Have the T-Wolves turned the corner? In an impressive win over San Antonio, they held on to beat the Spurs in overtime. There were a couple of crazy coaches decisions down the stretch though that made it interesting. Mark Blount spent the much of the fourth quarter on the bench after shooting 9 of 11 and I think had 20 points up to then. Why wouldn’t you play the hot player in a close game? I know Smith has been a steal and a boon for the T-Wolves this year, but Blount was having a career day. Plus he was d’ing up Duncan as good as anyone I’ve ever seen. He still scored on him with impossible shots, but what do you expect, he is a first-time ballot hall of famer. The other one that really sticks in my craw is on our last possession of regulation. Game tied at 93, after a time out, Foye gets the ball with a four second differential on the shot clock. So it was like 21 seconds on the game clock and 17 on the shot clock. What is the apparent called play? Foye drives in and throws up a leaner within 5 seconds, misses and then Spurs ball with plenty of time to set up a last shot. Luckily they missed the shot and we did not foul, so overtime! Unfortunately I missed most of the OT because I was watching it on DVR and I did not record the post game show.


Hey Dwayne What’s Happening with the coaching?

My wife watched the OT live upstairs and saw the postgame show with (unknown blonde girl talking head). Apparently Anthony LaPanta (the regular post-game talking head) was on vacation or something, but the sub was terrible.

Side note: I used to play pick-up basketball with Anthony LaPanta through a mutual friend of his brother. He was not real good, but a nice enough guy. He did have a superiority complex though.

When she finished her train wreck job, she tried to kick it back to courtside announces Tom Hanneman and Jim Peterson (my God I miss Trent Tucker) she says “back to you Tom and .. uh Tom and (uncomfortable silence)” finally Hanny pipes up and says “Jim”. As the camera goes off her she says “WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?” I can’t find her name or picture now, if I do I’ll paste it in here later. Would it kill FSN North to hire Tucker to do SOMETHING! I just miss him, I know that sounds gay but I don’t care.



To prove I’m not, here are some Dance Team Pics




It didn’t get any better than Kevin Harlan and Tucker back in the day. I was watching a game on ESPN classic between the T’Wolves and the Celtics. I know, a T’Wolves game on ESPN Classic? But it was an awesome game, last second heroics and all. Anyway, I was so happy because it was being announced by Harlan-Tucker. I couldn’t believe my luck. Then after the first quarter, they switched to the Boston announcers! I almost swallowed my remote.


Back to the subject, our front court looked very impressive again, with Garnett, Blount, and Smith (no Griffin again). But the backcourt was shaky at best. Hassel made several smart plays, and is solid at the 2 or 3, and Foye is surprisingly good for a rookie. Unfortunately, Mike James and Ricky Davis are stinking it up. Ricky shooting poorly last night (3-17 including 0-5 from 3pt range), bad defense, and a couple really bad passes. Would we look better with AI? I’m sure depending on who we had to give up. Well we’ll never know.