![]() Here’s a reminder of some things J-Craw did in his lone season in ‘Sota: ![]() ( Editor’s note: Sort of like a real-life version of Uncle Drew, perhaps, with far less grey hair.) Crawford deserves remembrance from Wolves fans for bringing that energy to ‘Sota for a year. One can rest assured that J-Crossover is *still* a fierce bucket-getter and will be until he’s a very old man. Crawford, who had not retired but remained unsigned when the 2019-20 season was suspended, is probably in a gym somewhere in the Seattle area embarrassing people and teaching his craft to the next generation of Pacific coast ballers. Aside from handling the ball better than you everyone, volume-scoring is J-Crossover’s basketball mantra. This is about volume scoring and the art therein as seen through one observer’s eyes. While wasn’t even a starter, he was the guy who came off the bench to provide buckets. Brought in by Tom Thibodeau before the 2017-18 season, Crawford played just one season in Minnesota. Jamal Crawford: J-Crossover had the best handle of anyone who made the list yes, that means something to me. So, here is the short list of *my*–not necessarily your–favorite volume-scorers who donned a Wolves uniform, along with a few random stats that jumped out at me in revisiting their pages and some video for those of you who are visual learners or simply appreciate the craft. No, this listicle won’t take you to the hallowed nirvana of hoops efficiency, but it might jog some memories you can jam to while you await the return of real, live, basketball. After all of you efficiency nerds stop rolling your eyes and fidgeting with your TI-86s, I hope you’ll enjoy the ride. This edition of A Few of My Favorite Things discusses Wolves players whom I consider to belong to one important category of my favorite things–volume scorers. It’s free content, so what do you have to lose? Buyer beware. Others might go under-the-radar as extreme Wolves-geek esoterica. Hopefully my fever dreams and ramblings will amuse you also.īe forewarned: lots of opinions and takes will follow. ![]() Not scientifically, but in light of the oddities and things I’ve found the most interesting in my mind’s own catalog. Since then, I’ve been reading and thinking about how to synthesize 30-plus years of Wolves watching from my own selfish fan’s perspective. I’ve been watching the Timberwolves obsessively since the team tipped off its first game on day one of the 1989-90 season ‘til the novel coronavirus put the team out of its misery in March. The time off from normalcy has forged some kind of interest in revisiting the Wolves’ weird history and some of the team’s most-interesting characters. While the ESPN documentary The Last Dance, on Michael Jordan and the Bulls, captured the most attention, the Timberwolves have also had an interesting history, replete with bumbles, stumbles, heroes, villains, and other sundry characters. At risk of heresy–and as much as I wish COVID-19 hadn’t forced the league to suspend the season–I can say that I’ve enjoyed the looks back. * Organizers in Washington warn the public that if a May exhibition soccer game between the United States and Ireland doesn't pull a huge throng, the city's chances of getting important late-round games in World Cup 1994 will be nil.Coronavirus lockdown has taken us from a state of “I’m addicted to my iPhone and frenetic news cycles” to “I haven’t seen NBA basketball in two-and-a-half months and ‘I can haz NBA classic games?’” In the absence of the present-day NBA, we’ve been taking a deeper look at the past. and sneak in through the Washington Senators first base dugout to check out the action a couple of times a year, took in his first NBA game ever a couple of weeks back. * Former President Nixon, who used to slip away from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. * Washington Bullets center Pervis Ellison will run summer camps at Bowie State July 13-17 and July 20-24, 9-to-5 daily at a cost of $200 per camper. Kent Desormeaux was tabbed the least valuable player, which makes you wonder what the three-time Maryland rider of the year did to deserve the honor: run the wrong way on the bases? * A bunch of jockeys took on a crew of Hollywood celebrities in a softball game to benefit the Don MacBeth Memorial Jockey Fund with Laffit Pincay making off with the MVP award as the jocks won, 15-9. ![]() The writer hopes a reappraisal of the situation will prompt baseball to right this alleged wrong. * "Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball" is a book authored by Harvey Frommer, which once again pleads the case for Joe Jackson being framed in the Black Sox Scandal of 1919. ![]()
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