Glen Taylor
Glen Taylor
Glen A. Tayloris an American billionaire businessman who is the majority owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves National Basketball Association team, owner of the Minnesota Lynx WNBA basketball team and a former member of the Minnesota Senate...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth20 April 1941
CountryUnited States of America
assume guy judge less longer period played playing though time work
I think you work with a guy over a longer period of time and you try to judge him over the whole period of time. Though we're having difficulties this year, I don't just judge a person... . I assume some of the times we played better than we should have. Now we're playing probably less than my expectations. I don't want to judge him just on this (season).
hindsight
In hindsight I would have done a lot of things differently.
confidence worked
He has my confidence because I've worked with him all these years.
surprised valued
I have always valued his input. He has not surprised me with any of his comments.
additional college helped offense varied
Konrad probably has more of a varied offense than Brock did at this time. The other thing that's probably helped Konrad is that he's got two additional years in college wrestling.
case certainly coming presented pushed trade
That's not coming from us; I certainly haven't pushed it. Nobody's presented me with a case (for a trade). That's not something I think we need to do.
below close felt looking number player teams won
If we had won a number of those close games, we probably wouldn't have thought about doing the trade. Looking at the results, which were below our expectations, we felt we had to do something. Wally was a player other teams wanted.
absolutely good plenty
Absolutely not. We've got plenty of good guys. We've just got to get more out of them.
financial help player rid somebody summer until york
It isn't that we couldn't use somebody like that. It would have to be one of those things where New York would have to say that they really want to get rid of the player and could help us in some financial way to do it. We wouldn't know until this summer if that would even be a possibility.
easier game next
It would be easier if we could just say it's one thing. One game it's the defense, the next game it's the offense, another game it's something else.
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I don't see that we have a bad team. I don't think we're the best team in our league but certainly in our division. Our goal was to win our division, and I think we have the players to do that. We've lost so many close games.
ability career fred left team wants win
The way we're going to go about this is it's going to be like schooling. He's just left one career and we want him to have a long-term career with this organization. As Fred said, he wants to have a very important part of that, make us a team that we would all like, and that is a team that has the ability to win a championship.
asking basketball both decision few fred front gotten join minute office past player retire waste
We have gotten to know Fred very well over the past few years, both as a basketball player and as a person. When Fred relayed to us his decision to retire we didn't waste a minute in asking him to join our front office staff.
cause certainly financial help player rid salary signed somebody summer until york
Yeah, it isn't that we couldn't use somebody like that. We certainly could with his experience, and we know him. It's that he was signed at a salary that's going to cause us problems. So it would be difficult, it would have to be one of those things where New York would have to say that they really want to get rid of the player and could help us in some financial way to do it. We wouldn't know until this summer if that would even be a possibility.