Posted by Pharzeone:

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Posted by Paladin55:

Everyone is also forgetting Flynn. I assume he has been saying all the right things (haven't seen him speak since the draft, myself), but how do you think HE feels about being drafted with Rubio, and the possibility that he may play SG instead of the position he has always played. "Yeah, Jonny, we really like you as a PG, but we got this other player who may or may not pan out, and as long as we are playing him at PG, you are our SG.

excellent point... obviously MIN was very high on Flynn to take him at #6 because no other team was realistically going to take him in the top 10 if they didn't... he's the guy they probably had pinned as their PG of the future... i highly doubt they took him that high only to tell him, "oh, btw, we're gonna have you & Rubio switching off in our backcourt for the next 3-4 years even though it doesn't make a bit of sense to do it".

taking Rubio was akin to finding a wallet full of money on the sidewalk & picking it up with the knowledge that you'd be searching out the owner of that wallet eventually & expecting some kinda reward out of it... they couldn't just leave Rubio lying there, they had to take him, if for nothing else but to use as a valuable trade chip later... they had to know that getting him to agree to come to MIN would be a risky proposition.

Would it shock anyone if Khan took Rubio for Walsh. I think a deal is motion and it gets serious once FA starts. There are so many things the Knicks can offer for Rubio and T-wolves players. I hope that Rubio ends up in NY. Its just to ideal a situation for him. A Match made in heaven.

Its really not fair that T-Wolves took Rubio knowing that he wants to play in the NBA and needs to pay for a buyout. That was a dick move by Khan, he knows that playing for T-wolves he won't be able to pay for that huge buyout. Khan did the kid no favors.

Rubio should no way report or play for T-Wolves.

Kahn should have taken Curry if he wanted a projected PG to play SG, at least Curry is suited for the position. Maybe he thought that Curry would drop down to his former mentor, and did not anticipate that GS would take him- otherwise he seemingly thought that Flynn was a better SG or future PG than Curry.

The reason we are all speculating is that if he took Rubio and Flynn with no intention on moving either of them, it makes no basketball sense at all given the fact that he could have taken a guy like DeRozan to fill his SG slot, or even traded the 6 to the Knicks, who would have taken Curry, while still being able to get a SG at 8.

But ah, you forget the obvious. The T-Wolves were not high on DeRozan. They scheduled a last minute workout for him but he canceled the workout. So why would a team say great let's draft him anyways. They didn't like the SG prospects past Evans.

Then go with Curry- who can actually play SG. Still an undersized SG, but at least he has played SG before, and he has much better range on his shot.

And if you don't like Curry you trade the pick and take someone else.

There is really no way to defend his choice unless he plans on trading either Rubio or Flynn at some point.

Posted by orangeblobman:



I think that's Brandon Jennings more than Rubio. Rubio is a humble nice kid by all accounts.

And how did you come to this conclusion?