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Goals for the Wolves in this gameCoach:We have to stop the Jazz's big three which includes, Deron Williams, Carlos Bozzer and Andre Kirelenko, if we can hold two of these three players to under 18 points in tonights game, then we will win.
News and notes from the gameThe minnesota timberwolves came out on fire with an early lead a few times in the 1st, but then the hotstreak ended with a series of missed shots by Minnesota.
By the end of the first the score was Utah 32 and Minnesota 23. Much of the same happend in the 2nd quartor, with a bunch of missed shots by the wolves. But the highlights of the first half by minnesota was the rebounds that Speights and Ibaka were getting.
Ibaka played great defense although he had no steals or blocks in the game. By the end of the 2nd quartor the score was Utah 29 and Minnesota 23. In the 3rd quartor though things started picking up with great substitutions by the coach, putting in some of his best shooters like Ribeiro and Peters in the game who both score big shots, especially from downtown, they were both excellent in the 3rd from downtown. Unlike in the first half when Ribeiro shot poorly from the three point arc.
In the third quartor though there was an injury to one of Utah's favorite row players, Sasha Pavolvic. As Sasha tried to drive to the basket for another dunk which he has been doing all night, he got hurt and was out of the game for the rest of the quartor so, Luther Head had to come in to replace Sasha. With a bunch of three from the timberwolves wing men, by the end of the third the wolves outscored the Jazz 42 to 31, by the end of the third the score was Utah 92 and Minnesota 88.
By the 4th quartor the wolves were dominate, once again the shots were taken mainly by the wolves wingmen with them making three pointer after three pointer. Sasha Pavolvic recovered from injury and came back in but he wasn't affective enough to score. There were two highlights for the jazz, Deron Williams driving to the basket almost every time he got the ball and scoring, and unbelievabally old Darko Millicic could not be stopped from scoring inside, not even in the fourth quartor! For the game Darko scored 27 points and was their main offensive player inside and he grabbed 13 rebounds.

Coaches comments about the gameOur guys played well and we won is the bottom line. But there are two things we have to work on, number one is our inside defense, and number two is our three point shooting. If we improve in those areas we'll be a much improved team, we have to keep winning, especially on the road.
Comments from team leader Yao MingI apologize to the coach and to our teamates for not playing well in tonight, i allowed Darko Millicic to score too many points inside. I have to improve defensively, but come on, i have to get the ball as well! Lawson! Please give me the ball inside, i'm an inside scoring big man and i can still play and i'm your team leader, so i should be getting the ball more!
Comments from Ty LawsonI understand Yao, I'll try to get you the ball more, but you have to get open, i'll only give the ball to the open players and to the players who have been shooting well in the game, but yes Yao, i'll start passing the ball to you.