It's hard to draw hard conclusions from a miniscule sample size, particularly when the sample (one game) happens to be about as bad as one team can look over 48 minutes of NBA action.
So let's tread carefully with the Timberwolves, 109-80 Game 1 losers Sunday in Denver but a team that has shown a certain resilience and level of unpredictability all season.
In determining a theme of being out of their depth — in more ways than one — in Sunday's game, it is instructive to dig deeper to determine what is (Christian Ponder voice) "easily correctable" and what might be a more fundamental problem that could make this a brief series.