Wolves Backcourt: The Time is Now...Is Slowey Insane?

Like most of us sleaze bags who hoped to hook up with Britney Spears, the time is now for the Timberwolves.

The time is now? What does that mean? Well, Bassy Telfair’s injury, though a bit unfortunate, may finally have open up the scenario we all wanted to see from the very beginning of the season—the trifecta of Foye/McCants/Jefferson all on the court and hopefully giving defenses headaches.

Before anyone begins to whine about letting Beno go (garbage take Doogie) or go on suicide watch if we don’t select Derek Rose, OJ Mayo, Jerryd Bayless or Eric Gordon, sit down for a second, take a few deep breaths and let’s see what these three can make of themselves.

These three literally mean everything for the immediate future of this franchise. If they succeed, they’re the pieces we build around. If the fail, they’re trading pieces we use to go in another direction.

Now, last night a magical thing developed in the 2nd half—Foye and Al were nasty on the pick-and-roll. Anyone familiar with my posts on the KFAN message board know that I have been clamoring for this duo to take advantage of this scheme more often than Rosie O’Donnell has to change her pants.

If Jefferson can go to the gym and develop a consistent 15 footer a la Amare this past off-season, this duo could be as tough to stop as Bret Michaels at a sorority party. Given space, both are nearly unstoppable going to the hoop, will get to the line constantly and create a town of easy points. If you shy off them, it’s basically giving them a wide open free throw.

Now, if help defenders collapse in, Rashad is wide open for three or can slash the baseline. This is nice because it makes his primary objective to score and/or to occasional dish underneath the basket…plus who else would you want to shoot wide open threes on this team?

Put a nasty rebounder for a perimeter player on the weakside wing like Brewer (a 15 foot shot for him wouldn’t hurt either) and all you need is a tall, long, defending interior player on the weakside block looking to grab offensive rebounds and make a few putbacks. Mix in a little experience and you have what would appear to be a nice formula for success.

Is any of this automatic? Without a doubt, no. But, before everyone goes whining about backcourt players we gave up or backcourt players we could acquire, let’s have the patience to watch the backcourt of high-powered, high-potential lottery picks finally get to play together healthy, seasoned and in the regular season before we jump to any conclusions.

If you think you know anything with certainty about Foye/McCants/Jefferson, you don’t. Shaddup, and let’s hope we something special start to come into fruition.

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Today's Twins note:

Is Slowey actually crazy or did this never happen? I received this email from a trustable friend:

There is a story going on the espn message boards about Kevin Slowey.

Essentially, at the end of practice Slowey walked by some kids watching ST and said to one, “Hey, nice shoes. Want to trade?” And of course the kid’s all “SURE!” and gives him his shoes. So Slowey takes them and runs, goes into the restricted area/clubhouse/dugout whatever. Kid waits - 2, 5, 10, 15, 20 minutes, then he’s all teary “Grandma - he took my shoes!” They had to wait around until someone came out and would go in and get the kid’s shoes back.

The next day the kid’s by the fence and Slowey walks onto the field, sees him and yells “Hey kid - find your shoes?” and laughs, keeps going.

What does this even mean? Is Slowey an actual lunatic? Was this taken out of context? Did this even happen? WTF!