Category: Sports

Copyright 2008 NBAE (Photo by David Sherman/NBAE via Getty Images) Game #54, Home Game #29: Dallas 99, Minnesota 83 Season Record: 11-43 1. Really Kidding As someone who was contemptuous of how much the Dallas Mavericks gave up to secure Jason Kidd, let me sheepishly report that the clearcut MVP of tonight’s game was…Jason Kidd.…

(AP Photo/Jim Mone) Game #53, Home Game #28: San Antonio 100, Minnesota 99 Season record: 11-42 1. Crunchtime Dysfunction The first thing I want to do is praise these post-All Star break Timberwolves, a ballclub that embodied the cliche "plucky" by refusing to do the expected thing and roll over and die after Manu Ginobili…

Copyright 2008 NBAE (Photo by David Sherman/NBAE via Getty Images) Game #52, Home Game #27: Philadelphia 88, Minnesota 104 Season record: 11-41 1. Spread the Credit It’s been a habit of these three-pointers to isolate players for individual praise or criticism, rearranging members of the roster like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle that someday will…

Copyright 2008 NBAE (Photo by David Sherman/NBAE via Getty Images) Game #51, Home Game #26: LA Lakers 117, Minnesota 92 Season record: 10-41 1. Every Position Coach Randy Wittman was fairly nonchalant after his team got pasted by 25 points in a game that wasn’t even *that* close. But nobody could, or did, blame him,…

Okay folks, I just finished a Three Pointer (entitled "Point Drought"), clicked on to my "node hierarchy" and promptly lost all the copy. If you have any impressions of the past two losses, feel free to put them down. I’ll add comments when I wake up in the morning. The computer system extends its apologies.…

Copyright 2008 NBAE (Photo by David Sherman/NBAE via Getty Images) Game #48, Home Game #24: Boston 88, Minnesota 86 Season record: 10-38 1. Kevin Garnett, Over and Out The big man came, he smiled, he waved, hit his heart once or twice, and left. The applause from the fans was long and genuine, but not…