I'm on your side, sheefo. What the team was missing is Cassell-Hudson combo. That would've been deadly in the Lakers round. With Troy out most of the season is the most painful thing they actually endured the whole season, winning the division, nab #1 seed in the Western Conference and home advantages in all series. Can't you imagine that where the team has lack of PG coming off bench and yet seeded as no. 1? Although we got the bad luck most of time but we were fortunate enough to pull themselves together until to the true end, either WCF or the Finals. The NBA Finals with a victory would be nice, indeed. Then without Cassell, they kept battling the Lakers and forced them to work harder but comes the bias among the officials, if that say so from the T'Wolves standpoint
If not for those specific actions of the officials during the Lakers series, they should have nabbed the title even without both Cassell and Hudson with only scrub Martin as a starter.