Game 17: Timberwolves hosting Houston 7pm.

What are you more excited for: the return of Kevin McHale or the return of Johnny Flynn?

The Wolves are having a good year, even though they have a below .500 record (7-9). It feels like they should be 13-3. Ok, maybe Im a little overboard, but the excitement for this team skews things out of proportion. Basketball Reference says we should be 9-7.

I was looking at the standing in the Sunday paper and was surprised to see our improved hoopsters are still last in the division and in 11th place (out of 15) in the Western Conference. So, even when the Wolves are playing semi-winning basketball they are still out of the playoffs. Go figure! But there is still a lot of season left to sneak into an 8th position.

Earlier today, Coach Rick Adelman said that he thinks JJ Barea and Michael Beasley wont play this week and Martell Webster and Brad Miller will practice some this week.

Enjoy the game! Go Wolves!

-davidwatts

118 thoughts on “Game 17: Timberwolves hosting Houston 7pm.”

  1. "there's only one guy left on the team from when i was here, kevin love [...]"
    -kevin mchale

    there might be a reason for that, kevin...

  2. Wes Johnson is ill so the Wolves are playing with a 9 man bench...although one could say we've been doing that all year

    1. Twolves crew talking about how the wolves always start slow but finish strong. I have to say, Darko might have something to do with this. He's like BAJ on offense, except he sucks at it. Once the ball goes into him at the post though, you know it's not coming out.

          1. At this point, I say start Pek. Beasley is showing that offensive dead ends were only hurting the team.

  3. Whenever Pekovic's not onscreen, all the other characters should be asking "Where's Pekovic"?

  4. I'm getting tired of the Wolves not being able to score more than twenty points in the first quarter.

  5. One of my friends made the remarkably astute observation that Anthony Randolph looks a lot like Earthworm Jim.

    1. I was looking at his picture on the NBA.com companion deal as I read that, and even just the picture of his face lets me see the comparison.

  6. OK, when Martin has 21 points in 2 quarters, I assume Adelman is going to make a halftime adjustment- find someone who can play defense and have them guard the guy with all the points.

    1. Adelman traded himself to the Timberwolves for a reason. He is about to expose Kevin Martin as the loser he is.

  7. I was ready to get down on Rubio for not shooting that open three. It worked out pretty okay.

  8. Can we give Kevin Love a super max contact? It would be like a super max prison but better.

  9. Is it true that Rubio wears special shoes that give +5 to thieving? I heard that somewhere.

      1. Yeah, thankfully I had to make dinner during the stinky part of the game.

        Or, maybe it's just getting better since I tuned in?

  10. Rubio just pushed Beasley out of the circle! Ha.

    "Sorry Bease, I can't have to talking to Darko."

    -Rubio.

    1. I turn on the game and Rubio does a behind the back bounce pass to Love for a wide open 3. Guess I'm sticking around.

  11. I can't make banners as I have no skills, but I'd just like to throw this idea out there for someone who can.

    Ricky "The Dragon" Dreamboat. Eh? Eh?

  12. Ugh, just when things seemed to be turning around the wolves take a huge dump on the court.

  13. Wait so this WGOM has a moratorium on hotlinking images? I guess I will just recommend that you redirect your browsers to this gif.

  14. All these turnovers make me miss Darko's impotent looking hook shots. At least we had a chance that those would go in.

  15. It is like people not named Ricky Rubio don't want Kevin Love to sign an extension.

  16. Anytime anyone has the last name Lowry all I can think about is Will Smith in the Bad Boys movie franchise.

      1. You must be forgetting about the totally awesome car chase in Bad Boys II then.

        1. If I am, its because I drank the memory away. (actually, I haven't seen II. I assumed it would suck and just ran with it.)

          1. I will fight for the honor of the Bad Boys movies for much longer than I probably should, if necessary.

    1. I suppose it had to happen at some point, but why did it have to involve Kevin McHale? Puke.

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