Game #65, Road Game #33, Lakers 109, Minnesota 102 1. Point Guard Roulette Mike James was the best Timberwolves point guard tonight and it wasn’t even close. James had his best game in a Wolves uniform in at least 6 weeks, going off for 18 points (6-14 FG) and 11 assists versus one turnover and … Read more
Game #64, Road Game #32, Golden State 106, Minnesota 86 1. Postponing the Obvious So, did you catch that playoff fever? Heading into last night’s Golden State game, the Wolves only had to defeat the Warriors and have the Clips lose on the road in Charlotte to sneak into that 8th playoff seed with just … Read more
It has been called to my attention that another baseball season is almost upon us and it has been more than five months since I updated this site. Shame on me. Shame, shame, shame on me. Here I am, though, and here I will be –I swear on the Baseball Encyclopedia— on a regular basis … Read more
Game 6, Home Game 32: Minnesota 86, Indiana 81 1. Nothing To Lose But A Reputation For Stupidity The Timberwolves story in Tuesday’s Star Tribune, entitled “Wittman still seeks right answer,” went into some detail about how the coach of this franchise had tried everything– “tweaked and re-tweaked the lineup, shuffled the rotation…called the team … Read more
Game #61, Road Game #30, Miami 105, Minnesota 91 1. No Center, No Point Guard, No Chance The Minnesota Timberwolves do not have a center who can adequately defend the paint. They do not have anyone capable of fulfilling the point guard duties at both ends of the court at even a mediocre level. These … Read more
Game #60, Home Game #31, Minnesota 117, Lakers 107 (2 OT) 1. So Pretty No Timberwolves player has been ripped as royally by myself and those responding to my treys this season as “Pretty Ricky” Davis, who has been dubbed either directly or by inference as a cancer, a coach killer, a corroder of chemistry, … Read more
Game #58, Home Game #30: Utah 106, Minnesota 83 Game #59, Road Game #29: Boston 124, Minnesota 117 (2 OT) What’s the Plan: Buck Up? Draw Straws? Haze the Rookies? The past week has taught us that the Wolves can be casually blown out by a quality NBA team, with consecutive 26-point losses to Dallas … Read more
Holy Moses, this Liriano kid looks like he might be for real. I’m going to be out of commission for a stretch, and I intend to spend some time during this hiatus trying to uncover another team in recent (or ancient memory) that had two such dominant lefties in its rotation. Ordinarily a handful of … Read more
For the last several weeks I’d been staring at decidedly long odds and almost liking what I saw. The math didn’t look very good, but it was starting to look like there was at least a possibility that it actually might eventually add up. The Twins had played an unreal stretch of baseball. The pitching … Read more
There have been so many amazing and gratifying things about the performance of the Twins over the last month. Most of them have been plenty well documented, but it’s still pretty mindblowing (and mindboggling) all the same. The truth, of course, is that the Twins really should have five All Stars –Francisco Liriano, Justin Morneau, … Read more