We've seen this before

Greetings. Youngblood here from Salt Lake City one more time. Jerry will pick up the team back home tomorrow night.

Well, it seems like we've seen this a bunch of times this season. The Wolves have an opportunity with a star player on the opposing team not playing. The Wolves enter the game lacking an edge. The Wolves ultimately lose a game they could have won due to a boatload of turnovers and poor weakside defense.

Utah forwards Andrei Kirilenko and Paul Millsap out-scored the Wolves duo of Kevin Love and Michael Beasley 57-38. Earl Watson, who played for the injured Deron Williams, had a double-double.

The Jazz scored 30 points off of 25 Wolves turnovers.

Twenty-five. Eleven in the third quarter alone. Another five in the fourth, when they actually had a chance to win.

After the game Wolves coach Kurt Rambis was not pleased. He said he thought the Wolves stopped running their offense and tried to go one-on-one in the fourth quarter after pulling to within one point with less than 8 minutes left.

Nothing new here. Rambis has talked about this being a process all season, but he wasn't pleased with much of what he saw Friday.

The Jazz did a good job of making things difficult for Love early. But he bounced back with a strong second half to get yet another double-double.

There were a couple other bright spots:

--Wes Johnson came off the bench to score 19 points. He was moving pretty well without the ball and his shot looked good. he hit on eight of 14 shots, had a couple of assists and no turnovers.

--Anthony Tolliver scored nine points and hit both his three-pointers and seemed to be one of the few folks wearing a Timberwolves jersey capable of at least slowing Millsap.

That's about it, folks. The Wolves get a chance to snap their six-game losing streak Saturday at home against a Toronto team struggling badly. Jerry will be there to chronicle it for you.