Wolves hope picking up pace will reverse course of series with Rockets

Another sellout crowd will pack Target Center on Saturday night, this time for an NBA playoff game Timberwolves fans have waited to cheer at for 14 long years.

The way point guard Jeff Teague sees it, his team must play for the first time in this best-of-seven series against Houston with a purpose and pace that matches the arena’s energy if they intend to avoid elimination’s brink.

“Play with a lot of tempo and try to get the crowd into the game,” Teague said. “Make it a fast-paced game.”

He said his team didn’t do that often enough in the series’ first two games, when they took the Rockets down to the final second before losing by three points Sunday and scored only 82 points after a lopsided…