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Wolves won.

Wiggins clutch shot late.

Tyus was great.

Kat was benched on the last defensive possession.

Kat great offensively, terrible defensively leading to his benching for gorgui on the last possession

I didn't see tonight's game, but I certainly saw the result and the box score. I hope tonight's game helps put to rest the mistaken narrative that the Wolves haven't been playing with effort. To the contrary, what we've seen is that the Wolves are limited by their lack of ability, not a lack of effort. When they play comparably capable rosters like the Mavs and Grizzlies, the Wolves win, even on the road. When they play superior teams, the Wolves lose - although the Wolves were able to beat the Warriors during this final stretch.

Tyus Jones showed once again that he's a very capable PG who is still only 23 years old. Okogie's stats look pretty good with a +9. I like that Bayless played only 15 minutes. As for Towns, his defense remains problematic although he has certainly improved overall in that area this season. It's probably going to be a James Harden/Nowitski/LeBron situation for the Wolves when it comes to KAT. That means, we may have to take KAT's stellar, versatile efficient scoring, elite rebounding and very good passing but live with his problematic defense. That means building a defensive team around him. Covington, Okogie and even Tyus Jones fit that bill. More than anything, we could really use a defensive, rim-protecting big.

It's unfortunate that we won from a lottery perspective, but the good news is that the Hornets also won so we remain 1 game ahead of them in the lottery race. :)

lipoli390 wrote:I didn't see tonight's game, but I certainly saw the result and the box score. I hope tonight's game helps put to rest the mistaken narrative that the Wolves haven't been playing with effort. To the contrary, what we've seen is that the Wolves are limited by their lack of ability, not a lack of effort. When they play comparably capable rosters like the Mavs and Grizzlies, the Wolves win, even on the road. When they play superior teams, the Wolves lose - although the Wolves were able to beat the Warriors during this final stretch.

Tyus Jones showed once again that he's a very capable PG who is still only 23 years old. Okogie's stats look pretty good with a +9. I like that Bayless played only 15 minutes. As for Towns, his defense remains problematic although he has certainly improved overall in that area this season. It's probably going to be a James Harden/Nowitski/LeBron situation for the Wolves when it comes to KAT. That means, we may have to take KAT's stellar, versatile efficient scoring, elite rebounding and very good passing but live with his problematic defense. That means building a defensive team around him. Covington, Okogie and even Tyus Jones fit that bill. More than anything, we could really use a defensive, rim-protecting big.

It's unfortunate that we won from a lottery perspective, but the good news is that the Hornets also won so we remain 1 game ahead of them in the lottery race. :)

I'm happy we won. I think we had far superior talent than the Mavs they had Donicic, Powell, Klevert, and Brunson with only Doncic as a legit starter next year while the wolves could have played 8 of there top 10 rotation players for next year in this game.

I agree on Kat, Kat has gotten better this year on D but the effort on that end lately has been lacking (I understand to an extent).

Happy we won. This could be the majority of our team next year. With Tyus, Wiggins, saric, towns, okogie, G, KBD, Reynolds could all be in the rotation and add Cov and our rookie. That could be our 10 man rotation so we say lack of talent we might need to get used to that