Anyone else catch this. Jon K saying KAT isn’t going to be back for awhile still. Interesting considering he was meant to be in be final stages to return.
They have 7 home games and 13 road games after this. They're 11-17 on the road this season and face Lakers, Clippers, Warriors (twice), Kings (twice) and Knicks. KAT's return isn't imminent. All reasons this is a must-win
— Jon Krawczynski (@JonKrawczynski) February 25, 2023
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KATs injury has been so vague and weird. This team can’t get out of its own way
KAT is not magical key to make this team immediately better. He also will need time to reintegrate. Just think about it: Conley and Towns haven’t play a single game together. Our starting PG and second star have not build any chemistry yet. I just hope we show enough character and heart to get in playoffs and be a tough opponent for anyone.
Then it’s quite possible that neither are the playoffs. This season is all but completely lost to me at this juncture. I can’t say we would have fared better with last years squad sans the Big Guy, but Connelly’s big swing doesn’t make it an easier pill to swallow. I don’t mean to beat a lifeless horse. It’s nearly fossilized at this point, but what an epic failure in asset management this has been. The fact that TC has made almost no media appearances during this whole debacle speaks to the return of the antipathy this teams fans have come to expect from their top brass. An empty war chest, inaccurate timelines, an over reliance on aging guards, and the potential to be right back in the lottery with no control over their pick, you’d think the man in charge would have some thoughts to share on the state of this miserable franchise. What’s the plan? Where is this going? Do you believe this can be corrected? He sold us on Gobert like a monorail to dust bowl town. And since? Near radio silence.
Not sure how to interpret this. As we’ve learned recently, KAT is likely not coming back until mid to late March. Is this comment in line with that?
Seems like what we’ve heard from the team recently is that KAT is in fact in the final stages of his rehab and that he’s been on the court. So I wonder if all Jon is saying here is that KAT isn’t going to be the reinforcements this team needs in the next few games…. Or if the recovery is even further delayed than we’ve been told.
Given that KAT missed 50 games or whatever this season has to have exceeded our expectations. I just hope Conley can turn mike conley into something of value this summer so we dont have to do another mid season PG downgrade for contract reasons
From John’s article outlining the blueprint for the Wolves making the playoffs.
>They come out of the All-Star break with a must-win home game against lowly Charlotte, the kind of opponent that has given them far too much trouble this season.
And
>The Wolves also need Towns back on the court to see if things look any better with Gobert than they did in the early going. It will be a tall task to evaluate the supersized frontcourt with such a small sample of games, but the bottom line is they will have to do it. They cannot have the same intrigue about the lineup construction heading into next season. The more games he can play over these final 21 (and the postseason), the better feel the Wolves can get for what to do going forward.
Things aren’t looking good at all right now. It sure would be nice to be a Kings fan right now. Just imagine.
It seems like we’re looking at 10-15 games before he’s back and if we struggle those games he’ll probably just get shut down for the season. No point in bringing him back in if we fall out of the playoff picture
Just shut him down and regroup next year
Jon said in his article this morning that KAT hasn’t practiced with the team yet so this makes sense
Hope he’s spending time with therapists and sport’s psychologists and spending time around real men, cuz he needs to grow up.
He has so much talent and potential, but will all be for nothing if he stays a baby on the court.
We’ve got to get his soft ass off the roster