Category: Timberwolves
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This Timberwolves season is moving along really quickly. Tonight’s game against the Lakers at Staples Center will be their 50th. Eighty two games is too many to begin with, but when the night-to-night results become predictable — and especially…
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That last 6 minutes was The Template for fun and success the rest of this season. (Short form: Run With Ricky.) — Punch-Drunk Wolves (@PDWolves) January 24, 2016 Late in the second quarter of last night’s win over the Memphis…
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Eds. Note: We decided to watch two of the highest touted players in this year’s upcoming NBA Draft, LSU’s Ben Simmons and Duke’s Brandon Ingram. We basically flipped back and forth between the games and did ad-hoc eye tests of…
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After last evening’s blowout loss at Oklahoma City, the Timberwolves reached the season’s midway point. They have a 12-29 record. That they were at one time 8-8 and have not suffered any serious injuries this season (knocks on all of…
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If the Wolves spread the floor with uninvolved players standing behind the three-point line, particularly in the corners, they’d have more success. Last night, one simply play involving Bjelica and Wiggins demonstrated as much. Kevin Martin actually brought the ball…
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The Timberwolves lost at home to the Dallas Mavericks yesterday, extending their current losing streak to 6 games. They’ve lost 10 of their last 11, and face a difficult upcoming schedule. Their next three games include an away game against…
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Last night, the Timberwolves lost another game. Not just another game, but they lost another home game, and another home game against a mediocre opponent. This time it was the Milwaukee Bucks, who came into the contest rocking a 13-21…
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The Wolves got a much-needed win over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday night, holding a lead for nearly every second of the game and ultimately winning 94-80. It was much-needed because the Wolves were on a 4-game losing streak and…
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Andy G: Through 30 games, the Timberwolves have already gone through a series of different chapters in their 2015-16 season. Early on, they earned impressive road victories against some of the best teams in the Eastern Conference, and raised expectations…
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The Spurs used the first pick in the 1987 NBA Draft to select David Robinson from the United States Naval Academy. Because Robinson had a two-year active-duty obligation with the Navy, his basketball career did not begin until the 1989-90…
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KAT & Gorgui both with 20-10 games today in Brooklyn. List of 20-10 @Timberwolves duos in the last 10 years. pic.twitter.com/qVHCoPEdEG — Jim Petersen (@JimPeteHoops) December 20, 2015 Prior to Sunday’s game at Brooklyn, the Timberwolves had only played Karl-Anthony…
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On Sunday afternoon, I posted a quarter report for this 2015-16 Timberwolves season, grading each player’s performance (relative to role and expectations) one fourth of the way through. Since posting that, the Timberwolves have lost three times and some of…
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After a pair of overtime games this week — a home win over the Lakers followed by a road loss to the Nuggets — the Timberwolves are now past the season’s quarter point. They have a record of 9-13, which…
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Wolves drop a close one after a lot of free throw exchanging. 110-106 is the final. Another good Towns game. Not Wiggins’ night. — Punch-Drunk Wolves (@PDWolves) December 8, 2015 “We had a lot of games last year where it…
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Andrew Wiggins has been playing good basketball. He started off slow, bothered by back problems for the season’s first few games, but has generally been the Timberwolves most consistent player. His 22.1 points per game ranks 10th in the NBA.…
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The Wolves played against the Clippers this afternoon at Staples Center. They lost by 8, but nobody felt too bad about the proverbial “moral victory,” because, well… For the second consecutive game, Ricky Rubio sat out with what is being…
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KAT’s minutes shouldn’t bury the lede: The Wolves are .500 through 16 games. — Punch-Drunk Wolves (@PDWolves) November 28, 2015 So the Timberwolves won another game, another road game actually, and are back up to .500 at this not-quite-so-early point,…
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Evaluating NBA coaching performance is a difficult and imperfect exercise. This is because the overwhelming majority of the work done by coaches happens during the part of the season that outsiders are not privy to; basically, everything outside of the…
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Since we last posted, the Wolves have played three times. They won at Miami in another impressive road performance. By this early stage of the season, these young Timberwolves have now defeated the best Eastern Conference teams outside of Cleveland:…
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“He is our starting point guard, so if you take the starting point guard off any team, you’re going to see a difference.” –Sam Mitchell, commenting on Ricky Rubio’s injury absence, after yesterday’s loss to the Memphis Grizzlies One of…