Wolves week in review

Last update: March 21, 2009 - 2:37 PM

Record: 0-3

• They began a seven-game stretch in which they play six road games against playoff-bound opponents with Tuesday's lacking 93-86 loss at San Antonio to a Spurs team missing Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili and then took host New Orleans to the final shot before losing 94-93 Wednesday. They ended a three-game Southern trip Friday with a 107-88 loss to Houston.

STAR TRIBUNE'S STAR OF THE WEEK

Kevin Love, F/C: Averaged 19.3 points and 14.0 rebounds in the week's three games, and just think if he had done anything in the first half of the first two games. He had 14 of his career-high 19 rebounds and all of his 17 points after halftime at San Antonio, then had eight of 11 rebounds and 16 of his 23 points in the second half at New Orleans.

THIS WEEK: Four games

Today: vs. Oklahoma City, 2:30 p.m. Monday: at Atlanta, 6 p.m. Wednesday: at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m. Friday: at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

• Today's game against the surging Thunder interrupts a pair of three-game road trips against playoff-bound teams. This one takes the Wolves out East and finishes with a date with LeBron James.

THE QUOTE

"Dean was a very seasoned rookie." -- Wolves coach Kevin McHale on the team's single-game rebound record by a rookie, set by 30-year-old Dean Garrett in 1997. Kevin Love's 19 rebounds Tuesday were one shy of that record.

JERRY ZGODA