So far this season Target Center has, for the Timberwolves, been a refuge. Shelter from the cruel road. A place to heal.
And so it was, again, Monday.
After limping home from an 0-4 road trip out west, the Wolves got home and got busy, running to a 30-point halftime lead en route to a 131-105 victory over the Sacramento Kings — a victory that might have taken some of the sting out of the 141-130 loss in Sacramento last week.
It was a victory, in front of an announced crowd of 12,417, that just about everybody, other than the injured Jeff Teague, had a hand in.