The Minnesota Timberwolves dug themselves a significant early hole in an embarrassing loss to the Houston Rockets on Saturday night. Ben Beecken breaks down what went wrong, as well as the Rockets' shift in how they defended Karl-Anthony Towns, and, as always individual studs and duds from the game.

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Wolves' effort embarrassing in loss to Rockets

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