The death march continues with a home date against the Jazz. The NBA season is extremely long and few have been as long for Wolves fans as this one. This post, though is going to be short.
Please, oh please, let this season end.
Utah is a six point favorite, after opening at an eight [...]

Friends, this should be an ass kicking. The Spurs are locked in a heated battle for playoff position in the Western Conference and I can't imagine that they'll be looking past our T-Wolves. The Wolves, to their credit -- and detriment -- have been playing much better of late, as we have pointed [...]

Game Log for the March 26, 2008 NBA game between the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Houston Rockets.

It's the Ping Pong Ball Derby. Both Memphis and the Pups are sitting at 16-50, just 1/2 game better than the Seattle club for the second worst record in the league. The Wolves have clearly stated that, unlike the last two seasons, they will actually try to win games down the stretch, as [...]

<GreekHouse>I haven't got a whole lot to say at this point. From the Twolves perspective, this season is really starting to drag. From an NBA perspective, the season is getting really exciting!</GreekHouse>

The Wolves play in the Northwest for a second consecutive night, taking on the T-Blazers. This is the second time in five days that the Wolves play Portland. The Blazers won in Minneapolis on Tuesday, 103-96.
Tonight the Blazers are favored by 9 and the O/U is 191. I'm inclined to take the [...]

The Wolves are tied in the loss column with the Sonics at 49 wins. The Sonics have two more wins than the Wolves. It would behoove the local five to lose this game.
Seattle is favored by three. The O/U is 199, after being ridiculously low for the past several games. I [...]

A great Citizen of this fine nation offered me a ducat to this here particular game and I was pretty excited about getting to my first game of the year. Unfortunately, life had other plans for me today, and I had to cancel out.
The Wolves are taking on a surprising Portland team, although the [...]

I've spent way too much time on the site today already, so just a short post on tonight's game. The Wolves won a rare road game last night over Sacramento and took the season series from the Kings. Tonight, they try to make it two in a row against the Franchise We Don't [...]

Everyone knows that a baseball season is a marathon. But, the NBA season isn't exactly a stroll through the tulips, either. The season is now about 75% complete, and our club has 12 victories. A little ciphering has me speculating that they are about on pace for 16 victories, which is darned [...]

The Wolves head to Salt Lake City to match up with the Utah Jazz tonight. Wow, have the Jazz been a great franchise over the last 25 years or so. If you remember, I linked to a story by J.A. Andande a week or so ago in which he displays a ridiculous bias [...]

The Wolves take on the Bobcats tonight at Target Center. Having looked at the March schedule, I expected that this was the 3rd most likely game for the Wolves to win this month. Of course, the second most likely win was the first game of the month, which turned out to be a [...]

I don't have a lot of time today, as I have family responsibilities. Still, though, I wanted to get a post up. The situation in Seattle is not good. They have a premier rookie -- although I'm not sure he's as good as advertised -- in Kevin Durant, but they've gutted the [...]

Yeah, the Wolves are playing Cleveland and possibly the best player in the league tonight, LeBron James.
What I want to talk about is that the Wolves bought out Theo Ratliff, allowing him to (probably) head to Detroit for the rest of the season. Ratliff, of course, came over to Minnesota in the KG trade, [...]

Hey, hey! What a win last night for our hometown five. The T-Wolves, after a pretty crappy eight game stretch, beat a very good Utah team last night. No rest for the weary, though, as they head to the land of the Strong Dollar, Toronto. Seriously, the Canadian Dollar costs Americans [...]

Division leading Utah comes to town tonight to face a suddenly cold Timberwolves team that's dropped seven of eight, including six of their last seven at home. After a five win January that raised the spirits of their long suffering fans, the Wolves are staring at their third two win month of the now [...]

Old number 21 is coming to town, except this guy isn't the #21 we're used to see play night after night in Minneapolis, this is the guy we've seen collect four rings over the last 10 or so years.
There's a lot to like about Tim Duncan's game, and saying that is almost damning him with [...]

<GreekHouse>The Wolves had a pretty good stretch that had everyone feeling a lot better about the team, but the recent skid has brought them back to reality. Still, the Wolves are playing better ball than they were a month ago. The problem is that they're still worse than most of the teams in [...]

<GreekHouse>I just realized I hadn't posted anything and that SBG hadn't posted anything for this game. I was gonna write some stuff about Foye and McCants, but I guess that will wait until next time.
In any case, here's your not so sweet game thread.</GreekHouse>

Well, this is the one game featuring the Timberwolves to be shown on ESPN this season. Of course, this game features the Timberwolves only in that they are playing the Celtics, but the real draw here was, of course, KG returning to Minnesota.
As it turns out, however, he won't be playing, unless we've all [...]

The T-Wolves (10-36) host the Houston Rockets (27-20) tonight at Target Center and the recent good play by the Wolves has got me in a pretty good mood relative to this team. The big deal, of course, is BigAlJefferson, who has been pretty spectacular lately. He’s averaging 25.2 points per game over his [...]

The T-Wolves host the LA Clippers in the second game of a five game homestand. Minnesota is coming off of a nice win against an admittedly depleted Chicago club. Tonight's opponent is the Los Angeles Clippers. It's unclear what kind of team the Clips will field with Chris Kaman, Corey Maggette, and [...]

The Bulls and Wolves got on a plane last night and flew from Chicago to Minneapolis for a rare back-to-back home and home series. I don't know if I recall the Wolves ever playing the same team on consecutive nights. It's a good thing, too, because the Wolves will have a chance to [...]

GH and I had worked up a mid-season conversation on the Wolves, which I intended to post after game 41. As it started at the beginning of the 8 game death march, it was basically a bunch of man they suck stuff. A funny thing happened on the way to game 41. [...]

Fear the T-Wolves.

<GreekHouse>The Wolves have emerged from their brutal 8 game stretch with a 2-6 record. They played as expected for the first 4 games, but really came on strong during the last 4 and almost pulled off the upset of the season at Boston on Friday. The result of the game was disappointing, but [...]

<GreekHouse>Well, this is the game we've all been looking forward to (or dreading). Wolves have been playing better as of late and the Celtics have been playing worse, so it might not be as bad of a blowout as we would have expected.</GreekHouse>

[SBG] I was late to the party tonight, but I made it. The Wolves close out the first half of the season looking to get their seventh win of the season against the team with the best record in the West, Phoenix (30-12). The Wolves have half a dozen wins this year, [...]

The Timberwolves travel to Oakland to play the Warriors in a MLK Day afternoon tilt. I like that the NBA plays day games on MLK Day. I think it’s a nice gesture to recognize the day. And given that I’ll be at work during the game, considering the way the Wolves have [...]

The Wolves played the Nugs back on January 4th and at the time, I wrote about the Nugs and stressed a couple of things. One, they probably are disappointed about how the club has played since the acquisition of Allen Iverson and two, AI has been pretty good.
Since beating the Wolves (natch), the Nugs [...]

The T-Wolves (5-32) continue their 8 game death march through some of the better clubs in the Western Conference tonight with a stop in Phoenix (27-12). The Wolves are a spectacularly bad 1-18 on the road this year and they look every bit like a high 30 loss (out of 41) team on the [...]

I don't have a lot to say tonight, but luckily, GH has put together a good pre-game read. The line is GS -8 and the O/U is 212. I'm like a novice sailor who can't see land when it comes to predicting the Wolves. I'll go GS and the points.
<GreekHouse>

The news on [...]

I don't know how you can be positive about this team after that game in Houston last night. I mean, the NBA season is long and sometimes games like this happen, but for all the talk about how they were re-energized by the win over the Miami Heat, the Wolves were awful, awful, awful [...]

Last time out, I said that the Wolves needed a win badly, and they got it. Here’s why I said they needed that game. The next eight games on the schedule, starting with tonight’s game, look like this:
@ Houston
@San Antonio
Golden State
@Phoenix
@Denver
@Golden State
Phoenix
@Boston
That’s a damned tough stretch, and it puts the lie to Coach [...]

Circle this one. This is one the Wolves have to have. Playing the worst team in the NBA not taking up residence at 600 First Avenue North Minneapolis, MN, the Wolves host the can-it-be-that-they-won-a-championship-just-two-seasons-ago Miami Heat. Yes, it can be, and it also can be that they have completely imploded. The [...]

I'm busy today with things around the house. I don't have much time to watch a team that is 24 games under .500 only 32 games in. Dallas is favored by 9 and the O/U is 193. I'm going to take the over.
<GreekHouse>During the last game log, ubelmann and I had a [...]

The Wolves play host to the Denver Nuggets tonight at Target Center. The Nuggets played in Denver last night, edging the Manu-less San Antonio Spurs 80-77. I’m pretty down on the Wolves right now, so I won’t say anything about them, but I think Denver is a pretty interesting team.
Denver went all-in with [...]

The Timberwolves open the 2008 portion of this season’s schedule tonight by hosting the Portland Trailblazers at Target Center, carrying their fifth losing streak of at least five games already this season into tonight's game. The Blazers lost their last game of the year in Utah, ending their 13 game winning streak. The [...]

On New Years Eve, the Wolves sit at 4-25. I can't say that I'm surprised -- I thought at the beginning of the month that the Wolves would end the month 4-26. Now, here we are with one game left. And it's against a struggling LA Clippers team. The Clips have [...]

ROY candidate Kevin Durant leads the young Sonics...ah, screw it. If Stick and Greek House don't care, why should we?

The number one story line for tonight's game is that Portland is the blueprint for where the Wolves want to be. They have stunned the league with their strong start -- and that's without the number one overall pick in the draft, Greg Oden. Including Oden, the Blazers have a stunning 8 players [...]

The Wolves start a post Christmas string of four games in six nights on the West Coast tonight with a game against the GS Warriors. It appears that the Wolves will have a tough week. The Wolves are 1-12 on the road (the win? at New Orleans) including eight in a row and [...]

Not much time to write as I'm stealing time here at my brother's place in SD. Wow, what a surprising result in Minneapolis last night. I saw it and I still don't believe it.
Tonight the Wolves are 12 point dogs in New Orleans. The O/U is 188. The Wolves are playing [...]

How do you know when it’s not going well for your team? I suppose there are a number of different ways that you could read the tea leaves, but how about this? Today’s Strib has a front page story written by their beat writer (headline: Wolves: The Worst Team Ever?) about how [...]

So, is tonight a game the Wolves (3-20) can win? Of course, any game is theoretically winnable in the NBA. The Warriors are a lot better team than the Wolves, but there’s this one thing going on that points to this being a win for the Wolves and that is that the Wolves [...]

I missed a game because I was just too busy and didn't gitrdun. Tonight, though, I'm at least nominally going to gitrdun. This is going to be short, though.
The Wolves have never before been 3-19 and thus, a little more than a quarter of the way through the season, the Wolves are seemingly [...]

Call this one the Boston Celtic consolation bowl. Fans of the Wolves and Sonics can turn their lonely eyes toward Beantown as their erstwhile stars ply their trade for the hated Celtics. Of course, the story lines aren’t that close… Seattle wasn’t Ray Allen’s only team and wasn’t hands down the best player [...]

Wolves! 76ers! KG vs. AI!
Um, ok. Each of these teams traded their franchise player since the start of last year. Neither team has much of a chance to make any noise this year, although the 76ers have gotten off to a better start than the Wolves and have won three straight.
The [...]

The Wolves head to Washington for the first of back-to-back games against the Wizards and Philly. The Wizards drilled the Wolves in Minneapolis on November 16th, dropping the Wolves to a then 1-6 record. Caron Butler and Gilbert Arenas combined for 56 points in that 105-89 victory. You won’t be seeing Arenas [...]

Well, then.
After a completely disgraceful "effort" against the Lakers, the Wolves bounced back with a spirited comeback against the Atlanta Hawks, only to fall short when Joe Johnson hit a buzzer beater. That game was encouraging on several fronts. First, the Wolves were getting absolutely drilled in this game, but got back into [...]

Blah.
I don't have much to say about this game, as the season is starting to settle in and the realization that we are back to zero with this club has started to take hold of me. There's only one player on this roster that I see being a key part of the T-Wolves' future, [...]

You’ll never confuse me with a Kobe Bryant apologist, but I’ve warmed to Kobe a little bit over the last season or so. It was easy to hate Kobe when he was younger – he was brash, full of talent, a gunner without a conscience and in serious need of a slap upside the [...]

The Wolves (2-12) play their third game in four nights, heading down to Memphis (5-10) to take on the Grizzlies. The big story here is that Marko Jaric and Rashad McCants are questionable because of injury. McCants was a scratch last night because of a sore knee and Jaric sprained his foot in [...]

I’ve always had just a little bit of hatred for Tim Duncan. It’s not that I don’t like his game. It’s not that he’s done anything that’s offended me (other than some whining at calls from time to time). No, when I think about Duncan rationally, there’s very little not to like.
Of [...]

SBG doesn't seem to be around, so I'll fill in for him tonight. I assume this also means I'll spend most of the game log talking to myself. The Wolves come into this game off of a dominating performance by our young boys in New Orleans. Dallas is 9-5 on the season, [...]

Just about the best thing you can say about tonight’s game is that the New Orleans Hornets have a couple of their stars playing hurt. Tyson Chandler suffered a minor knee injury and missed a game last week, but has played in the last two games and will, in all likelihood, go tonight. [...]

Again, I'm on dialup in ND as I write this, so I can't do much in the way of research without taking forever... plus I'm at my parents' house, so sitting on the computer for an hour to write about the Wolves seems like an insult to them and it's not too attractive of an [...]

I'm in ND and on dialup, so this will be short and sweet. Looking at the line should be all you need to know about the prospects for the Wolves tonight. Denver is a 14 point favorite and the line has been moving in Denver's favor. The over/under is 203.
I was visiting [...]

To this day, I'm puzzled by the decision to trade the rights to Brandon Roy for Randy Foye. Nothing against Foye, but he's not that much different of a player than Rashad McCants. I can see taking the best player available, but why the Wolves wanted to basically take the same player two [...]

It’s going to be a tall order tonight. Last night, I mentioned John Hollinger’s Power Rankings when talking about the game between the Wolves and the Wizards. The “HPRs” aren’t perfect, but they measure scoring margin, strength of schedule, and recent performance (go here if you want more details) to rank the 30 [...]

The Minnesota Timberwolves (1-5) play host to the disappointing (so far) Washington Wizards (2-5) tonight at Target Center. We all expect that the Wolves would have a slow start – and they have – but Washington’s stumble out of the gate was less expected by miles. Washington looked like a team that would [...]

In case you haven’t heard, things haven’t really started humming at 600 1st Avenue North, Minneapolis yet this year as the Timberwolves have dropped five straight to begin the season. The Wolves take on Sacramento at the Bullseye tonight, their first game since they played in Sacto four days ago. In between, the [...]

The NBA season isn't very old and just one undefeated team remains. That team is lead by the "Bashful Ticket", who has demurely averaged 23.8 points, 16.3 rebounds, 6.0 assists, 2.75 steals, and 1.75 blocks while leading his team to an average margin of victory of 18 points a game. One of those [...]

The Minnesota Timberwolves (0-3) face the Los Angeles Lakers (2-2) at the Staples Center on Friday night. Any time the Wolves face the Lakers, one can’t help but think about the connection between the Lakers and the city of Minneapolis. Prior to moving to LA after the 1959-60 season, the Lakers won four [...]

The Wolves are still in search of their first victory of the season and it won’t be an easy task to get it against tonight’s opponent, the Orlando Magic. The Magic spent a bazillion dollars on Rashard Lewis in the off season and they also have Dwight Howard and Hedo Turkoglu. The Magic [...]

The lustre of opening night has worn off and a pretty good effort by the hometown five gives one hope as they travel to the so-called "World's Most Famous Arena". I find it hard to believe that Madison Square Garden is the most famous arena in the world, but, whatever, everything in New [...]

I started out with game logs last season and I quit after a while because there wasn't a whole lot of interest and because the team was just so damned depressing. Plus, game logs don't work as well in basketball as they do in baseball. Nevertheless, I'm going to try again this season. [...]