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Wolves in LA, part 1. 9:30ish
game is on ESPN
The Wolves travel to LA and just like earlier this year, the schedule is kind because they get an off day in between the Lakers and Clippers games.
No more talk of the long losing streak to the Lakers and hey, maybe the local can get their own 53 game winning streak! Rubio is playing, but is battling 'illness' and of course no Kobe for the Lakers. Moar Wes Johnson!
go team go.
Minnesota at Los Angeles Lakers. 8:30pm
I dont want to talk about the losing streak. You know, the 500* times in a row the Lakers have beat our locals. Nope. not going to talk about it. I mean what else is to say about it? I you got anything, add them to the comments.
Kevin Love is going to get a triple double this year. He is going to have a 15 assist game this year. The way he is moving the ball is so fun to watch. Somewhere in the back of the binder, is a lineup of Love playing the point and everyone else just run in circles until he passes it to you for an easy layup.
Lets get a win.
*estimated
Wolves @ LA Lakers 9:30pm
Last night's loss hurt. The Wolves are 2 games back for the 8th playoff slot and had a chance to cut it to a game behind Denver because they lost. I listened to bits and pieces of the game on the radio last night and things seems alright. Ridnour had 13 assists and 4 turnovers, but those 4 turnovers seemed to come at really bad times. JJ Barea seemed to have a bad game with 5 turnover. Paul Millsap had 8 steals and they all seemed like at the end of the game and overtime. Blarg.
Hopefully Kevin Love can go tonight, he hurt his thumb late in the game and had X-rays afterward. As of this writing, it seems like he is ok but the whole Twin Cities sports landscape has been snakebitten with injuries, one just never knows...a simple tweak turns out to be a broken everything it seems like.
Luke Ridnour has notched 32 assists to 11 turnovers since replacing Rubio.
Go Wolves
Wolves @ Lakers 9:30pm
Last night's win was simply awesome. Between Derrick Williams being unleashed to Micheal Beasley going en fuego leading to this awesome exchange a the :28 mark between Ricky Rubio and The Beas (also, Ricky Rubio has gotta be leading the lead in .gifs. His passes, his dances, his dusting people off. what a joy).
Last night's win also guaranteed a winning record for the month of February (now 8-6 for the month) and that is now 2 straight winning months (January they went 10-8). Before Jan, the last time they had a winning month was January of 2009 when Kevin McHale took over for the fired Randy Wittman and went 10-5. THREE years without a winning month. ye gods. The last time the Wolves had back to back winning months, you gotta go back to 2005 (!!!) when again Kevin McHale took over for a fired coach in Flip Saunders and had winning records in March (10-5) and April (6-4).
wow. just wow.
2012 Game Logs: Game 20 Lakers @ Wolves
The Lakers franchise returns home tonight to find a Wolves team that is not the push over LA has been used to. Here is some facts about this game bullet point style
- The Lakers have beaten the Wolves 15 games in a row.
- The Wolves, with a win, will have a .500 record.
- The Lakers are 1-7 on the road this season.
- There probably isn't a more difficult place to play on the road than the Target Center.
- Josh McRoberts is the third best player on the Lakers. He would be the 10th best player on the Wolves.
- Last season the Wolves allowed 107.7 ppg. So far this season the Wolves have improved this number to 93.5ppg.
- The Lakers have never won a game being played at the same time as the Pro Bowl when being played the week before the Super Bowl in their franchise history (0-1).
- This will be the first match up between JJ Barea and Andrew Bynum since Bynum attempted to murder Barea in last year's playoffs. If you think JJ isn't gunning for Bynum, well, you've got another thing coming.
- Vegas realizes all of these things and as a result have made the Lakers 1.5 underdogs to the giant killing Minnesota Timberwolves.
Today has the possibilty of being a really fun game, you guys.