The Timberwolves schedule is finally letting up — more wins on the horizon?

The Minnesota Timberwolves have had an extremely difficult schedule throughout the month of December, but things are finally easing up a bit as we head towards 2022.

The Timberwolves schedule is finally letting up — are more wins on the horizon?

The Timberwolves are finishing up a stretch in which 12 of their last 15 games came against teams that had a .500 record or better at the time of their matchup.

Since Thanksgiving, the Wolves have faced a murderer’s row of opponents, and the results have been decidedly mixed. A five-game losing streak was immediately followed by a five-game winning streak, and the Wolves have gone 7-8 overall during the stretch.

However, things are finally looking up in the schedule department.

The Wolves take on a 16-16 Boston Celtics team on Monday night, followed by a scuffling New York Knicks team that is sitting at 14-18. Then, a West Coast road trip that features the dangerous Utah Jazz, but also a 16-17 Los Angeles Lakers team that has lost four straight — a streak kicked off by a blowout loss in Minnesota last Friday night.

The Wolves will also take on the LA Clippers who are underperforming with a 17-15 record. Then again, three of their wins have already come at the expense of the Timberwolves.

That’s when things really become much easier for the Wolves. Minnesota will play a home-and-home against the cellar-dwelling Oklahoma City Thunder, who they somehow haven’t seen yet this season. That’s followed by a matchup against the worst team in the conference in the Houston Rockets. The Wolves haven’t seen them since an opening night blowout back in mid-October.

Minnesota will then visit New Orleans to take on the Pelicans, who are currently only a 12-win team and are third-to-last in the West.

If you’re scoring at home, that’s four consecutive games against the three worst teams in the conference. Combined, they have a current winning percentage of .340.

Things get a little more difficult after that, but it’s a much-needed reprieve after a ridiculously hard December. Here’s hoping that the Wolves can be at something resembling full strength at that point and that the current, ongoing COVID-19 outbreak within the team is in the rearview mirror.