T-Hud isn’t dead, will get start tonight against Lakers

Editor’s Note: You aren’t going to get much Wolves information here this year. Enjoy it while you can.

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When you are around sports, you learn a few things. Here’s what I know for sure:

First, don’t talk trash on the basketball court when you can’t run the floor and you don’t like to play defense. I learned that in seventh grade.

Second, as soon as you say the word “slump” anywhere near a baseball field, you are going to be looking at 3 hits over your next 35 at-bats.

Third, when your coach makes this comment about you, you probably aren’t doing the things he wants you to do:

“Both publicly and to our team, I've used him as an example all year long of a guy that wants to play, probably should be playing, and is not handling it the right way."

Wolves head coach Randy Wittman made that comment about Troy Hudson on Sunday night, after T-Hud poured in 26 points against the Celtics. Hudson says he’s been healthy for months; Wittman’s retort has been to bury him in the dark part of the doghouse right next to the hole where former coach Dwane Casey buried him back in the early part of November.

Could chemistry be any worse on this team right now? When the coach calls out a guy who hasn’t played any significant minutes in months -- AFTER they just lost to the worst team in the league in double overtime, well…its not good times at Target center right now.

So what if the Wolves have 7 point guards on their roster, if Hudson has the hot hand, why not start him? It’s not like that glass ankle is going to hold up for more than a few games, they might as well run him into the ground now. They’re paying him, aren’t they?

The Wolves have become a punch line for a lot of reasons. First they couldn’t make it out of the first round of the playoffs, then they couldn’t make the playoffs at all…again, then they fired Flip and kept McHale, then they hired/fired Dwane Casey, and then they hired Wittman, to do what Flip was doing before, but he will be better at it because he’s more of a yes-man than Saunder’s ever was.

Problem is, during all this transition one thing has remained the same – the Wolves don’t try very hard on defense and their guards don’t make their teammates better.

Isn’t this way Mike James was brought here in the first place, because T-Hud wasn’t doing the things that the Wolves wanted him to do? And now he’s starting ahead of Randy Foye and Mike James? And Marko Jaric and Ricky Davis?

Granted, I am sure he can rap better than all of those guys combined, but he isn’t a better distributor than Jaric and he’s not a better shooter or scorer than James or Foye.

The Wolves are three games behind the Denver Nuggets for the eighth seed in the conference, but they are also just as close to being the 14th best team in the west.

Let’s get this season over with so we can move KG and start over.

I am done talking about the Wolves unless Kevin McHale somehow wins GM of the year or even more incredibly, if they actually make the playoffs.