Two stats are what beat the Wolves tonight in a close game.

1. 3-11 aka 27.3% aka the Wolves’ three-point percentage for the evening
2. 8-17 aka 47.1% aka the Thunder’s three-point percentage for the evening

That’s the difference the only other stat of the game that the Thunder really outdid us in was rebounds.  Two games without Love this week and his rebounding abilities are already starting to be sorely missed.

• Jonny Flynn came back to earth in the scoring department but he picked up his assist to turn-over ratio from 3-1 to 4-1, with 8 dimes and 2 TO.  I think that Jonny the facilitator that can score if need be is better then Jonny the scorer who doesn’t remember how to pass.
• Still we’ve got no one in crunch time right now that we can count on.  Sessions can’t shoot free-throws and Flynn seems to get flustered in the last few minutes of games too much.
• Corey Brewer had a nice game to say the least.  Bagging 25 points, 5 boards (1 offensive), 6 dimes, 5 steals, only 3 TO, lock-down defense on Jeff Green, Kevin Durant and James Harden while still staying + in the +/- department albeit only by 1 but he was still +.
• I was looking for more from Jefferson.  I thought this would be a great team for him to match-up against.  My expectations where really high for his offensive game.  I wasn’t expecting much of anything on defense because Durant and Green are too fast for him.  Instead he played a great defensive game and his offensive was a little sub-par for my liking.  I do like that he’s becoming more of a complete player.  It still would have been nice for him to clean the glass a little more on the defensive side of the ball.
• Sessions won’t put up any numbers worth talking about with the second unit.  Flynn would probably put up better numbers because he could go out there and score whereas Sessions is a better facilitator.  Maybe we need to switch their roles.  Let Flynn be the 6th man scoring punch off the bench and let Sessions get the ball down to Love-Jefferson.  That won’t happen because Flynn is our first round pick and we’ve decided he’s out point guard for the future.  At least until Ricky Rubio comes across the pond.
• We have no depth down-low.  Love-Jefferson is all we have that are truly NBA worthy.  I love Brian Cardinal but he’s not really a 4 or a 5, he’s an nonathletic 3
• Ellington needs more then 8:53 a night.  He needs 15-20 minutes a night.  Our team sucks, we need to let our youth play.  Wilkins dunk was awesome but I’d rather see Wayne’s silky-smooth release then Wilkins thunder-hammer dunk.

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