Snake-bit Franchise

So, quick post about tonight's T-Wolves game while it's still fresh in my mind. The Wolves seem like a totally different team without Al Jefferson, and not in a good way. There are no easy baskets on offense, there is scant help defense inside on the other end, and we played all of our remaining good players into the ground tonight. Poor Kevin Love, playing out of position at the 5, tried so hard tonight to guard Jermaine O'Neal, but was just too small and inexperienced.

This franchise is beyond snake-bit...the venom is coursing through our veins at this point. Not to mention all the woe this franchise has endured for 20 years, just tonight we were missing:

Corey Brewer--season-ending knee surgery
Kevin Ollie--broken elbow
Craig Smith--cracked rib
Al Jefferson--torn ACL, done for the year
Rashad McCants--hospitalized (!?) due to flu-like symptoms

McHale is unfortunately going to have to start playing our scrubby backup bigs...guys with horrible PERs like Jason Collins, Mark Madsen, and maybe even Calvin Booth who honestly have no business being on an NBA roster other than the fact that they're big, somewhat experienced, and good in the locker room. We can't just have Love and Brian Cardinal, who is honestly a scrub himself, as our only two bigs.

If I were McHale, I'd also try to push the pace as much as possible. If you're going to lose, you might as well try to put up points. Lord knows this team isn't going to win with their defense, and half-court offense is now infinitely more difficult without Big Al to dump it down to.