You may exhale.
Dropping Wednesday’s game against the New Orleans Pelicans as a 13-point favorite may have had you rightfully concerned about Friday’s re-run. This time, however, NOLA was doing it without Zion Williamson; a welcomed occurence for a Minnesota Timberwolves team that seemingly always gets killed by the former Duke one-and-done.
No Zion? Try being favored by 15.5 for Friday’s game. You can’t mess that one up, right?
They didn’t. In fact, not only was an important win and avoidance of disaster achieved given the timing of the season, but it proved crucial as well to get key players out of shooting slumps that were submarining the Wolves in losses to bad teams.