Game Day #71 v OKC Thunder
Haaa-dooo-keennnn!I was reading the game preview over on NBA.com a few minutes ago and visiting head coach Scott Brooks was singing the praises of his team's defensive efforts in their last three games...
View ArticleOKC KO'D
OUTSTANDING!Really, I mean c'mon, that was a performance of great integrity from the Minnesota Timberwolves last night.The last time these two clashed, in Oklahoma, we were reaching for the off switch...
View ArticlePlease Do NOT Feed The Bears....
First things first.....miracle man Marc Gasol only missed two games and he has an abdominal tear.....a TEAR!Nikola Pekovic missed a FORTNIGHT with an abdominal strain....now I'm no medic but if you...
View ArticleGlass Ankles
Don't talk to me about "glass ankles"Listen, I have a grade 3 ankle sprain at the moment it looks exactly like this (see pic). There is a great deal of soft tissue damage, I was in a cast for a week, I...
View ArticleA Visitation from Doucheball?
So it would seem....but wait, what is this? The two of the three most prominent "douches" on the Boston roster are out (Raging Rondo and Kevin Garnett - I know all those Garnett era diehards will hate...
View ArticleAnother Home Win for Wolves...
The Minnesota Timberwolves held Boston Celtics at arms length last night and safely notched up another victory in a season that is closing with more optimism than was first expected.Boston, playing...
View ArticleTuesday, Wednesday...Happy Days!
Heeeeeeyyyyyyy!The Twolves make a short overnight trip to Milwaukee this evening to take on a Bucks side who boast a current play-off berth (8th in the East) and who slaughtered the lowly Bobcats on...
View ArticleThe sun is shining....
...and I need to get outside....like a normal person.Hopefully I will make a return later in the year but under a different guise.Enjoy the rest of the season....congratulations to Rick Adelman on...
View ArticleHad To Break The Silence...
...just to say that I have no interest whatsoever in bringing Corey Brewer ( known lovingly, in these here parts, as The Cat in the Hat) back to Target Center. Please, please leave well alone......The...
View ArticleA Spot More Bother For Beasley...
It seems like light years since Michael Beasley was loaded up by the Minnesota Timberwolves and catapulted out to the sunnier climes of Arizona. Beasley, who at the tender age of 22, had already been...
View ArticlePek Abides
Sense.$60 million / 5 years + plus incentives.He's big, he's very good.....pay the man.Excellent.Happy.It would appear that most people with all things Timberwolves at their hearts are happy with this...
View ArticleOne Year On....
Well, those have been an eventful 12 months.As many expected the Kevin Love scenario played out according to script but the overtures, coming from LeBron "I'm Back!!" James ( of all people) came as a...
View ArticleThe Back of Love...
Chip Scoggins underlines the complexities of how the Minnesota Timberwolves' fan base will be feeling today as Kevin Love leaves the Twin Cities to take up residence in Ohio. He's probably right,...
View ArticleBOUNCIN' (Super-Cool in L.A, San Antone...then finally Memphis)
A man walks down the street, he says.."Why am I soft in the middle now?Why am I soft in the middle? The rest of my life is so hardI need a photo opportunityI want that shot at redemptionDon't want to...
View ArticleDo Not Underestimate These Wolves...
I'm very sure there will be a great many teams that WILL underestimate the new look, inexperienced, Kevin Love-less Minnesota Timberwolves this season.This is not to suggest that the Chicago Bulls did...
View ArticleBye Bye Barea
So it looks all the more likely now that Wolves diminutive point guard JJ Barea will be bought out and will take up a place on the Dallas Mavericks reuniting him with the BFG."Shaddit down liddel...
View ArticleGame #1 @ Memphis
So it all begins this evening....the 2014/15 NBALP Season is upon us.I have purchased League Pass and will be tuning into the game early tomorrow morning before work.Fans in Wolfdom are trying...
View ArticleTimberwolves 101 - Grizzlies 105
0-1 is maybe the start that many expected but the fact that the Twolves kept this very competitive deep, deep into regulation....sustaining massive damage from both Gasol and Randolph along the...
View ArticlePistons 91 - Timberwolves 97
First off CARON BUTLER??Really?Okay, having said that, the Twolves made heavy weather of this victory. Having gone in at half time (which was a fairly turgid affair) leading by a single point they came...
View ArticleBulls 106 - Timberwolves 105
Heartbreak in the end.No one, I'd assume, is going to get on the rookie's back for his transgression...these are the growing pains we knew were ahead of us. The most important thing is how quickly he...
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