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Game #77, Road Game #38: Minnesota 119, Charlotte 121

Season Record: 19-58

1. Plenty of Blame To Go Around

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Game #73, Home Game #38: Detroit 94, Minnesota 90

Season Record: 19-54

1. A Rough Night For Foye

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Game #44, Road Game #24: Minnesota 85, Chicago 96

Game #45, Home Game #21: Chicago 67, Minnesota 83

Season record: 9-36

1. Legitimately Respectable

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Game #35, Road Game #18: Minnesota 82, Houston 113

Game #36, Road Game #19: Minnesota 88, San Antonio 105

Season record: 5-31

1. The Emergence of Gomes

Game #21, Home Game #11: Seattle 99, Minnesota 88

Game #22, Road Game #11: Minnesota 92, Milwaukee 95

Season record: 3-19

1. Draw Straws, Flip A Coin, Plug a Leak. Or Not.

After the Timberwolves fell to the equally young Seattle Supersonics at Target Center Friday night, I asked coach Randy Wittman if he had any sense of what he could expect from his team from game to game. "It feels like sometime you plug one hole and then another one leaks," Witt conceded.

Game #20, Road Game #10: Minnesota 94, Philadelphia 98

Season record: 3-17
 

1. This Just In: Al Jefferson Has Problems With Big Centers

Game #19, Road Game #9: Minnesota 88, Washington 101

Season record: 3-16

1. Live By the Boards, Die By the Boards

We're not in Atlanta or Phoenix anymore, Dorothy. After utterly dominating the rebounding against two teams that don't play anyone over 6 feet, 10 inches tall, the Timberwolves were mauled tonight, 57-35, by the bigger, stronger, Wizards frontcourt. Washington essentially did what Minnesota executed on its last two foes, getting 20 of the 45 boards on their offensive glass and 37 of 47 at the defensive end.

Game #18, Home Game #10: Phoenix 93, Minnesota 100

Season record: 3-15

1. Sweat Equity

Home Game #9: Los Angeles Lakers 116, Minnesota 95

1. Losing Reason To Care
Games like tonight's undressing by the Lakers and last Saturday's (blissfully blacked-out from television) pratfall on the road in Memphis are the sort of energy-suckers Wolves' fans and the team's PR department feared in the wake of the Garnett trade: That the ballclub would be so bad, and so lacking in interesting storylines and likeable characters while being so bad, that it would inspire apathy instead of anger.