<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">OAKLAND, CALIF. - The questions buzzed at Kevin Garnett late Friday night like mosquitoes. So the Timberwolves power forward swatted at them as they came, answering about the final play here, Zach Randolph's points splurge there and, in several forms, about his near-perfect shooting night with the imperfect ending in the Wolves' 89-85 loss at Portland. Finally, as one more came at him about the team's struggles on the road, Garnett acted fast and squashed it. "I keep telling y'all, man, this team doesn't have the chemistry," Garnett said firmly. "It doesn't have the camaraderie, nor the identity. We're still soul-searching for ourselves. We have a brand-new team. However you want to put it, this is a brand-new, squeaky-clean new team." The seven-player trade with Boston 10 days ago dropped four new teammates into Garnett's lap, stuck four new tools onto coach Dwane Casey's belt. It happens that the Wolves have played five of their six games since then on the road, including Saturday night's contest against the Golden State Warriors. Sure, Minnesota has a 7-16 mark away from Target Center this season and is 2-12 since a Dec. 7 victory at Portland. But after such a drastic change -- shipping out their second-leading scorer, Wally Szczerbiak, while having to blend in the newcomers -- the getting-acquainted process figured to be bumpy wherever it took place. The real problem, more than where, is when. NBA teams schedule eight preseason games each autumn for a reason. "It's not easy," Garnett said, his frustration compounded by another close defeat. The 7-foot forward was in the thick of the failure, too: After hitting 12 of 13 shots against Portland, he attempted none in the final 6:47 of the tight closing minutes. Then he brain-locked while standing over Steve Blake in the corner, trapping but not fouling him as precious seconds for his team's final chance ticked away. Said Garnett: "I'm never the one to ... moan about stuff, but it's important that you keep a team together to create that chemistry. That's probably the most important thing -- you've got to keep teams together. Every summer, I know guys come and go, but you've got to try to keep at least five or six guys to where you can create something." You'd think the home locker room at Target Center had a revolving door on it, given the number of teammates Garnett has seen come and go in his 11 NBA seasons. Before Szczerbiak and Michael Olowokandi, it was Sam Cassell, Latrell Sprewell, Ervin Johnson and Fred Hoiberg gone from the 2004-05 squad. Before that -- why, it's simpler to count the other way: Troy Hudson is the only player on the Wolves roster who has been with Garnett since the start of 2002-03. That's just three seasons ago.</div> Source
....and saturday night the Warriors,who were not hot,and had Baron at 50% with an ankle,shredded the Wolves with a 30 pt blowout. The Warriors young bench players showed more chemistry and stretched the gap. KG looked frustrated,having to deal with a red hot Troy Murphy on both ends yet wanting to help out his teammates who were struggling to stop the stampede.
