The Minnesota Timberwolves lost their Summer League opener on Friday night with a loss to the Denver Nuggets that featured inefficient performances from many of their key players, including draft picks Josh Okogie and Keita Bates-Diop. But on Sunday, one showed incremental improvement while the other broke out.
It was a game that was close throughout and featured an ugly stretch of shooting at the start of the tilt; the Wolves didn’t make their first field goal until almost seven minutes into the first quarter.
But down the stretch, Bates-Diop, Okogie, and Jonathan Stark spurred the Wolves to pull away from their opponents.