Thursday nights on TNT on Tuesday nights continues to be a thing, and the night’s first matchup is not exactly the barnburner the schedule makers thought they were getting. The Chicago Bulls seem to be what every skeptic assumed — a cute story good but not good enough team after their flurry of acquisitions a couple years ago. Meanwhile, the Brooklyn Nets are what everyone feared or hoped for — an absolute trash fire of a team suffering through a trash fire of a season.
In the nightcap, the Minnesota Timberwolves have not been that dangerous offense-defense mix that can punish you on both ends of the floor.