Dos Point Guards

The 2009 NBA draft is now in the books, and it was definitely exciting for the Wolves. It was definitely a point guard festival with the Wolves selecting four point guards with their six picks. Thankfully, two of those picks were traded for future consideration.

Wolves fans were pleasantly surprised and extremely excited to land the dynamic Spaniard, Ricky Rubio, with the 5th pick. (I still can't believe it. We could have Ricky Rubio in Minnesota next year!) The excitement quickly turned to confusion when they selected another point guard, Jonny Flynn, with the 6th pick. After that they grabbed Ty Lawson (another point guard) and the confusion level went through the roof before it was quickly announced that Lawson was being traded for a future draft pick. The Wolves also landed a quality shooting guard in Wayne Ellington with their final first round pick. In the second round, the Wolves selected point guard Nick Calathes (and traded him away) and something named Henk Norel (one of Rubio's teammates in Spain who I don't think will ever see an NBA court as a player).

If you buy into Kahn's reasoning that both Rubio and Flynn can be key players on the court at the same time, Wolves fans should be on clould 9, right? Well, we are Wolves fans, so things aren't perfect. Rubio may not play in Minnesota next year or ever. Ugh. More of my thoughts on this later.

Note: I've been busier at work recently so I haven't been able to comment on the recent Wolves news much lately. I hope to have a little more time soon to be able to add some in depth comments on the post-draft roster and the coaching search.