For a moment I was thinking that if the Wolves win seventeen games again this season, it will still be an improvement over last year, since that was an eighty-two game schedule, and this one is only sixty-six.

Then I remembered that the Wolves finished last season with a fifteen-game losing streak. In other words, they got their seventeen wins in sixty-seven games.

Here's to hoping that the additions of Adelman, Rubio, and Williams, and the subtraction of Flynn, and the potential advantage of a young, athletic team in a truncated season all add up to real improvement.

(At least eighteen wins, please. I'm begging!)