Pippen also played the same kind of ruthless defense that helped him win six titles in Chicago. After Damon Stoudamire hit two free throws with 15.4 seconds left for an 85-82 lead, the Timberwolves got the ball to Malik Sealy. Pippen was all over him, and Sealy's fallaway 3-point try was long and to the right off the glass. He has been incredible these first two games. Game 3 is Sunday in Minneapolis.
Home is where the heart is.
Target Center will be rocking when we come out. I'm getting ready to plug in. After Game 1, Minnesota coach Flip Saunders said his players were taking cheap shots from the Blazers and not fighting back. Both teams responded to the rhetoric, because the fourth quarter was filled with rough play, and both sides were howling almost nonstop at the referees. Portland's Rasheed Wallace was so incensed when a foul wasn't called on his missed dunk that he chased Brandon all the way up the court and grabbed hold of him just so he could vent on the officials.