HOUSTON – In case you've forgotten these past 14 years, the NBA playoffs are all about adjusting from one game to the next.
After Game 1 of a first-round playoff series against Houston, the question is how much more the Timberwolves will feature All-Star center Karl-Anthony Towns than they did Sunday, which wasn't much.
The same player who averaged 16.2 shots from the field and 23.7 points a game against the Rockets in the regular season took only nine shots and scored eight points in Sunday's 104-101 loss that was all about what could have been.
TNT analyst Charles Barkley called the Wolves "one of the dumbest teams I've ever seen in my life," in large part because they didn't exploit the Rockets' switching of screens that often left Towns with a smaller player on him.