Archives For D.J. Augustin  photo by shiftedreality  Well this
game was just a hot mess. On display here were two bad
basketball teams playing some unintuitive, unlovely, awfully bad
basketball. The Wolves missed more than a third of their free
throws. They turned the ball over in crucial situations. Their
first half was a listless fiasco. I’ll allow Kurt Rambis to
continue: “their bench killed us, our defense was sub-par
tonight and our effort was…nonexistent for the vast majority of
the ballgame.” All true.  And yet, thanks to the fact that the
Bobcast are a decimated wreck of a club, the Wolves by all
rights should still have won this game. The entirety of the
third quarter was a 30-14 Wolves run. They were up by eight
points with just under three minutes remaining and up five
points at the 1:48 mark. How did this come to such a depressing
end? Well, that’s actually a hard question to answer. There’s no
focal point of blame for this game; things went wrong in
diffuse, ever-shifting waves. Let me try to cat