A weakened Timberwolves lineup faced former Minnesota coach Kevin McHale and the Houston Rockets Monday night. Despite Kevin Love scoring a season-high 39 points and grabbing 12 rebounds, the young team appeared frustrated and disjointed in a 107-92 loss. Kevin Martin led the Rockets with 31 points. 即使Love拿下39分12籃板 灰狼依舊敗給了 McHale率領的火箭 Target Center fans dispelled any notion of "Minnesota nice" when they booed McHale upon entering the arena. A native Minnesotan and once-beloved athlete, McHale didn't react to the brutal welcome. "I stopped worrying about getting booed 30-some years ago," he responded postgame. 儘管整場都被nice的狼迷噓爆了 McHale仍舊不以為意：30幾年前就不擔心這檔子事了 Regardless of opinions on McHale, his coaching scheme worked against the Wolves. Taking advantage of a stunted Minnesota lineup (Michael Beasley, JJ Barea, Malcolm Lee, Brad Miller, Martell Webster and Wes Johnson were all sidelined due to injury or illness), McHale implemented a rare four-guard lineup for an explosive seven minutes in the final quarter. 碰上傷兵累累的灰狼 McHale罕見地在最後一節爆炸性的7分鐘內派上4小陣容 "They play four guards at once!" Ricky Rubio said. "Kevin Martin at the four? That was weird." Rubio：他們打四小耶 小馬丁打PF 他們有病... Minnesota started the game with cold shooting, and the players appeared lethargic and out of sync. They battled back, however, in the third quarter, and fans were on their feet for a few big plays. Love came up with a slam dunk, narrowing the Rockets' lead to one point. He added a free throw in the following play to tie the game, and it was yet another three-pointer from the All-Star that gave the Wolves a lead at the 3:58 mark. However, the young ball club couldn't hang on. “We got our (five)-point lead in the third quarter, and then we just stopped, ” Adelman said. “I don’t know if we got tired. We turned it over at the end of the third quarter, they took a five-point lead and they kind of stretched it out, and that was it. We just didn’t have enough energy at the end of the game.” Adelman：我們曾經在第三節取得5分領先，結果後來就停滯了 我們在第三節最後的失誤讓我們落後五分，接下來我們就沒力了 The Wolves had 20 turnovers, 10 of which were committed in the fourth quarter alone. Rubio tallied five turnovers personally, and his shooting game collapsed. Over the last four games, the rookie is only 9-of-41 from the field. 第四節灰狼一共失誤10次！而Rubio投籃手感跟明尼蘇達依樣冷 在這四場比賽裡面 他的命中率是 9/41...21% However, Rubio continues to show leadership on the floor, and he dished out an impressive 12 assists. 不過他仍然用精美的助攻來展現他的領導能力 這場傳出12ast As a team, Minnesota missed 16 layups—not a statistic to be proud of. Rookie Derrick Williams—who started at small forward in place of Johnson—shot 33 percent, and center Darko Milicic landed only 28 percent of his attempts. 這場灰狼上籃放了16槍...有點慘... 代替Wes先發的D-Will只有33%命中率 我們的Darko也只有28% In the end, Love summed up the disappointing game: “Obviously we miss Wes, we miss Martell, we miss JJ, we miss Mike. We miss everybody that’s out,” Love said. “When we’re at full strength, we’re a lot better. We just didn’t have it. We turned the ball over, we made too many mistakes. We had our opportunities to put them in a hole, but it was the other way around.” Love：我們想念所有的傷兵 如果全員歸隊，應該會強上很多 我們在場上犯了太多錯誤，以致於把我們的贏球機會給丟了 -- ╦─。┬ ╮╮╮。═╮╭═。。═╮╮ 。。═╮╭ 。 。╭═。╭─。 ◢ │ │∥ │││╠═╮╠─ ╠═╯││││ │。 │╭╯╠─ ╰═╮ ◣ ◥ 。 。┴ 。╰╰╙═╯╙─╯╰ ╰ ╙╯╯╰═。╚═╯╙╯ ╙─╯。─╯ ◤ ￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣◥ ＭＩＮＮＥＳＯＴＡ ◣ρM.L. ＊* . ￣￣￣￣ --

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