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The 1-4 Wolves worked out for about two hours today at Target Center the afternoon after Wednesday’s late loss to the Celtics.
A couple topics of interest today:
* The Wolves have hired former Wolves guard Darrick Martin for that player-personnel coach job that’s part of David Kahn’s plan to make the Wolves the league leaders in player development.
Martin was one of several candidates auditioned - former Wolves Tony Campbell and Chris Carr were among that group - and it’s probably no coincidence that the team ultimately chose a former point guard. Make sense with so much invested in Jonny Flynn, Ramon Sessions and Ricky Rubio.
The other part of that player development equation is the Dallas-based clinical psychologist Kahn has hired. Dr. Yolanda Brooks has been around the team quite a bit to observe its dynamics. Kahn hired her as a resource to help players with any off-court issues they might have.
* Rookie point guard Brandon Jennings comes to town tomorrow night in a meeting with Flynn, two of the top 10 players taken in last summer’s draft. They’ve already met twice in the preseason. Jennings’ regular season start has been, well, impressive. A work colleague and admitted Bucks fans texted me the other night after watching Jennings play Detroit and the essence of the text was “OMG.”
Here’s a point I’ve been thinking about: Kahn waited until August - more than six weeks after the draft and nearly three months after he was hired - to hire a coach because he said he wanted to be sure he wanted to be absolutely sure he was making the right call with such an important decision.
Isn’t a little incongruous that he took two point guards with those fifth and sixth picks and then hired a coach who runs an offense that, well, doesn’t minimize the point guard but certainly doesn’t entrust the ball in their hands and rely upon them to create.