You never really want to call a game a “mail-in”, so I’ll frame heading into Thursday night at Target Center as a high-effort game that would give the Wolves an extended look at the younger players on their roster that they typically don’t, or won’t see during the regular season.
It wasn’t supposed to set up as an exhibition back to back coming off of a Wednesday game in Chicago in which essentially the entire starting rotation played. But due to the success of the Finals-entrenched Minnesota Lynx, a scheduling audible was called and we found a platoon of younger guys absorbing the back-to-back minutes.