Howlin' T-Wolf

Wolves Record: 13-40

Quote of the night:

Kurt Rambis -

“That timeout before, I mentioned to them that they were one rebound away from a win and all they had to do was find a way to get that rebound. They couldn’t come up with it.”

Man what a heart breaker.  No not the loss, the fact that neither team had TV coverage and thus watching the game on NBA League Pass with the house cameras and radio play by play overlapped. What are the “house” cameras? Well basically we see what’s on the jumbotron all night. So we get 10 percent of the game from the usual TV camera spot, center court in the back of the lower level, and 80 percent from the awful, can’t see anything develop baseline seated under the hoop camera. Wait that’s only 90 percent? Well the other 10 is either the “NOISE!” sign or the “Howl-o-meter.” Needless to say it wasn’t really watchable.

That being said as your Timberwolves blogger I did my best to fight through it. I can’t comment too much but I know this:

• The Wolves defense was porous in the 2nd quarter and let Jackson and Augustin shoot the Bobcats to a 21 point lead.
• That defense changed dramatically in the 4th as they finished the game on a 13-3 run.
• Ramon again outplayed Jonny at the point. But it wasn’t by a ton.
• That last play underneath the hoop didn’t seem as bad to me as some may think. Most coaches will tell you to NEVER throw it back underneath your own hoop, but from what I could tell if one of Brewer or Jefferson had stayed where they were the other one’s save would have gone right to them. Of course as Rambis mentioned above the other 3 also could have been crashing the boards, but again too both Jefferson and Brewer were right there to get it with no Bobcats near them at the time. So unlucky, yes. Bad play, maybe.
• The Wolves enter the All-Star break having gone 5-7 in their last 12 since the mid way point of the season.

With the break coming up this weekend it will be a little quieter here at HTW, but it’s also the perfect time for us to start a new feature. Look for our first pre-draft Timberwolves Scouting Report to debut tomorrow.