Game Preview #5: Wolves vs Warriors Game Thread

With a day of rest and the comforts of home, the Minnesota Timberwolves take on the fading specter of the Golden State Warriors. This mid-week game will be their third in four days, with another back-to-back to start Halloween weekend. Still smarting from their first loss of the season at the hands of the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Wolves will look to get back on the correct side of the win/loss column.

Game Info

When: Wednesday, October 28 at 7:00 PM CT

Where: Target Center – Minneapolis, MN

Local TV: DAZN-MN, Kare 11

Numbers on the Board

Minnesota continues to shoot below 70% from the charity stripe. Their second efforts to gather rebounds and run in transition like children bounding to the house that is giving out king-size candy bars might be sapping some of the energy from their legs.

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The big highlight plays that fill up our timelines are fun and feel big and important. They can demoralize an opponent and lead to 20-point blowouts. And yet, leaving points on the board will come back to haunt the Wolves when they pour out their plastic pumpkin and find the weight of their haul misleading.

It’s the points here and there, the KitKat minis that fill in the spaces that will sustain the sugar rush.

Oct 26, 2026; Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Cleveland Cavaliers center Jarrett Allen (31) defends a shot by Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert (27) in the fourth quarter at Rocket Arena. Mandatory Credit: David Richard-Imagn Images | IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect

The Wolves committed 42 turnovers combined in their back-to-back bouts. Their uptempo and loose play style will naturally lead to the ball flying around – sometimes errantly, sometimes snatched by a defender hiding just out of sight.

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During the Golden State Warriors’ dynastic run, they were consistently in the top ten for average turnovers per game. The cost of creating havoc for defenses is that sometimes the havoc pulls you in.

All that said, there is at least one space that should be easier to clean up. The guards need to be better about how they give Rudy the ball in the post. He is not a player who can regularly catch it cleanly in traffic…

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