Copyright 2008 NBAE (Photo by David Sherman/NBAE via Getty Images) Game #59, Home Game #32: Charlotte 109, Minnesota 89 Season Record: 12-47 1. Getting the Message It is just early March, with more than a fourth of the season’s games still to play, but the Minnesota Timberwolves are counting ping pong balls a lot more … Read more
Copyright 2008 NBAE (Photo by David Sherman/NBAE via Getty Images) Game # 58, Home Game #31: Seattle 111, Minnesota 108 Season Record: 12-46 1. An Improving Beast During Kevin Garnett’s dozen years with the Wolves, I wrote a slew of game recaps which included as a stock phrase the caution that people shouldn’t take the … Read more
Copyright 2007 NBAE (Photo by David Liam Kyle/NBAE via Getty Images) Game #57, Road Game #27: Minnesota 84, Cleveland 92 Season Record: 12-45 1. The Price of Youth What a discouraging game. Wanna bet that the Cavaliers had a scout at Target Center for the Wolves win over Utah last Tuesday? Coach Mike Brown seemed … Read more
(AP Photo/Jim Mone) Game #55, Home Game #30: Utah 100, Minnesota 111 Season Record: 12-43 1. The Beauty of Teamwork It’s been a long time–certainly a year, maybe two–since fans of the Minnesota Timberwolves have seen this kind of 48 minutes from their ballclub. There have been some really nice wins thus far this season: … Read more
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. … Read more
(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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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, … Read more
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. … Read more
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 … Read more