There are bad losses, and then there are atrocious, embarrassing collapses. And the latter is what fans witnessed at Target Center on Monday night.
The Memphis Grizzlies had lost 23 of their last 24 games , a streak that extends back to late January. Simply put, they’ve been the worst team in the NBA, by far, since the start of 2018.
The Wolves, of course, are playing for their playoff lives. They now sit alone in the No. 8 spot in the Western Conference, one-and-a-half games ahead of Denver, who, mercifully, lost to Philadelphia on Monday.
There’s not much to say about this game other than that the offense was putrid, the defense was far worse than the 101 points given up (the Grizzlies had to have been within striking distance of breaking the record for bricking wide-open jumpers in a 48-minute game), and the officiating was awful all night long.