rather unbecoming for a man of your ilk. Is it any doubt that there would be a barrage of posts from people if his record were say 17-6?

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C'mon Nas, you have to admit, no one thought they'd be this bad out of the gate.

And if people want to credit Thibs when things went right with the Bull, then you have to lay at least some of the blame upon him for the Timberwolves stumbles don't you?

Not from me. I expected struggles. If later this year they're having the same issues or they don't make the playoffs next year then I will have problems.

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I didn't expect them to be good. I knew the first year wasn't going to be easy. The Bulls had already had success when Thibs got there and their core had been in the league for at least 3 or 4 years. Changing the culture of a team doesn't happen overnight. The expectations by MANY were unrealistic.

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Isn't it possible that Thibs is much more Scott Skiles than he is Rick Carlisle?

It is definitely possible BUT he also had success in Boston and with Team USA. All those guys loved him.

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These are not merely struggles. They are losing to non playoff teams on a regular basis. If they have a worse record under Thibs than they did under Mitchell then that should be cause for concern. Right now they stink.

No one on here predicted that they would be this bad. Thibs was marketed as the guy to fix all that ails and that hasn't happened.

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Yep.

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Yeah but when you're the one steering the ship you have to know when to take the foot off the gas. I don't think he knows how to do that nor will he ever. He coaches the way he coaches and his style just doesn't lend itself to sustained success at the professional level.

Read my posts from the very beginning. My expectations were spot on even though I am a Thibs fan. Just like last year I said it was unfair to expect a first year college coach surrounded by high school assistants to be great. I said he would get better in year 2.

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The Milwaukee Bucks are being led by Young players and they are playing much better than Minnesota. The Lakers have gone young and they have a better record also. Both have less talent than Minnesota. Both have coaches considered worse than Thibs.

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We'll find out soon. I wouldn't put too much weight on this start though. He really needed a veteran like KG around this first year.

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