Personally I don’t have a problem with the threes. If anything, I wish we could shoot more. Right now we’re hitting threes at a 39 percent clip for the team, up from 31 percent last year. But we’re shooting them at essentially the same rate as last year, even though we’re doing it more effectively. Since we’re without Jerebko, who else is going to be able to shoot them in quantity but Gordon and Villanueva? Well other than Summers, of course. Another possibility is in regards to those reports that suggested that Villanueva was one of the few in the locker room who were determined not to be a distraction. It could be that Kuester doesn’t feel he can afford to call out one of his few non-critics.

Really though if reincarnation is real, what I hope for most of all is in his next life for Dumars to come back as a general manager for an owner for whom general managers have an average tenure length of 2 years…

While I agree with the premise that we’d be better off long-term with Carlise, I definitely think we wouldn’t have won a chip without LB. Obviously, LB wore out his welcome, and Joe was right to fire him, but as time has shown, we’ve got several egos on this team, and I think those egos only bend to the right coaching personality … unfortunately, those are really hard to find.