The Timberwolves are a worthless disgrace

This was season 33 of the Minnesota Timberwolves franchise, a tenure so putrid that some were calling that play-in game win last week one of the greatest in franchise history.

Yes, a win in a stupid manufactured play-in game to become a 7th seed ranks that high.

This franchise has done so much more harm than good to the already tortured fans in this state.

But the Timberwolves have been marked by just a blur of losses. The one thing they did not have was that one signature failure that everybody could point to as The One, as certainly fans of the Vikings, Twins and various Gophers teams do. (Not sure the Wild have one of these...yet)

But the Timberwolves sure have it now. And fittingly they can't even be bothered to have it in a series that matters.

The dirty little secret that the NBA stans won't admit is that most of their games are utterly meaningless, even postseason. Memphis vs Minnesota is not a series that matters. Neither team is going to win a title. The NBA couldn't give two shits about either market. It exists because the NBA has 16 playoff teams.

But Wolves fans grasp at scraps, so becoming a 7 seed and maybe beating a 2 seed that isn't really a 2 seed becomes something to get excited about. And with a 1-1 series and coming home for game 3, hey, they even had my attention.

The Wolves were fueled by the crowd and blasted out to a huge lead in game 3. It got as high as 26. But in fine fashion they pissed almost the entire lead away by halftime (they went in up 7).

I tapped out for the 3rd, cause this had become what most NBA games are, which is just killing time until the 4th quarter that decides about 95% of games. It's why unless I am AT a game I find watching a full game very tedious.

But I saw that the Wolves had built the lead back up. So I figured I would tune back in to watch the celebration. 

By the time I actually did turn it back on though that rebuilt lead was almost completely gone. Again. Memphis was on what would wind up being like a 21-0 run to stunningly take the lead. The Wolves had no pushback. No intelligence. Chris Finch just stood there.

The final minutes were anticlimactic. Memphis kept clowning the disgraced home team. The final run was ultimately like 50-15 Memphis and they won 104-95. Fans seemed too stunned to even bother booing.

This wasn't the worst blown lead ever in a playoff game. Pretty sure it's novel to blow TWO such big leads in one game though. 

This series is of course over. The Wolves will not bounce back. They will be done in 5 games, and everybody knows it. 

But what *I* also know is that, no, this is not a young team on the rise. This team will never go anywhere. This will be their peak with this group. They will not even make the playoffs next year. Towns got the majority of the heat for this game, but when you collectively gag like this it is everybody who takes blame. People want Towns traded now, cause sure the best way to take another step is to get rid of one of your two biggest stars. A Towns trade would do nothing but set you back for another rebuild. 

This is not on Towns. It's not on Finch. It doesn't even have anything to do with the Memphis Grizzlies. This is what the Minnesota Timberwolves are. It is what the Minnesota Timberwolves always have been and always will be. If they are not the worst franchise in pro sports the last 30 years they are close. They have given us nothing. They will give us nothing. I wish more than ever that they would just go away.