This is what it has come to, Utah Jazz fans, huh? Amar writing a Game Preview? It’s been a while. Fitting, in a way that it’s against the Minnesota Timberwolves. The Wolves are incapable of getting their situation handled, and either they have bad injuries, bad schedules, bad players, bad coaches, bad front office members, or just plain bad luck over all these years. They’ve made the playoffs just eight times ever, and advanced out of the first round only in that 2004 NBA Playoffs.
Probably the biggest blow I can think of was losing Flip Saunders - their franchise’s combination of Frank Layden and Jerry Sloan.