Rashad McCants made his Sacramento debut last night with a scoreless (0 for 2) 10-minute performance in a 112-105 home loss to New Orleans.

New Wolves Shelden Williams and Bobby Brown have had Monday’s practice and Tuesday’s shootaround to get used to their new team, but Kevin McHale said before tonight’s game that he probably won’t play either at all.

“I’ve never been a big advocate of playing a guy for three minutes,” McHale said. “If you’re going to play the guy, you at least would like to have him be able to get his feet wet. It’s hard to get them in there. I’ve looked at some things. It’s going to be matchup driven.”

McHale is finally just working Jason Collins in the lineup — he played all of the fourth quarter in Sunday’s loss to the Lakers and Kevin Love didn’t play at all then because McHale said he thought Collins’ size against Pau Gasol gave the Wolves a better chance to win — and said Collins probably will play more against taller teams and Williams more against smaller ones.

“That’ll be a chance for Shelden to play,” McHale said. “It’s a matter of mixing and matching. Bobby’s going to have to fit in,  too, inside of Randy and Mike and Sebastian and K.O.”

All-Star Chris Bosh was out the last time these two teams played — the Raptors’ 110-102 victory at Target Center two weeks ago — but he’s in the starting lineup tonight alongside Shawn Marion, who was acquired from Miami for Jermaine O’Neal since that last meeting.

The Wolves will start their usual post-Al lineup: Telfair and Foye in the backcourt, Miller, Love and Gomes up front.

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