What's up with Kevin Love?
The Wolves only allowed 52 points in the first half tonight and 122 for the game after allowing 79 and 152 on Tuesday in Phoenix.
Love scored three points (and had three rebounds) tonight, just one night after he had just three points and seven rebounds in Phoenix.
He played 17:22 off the bench in his second game back from that sprained left foot.
Was it that foot or these last couple weeks when he seems to be growing more and more unhappy with his role and his place on this team that was bothering him.
He was out of the locker room in a flash tonight, while Kurt Rambis was still talking in his postgame media address.
"Yes, he's healthy," Rambis said. "He's moving OK. I wouldn't say he's moving great."
The look on Love's face as he walked briskly out of the locker room suggested it's more than a sprained foot.
"He's just got to continue to fight through with whatever frustration he's feeling now," Rambis said. "That's what guys do at this level. You've got to let go, move forward. Whatever is frustrating him, you let it go and continue to do the things that are his strengths.
"He does a good job of playing hard and does a great job of rebounding the basketball and he's such a team player. He just has to keep those concepts in his head."
The Wolves stayed close for about 18 minutes, then surrendered a 9-0 run and the Jazz ran away, to a lead as big as 27 points in the second half.
Interesting to look and see how this Jazz was built.
The Wolves are going through the painful, long process of collecting young lottery picks and growing with him.
The only Jazz player taken in the lottery is point guard Deron Williams, admittedly a tremendously good player.
But the rest of the roster is mostly a bunch of former second-round picks and undrafted players signed, traded for or drafted by the Jazz itself and then developed.
They all fit Jerry Sloan's system and play really hard, like their coach did.
The only other first round picks on the roster are Andrei Kirlenko and Kosta Koufos, both late first rounders.
Second rounders included Carlos Boozer (signed away from Cleveland), Kyle Korver, Paul Millsap, Mehmet Okur.
Ronnie Price was undrafted in 2005l. Wesley Matthews was undrafted out of Marquette last summer and now he's a starter on a team that's won its 44th game tonight (and its 25 in the last 32 games).
Did the Jazz see something in Matthews nobody else did or is he a product of the coach, the system and the players around him.
Things get even tougher from here for the Wolves: They flew to L.A. after the game tonight, have Thursday off from practice and play the Lakers Friday night looking to end that 11-game losing streak.
Good luck with that.
