The Wolves didn't arrive at their Salt Lake City hotel until about 3:30 this morning and now must play a surprising 9-5 Jazz team that rested at home last night.
The Wolves, meanwhile, must come back and play just 24 hours after Friday's emotional, last-season, comeback victory over the Clippers in Los Angeles.
I asked Adelman before tonight's game if he's worried about a victory hangover and emotional letdown tonight.
"I always do," he said. "And this team, this year...Young guys always seem to have a tendency to just relax. They haven't really found that they have to play the same way everynight. The first half last night, they made a lot of shots but we did not play with the energy we've been playing with defensively. Then the second half that changed completely for us. We have to bring that every night.
"I hope they learn you can't just play yourself into a game. Like tonight, if we try to play ourselves into it, they'll blow us out because they play very well here."
With a victory tonight, the Wolves can reach .500, at 8-8.
It's a threshold Adelman considers important.
"That's why I was so upset with losing the Atlanta game," Adelman said about the road game a week ago tonight when the Wolves could have reached even but lost in the final seconds.
