ROTATION: Starters -- Point guard Jonny Flynn, Shooting guard Corey Brewer, Small forward Damien Wilkins, Power forward Ryan Gomes, Center Al Jefferson. Bench -- Center Ryan Hollins, Guard Ramon Sessions, Guard Wayne Ellington, Forward Brian Cardinal, Guard Sasha Pavlovic, Forward Oleksiy Pecherov, Forward Nathan Jawai. PLAYER NOTES: --G Jonny Flynn has led the Wolves in scoring each of the first two games and his 35 combined points (18 on Wednesday, 17 Friday) is the most by a Wolves rookie since Donyell Marshall scored 38 in his first two games in the 1994-95 season.
--F Oleksiy Pecherov made 4-of-5 shots and scored nine points in fewer than 11 minutes as the deadline approaches for the team to decide whether to guarantee him a contract for the 2010-11 season.
--F Nathan Jawai, acquired 10 days earlier from Dallas in a salary-cap bookkeeping trade, was active for a game for the first time and played nearly four second-half minutes.
--G Jason Hart was inactive to make room for F Nathan Jawai.
MEDICAL WATCH:
--F Kevin Love is out for the next five to seven weeks because of a fractured left hand sustained in a preseason game at Chicago and later surgically repaired by the insertion of three screws.
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