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Wolves’ Coach Mitchell Criticizes Starters’ Defense

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It will be very interesting to see how the Wolves respond to what happened here in Milwaukee tonight.

The Wolves had a game-long series of defensive collapses, and interim coach Sam Mitchell finally had enough. He benched Ricky Rubio, Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins early in the third quarter and they never played again. Afterward Mitchell had some pointed comments about their defense – or lack of it – in a terse, 30-second post-game press conference.f the

Source: Kent Youngblood of the Star Tribune