Wolves’ coach Kevin Mchale gushed about Love’s play afterwards, and said he had to remind himself that Love is only 20, because he’s rebounding at a much higher level.
“I’ve been telling people all along, for a 20-year-old kid, that guy rebounds the ball at such a high level it’s ridiculous,” McHale said. “I keep on forgetting he’s 20 at times. When he gets his endurance up — he’s still got that transformation going between young man and man, where your endurance picks up, everything gets stronger, and when he goes through that … I’ll tell you what, he’s good right now, he’s going to be tremendous. He’s been really good for us.”
“If you ever shake his hand or try to get a rebound from him, you’ll see Kevin Love has some really strong hands,” Foye said. “I’ve never seen anybody with hands like that. You get the rebound, and he’ll snatch it right out of your hands. He’s a blue-collar guy, as you can see by his play. He gets out there and rebounds. He does all the dirty work for us.”
McHale watches Love and can see the player he will be, say, eight years from now. Love, in the meantime, wants to be that player right now…
From Jerry Zgoda/Star Tribune:
Randy Foye, guard: If he keeps this up, he’ll replace Al Jefferson as the obvious pick here week after week. He led the team in scoring for the fourth time in six games against Miami on Tuesday, countering Dwyane Wade’s 31 points with 29 of his own. He scored 15 points Friday, including a 20-footer to put the Wolves up for good.
“I’m just being really aggressive and playing off my teammates,” Foye said. “I’ve got to give a lot of credit to my teammates because they give me a lot of open shots. The main thing is just being aggressive out there.”
Foye has improved month by month. In November, he averaged 12.1 points per game while shooting 40.3 percent; in December, it was up to 16.6 and 41.6 percent.
“I hadn’t shot this well, but that’s just putting in all the extra work before and after practice,” he said. “That’s the type of results you get when you work hard.”
“It will be up to Kevin to find out, is this something that he wants to do, and is he good at it,” Taylor said. “I didn’t make him the interim coach. He knows that his job is to coach. There are lots of factors — how this works out with his family — and I know Kevin well enough not to press him on those things until he does this for a while. He looks like he’s enjoying it.”
What we know now is that trading these stars before their free-agency expiration dates approached would have been unpopular, and wise.
Part of that can be attributed to the new NBA rule that everyone had to attend a college for at least a season. So they all did, exactly for one season.
“That’s the craziest part, we’re all 20, 21,” Love said. “We’re young. That’s real young. Somebody was telling me the other day that Larry Bird came into the NBA his rookie season at 23. It’s going to be crazy to see how we develop and who grows still. Our bodies will change. Our minds will mature. It’ll be fun to see once we really start figuring it out.”
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