“We had a lot of turnovers that were just dumb,” Finch honestly assessed.
Stranger things have happened before in playoff races, but the Wolves’ 125-102 loss in Toronto on Wednesday night feels like the dagger in their sixth seed dreams.
With five games remaining, they now trail the Utah Jazz by 2.5 games to avoid the dreaded NBA Play-In Tournament—where anything is possible and failure is definitely an option—that includes teams with the 7th through 10th-highest winning percentages in each conference fighting for the last two spots.
“We 7 seed right now,” said Anthony Edwards, who led the Wolves with 24 points, 8 rebounds, and 4 dimes on 10-17 shooting in the loss.