Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

So much for free and easy, huh?

The Wolves missed the chance to turn Sunday’s runaway victory at Detroit into their first winning streak of the season by losing to the Suns in a game in which they never led.  Randy Wittman said he was “shocked” by his team’s “lackadaisical” start: They trailed by seven points three times in the first quarter while allowing the Suns to shoot almost 70 percent, were behind by 16 at halftime and by as many as 18 in the second half before Rashad McCants, back after almost three games away because of a bad back, made three threes within 65 seconds late in the game to get them within six points but no closer.

Some tidbits and other things:

Al Jefferson followed last season’s monstrous games against the Suns at Target Center with a 28-point, 17-rebound night that included a franchise-record 12 offensive rebounds (how many of those were off his own misses, or Kevin Love’s, well, I lost count). That’s one more than Kevin Garnett had at Phoenix in 2004 and Felton Spencer had against the Clippers in 1990.

Randy Foye followed Sunday’s 23-point, 14-assist night with 17 points and five assists (none in the second half).

Kevin Love now hasn’t made a field goal in two games, going 0-for-3 Wednesday after an 0-for-2 game in Detroit.

All of McCants’ 12 points in less than 11 minutes came on three pointers.

The Wolves will take Thursday off before flying to Oklahoma City in the evening for Friday’s game against the Thunder, who now have lost 13th consecutive games since beating the Wolves there in the season’s third game.\

Have a great Thanksgiving! Have some turkey for me.

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