Wolves/Pacers: defending your life
As I alluded to last night, one of the most encouraging elements of the Wolves nice start has been their basic competence on defense. That doesn’t sound like much, but if you’re a Wolves’ fan of long...
View ArticleBulls 87, Wolves 80: The block is hot
This was the first real test of the Wolves’ banged up season. Yes, the Brooklyn game was fun and the Pacers were a really good measuring stick for whether or not this team could execute against one of...
View ArticleWolves 90, Mavericks 82: “I don’t use crutches”
Rick Adelman became a broken record last year. Someone for the Wolves would go down with an injury and he’d start talking about how guys couldn’t feel sorry for themselves and had to step up. They had...
View ArticleGame Eight Preview: Bobcats at Wolves in the Target Center
The rosters don’t look similar and it’s only a couple weeks into the season so take this in the spirit that it’s intended, but this Bobcats team reminds me a lot of the way the Timberwolves played last...
View ArticleGame 11 Preview: Wolves at Blazers in the Rose Garden
Good to have you back, sir. I’m still trying to parse my thoughts on his surprise return and what it means for the team. I think we’re in for some awkwardness over this road stretch. The Wolves will...
View ArticleBlazers 103, Wolves 95: We need to talk about things
All of the talk and panic about this team last night seemed to be two-fold: 1) The team is 0-2 since Kevin Love surprised us with an early comeback. Is he hurting their chances of winning? 2) Derrick...
View ArticleHappy Holidays from the Timberwolves
The team with the best web presence in the NBA (and trust me, I waste a lot of time online so I know these kinds of things) has done it once again with a holiday video. The Wolves’ web team just...
View ArticleCeltics 104, Wolves 94: Empty rain clouds
Second night of a back-to-back is hard to win, especially when you’re facing a veteran team like the Boston Celtics on the road. The tricky part is this isn’t the normal Boston Celtics team we’re used...
View ArticleMagic 102, Wolves 93: We’re halfway there
What a fantastic win for the Minnesota Timberwolves last night. I wrote yesterday that to be a really good team, you have to win games that should be wins. The Wolves need to win games like this...
View ArticleTimberwolves 111, Suns 107: Getting big
The makeup of what this team is good at and what they struggle to do still confounds me a bit. Going into this season, I don’t think there were many people who assumed the Wolves would struggle...
View ArticleThunder 106, Wolves 84: The pen I don’t know how to use
After a night of next to zero sleep (not Wolves related, just your basic insomnia), I was in a zombionic haze all day long. Because of this, I never got around to writing a recap of the Wolves’ loss to...
View ArticleTimberwolves 90, Clippers 96: Some Little Luck
There’s a kind of weird, inherent contradiction in writing about sports. Because here I am, preparing to build something out of words about a game played by people who don’t use words to illuminate,...
View ArticleTimberwolves 115, Pelicans 86: You should see the other guy
Remember how we felt late Friday night? The Wolves had just gotten pummeled by the Lakers. I know the final score was pretty close, but any time you’re down 29 points to a team at any point in the...
View ArticleWolves in Motion: Final play against the Blazers
For the final play of the Wolves-Blazers game, Rick Adelman drew up a play that gave Ricky Rubio a fairly basic pick-and-roll set with the floor spread and plenty of options off of that play. And the...
View ArticleTimberwolves 100, Cavaliers 92: A little bit of everything
When you’re a losing team and you have injuries all over key parts of your roster, you need a full team effort to pull out victories. It isn’t getting good performances just from your remaining top...
View ArticleWolves at the trade deadline: On the hunt?
The trade deadline is schedule for 2pm CT on Thursday and the Wolves are said to be buyers right now by enticing prospective trade partners with Brandon Roy’s salary relief and a future first round...
View ArticleTimberwolves 94, 76ers 87: You are the brute squad
Maybe the Wolves shouldn’t explore the Mozgov/Pek backup plan after all? In a game that was incredibly fast in the first half because of a lack of calls and completely bogged down in the fourth quarter...
View ArticleThunder 127, Wolves 111: Rolling Thunder
It’s kind of the same old story this season, right? The Wolves are talented enough to stay competitive with just about any team in the NBA, but they’re not healthy enough to overcome the wave of...
View ArticleLakers 116, Timberwolves 94: Change your face, be happy
I’ve got a big three-part breakdown of Ricky Rubio starting Friday, and it’s a lot of writing so I don’t want to put too much thought into this blowout loss. Plus, how many ways can you state that the...
View ArticleNikola Pekovic, Zach Galifianakas, and a Mickey Mouse shirt
(Via Kevin Love’s Instagram)
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