Wolves looking better late
It’s late in the NBA season, a time when teams with no playoff hopes are supposed to tank it to ensure a higher chance of doing well in the NBA lottery. After spending almost half of the NBA season as one of the worst teams in NBA history, not to mention the season, the Wolves are suddenly playing .500 ball and looking like a team with potential.
Just in time to move up the standings enough to lose a lot of lottery balls in this summer’s NBA Lottery and draft.
Strangely, like mortgage lenders out to sell homes in a bear real estate market, the staff of the Timberwolves, led by GM Kevin McHale, is saying the determination to win as many games as possible to close out the season is all part of some master plan.
Would that be the master plan to prevent the team from improving, perhaps? Sure, it’s nice to think the Wolves have turned the corner; but at this point in the season, winning big over the New York Knicks is no big whoop; they were a game up on us and wanted to lose, to improve their lottery chances.
So we won a game that the Knicks wanted to lose; where’s the improvment in that?
The Wolves need to learn how to win, and I can agree with McHale and company on that. But winning at the beginning and middle of a season, when it matters, is of far more importance, I think, than winning in the garbage games at the end of the season, when every team’s fate is pretty much sealed, isn’t my idea of the Wolves winning important games.
