What’d you expect?

With Al Jefferson and Kevin Love both out…well, you probably didn’t expect the Wolves to lead 9-2 after three minutes, 19-10 after 6 1/2 minutes and 22-13 with 4:45 left in the first quarter.

But that, Kurt Rambis said, probably was partly because the Nuggets were just getting themselves warmed up and into the game.

Once they did, they led by as many as 38 points in the second half.

The 129 points were the most allowed by a team this NBA preseason.

Without Al, the Wolves got beat 58-26 in points in the paint.

Without Love’s rebounding, they got outrebounded 51-40 and outrun 37-15 in fast-break points.

Corey Brewer stepped forth with the two big guys out. He seems to be getting more confident each game: He scored 23 on 7 for 17 shooting (including two threes), had seven rebounds, three assists, three steals, a block, three fouls. He got knocked on his butt making one of his free throws, but missed the free throw and the potential four-point play.

How did the Oleksiy Pecherov experiment as starting center work? Not so much: 1 for 9 shooting, six rebounds, five fouls, four points in 19 minutes.

Jonny Flynn and Ramon Sessions finally played together for a stretch for the first time. They played the first 5 1/2 minutes of the fourth quarter. Both played off the ball some. Flynn was matched up against Ty Lawson, whom the Wolves drafted and then traded to Denver last summer. It looked pretty much like a push to me.

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