After relative optimism followed the Timberwolves’ close loss to the Rockets just 72 hours prior, Minnesota came out and laid an egg on Wednesday in Houston. (And what a waste of a 2-for-18 shooting performance from probably league MVP James Harden…)
The Wolves jumped out to a big first quarter lead thanks to scrappy defense and an uncharacteristically high number of missed shots from Houston; the Rockets didn’t reach double-digits until the midway point of the frame. The problem for the Wolves is that they committed five turnovers in that amount of time and left plenty of points on the board.