The Wolves are really like that

If the Knicks stole a win against the Pacers, the Wolves are pulling off a grand heist against the Nuggets.

Good morning. Let’s basketball.

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The Execution of Emperor Maximilian; Eduoard Manet; 1862

With the Timberwolves having won Game 1 in Denver, and with Rudy Gobert missing Game 2 on Monday to join his girlfriend during the birth of his first child, and with the Nuggets being prideful defending champs, everything seemed to be set up for a comfortable win.

Comfortable for who, though?

Minnesota came out like real wolves, hounded Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic and everyone in Denver blue in the team’s best defensive performance in memory, and stole Game 2. I don’t mean they stole it in the sense of it being close and they ripped the W off a shelf and put it in their pocket. This was a heist gone terribly right. This was Ocean’s 11. The Wolves meticulously plotted out how they were going to torture Murray and frustrate Jokic, and then they executed, and it worked to perfection, and they are riding away with two wins in Denver and opportunity to end the Nuggets’ season before they can even sleep in their own beds again.

The Wolves were so mean to the Nuggets they had Michael Malone doing this in the first half.