http://www.twincities.com/timberwolves/ci_5520768 Hard to say which scenario seemed more remote Sunday afternoon: forecasting a fourth-quarter Timberwolves comeback against the Portland Trail Blazers or heeding tornado warnings in March. Yet there was Kevin Garnett rescuing the Wolves from disaster by bringing the thunder of a buzzer-beating jump shot to vanquish Portland 94-93 and whip the sheltered crowd of 16,273 into a frenzy. Trailing by five points with 2? minutes remaining, the Wolves staged a remarkable rally with ferocious defense from Ricky Davis and clutch shooting by Garnett and rookie Randy Foye to salvage some dignity at home after a dreadful 1-4 West Coast road trip. A back-and-forth game boiled down a handful of late possessions that had Portland poised for victory on two occasions only to have it slip away in the dying seconds. Garnett's traveling violation with 20.2 seconds remaining was Minnesota's 14th turnover and led to LaMarcus Aldridge's tip that gave the Trail Blazers a 93-92 lead with 8.4 seconds left. Portland deflected away Trenton Hassell's first in-bounds pass to Davis before the Wolves called another timeout to set up a last gasp with 2.2 seconds left. Garnett peeled away from a multi-body pile-up in the paint to receive Hassell's pass. With defenders Brandon Roy and Ime Udoka in his face, Garnett caught the ball, turned to dribble once before launching a 15-foot fade-away that creased the net. The shot was reminiscent of Garnett's 15-foot overtime winner at the buzzer to beat Philadelphia at Target Center on Jan. 5. "I anticipated that being about two seconds, counting in my head," Garnett said of his fourth career buzzer beater Sunday. "I saw one of their players there, so I didn't know if I was going to have the chance to put it down, but it actually helped my rhythm a little bit. "I just got my head up and let it go." Portland coach Nate McMillan said his team could not have defended the play any better. "I was behind it, and it looked good. I had two guys around him, and he fades away. He made a tough shot," he said. Garnett's basket finished off a 10-4 run fueled by Randy Foye's clutch shooting off the bench. He drained a pair of free throws to go with two layups and a driving dunk to punctuate an eight-point explosion in the final 3:02. More important was Davis' defense against Roy, who finished with 22 points. Twice in the last two minutes Davis stole the ball from the rookie guard, leading to four of Foye's points while energizing the Wolves' bench and the crowd. "Ricky was huge. His defense ignited us," Wolves coach Randy Wittman said. "He started the whole thing of getting us back in it without scoring a basket." Davis finished with 15 points, five defensive rebounds, two steals and one block. "(I) was trying to make it difficult for him to come off screens," he said about defending Roy. "My team helped me most of all. If it wasn't for my team, I don't think I would be able to play defense like that." Garnett led the Wolves with 22 points, but he wasn't a factor until the final minutes. Foye scored 13 of his 17 points in the fourth quarter. Besides numbing the pain from their miserable trip, the Wolves avenged two gut-wrenching losses to Portland earlier this season. Juan Dixon's three-pointer with 6.2 seconds remaining sealed an 88-86 victory in Minnesota's third game on Nov. 4. In Wittman's head coaching debut Jan. 24 at Portland, Aldridge hit a pair of free throws with 2.8 seconds left to force overtime, where the Trail Blazers emerged victorious. "The last two games in their place ended exactly like this," Wittman said. "We deserved this game." --

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