One by one, the key players for the Minnesota Timberwolves keep going down. One by one, someone else keeps stepping up for a team that has emerged as one of the big surprises of the first two weeks of the season. Chase Budinger converted a layup on a feed from Andrei Kirilenko with 0.8 seconds to go, lifting the Timberwolves to a 96-94 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Friday night.