It’s 14 games now, nearly a solid month of losing since opening night, and after Wednesday’s 124-111 Target Center drubbing by the first-place Nuggets, officially the worst start ever to a Timberwolves season. But while coach Kurt Rambis concedes that a victory, any victory, would evaporate several tons of anxiety from his team’s psyche, he’s also careful not to add to the ugly vibe by harping on the Wolves’ lengthening list of losses.
“There’s no sense in [talking about it]. If that pressure is put on the guys, it just adds to it,” Rambis said. “It’s going to be divisive. Destructive.”
In fact, Rambis fears he saw a few symptoms of that destructiveness in the over-from-the-start loss to Denver. The Nuggets, who have won 10 consecutive meetings against Minnesota, needed less than six minutes to establish a double-digit lead, and the Wolves coach pointed at his own roster as the reason why.
“They’re a playoff team, but we could have played a lot better,” Jefferson said. “We started feeling sorry for ourselves instead of just keep playing.”
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