Minnesota is in the midst of the easiest portion of its schedule this season, and the Wolves are taking advantage.

Two nights after blitzing Utah in Minneapolis, the Timberwolves gave the Kings a similar treatment in Sacramento. Minnesota again seized control early and never looked back en route to a 144-117 road victory Sunday in California.

Here are the takeaways from another impressive performance:

Sacramento is expected to be a cellar dweller in this year’s Western Conference. Particularly coming off a dominant win Friday, these are the types of situations where Minnesota — or anyone, for that matter — would be susceptible to a letdown performance that allowed the Kings to stick around for the majority of the evening.

But Minnesota led by as many as nine in the first quarter, and t

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