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http://www.nba.com/timberwolves/fans/town_hall_060615.html
On the afternoon of Thursday, June 15, Vice-President of Basketball
Operations Kevin McHale, Special Assistant Fred Hoiberg, and forward
Mark Madsen met with a group of about 75 season ticket holders in an
open forum discussion at Target Center. The three discussed the direction
of the team, covering everything from the upcoming NBA Draft to the status
of current players like Marko Jaric and Troy Hudson. What follows are some
of highlights of what they had to say.
Opening comments:
Kevin McHale: We’ve been working out players, bring a lot of guys in and
getting ready for the draft. We’ll have an opportunity to do a lot of
things in the draft: we can move a spot, we can move back. I don’t think
I want to move ahead anymore, but we can move back and do different things
so we’re excited about our positioning there. Free agency starts July 1.
We’re getting that put together as to some needs that we want to look at
and then looking at our team and of course calling and talking to
other teams as far as trades and stuff like that. It’s a busy time of
the year, but it’s a fun time of the year, though.
Fred Hoiberg: It’s been a fun process for me to stay involved in the
organization and stay involved in the game. It’s a tough transition
to move on from playing, especially when it’s not on your own terms
so that’s been difficult for me. But with all the risks involved—which
we don’t know what they are—after my heart surgery, the smartest thing
for me to do was to move on just because there were too many unknowns.
If I was a young player, a rookie without a family, I’d probably be out
there
playing, but with the family that I have, I thought it would be smartest
just to move on. It’s been exciting to see how things work on the other
side of things. I’ve been a part of helping put the work outs together.
We had four great players in today. It was probably our best workout
that we’ve had up to this date. We’re starting to bring in the guys
right now that we really feel fit what we have at the sixth pick. It’
s been good. We bring them in, we interview them, find out a little bit
about
their background, and see what they can do. And it’s nice to be able to
put them in situations that we think might exploit their weaknesses a
little bit. That’s been fun. It’s a lot of work. I’m not used to staying
in the office until five or six o’clock every night so that’s been the
biggest adjustment for me. But I appreciate the opportunity to stay with
this organization.
Mark Madsen: There was a game this last season when we played Philadelphia
here at home. We played a great game for four quarters. I think Allen Iverson
took a shot that was contested with about five seconds left. The ball
bounced to about the free-throw line where one of their players caught
it with one second left and tipped it in from the free-throw line.
I think that game was little bit of a representation of our season.
We had some things go wrong. Unexpectedly, we lost Fred, one of the best
shooters in the NBA. We lost Troy who was also a great shooter.
When you loose great shooters, it changes the way teams can play us.
And so I think—and Fred and McHale talked about this—they’re really
scouring the different opportunities. And as a player, I know that we
all have a fire lit underneath us. I know that my own off-season program
has been very intensive. I’ve been watching games in the NBA—the Dallas
games, the Phoenix games. And what I see is the NBA shifting a little bit
to more of an
up-tempo style so I’m trying to adapt to that as a player and I think
that’s a real big focus of mine and the other guys are really looking
forward to next season.
McHale on how decisions the team makes on free agents affect who they
will draft:
I think you go for the best player available at six. We have guys that
we really like. We really like Marcus Banks. We really like Justin Reed.
But then we have free agents we’re looking at. When you’re taking
19, 21-, 22-year-old kid, you’re looking at basketball players for the
future. Right now we’re looking at free agents that we can sign that will
have an impact right away. I think it’s unfair to say that you’re going
to put x amount of pressure on your rookie and say we drafted the guy to
play center, point guard, forward, whatever, and we’re just going to throw
him in there. It’s been a long time since a rookie has come in and really
had an impact on our game. We have a plan that we mapped out and we’re
going to look at it and I will say we’re going to take the best player
available—the best basketball player—at number six.
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Hoiberg on Troy Hudson’ rehabilitation progress:
His doctor that we’re working with wanted to put him on a sixty day plan
which should expire in the next 15-20 days and then we’re going to get
him down on the court and try to put him through a training camp-type
workout to see how he responds to that…but he’s confident that he’s
going to play again. His mind is better than it was a year ago. So hopefully
we can get this thing healthy because, like Mark said, we missed Troy a lot
last year and he does bring a lot of things to the court. We could
have used his shooting last year.
McHale on who is the best player available in the draft:
I think if I told you guys, I’d have to kill you so I guess can’t tell
you all. No, we’ve got a lot of guys we like. We’re bringing in more
guys and I also went overseas and looked at the kid Bargnani, he’s an
interesting player. It could be a kid—Lamarcus Aldridge from Texas.
I really like Morrison a lot. Randy Foye who we had in today. We’re
bringing in Brandon Roy. There will just be a lot of good players available.
It just depends on who goes one through five. We have eight or nine guys
who
we really like a lot and who we’re really looking at. Having eight or
nine guys that you’re looking at really [allows some freedom] Every year t
here’s two or three teams where the cut-off point is six. There’s six
great players and then there’s seven through fifteen. I like nine guys a
lot so a lot of teams have called up wanting to go six and we can move
back and still get a player we really like and maybe pick up another piece
and do some things. It will be a really good basketball player. You
can’t have everybody know what you’re doing because it’s harder to move
around when everybody knows what you’re doing, but I’m down to a couple
guys in my mind that I’m pretty sure are going to be there and that I’m
a little higher on than other guys.
McHale on Marko Jaric:
To me, personally, I think we almost did a disservice to Marko playing
Marko strictly at the one. Marko is a one, two, or three. When he’s
playing the three spot he’s so much more athletic and he goes by his
guy and makes plays. Marko had the worst shooting year, and he’ll admit
it, really a bad year. We played him at the one almost exclusively and he’s
a basketball player…Marko might be one of our best decision makers on the
break, getting it up to the wing, getting it to the middle, and passing
the ball.
Hoiberg on Jaric:
Marko was always a guys who was in the top ten, top twenty three point
shooters in the league. Last year he just could not find the basket.
I think some of that had to do with coming off a very tough year with
his national team where they had a lot of problems with that. So I
think he’ll be better next year. It’s going to depend on him coming
in in great shape. He’s got to make a commitment to get himself back
where he was, the type of player he knows he can be.
Hoiberg on the importance of confidence:
You compare last season to when we went to the Western Conference finals.
All those close games we lost last year, we won those games every single
time. We knew if the game was within one or two points with three or four
minutes left, we were going to find a way to win that game. Last year, it
almost seemed like we found ways to lose games and that doesn’t happen
if you have confidence.
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McHale on hesitancy:
Last year we had guys—Marko, Marcus, Rashad a little bit but then he got
better towards the end—that were just a little hesitant at the end of the
game. And you can’t be hesitant. You’ve got to let it go when the ball
comes around. That’s one thing about veteran guys—like Freddy. When the
ball the ball came around and Freddy had missed two or three, he took the
next one. And sometimes young guys, they’re a little bit afraid to take
that next one.
McHale on what the Wolves are looking for in free agency:
There’s not a great free agency crop this year, but there are some guys
that we’re looking at that we like. We probably would like to get a guy
in here who could spread the court, a shooter, a guy that has been around
a little bit probably. And then maybe do a trade or do some other things
to bring another veteran in, bring a couple veterans in—a couple older-type
guys.
McHale on McCants:
I’m a big Rashad McCants fan because he can flat out play basketball.
He’s been working hard all summer…That kid can play basketball. His
development was very good. I think as a young guy coming in, you have
so much to learn defensively, so many different schemes and just the
terminology. But I thought he progressed very well.
Madsen on McCants:
Early in the season last year I remember Ron Artest was guarding Rashad.
Ron Artest, probably the best defender in the league along with guys like
Bruce Bowen, Trenton Hassell, Raja Bell. Rashad was calling for the ball,
demanding the ball to post up on Ron Artest. And he got the ball and he
scored right over Ron. And then he started talking to Ron. And why do you
like that? You like that because here’s a guys who’s a rookie who’s
fearless and you need guys like that. You need guys like that for
important situations where the game is on the line. Guys that are not
afraid to be the hero and guys that are not afraid to be the goat.
Hoiberg on the importance of training camp for team chemistry:
The other important thing is to have these guys in a training camp
setting where they know everything going on with the system and we
didn’t have that last year. Basically those four guys came in and
I remember in their second game, it was Kevin and the four new guys
in there at the end of the game and they were just out there playing
together, not knowing the offense, not knowing what defensive schemes
we were playing. I think to have them in a training camp setting where
you put all that stuff in and
they’re there for a full season will definitely help. And I think it’s
up to us to put pieces around them that are going to make them successful.
Spreading the court with some shooters. Getting the veteran leadership in
here that we need will definitely help, but I think getting everybody
together and getting that team chemistry where it needs to be—where
it was a couple of years ago—is very important. I think that’s overlooked
sometimes, how important getting that close group is and I think we
were lacking that a little bit last season.
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