GAME 52: Minnesota vs Sacramento

[Domejandro]

We need to bully the Utah Jazz fans into coming back, now that Rudy Gobert is playing at an All-NBA level again.

[wolves_89]

Naz was good off the bench, but the rest of the bench group shot 3-15 (0-9 on 3s) with some pretty poor defense. I really hope Prince can play on Monday because this team needs more competent minutes from the reserves.

[shrink]

DLo 8-8 in the first half, 0-6 in the second, with a technical and a dribble off his foot.

That’s so Good DLo / Bad DLo

[theGreatRC]

What a win, Ant is a BEAST.

Rudy is starting to look real comfortable and I love that Ant & Jaden are going for boards, I do expect Sac to come out blazing on monday, though...so hope they're ready for that

[Domejandro]

The favorite part of my night is here!

Time to check the standings!

Sixth seed all to ourselves, if Dallas loses tonight. TWO games back from the third seed.

[life_saver]

last season, the team was relatively very injury free whereas this season we are dealing with lot of injuries but somehow managed to figure it out and compete well on most of the nights. Other than KAT, both Prince, McLaughlin are also key misses for the bench

[TimberKat]

massive win but we gotta clean up those silly mistakes made in last few minutes. Lot of turnovers too but shooting well from 3 compensated for that

Won't win playing like that against GSW or DEN

[Neeva]

massive win but we gotta clean up those silly mistakes made in last few minutes. Lot of turnovers too but shooting well from 3 compensated for that

Won't win playing like that against GSW or DEN

We can I feel better when they play winning teams , tanking teams scare me.

[Nick K]

Ant is that dude.


Oh and he’s only 21

Just think if we took Wiseman. A lot of people here wanted Wiseman.

Ant's last 3 was truly a dagger.

[Nick K]

I heard somewhere that the Wolves have won 11 3rd qtr's of the last 13.

[KGdaBom]

It's taken way too long for us to get our **** together, but maybe we finally have. I hope we don't have to be in the play in round.

[deepestblue]

Here's something that's hopeful, amusing and scary all at the same time:

The Wolves are presently just 1 game out of 4th place aka home court advantage in round 1.

The Wolves are presently just 2 games out of 3rd place.

However, the Wolves are also presently just 1.5 games ahead of 11th place aka out of the playoffs.

It's feast or famine!

I hope KAT is able to seamlessly fit into this new successful formation, and as Coach Finch said, be stashed in the corner more. Continuity and consistency are key from here on out this season.

[Murphs56]

Strap up Ant man for the all-star team. I don't know if the timing is going to work against him. The reserves come out on Thursday. Has the voting concluded? Does anyone know? He's really been making his push over the last 2 weeks.

[Dalvin]

AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! After losing to the last placed team in the west, they just beat the 2nd, 3rd and 4th placed team in the west. Even the game against the first placed team was a close one and could've gone their way. A few games back from home court advantage! Ant is a damn all star, Gobert and McDaniels better both be in the all defensive team with the way they're locking things down and making things difficult for the other team.

[eminence]

Rudy has been looking good since coming back from injury, go get that 3 seed Wolves

[TimberKat]

Here's something that's hopeful, amusing and scary all at the same time:

The Wolves are presently just 1 game out of 4th place aka home court advantage in round 1.

The Wolves are presently just 2 games out of 3rd place.

However, the Wolves are also presently just 1.5 games ahead of 11th place aka out of the playoffs.

It's feast or famine!

I hope KAT is able to seamlessly fit into this new successful formation, and as Coach Finch said, be stashed in the corner more. Continuity and consistency are key from here on out this season.

Wolves will be in 5th place after tonight's NOP game. They have the same # of loss as the 11th place team. So it's like NBA season just started. Wolves are competing with SAC, NOP, DAL, PHX, POR, and LAL for 5 to 10. GSW, LAC will be in to top 4. OKC and UTA will drop out after all star break.

[Guest84]

Strap up Ant man for the all-star team. I don't know if the timing is going to work against him. The reserves come out on Thursday. Has the voting concluded? Does anyone know? He's really been making his push over the last 2 weeks.

I believe the coaches submit their choices today.

[Murphs56]

Strap up Ant man for the all-star team. I don't know if the timing is going to work against him. The reserves come out on Thursday. Has the voting concluded? Does anyone know? He's really been making his push over the last 2 weeks.

I believe the coaches submit their choices today.

His recent play can play a role then. It's going to come down to Ant vs Lillard and Fox. Going to be a very tight race.

[younggunsmn]

Our players play with a lot of emotion, which is a great strength but also our achilles heel.
Tremendous effort from the players, tremendous.
But we also seemed to be sitting on a 4-leaf clover tonight too when it came to shots going in.
This was a fun one to watch and the last 3 in general all very enjoyable as a fan beating good teams and giving great effort.

Those last 4 minutes were atrocious.
Bad fouls while in the penalty, dumb turnovers, stepping out of bounds, broken down offense and hero ball.
When those ball pounding step backs from Ant go in, it feels great, but they are going to lose you more games than you win with them.

Love the effort from Rudy defending the rim and rebounding, still not great fundamentally, getting stuck in between too much and letting players get too deep on him. The length makes a difference though.

Great first 3 quarters defending Fox, then lost contain in the 4th and gave him too much of a runway like FInch alluded to in his presser.

Ant, what more can you say about him. So much talent and charisma. Franchise player.