I only caught the end of the first overtime, and found the Wolves play in the final seconds so mystifying that I didn't bother watching the second overtime. With 13 seconds left in a tie game, Mike James took a couple bumps dribbling down the sideline, looked like he'd lost the ball and stepped out of bounds, but somehow came up with an improbable three point shot to put the Wolves up by 3. It was a pretty impressive feat of athleticism to come up with that. So then following a time-out, the Wolves left Rasheed Wallace wide open at the top of the arc to take the tying shot. He missed, but the Wolves lost the rebound to Rip Hamilton, who made a lay-up. The Pistons then fouled and Randy Foye's free throws made it a three point game again. So they leave Billups alone at the top of the arc on the inbound pass, and he ties the game. Supposedly Wallace and Billups both came off of screens to get these shots, but two back-to-back set three point pieces coming up with barely contested shots is pretty disheartening.
KG had already been tossed from the game for scuffling with Antonio McDyess, a player the Wolves were rumored to be looking at in trade talks, so I guess he won't be coming here. KG will face a league suspension, and he won't be the only player the Wolves go without. Ricky Davis decided after being pulled in the 3rd quarter disappeared to the locker room, and when coaxed back out, refused to play again, in a 2-OT game with the team's best player ejected. Seriously, big changes are needed, trade Garnett and get a new GM who believes in draft picks, and a coach who can start developing a new team. Rather than stay mired in mediocrity for the rest of a great player's career, I'd rather they just spread around gasoline and burn the place down. It's seriously not even fun anymore.
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