Wolves record: 9-37
Frank Isola /Daily News game recap
From NBA.com:
Corey Brewer made 9 of 10 shots for 22 points in yet another lopsided defeat for the Timberwolves, who lost by 33 at Milwaukee on Saturday. They have surrendered 120 points 12 times this season and lost by 20 or more 11 times.
Ramon Sessions finished with 20 points and fellow reserve Sasha Pavlovic had 16.
Ramon Sessions finished with 20 points and fellow reserve Sasha Pavlovic had 16.
“We knew that they just lost by 50 at home, so we knew they were going to come out with some kind of start,” Sessions said. “But that start didn’t end. They kept it up for the whole game.”
Tonight, the Knicks started by scoring the game’s first 15 points, a burst that convinced Kurt Rambis to make practically a complete line change (sorry, I’m mixing my sports and perhaps my metaphors) by removing every starter but Jonny Flynn and inserting four subs just three minutes into the game.
The starters got clobbered — Al Jefferson scored a season-low four points in fewer than 24 minutes — and the reserves didn’t fare much better.
“I don’t know, man, I really don’t know,” starting small forward Damien Wilkins said. “We’ve got to get off to better starts. For some reason, I think we think we’re the ’92 Bulls. We don’t get on the floor quick enough to warm up. We stay in the locker room and procrastinate. We joke around and play around too much at shootarounds.”
Is that symptomatic of a young and unprofessional team?
“That may be,” Wilkins said. “But I hate to blame youth for anything. All of us have been in situations before where we’ve won. Jonny won in college. Wayne [Ellington] won in college. Everyone on this team has been on teams where they’ve won at different levels. To me it has nothing to do with youth.
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