Wolves at Suns GDT

[60WinTim]

Bummer. Lots of teaching points from this game. Plus ANT seems to be moving better. We need to put it all together against the Lakers. No time for klunker!

[FNG]

Very poorly played game, yet we still went 2-1 on a tough road trip. Our bigs just didn't take care of the ball tonight...18 of our 21 turnovers were by Rudy, KAT, SloMo and Naz!

Defense was great though, and you gotta tip your hat to flu-stricken Ant who scores 31 and adds 6 assists.

[kekgeek]

5 games left. Will probably need to go 5-0 or 4-1. To avoid the play in

[Coolbreeze44]

16 fouls for the Suns. Uh huh.

[thedoper]

Friday will be even worse. That was pathetic.

[kekgeek]

Refs were not why the wolves lost though.

Gobert, Anderson and Kat had 5 fouls apiece. Conley shot 1-7 from 3, wolves missed 7 straight 3s in the 4th. Jaden foul trouble changed the game and he was my good on offense tonight

[Lipoli390]

One of Rudy's strong points in his career has been setting screens without fouling...I've been admiring it all year. But tonight it's like he's forgotten everything he ever knew about setting screens. Very bad game for rudy

The fouls were bad, but his 6 turnovers were worse. He's been playing really well the last month or so it was a bummer for him to have such a terrible game tonight. Unfortunately, Rudy typically turns the ball over way too much for a center who isn't a focal point of the offense. I love his rebounding, but the fouls, turnovers and lack of versatility combine into a major drag in these high-intensity playoff-type games. If he were blocking 3-4 shots per game or scoring 20 points per game, then maybe the other stuff wouldn't be such a drag.

But it wasn't just Rudy tonight. Jaden had a bad offensive game and Anderson turned the ball over five times. KAT also had 5 turnovers, but I can overlook those turnovers given his overall production and scoring efficiently tonight.

It's tough to win five in a row in the NBA - especially all on the road against good teams. The Wolves just need to close out the season by winning their last five.

[Lipoli390]

Very poorly played game, yet we still went 2-1 on a tough road trip. Our bigs just didn't take care of the ball tonight...18 of our 21 turnovers were by Rudy, KAT, SloMo and Naz!

Defense was great though, and you gotta tip your hat to flu-stricken Ant who scores 31 and adds 6 assists.

Don't lump Naz in with the others. Naz only had 1 turnover tonight. Rudy had 6 while KAT and Anderson each had five.

[FNG]

5 games left. Will probably need to go 5-0 or 4-1. To avoid the play in

ESPN said the Wolves have the easiest remaining schedule, and I agree. We should be favored in every game except possibly the road game against the Nets, so I have us going 4-1 and finishing tied for 5th with GS and the Clippers...and we have the tiebreaker. But if we go 3-2, we very likely end up in the play in.

I'm not sure 5th place is something we really want though...a healthy Suns team with home court advantage is a tough match up for us. Doesn't matter though...just gotta play hard and try to win every game, and go into the playoffs playing our best basketball.

[Crazysauce]

Problem is refs do cost us the game. All these so called fouls on Booker. They shot 27 ft to our 12. They scored 13 more points at the line. Even Finch called them out in the post game. It's just ridiculous that the game literally just starts being officiated differently in the middle of the game when we were starting to pull away.