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Early first impressions from the Timberwolves' first two games

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Two games into the Minnesota Timberwolves' 2017-18 season, we are in that awkward stage of tiny sample sizes, eye-tests that war with expectations for supremacy, and, overall, untrustworthy first impressions both pro and con.

A wayward bounce or extra whistle could have reversed the outcome of Friday night’s taut, 100-97 triumph over the Utah Jazz in the Wolves home opener, a negative caprice that would have driven a significant portion of the team’s fan base to the ledge in despair. Sure, all the smart killjoys counseled that it would take some time for a roster with three incoming veteran starters to mesh properly with the gaudy pair of holdover young cornerstones, and with each other.