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Morning Pickup: Another Collapse, Game Notes, Tweets, and Banks

Well, the Wolves blew another game they should have won last night in New Orleans. The following is from Jerry Zgoda's recap for the Star Tribune:

As the Wolves already had done in games against Denver, Milwaukee and Portland (twice) this season, they let that 17-point lead — 38-21 in the first quarter’s final minute — disintegrate from what interim coach Sam Mitchell called "beautiful basketball" into what point guard Ricky Rubio labeled selfishness.

This is how his article ended:

Rubio also dismissed the notion that youth cost his team another game.