Timberwolves coach Chris Finch noted Minnesota made Tuesday’s overtime victory over the three-win Pelicans far more difficult than it needed to be.

Minnesota opened up a comfortable first-quarter lead in New Orleans, but a disastrous second quarter — in which the coach said his team “completely lost focus and intensity” — left the Wolves chasing the rest of the night. They caught the short-handed Pelicans just in time to force an extra session that probably shouldn’t have been necessary.

“Unfortunately,” Finch said on his weekly appearance with Paul Allen on KFXN-100.3, “that’s in our DNA right now.”

There are 82 regular season games. You will not win all of those. You won’t even win all of the ones you’re supposed to win. It’s a part of the season. But Finch noted, sometimes you simply

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