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Wolves Updates 7/18

Canis Hoopus — Wolves continue summer league play and more From NBA.com: Boxscore and recap of the team's summer league loss to Portland   From Adam Hill/Las Vegas Review-Journal: Martell Webster was in the crowd, sitting with his new head coach Kurt Rambis. Webster was traded from Portland to Minnesota on draft night and was talking shop with his new coach while watching his new teammates play his old organization.   From Gery Woelfel/The Journal Times: Bucks officials have also discussed possibly bringing back Ramon Sessions, who signed a deal similar to Ridnour's last summer with Minnesota ...

Minnesota Timberwolves July 18, 2010

Taking Stock

Canis Hoopus — A fairly busy couple of weeks since the draft for everyone in the league, including the Timberwolves.  As we sit here today, the Wolves have added 2 immediate roster players through the draft (Johnson, Hayward), a couple of likely stashes (Bjelica, Prentiss), resigned Milicic, reached an agreement with Pekovic, and traded for Martell Webster and Mike Beasley.  As we currently stand, the Wolves have 3 players still on their roster from before the hiring of David Kahn: Jefferson, Love, and Brewer, and at least Jefferson is likely gone before he plays another game for the Wolves.  ...

Minnesota Timberwolves July 9, 2010

The fastest way to 30 wins

Canis Hoopus — Premise: the team is going to roll with Martell Webster and Wes Johnson as our starting perimeter players. Jonny and Ramon perform similar to last year. Love becomes our PF and Darko our C. Conclusion: in general, the upgrade defensively at SG and SF will net this team 10 - 15 more wins next year. Reasoning below. This is a chart showing the correlation between wins (the X-axis) and point differential (Y-axis).  As you can see, the correlation is quite strong. I believe that improving our defense is the fastest and most surefire way to improving our win total. Enter Martell Webster and W...

Minnesota Timberwolves July 2, 2010

Audio: Former Trail Blazer Martell Webster talks trade

Blazers Blog | Oregonian — Webster looks forward to his new opportunity with the Timberwolves, thanks Blazers fans.

Portland Trail Blazers July 1, 2010