The Minnesota Timberwolves caught a flight late Wednesday night, after an overtime loss at high altitude against the Denver Nuggets. They lost an hour of sleep because of the time change. Both Rudy Gobert and Karl-Anthony Towns were out due to injuries. They had every excuse in the book to lose this game, and the Raptors had none. But despite leading for most of the game and knocking down half of their threes, the Toronto Raptors were unable to get the win, dropping them to 20-26.
Tonight’s loss was pretty consistent with the team’s troubling trend of playing bad defense.