All you needed to know about the Timberwolves’ performance on Wednesday night was that Tom Thibodeau sat for most of the fourth quarter.
It was a night that even the perpetually worried coach of the Timberwolves could sit back and relax (relatively speaking) and empty his bench and admire his team’s handywork on a night it could do almost no wrong with a 128-89 demolition of the Spurs.
In the second quarter, the bench and starter Robert Covington took a three-point lead and extended it, then kept extending it.
Then the starters came back in to start the third quarter and extended that lead – and then kept extending it.