Wolves record: 4-15
If Randy Wittman’s job wasn’t in trouble before Saturday night, it most likely is now.
His Minnesota Timberwolves suffered their second straight blowout loss, this one a 107-84 thumping at the hands of the lowly Los Angeles Clippers on their home floor that brought a season full of misery to a new low…
After the game, most of the talk centered around Wittman, who is 38-105 since taking over for Dwane Casey in January 2007.
“There’s nothing you can worry about,” Wittman said. “When you get hired, you’re bound to get fired. You don’t worry about it. I’m not. You’ve got to prepare each day. That’s what I’ve got to continue to do.
A Target Center audience smaller than the announced crowd of 10,863 fans awoke from their boredom and their slumber during the fourth quarter of the Timberwolves’ embarrassing 107-84 loss to the dysfunctional Los Angeles Clippers long enough to mock the home team and heckle Kevin McHale, architect of a team that lost for the 15th time in its first 19 games Saturday night.
The only thing that got the intimate gathering on its feet all night was when dance-team members threw free T-shirts into the stands midway through the fourth quarter. By then the Wolves, playing without injured Mike Miller and Corey Brewer, trailed 96-68 to a Clippers team that had lost seven off its previous eight games, including one Friday night to O.J. Mayo and the Memphis Grizzlies.
Tim Leighton/Pioneer Press on Al Jefferson:
He said the team can’t worry about a coaching change
“I’ve got one job,” he said. “I’ve got nothing to do with management. They can do whatever they want to do. It starts in this locker room with us. They could have Jesus Christ himself come and coach us, but if we don’t go out there and play hard and play together, it won’t mean nothing.”
Jefferson wouldn’t comment on whether the team has hit rock bottom.
“I won’t admit to it,” he said with a scowl. “We are going to keep fighting. It is frustrating. It just feels like the worst teams have their best nights against us.”
The crowd cheered when fan favorite Mark “Mad Dog” Madsen checked in at the scoring table with 5:37 left in the game. Madsen, sadly, finished with zero points. The loudest cheers of the night came for Rodney Carney towards the end of the game. The bench squad forced three quick turnovers in “garbage time” which lead to highlight-reel dunk for Carney.
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