Did you really think this season was going to be smooth sailing and a coast through the regular season, you idiot?
It’s a thought that keeps playing back in my head over, and over, and over again as the Minnesota Timberwolves recently closed in on the halfway point of the season with a gigantic thud, then a slight lift on Monday night. What started out as a record-smashing, unforgettable, precedent-setting and franchise-changing start to the season through the month of November (13-2 in the month, and control of the Western Conference’s top spot) has suddenly surfaced a lot of questions as the NBA trade deadline nears closer and closer.