OZZY

Great pickup by the Wolves. Ndudi Ebi is a awesome talent, long, athletic and can handle the ball. I think he will make a great SF/PF on the Wolves for many years to come.

I knew his stellar preformance against LeBron would pay off, heck that is what impressed Kevin about Ebi he did not backdown from LeBron.

Ebi might not be a All Star but he is athletic so that is a plus, he is also young so we can build and develope him, and he is a defender. He could be a awesome shot blocker and the Wolves with have a par of great defenders at the 4 and 3 spot in the future. Ebi might not score a ton of points, probably 15-18 but he can flat out defend and his size at 6-9 and long arms helps as well.



Welcome to Minnesota Ndudi, you will have one hell of a teaching in KG! I see great things coming from Ebi and KG will teach him a lot because they are very similar players.

soulson11

i dont know, im kinda dissapointed with this pick. i believe there were better players out there

Jonathan Watters

Amen. If we were going to get a project, we should have gone after Lampe.

But the best pick would have been Howard. He would have started from day one.

And then Rickert. What a joke.

tdizzle

The reason they didn't go after Lampe in the 1st was b/c if he got drafted there is a guranteed contract, and I don't think the Wolves want to pay for that considering he will be over in Europe. The Knicks got lucky with having the 1st pick in the 2nd round. I actually think Rickert has a chance at making the T-Wolves, good shoter from the outside and has good size, needs to put on some weight though. But I think if Rickert was coming over from Europe this year rather then from UM, he would be a first round pick.

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Carpe Diem

I was hoping for Lampe too. But I think that was based on the hype of seeing him as high as #5 in some mocks. McFlip sees Ebi as having a huge upside, which is what can be expected from the #26th pick in the first round. Howard would not start for us. As for Rickert, who cares. They threw a bone to a hometown boy. At best, he takes Loren Woods seat at the end of the bench. At worse, he generates some local excitement in MN until he gets cut. I'd rather have Ebi/Rickert than Iggy/Woods as our end of the bench. We improved as much as can be expected.

Jonathan Watters

I'd much rather have Loren Woods on the end of the of bench instead of Rickert...

OZZY

Totally agree, Kevin will make Rick into a wonderful player.

The Wolves system fits Rick Rickert because Rick can shoot. People think Rick can't defend, well neither can Wally but KG can freaking play defense for the entire team at times. And with Ebi on board at SF they will be a very good defensive team. Rick will be better though, just take for example Rasho, that guy was weak and not aggressive or tough. But Kevin taught him the right way to play and now look at him, he attacks the rim and can play tough defense.

I think that exact same thing will happen with Rick, he will get tougher, he will be more aggressive and stronger in the post under McHales teaching. Kevin McHale can flat out teach big men how to play in the post, what a talented prospect he has in Rickert.

To say he should not have been picked by the Wolves, WTF? Who else should we have got huh? Rick will improve for the Wolves and like someone else said Ebi and Rickert make the Wolves a much better team in the future.

People forget Rickert is VERY young still, by most peoples logic if Kenyon Martin came out his SOPH yeah he would have "dropped" and people would say you suck! But Kenyon was a slow developer and I believe Rick is one as well, not comparing him to Kenyon just saying some players develope faster than others.

But don't write Rick off that fast, it doesn't matter where you start it is where you finish!

Ryan Bowen, Greg Buckner, Emmanuel Ginobili, Jarron Collins,Rasual Butler and Tamar Slay.

Fellas all of these players were picked 50th or lower in the 2nd round, and they turned out JUST fine! And I only went back 4 years to get those.

HKF

If McHale really was a good big man teacher than why did Joe Smith suck so bad, and what about Mark Jackson and Gary Trent, they didn't do anything for the Wolves. He doesn't teach their big man anything.

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OZZY

Ok did you see Rasho his first few years, the guy would have never even hurt a fly. And Kevin made him into a much more aggressive player, he made him confident in his abilities and taught him a TON of low post moves Rasho will use the rest of his life.

Trent, well he is a very good player for the Wolves, he was a tough guy and believe it or not he had 20 point games on the team. Since when was 6 points 4 rebounds a game for a player getting very limited mins, he provided toughness and that is all they needed.

And did you see Marc Jackson in the playoffs, he played wonderful basketball and I forget his stats but they were pretty damn good against a fine Laker team.

Joe Smith, well you can't really teach a prospect that is injured every single year, a player that is injured multiple times during the year even.

Heck he made Reggie freaking Slater look ok at times!



Kevin is not the best big man teacher but he is not that bad, he made Rasho better and I think he will make Rick better as well when talking aggression, toughness and post moves...

Mr. Predictable

Minnesota, really they have no time for projects.

Indy Ebi is lanky and straight out of high school, its a good 2 to 3 years before he even gets decent minutes... But with Sam Cassell things are looking bright for the Wolves, thank God KG finally gets a 2nd option.

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sheefo13

u gatta remember that kg aint there to teach, he has to worry about winning and gettin to know the other players with this carzy summer for the twolves. of course kg will teach ebu here and there and they may just be good friends. also, rickert is horrible, he cant even make the desicion of stayin in school to be a better player, what makes u guys think that he will make the right desicion of gettin on the right plane or practicing to make himself better. Loren woods may still be good, there is a reason why rickert was picked so late and by the twolves, so people would get excited about a hometown boy to put people in seats and he is ...............(how do i put this in a good way) is horrible, not the kind of nba player.

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OZZY

Think what you want to think but you better hold that opinion when Rick makes the team and Kevin turns him into a alright NBA player. Yeah Rick won't find motivation from dropping, yeah right.

And weren't you the person that said El Amin would make the Wolves roster....?

rocketeer

guys, ebi is good right now. i don't think he is going to be a huge project. right now, he can play better defense than most people in the nba. he is a good shot blocker, rebounder, and just great defender. he played against my high school this year. he is such a good defender that we just had our best player(i think he is going to play in college next year somewhere. he had interest from mississippi state but couldn't make the grades) stand around at half court to take ebi out of the game defensively. and he did a very good job on lebron.

his offensive game needs work. that might take a couple of years to get reliable. but he does have range. but he should still be able to contribute early just because how good of a defender he is.

JarvisHayes24

for the future I see him more as a SG/SF kind of guy, who can play next to Wally and KG. isn't Hudson a free agent? what happens with him

HKF

God Ozzy you have got to be one of the biggest homers I have ever seen.

Do you really think R