Schedule Woes

I looked at the Wolve schedule after the game on Thursday night and I didn't notice this then, but upon a second glance, we don't play the Heat until Tuesday! That's four whole days inbetween games. In baseball, which is the sport that I know best, the only time you get four days off in a row is if you win your playoff series in a sweep. And even still, you might only get two days off, even in that situation. Four days off is ridiculous. And especially during a weekend. People would show up for a Friday or Saturday night game or a Sunday afternoon game. No one wants to go to a Tuesday night game and get back at 10:30, if they live near the Target Center. If you're coming from, say, White Bear Lake, that's a long drive back, and that makes for one long night. I could understand four days off if they played a game on a Sunday and then skipped Monday-Thursday and played Friday. But to have the schedule give them four weekend days off is just terrible scheduling. And, on top of the problems with the in-action, I also have a problem with the action as well: after what should be a fairly difficult Miami Shaqs game on Tuesday, the Wolves have to take on the NBA Champion Detroit Pistons the next night. IN DETROIT. That means the Wolves probably fly out of Minneapolis late Tuesday night and probably never get settled down in Detroit until it's practically morning. They lose an hour going into the eastern time zone, and the game starts at 6:30 central time (which their minds will still be on). And then you have to play the NBA's toughest team? A night after you work hard to contain Shaq? Whoever came up with the NBA schedule this year should be fired. If not shot.