Solutions, not search for scapegoat, need to be Timberwolves' focus

Timberwolves head coach Ryan SaundersRyan Saunders didn’t sleep much Monday night. He watched his team make dubious history in a loss to the Sacramento Kings, and was awake when his baby started crying early Tuesday morning.

I asked Saunders about his night and he asked me, with a smile, “What, you saw the bags under my eyes?”

Lucas Philip Saunders is seven months old. Only those with Lucas’ limited perspective should be allowed to pretend that the biggest collapse in franchise history was teeming with meaning.

The Wolves became the first team since such data was tracked, in 1996, to lose a game they led by 17 or more points with less than three minutes remaining.

That game offered reason to be…