It was a performance consistent with how Sam Mitchell‘s bunch has been playing of late. The Wolves played very well for much of the game, but had enough issues that allowed the struggling Oklahoma City Thunder to stick around.
One of the more glaring problems that the Wolves had on this particular evening was free throw shooting. The home team shot just 18 of 28 from the charity stripe — only 64.3 percent. Heading into the game, Minnesota was the second-best free throw shooting team in the NBA.
The Wolves held Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook in check for much of the game but couldn’t contain KD down the stretch.