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Staff document: 17-65, 20.7% win proportion
The winner of Most Improved Participant in 2010-11, future Corridor-of-Famer Kevin Love had his breakout season in his third NBA marketing campaign, averaging 20.2 factors, a league-leading 15.2 rebounds and a pair of.5 assists whereas taking pictures 41.7 % from three.
Sadly for Minnesota Timberwolves followers, Love’s extremely spectacular marketing campaign, one wherein he additionally earned All-Star honors, wasn’t sufficient for the workforce to be any good that yr, because the workforce went 17-65 for a 20.7 % win fee, which in the end led to then-head coach Kurt Rambis getting fired.
In fact, Rambis wasn’t precisely arrange for fulfillment, because the second-leading scorer on the Wolves that season was Michael Beasley and the third was Luke Ridnour with the workforce nonetheless slowly recovering from the departure of workforce legend Kevin Garnett in 2007-08. A slew of yearly draft night time errors by then-head shot-caller David Kahn didn’t assist issues, both.
For a glimpse into how unhealthy the Wolves had been in 2010-11, Love was the one participant on the workforce with a optimistic field plus/minus on the season. Ridnour and Anthony Tolliver had been +0.0s and everybody else on the roster was a unfavorable.
Love truly ranked thirteenth league-wide in BPM that yr, in addition to thirteenth in VORP and High 10 in Win Shares, making it nearly spectacular that Minnesota was as unhealthy because it was regardless of having an All-NBA-level large man main the way in which.
