This game was never going to be easy.
We identified the difficulty that this back-to-back posed earlier on Friday; as it turns out, playing twice in 24 hours after losing an hour and playing a mile above sea level is a tough draw. And don’t forget that the Jazz had three days of rest and were on the 12th day in a 12-day homestand.
At any rate, the Timberwolves hung around for much of the night, despite being extremely shorthanded. They were without Jimmy Butler, of course. But things went from bad to worse.