Congratulations. You've found my first real blog post, even though the strib has relegated my blog to some netherworld even I can't find.

I'll offer a few thoughts from the game today, and my column will be in the Strib tomorrow.

I covered the Wolves-Cavs game at Target Center Friday night, and the email responses were, as if often the case, wilfully ignorant. I didn't say LeBron James was the greatest player in basketball history. Of course he's not. I said he is the greatest athlete ever to play the game.

He's 6-9, incredibly fast, can jump over the backboard, can block shots with either hand, is built like a middle linebacker, and can shoot the three from the parking lot.

His shot is a work of art and he's not the finisher than Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant have been, but he's as tall as Magic, as strong as Karl Malone, and faster than anybody his size who ever played the game. I'll repeat: He is the greatest athlete to ever play basketball.

If you disagree, fine, but at least disagree with what I wrote, not what you mistakenly thought I wrote.

As for the Wolves, well, they should wind up with a lot of ping-pong balls in the lottery. The players don't know how to run the triangle offense, Al Jefferson is not well-suited to that offense, and Jonny Flynn spent much of the game yelling at his teammates. Even if his arguments were right, that probably won't play well during a 60-65 loss season.

What I like is that Kurt Rambis doesn't seem to care about hurt feelings. I already like the guy. He, unlike so many people in modern sports who think their job is fooling you, is very honest, very blunt, and he has a sense of humor.

He'd rather lose games while trying to teach his system the right way than win an extra three games by letting his players do what is comfortable for them. That is the right approach when you are as far down as the Wolves are right now.

Here's the worst thing that could happen to the Wolves: If it turns out that Steph Curry would have been a better pick than either Rubio or Flynn. That would hurt.

I like Flynn, but he's so short he really can't play alongside another pure point guard. He needs someone who can guard a 2, and Sessions can't do that, and we don't know if Rubio will ever be able to do that.

I'm probably the only independent thinker left in town who still likes the Rubio pick, but I still like the Rubio pick. It was a gamble, and the Wolves could wind up looking silly, but I liked them trying for a guy who could some day be considered the best player in the draft.

The real question, for me, is whether Flynn will wind up being better than Curry.

As for Thabeet, as I suspected, he's a long way from being an NBA player. You don't find many guys who move awkwardly who wind up being good NBA players. The game is just too fast.

Back later with observations from The Biggest Game Ever Played, aka Favre Returns to Lambeau.

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