Wolves lose 121-109 at Kings, fall to 1-4
Posted on November 8th, 2008 – 2:45 AMBy Jerry Zgoda
Well, that didn’t take long.
Quickly, a new season is starting to look quite a bit like the old one, only this time, in the year’s fifth game, Randy Wittman was quick at times to sit down Corey Brewer and Al Jefferson, among others, after a shuffled lineup failed to remedy a team that doesn’t look in the least like it spent all of October focusing on its team defense.
Moving Kevin Love and Sebastian Telfair into the starting five, didn’t stop another bad start (10-2 this time), but Love continues to impress, this time with a 20-point, eight-rebound, 30-minute game that included some second-half foul trouble. He already has lost as many games (four) in nine days as he did all last season at UCLA, but when you consider how fast a guy who just turned 20 in September is beginning to figure out this pro game…
Still, that’s small consolation for another putrid defensive performance that followed the 55 points they allowed Tony Parker alone Wednesday. (Did you see that awful-looking ankle injury Parker sustained early in tonight’s blowout loss at home to Miami, when the Heat trapped him and forced the ball out of his hands before he left just 10 minutes in.)
Here’s the late game rewrite that only made our Web site because of the West Coast start time.:
Already Wittman is suggesting if players don’t change their ways defensively, either he won’t play them or his bosses will deal them, but you know what you usually happens first in pro sports…
Either because of the short flight from Sacramento to Portland or because of the team’s performance today, the Wolves will have a morning shootaround Saturday (they generally don’t do that on the second half of back-to-backs) before their night game against the Blazers. The evening will be a homecoming for Love, who played high-school ball in suburban Oswego.
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