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Wolves 90, Pistons 94
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Wednesday, 02 April 2008
Wallace, Chauncey Billups and Rip Hamilton all sat out a 94-90 victory over the Timberwolves in which Pistons coach Flip Saunders rested his three Eastern Conference All-Stars with 15 game still left in the regular season. His team won anyway, ending the Wolves' home winning streak at four games.
 
The Pistons trailed by 21 points in the second quarter and by seven at the fourth quarter's start and rallied against the Wolves regulars with a makeshift lineup that turned rookie guard Rodney Stuckey from unsung reserve to the night's star.
 
 
 
Wolves record: 19-54
 
 
Mike Trudell/Timberwolves site and Wolves advance scout Brent Haskins with postgame analysis
 
 
 
Associated Press on the Pistons decision to deactivate three of their starters
 
 
 
On Sunday, the Wolves won their seventh game in March and their fourth consecutive at home, beating a Utah team missing starters Andrei Kirilenko and Mehmet Okur. On Tuesday, the Pistons started Jarvis Hayes, Rodney Stuckey, Tayshaun Prince, Antonio McDyess and longtime Target Center favorite Theo Ratliff.
 
 
 
In the third quarter, Jefferson's shot down low with 11:43 remaining ended the Pistons' run. Then Gomes' three-point play 30 seconds later pushed Minnesota's lead back to 55-44.
 
The Pistons narrowed the deficit to 72-65 heading into the fourth quarter. The Wolves fell to 15-13 when leading heading into the fourth quarter.
 
The Wolves couldn't hang onto their fourth-quarter lead just one game after they made clutch plays in the fourth Sunday against Utah for a 110-103 home victory.
 
  
 
Al Jefferson had 26 points and seven rebounds, but only managed 12 shots while being hounded by double- and triple-teams all night.
 
Foye scored 18 points, but was just 6-for-14 from the field, committed a costly turnover in the closing minutes and rushed an off-balance shot out of a timeout with 45 seconds to go to seal the loss.
 
 
 
Of course, in a loss such as this, there is blame for anyone and everyone. However, tonight's loss should be especially painful for Randy Foye, who just couldn't get it together.      
 
 
 
First, with the game tied at 88 and the Wolves with the ball with 65 second remaining, Foye rightly seeks to get the ball into Jefferson. There are two defenders between them. Instead of drawing them off the big man to free him up, or faking, say, the bounce pass to then lob it in, Foye lazily bounces the ball inside. The defenders, both anticipating the pass, cut it off easily. It wasn’t even close. (Twenty second later, Detroit superstar Rodney Stuckey [27 points, mostly on Foye] sticks a 14-footer—on Foye.)
 
The next play: Out of a timeout, Foye takes the ball down the court, dribbles baseline, draws a second defender, and pulls back to take a 15-footer. It clanks off the rim, Detroit rebounds. Game, for all intents and purposes, over.
 

 
 

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Wolves Updates 4/1
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Tuesday, 01 April 2008
Timberwolves coach Randy Wittman was disgusted, angered and frustrated by what he learned Monday morning.
 
Wittman was appalled that a man convicted in the alcohol-related crash that killed Malik Sealy in 2000 had been arrested again on suspicion of drunken driving. Souksangouane Phengsene was booked into the Hennepin County Jail about 2 a.m. Sunday.
 
"It's amazing that he can still be out on the road," Wittman said. 
 
 
 
 
Sporting News: A guide to winning it all, from Corey Brewer (in the NCAA)
 
 
 
Wolves rookie Corey Brewer turned in one of his best performances of the season in Minnesota's victory over Utah, finishing with 16 points, seven boards and three assists in 26 minutes of burn.
 
 
 
The Wolves and Pistons haven't played each other all season. They'll now begin and end their two-game season series in the first two weeks of April.
 
"I know, it's funny," Ratliff said. "It'll be fun seeing the guys. I enjoyed those guys. I know they're losing right now, but they were a lot of fun to be around."
 
 
 
Postgame quotes from the win over Utah.  
 
 
 
Previews of tonight's game against Detroit:
 
Click here for the forum's game thread 
 
 
Saunders said he's not surprised that the Timberwolves are starting to win some games.
 
"Through the whole time they played hard," said Saunders, who spent nine-plus seasons as the Timberwolves' coach. "Anytime you play hard, you give yourselves a chance. They're finishing some games down the stretch."
 
 

Flip Saunders on Glen Taylor and the owner's recent comments about Garnett:
"Four years ago they were in the conference finals, and things have changed, and people have changed," Saunders said. "I think sometimes you try to justify maybe some things that have happened."
 
"Sometimes when you're trying to justify what you're doing, it makes other people look bad.
 
"He really is not a malicious person. So I don't think he ever says anything to be really malicious.
 
"I think he just talks a lot. He wants to tell you what he thinks."
 
 
 
The only player still on the Wolves' roster when Saunders coached Minnesota four years ago is Mark Madsen.
 

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Seckbach talks to Jefferson
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Monday, 31 March 2008
Embedded NBA Correspondent Elie Seckbach chats with Al Jefferson (video) about this season's MVP and which of his teammates he'd elect to be president. Seckbach also asks Marko Jaric for dating advice and wonders if Mad Dog is single. 

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Wolves Updates 3/31
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Monday, 31 March 2008
Souksangouane Phengsene, the man convicted of and imprisoned for criminal vehicular homicide after killing Minnesota Timberwolves player Malik Sealy in a 2000 crash, has been jailed once again on suspicion of driving while under the influence.
 
 
 
In his pregame address to local media, Wolves head coach Randy Wittman said that Sebastian Telfair may not play for the remainder of the season (10 games).
 
"We'll see if Sebastian even comes back, he said. "We only have two and a half weeks left."
 
 
 
Rick Bonnell/Charlotte Observer lists Al Jefferson as this season's most improved player.
Memphis' Rudy Gay would be my second choice. Yes, these two are running up big numbers on bad teams and that can be misleading. But each one defines the term "emerging young star'' and that's what I look for under most improved. (Now, if Jefferson wants to take the next step, it's time to apply himself as a defender.)
 
 
 
Now that he is 100 percent healthy for the first time in a long time, Rashad McCants is proving what a wise first-round draft choice he was for the Timberwolves in 2005. McCants shot 6-for-10 from the floor in scoring 16 points in Sunday's 110-103 victory over the playoff-bound Utah Jazz, and 13 of those points were scored in the second half. ... The Wolves finished the month of March with a 7-8 record and have won four consecutive home games, which is good for the team's record but hurts their chances at getting a top-three pick in the 2008 draft lottery. 
 
 
 
Wittman wants his point guards to control more of the game because he believes that's important. Right now, the focus falls on Randy Foye because fellow point guard Sebastian Telfair is out with an ankle injury.
 
Also from Alonzo:
Wolves rookie Corey Brewer said he plans to sponsor an AAU team coached by former Wolves player Richard Coffey, who starred at the University of Minnesota.

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Wolves 110, Jazz 103
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Monday, 31 March 2008
Al Jefferson had 22 points and eight rebounds and Rashad McCants scored 13 of his 16 points in the second half of Minnesota's 110-103 victory Sunday over a Utah team that just can't seem to win on the road.
 
Corey Brewer tied a career high with 16 points and had seven rebounds for the Timberwolves, who have now beaten the Jazz at home twice this season, losses that are inexcusable for a team that hopes to contend for the Western Conference crown.
 
 
 
Wolves record: 19-53
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Wolves improved to 15-12 when leading at the start of the fourth quarter.
 
"Early in the year, that was a big problem for us," Wolves forward Al Jefferson said about closing out games. "We're growing up. We're getting better and better. Beat a team like this two times in a row at home, that says lot."
 
The latest victory over the short-handed Jazz, who played without starters Andrei Kirilenko and Mehmet Okur, came in large part because the Wolves held their composure.
 
 
 
Wittman kept reserves Rashad McCants and Kirk Snyder, moved out of the starting lineup Sunday after 13 consecutive starts, on the floor for the entire fourth quarter and paired them down the stretch with Jefferson, Ryan Gomes and Marko Jaric, who moved from shooting guard to play point guard against Williams, Utah's sizable point guard.
 
McCants vexed Utah's defense repeatedly on pick-and-roll plays, and Snyder led the way with the hustle plays.
 
 

Behind a balanced offense and some feisty defense, the Wolves beat Utah 108-103 for the second-straight time this season in Minneapolis. The two biggest plays of the game for the Wolves came first on a Marko Jaric three with 2:20 remaining, and second when Kirk Snyder slithered in for an and-1 with 45 seconds left to put Minnesota up 104-98.
 
That is, until Rashad McCants responded to a Carlos Boozer layup with a 17-foot jumper with 16.1 seconds left to ice the game and stick a mini-wrench in Utah's push for playoff seeding.

 
 
For this one game, it seems as if Corey Brewer learned how to play in the offense by sitting on the bench behind Kirk Snyder. Snyder has played well since arriving in Minnesota, but in his first start in awhile, Brewer showed he has made strides in his development. Again, there is much more to do, but Brewer is on his way. 
 

 
The Wolves ended the month with their seventh victory in March, and their first over a team with a winning record bound for the playoffs. They did it by winning for a fourth consecutive time after took a lead into the fourth quarter, a particularly troublesome situation for them earlier in the season when they lost eight of their first 13 games when they led after three quarters. 
 
 
 

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Wolves Updates 3/30
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Sunday, 30 March 2008
Telfair experienced soreness in his sprained left ankle as the result of his increased rehabilitation workload. He's already missed 10 games and won't play today against Utah.
 
Coach Randy Wittman said Saturday that Telfair might need another week or two to be able to play in a game. The regular season ends April 16, so there isn't much time for Telfair to recover.


 
Hansbrough's response was a bit different from the one McCants had when he made SI's national cover for our season-preview issue. "When Rashad was on the cover we were flying to Santa Clara, and we had to hit two airports because we flew commercial," says a UNC insider. "Rashad went into the newsstand and just stood there until the people next to him looked at him. Then at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley he comes downstairs and throws a copy of it on the coffee table in the lobby and then sat behind it on the couch until people walked by."
 
Classic McCants. (I still remember bumping into McCants on the floor in St. Louis after UNC won the 2005 title, and the first thing he said to me wasn't about the championship or his teammates or even his own performance. It was this: "Jay-Z's here tonight.")
 
 
 
The final four games in a six-game stretch where the Wolves face playoff-bound teams, including two against the Jazz to conclude the teams' season series. The Wolves didn't play the Pistons for the season's first five months and now face them twice in two weeks.
 
 
Blaine's Patrick O'Bryant, Golden State's little-used second-year center, sent himself to the NBA Developmental League to show his skills to scouts -- note to Target Center -- as he approaches free agency this summer.
 
 
 
Associated Press on Isaiah Rider: 
The 37-year-old Rider was driving a car that failed to stop at an intersection about 2:30 a.m. in the city's Skid Row district, Officer Norma Eisenman said.
 
Officers checking the license plates discovered the car had been reported stolen from South Los Angeles, and Rider was arrested, police said.
 
He remained in the Los Angeles County jail on $25,000 bail, according to information on the Web site for the county Sheriff's Department.
 
 
 
Postgame quotes from the loss at San Antonio 
 
 
 
Previews of this afternoon's game against Utah:
 
 
Click here for the forum's game thread 
 
 
The Jazz completes its season series with the Wolves with two games -- this afternoon at Target Center, Wednesday in Salt Lake City -- in four days. Wolves coach Randy Wittman will know what to expect, which doesn't mean he can stop it. The Jazz is 32-9 since it acquired shooter Kyle Korver from Philadelphia in December, but it lost to the Wolves last month in its first visit to Target Center. 

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Wolves Updates 3/29
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Saturday, 29 March 2008
To that end, he has already enlisted the aid of 39 Division I basketball coaches for a program he hopes to have in place by next season.
 
"Next season, we plan on monitoring Division I college basketball with the goal of having a working defibrillator and someone trained to use it at every Division I game and practice," Gomes said. "With all the occurrences of this tragedy, we should be ready to respond in the occurrence of another one. That's a realistic goal that we hope to attain."
 
 
 
Wittman said Jefferson should get consideration for the NBA's Most Improved Player award. "I think you've got to, with what he's done on a consistent basis," said Wittman, who also said Sebastian Telfair should be considered. "Being the main option for the first time in his career, sometimes it takes a person awhile to get accustomed to that. You're seeing different things from him, too. That's part of being an improved player," Wittman said.
 
 
 
He is one of just four players in the NBA averaging at least 20 points and 10 rebounds, along with Orlando's Dwight Howard, Utah's Carlos Boozer and Washington's Antawn Jamison.
 
Jefferson's 50 double-doubles ranked second in the NBA behind Howard. And he has improved his shot blocking as well. He came into Friday's game against San Antonio having averaged 3.6 blocks in the previous five games.
 
Also from Alonzo:
-- Wolves point guard Sebastian Telfair missed his 10th consecutive game because of a sprained left ankle. Wittman wasn't sure whether Telfair would be able to resume practicing today.
 

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Wolves 84, Spurs 99
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Saturday, 29 March 2008
Ryan Gomes led the Timberwolves with 17 points and 10 boards and Al Jefferson added 14. Reserve Rashad McCants scored 13. 
 
Ginobili has made a habit this season of playing well against Minnesota, which lost the season series to the Spurs 0-4. In the other three games against the Timberwolves, Ginobili scored 31, 22, and most recently 44 points -- two shy of his season high. 
 
 
 
Wolves record: 18-53
 
 
 
 
 
After pushing their lead as high as 20 in the third quarter, on an almost-dunk from Finley in transition, the Spurs nearly squandered away all of it before the start of the fourth.
 
Rashad McCants and Ryan Gomes, who finished with 17 points as one of six Wolves in double figures, took turns bringing Minnesota back.
 
Minnesota (18-53) was within four early in the fourth quarter. That's when Ginobili, mild-mannered for most of the night, emerged from his imaginary phone booth, wearing his invisible cape. 

 
 
Ultimately, the Wolves flew home empty after Ginobili scored all but one of the Spurs' points in a 14-2 run early in the fourth quarter. Included in that telling three-minute stretch were three of his five three-pointers that allowed the Spurs to win their 50th game for the ninth consecutive season.
 
 
Although the Wolves lost by 15 points, that they rallied in the third quarter before Ginobili put them away in the fourth gives optimism.
 
"It shows that we're not giving up right now," Corey Brewer said. "It's late in the season, but we're still trying to win games."

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McHale video from scouting trip
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Friday, 28 March 2008
Lang Whitaker/SLAM Online posted a video of someone conducting a brief interview with Kevin McHale yesterday after the Adriatic league playoff game with Cibona Zagreb vs Partizan Belgrade. McHale talks generally about wanting to check out some European players and his favorites for the NCAA final four. 

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Wolves Updates 3/28 Part 2
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Friday, 28 March 2008
Asked if he thinks there’s a good chance Telfair won’t play again this season — there are, after all, only 2 1/2 weeks and 12 games left — Wolves coach Randy Wittman hesitated a count and said, “Uh, I think he’ll be back. I anticipate it. We don’t have the luxury to say he needs to get four or five good practices under him like we normally maybe would because of where we’re at in the season. But I want to be sure he’s ready.”
 
 
 
People.com on Marko Jaric and Adriana Lima: 
The couple have been dating for the last six months, but Jaric says he was perplexed by a Web-based rumor about his checking out the local jewelry store for the big stone.
 
"I am not shopping right now," Jaric, 29, tells PEOPLE. "But I could start tomorrow. I am that close. I'm definitely not yet engaged, but it doesn't mean we're not thinking about it."
 
 
 
Mike Trudell/Timberwolves site chats with Timberwolves Dancer Chrissa
 
 
Associated Press preview of tonight's game at San Antonio

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