Month: March 2015
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The Lows and Highs of the Wolves’ Stank-Tank Andy G: You and I are in complete agreement on the initial question of whether the Timberwolves are (and have been) tanking, this year. They are. We don’t need to beat that…
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The Timberwolves and Lakers played a basketball game tonight. Nobody is quite sure if either team wanted to win it. The Wolves sat out the following players: Ricky Rubio Kevin Martin Shabazz Muhammad Kevin Garnett Nikola Pekovic Gary Neal Anthony…
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This afternoon, Duke’s freshman center, Jahlil Okafor, played dominant basketball in front of a huge international audience. Showing off his “best since Duncan, maybe Alcindor” freshman post game, Okafor racked up 26 points on 12-16 shooting in an easy win…
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“If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.” That’s a nice rule to live by in most situations. Writing about the Timberwolves is an exception. In many instances, such as this one, that rule would be straight…
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At the season’s quarter point, I handed out letter grades to each player. At the halfway point, I laid out team superlatives. We’ve just reached the third quarter point, and with the team fresh off a franchise-altering trade, and without…
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It’s hard to tell what’s worse: how badly the Wolves were beaten on their home floor tonight by the Denver Nuggets (who had won just 3 of their previous 22 games, and accordingly just fired their coach) or the lack…
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The Wolves dropped both games in their weekend back-to-back. On Friday at Chicago, they faced an undermanned Bulls team that was missing Derrick Rose and Pau Gasol, and lost Taj Gibson to an ankle sprain less than ten minutes into…