<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">In perhaps the stop-the-presses moment of the season for the Timberwolves, the team that couldn't score, couldn't finish and couldn't protect the ball managed to do all three Wednesday night at Target Center. They even managed to win the game ? only the fourth time in their past 15 games that's happened ? beating the Chicago Bulls 99-93. As usual for Minnesota, the winning formula started with Kevin Garnett, whose ninth consecutive double-double was the 500th of his career and included a surge of eight straight Wolves points midway through the fourth quarter that gave Minnesota a nine-point lead and put the Bulls in the rear-view mirror. "He was special tonight,'' Wolves coach Dwane Casey said. But it was the way the others around Garnett ? including his coach ? responded, especially in the fourth quarter, that made this game stand out among the past month's worth of uneven performances. "The one stat that jumps out at me is the turnovers,'' Casey said, referring to the mere 10 committed just one night after 19 turnovers helped bring down the Wolves in a three-point loss at Milwaukee. "It gave us some more bullets, more opportunities at the bucket to attack them with.'' Not that anybody was awake in the fourth quarter to witness the difference it made in the result ? after both teams spent three quarters putting the crowd to sleep with combined 38 percent shooting from the field and a low-scoring foul-fest. But a suddenly offensive Troy Hudson scored five quick points early in the fourth quarter to put the Wolves into the lead, and the home team was off on a 55 percent-shooting, 33-point spree in the period that included so much Minnesota fire that Casey drew his first technical foul of the season for arguing a foul call at the far end of the court. "That was the cheapest 'T' I've ever had,'' Casey said. "All I said was, 'That was a big call, Eric (Lewis).' '' The Wolves showed surprising bounce in their step in the fourth quarter, considering they were playing the back end of a set of back-to-back games, as they snapped Chicago's three-game winning streak. Garnett was a key to the fourth quarter, particularly as the point man, delivering four of his season-high nine assists in addition to scoring 10 points. Between Garnett's poise on the point and an aggressive team approach that sent the Wolves to the line for 44 free throws, compared with Chicago's 23, Minnesota started looking like the team Casey has been trying to find all season.</div> Source
in my opinion the only key to the wolves success is spreewell gone from the team, a pain in the lockeroom/practice is gone so the team chemistry is better.... and also wally is having a career season this year he really stepped his game up
