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“I felt like we were just not very good in anything. The league is such a pick-and-roll league right now and lots of time it does come down to pick-and-roll. I thought we contained the ball better in the second half. In the first half the ball was getting wherever it wanted.”

- Budenholzer on defensive issue in first half

“You just get mad. You are down 30 points and you are embarrassed. It happens. We played seven games in 10 days and we played really hard in that stretch. You come off an off day and for whatever reason we didn’t come out with the right sense of urgency and intensity. We all have a little pride and we showed it in the second half. I thought we still had a great opportunity to close it out and it’s disappointing we didn’t do that.”

- Kyle Korver on difference between first and second halves

“Wiggins hit some tough shots. You have to give him credit. He’s an incredible talent. He was 15 of 22 and he hit a lot of tough shots.”

- Korver on Timberwolves’ Andrew Wiggins

“We have to learn from this. We just can’t spot a team 30 points and expect to win. I know that we will be better from this.”

- Al Horford on loss

“Disappointed with the way we played the first half. If we would have played the first half like we played the second half, we beat that team.”

- Jeff Teague on loss

“We felt very confident. We kept coming in the huddle and saying we’re going to win this game. We had all the confidence in the world that we would get it together. Games like this, when you’re playing a great team like the Atlanta Hawks, you have to be very confident and can’t fold under pressure.”

- Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns on win