An unseasonably warm October will give way to icy roads soon enough — and along with it countless reminders that if you start to spin out, it is typically the right move to "steer into a skid" on the road.
Practically, all this means is turning the steering wheel in the direction your back tires are sliding.
Metaphorically, steering into a skid has come to mean either taking a counterintuitive approach to solving a problem or meeting it head on (sometimes both) depending on who is doing the talking.
The Timberwolves, for the better part of almost two decades, have been encountering basketball skids.