J.J. Barea thinks your intensity is for poop, fellow Timberwolves. (Getty Images)Things were going pretty well for the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday night. Coming off their first April win in three years, Rick Adelman had his team halfway to making it two straight at the expense of the Golden State Warriors, leading by 21 at one point late in the second and taking a 55-39 lead into the locker room after two quarters.

Unfortunately for Adelman, the sharp and energetic squad that finished the first half never came out of the locker room. Golden State outpaced Minny by 21 in the final two frames behind a strong performance from rookie point guard Charles Jenkins and the bench play of Brandon Rush and Dominic McGuire, notching a 93-88 road win.

The second-half short circuit — especially on the defensive end, where the Wolves allowed the Warriors to shoot 56.8 percent in the second half, with a ton of tries coming in the paint — drew the ire of J.J. Barea. After the game, the diminutive Minnesota point guard lit into his teammates for a lackluster effort, according to Kent Youngblood at the Star Tribune:

"We've got problems here," Barea said after his team shot 10-for-40 in the second half and struggled on defense. "We have a lot of guys that don't care. On a basketball team, when you have a bunch of guys who don't care, it's tough to win games. We're going to keep getting [losses] here until we get players that care about winning, about the team, about the fans."

Barea wasn't done, according to Tom Powers of the Pioneer Press:

... when Barea made his postgame remarks, he wasn't hiding in a corner. He was sitting in front of his locker and within earshot of several of his teammates.

"They just come in here after the game like nothing happened," Barea said. "That's what happens to a losing team." [...]

"I've been noticing it. But today you can really notice it. It was a brutal second half. Nobody fighting, nobody getting mad at nobody. After a game like that you got to have problems. You got to argue with your teammates. But nobody cares so we've got to change that."

Mo Williams of the Clippers fouls Eric Gordon of the Hornets. (Getty Images)

You've still got some work to do here, Mo Williams — that left arm's not going to cinch itself up — but kudos on scrambling to take Eric Gordon's back. He's clearly disappointed in himself for giving up such prime position. If you move quickly, Mo, I think you can finish Gordon before the end of the round, and I think Monty Williams agrees ... he appears to have given up the ghost there on the sidelines. Lock it up and get the submission.

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It feels very unfair when an instant of failure overshadows a huge, excellent game. It's very unfair, but it's also very Marvin Williams.

Williams — a serviceable but unspectacular role player who had the poor luck of being drafted immediately before Chris Paul and Deron Williams, and is thus forever damned — had what the Atlanta Hawks-focused blog Hoopinion called "easily [his] best game of the season," scoring 29 points on 14 shots, grabbing 11 rebounds and blocking three shots as the Hawks squared off in a Sunday afternoon showcase against the visiting New York Knicks. But with the game on the line, the Knicks leading by one and a chance to win it, he came up a few feet short and a few tenths of a second late. From The Associated Press:

With just more than 3 seconds to play, [Joe] Johnson inbounded to Williams near the Knicks' bench. The plan was for him to hand the ball back to Johnson on a curl, but New York rookie Iman Shumpert [...] bumped Johnson off his path.

Williams turned and beat [Amar'e] Stoudemire down the lane only to find both he and [Carmelo] Anthony contesting at the rim [...] A split-second after the ball was rejected, the buzzer sounded.

The AP got that bit wrong, actually; repeated viewings of the replay show Williams in mid-flight, the ball still in his hands, when the red light signifying the game's end went on and the horn blared, sealing a 113-112 Knicks win.

"Marvin made the right play," Hawks coach Larry Drew said after the game, according to Michael Cunningham of the Atlanta Journal Constitution. "Probably didn't get there quick enough, but he got to the rim and we got the look we wanted."

I'd suggest "probably" is kind of an understatement, considering the game ended before Williams let the ball go. That seems like a pretty clear-cut way to define whether a play developed quickly enough to me.

Sometimes it can be tough to keep up with dope things that happen in the NBA over the weekend, because you have to, like, go outside for a while. It's a foolish decision, of course, but one we all have to make from time to time. If you left your basketball dungeon this weekend and just quickly caught up on box scores over coffee, you might have missed a few cool plays that weren't game-winners or big-picture consequential, but remain worth your time.

Like, for example, Manu Ginobili's missile of a feed to Matt Bonner during the San Antonio Spurs' 121-97 beatdown of the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night:

Hey, Kristian: Going to need you to link up with that physics professor again to see if Manu's pass was faster than Danilo Gallinari's. Thanks, dude. 'Preciate it.

The unsung hero, as always? Matt Bonner, giving Manu a prime target for the pass, putting himself in position to make a play and finishing crisply. Classic fundamentals from Coach B.

You also might have missed Avery Bradley lulling the Atlanta Hawks into a false sense of security on Friday night by making himself seem vulnerable to every mother's worst nightmare: a boy running with his shoelaces untied.

San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich. (AP)

Can Pop kick it? Yes, he can. Obviously. Duh.

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The beef between the Indiana Pacers and Milwaukee Bucks has been broiling for the past month, according to Bucks point guard Brandon Jennings. Back on March 24, Bucks reserve Mike Dunleavy Jr. laid a hard foul on Pacers forward Tyler Hansbrough, busting the former Tar Heel's nose and cheekbone. "Ever since then, it's been little cheap shots back and forth," Jennings told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Charles F. Gardner.

On April 14, Indy retaliated, with David West taking a high-and-tight shot at Dunleavy in a rematch at the Bradley Center. Tensions flared again when the teams faced off Thursday night, with Leandro Barbosa picking up a flagrant foul for cleaning Dunleavy out on a fourth-quarter drive. That primed the pump for Bucks center Larry Sanders, who's been feeling himself a little bit of late, to explode ... which, as you can see in the clip above, he did. From Gardner at the Journal Sentinel:

The Bucks were trailing, 106-94, Thursday when Sanders drew his first technical foul for arguing after being called for fouling [Danny] Granger. Just 20 seconds later, Sanders was called for his sixth foul and then another technical.

Sanders pointed in the direction of West and the teams circled near midcourt before Bucks forward Luc Richard Mbah a Moute pulled Sanders away and he headed to the dressing room to a chorus of boos.

"You just don't want things to get out of hand," Mbah a Moute said. "It was a hard-fought game and emotions get involved. I just didn't want him to do something stupid.

"I saw he was very upset and was trying to go at [West] so I just held him back."

Before we go any further: Check out Pacers coach Frank Vogel getting his JVG on, stepping in and pushing Granger out of the fray! Big ups to Coach Vogel for throwing himself in harm's way to try to play peacemaker. For comedy's sake, though, I would have greatly preferred it had he wound up on the floor, wrapped around Roy Hibbert's leg, because he got confused.

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Only you, friends, can provide the answer. (It's Dan. Pick Dan.)

Listen, guys, I'm not sitting here and looking for challenges. But sometimes an All-NBA-caliber power forward tweets out a picture of his brand new mustache, and when that happens, Your Man feels compelled to respond.

Now, I may not have the Minnesota Timberwolves star's fancy salons, staffed 24 hours a day by Parisian groomers equipped with the finest liniments and hair tonics in the land, but I've got heart. I've got gumption. I've got the ability to grow a 'stache that didn't get no fancy UCLA book learnin'. (Actually, I went to Providence!) Plus, check out our eyebrows. There's more fight in my eyebrows than in Kevin Love's eyebrows by a COUNTRY MILE.

So, 'stache-wise, who ya got? The first-round draft pick, All-Star anointed one? Or the hardscrabble, livin'-by-his-wits underdog from the mean streets of nice neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Staten Island? Let us know in the comments, and also, please, please pick me.

Delonte West was knocked down with a $25,000 fine. (Getty Images)

It turns out sticking your finger into the ear of Utah Jazz swingman Gordon Hayward during an NBA game, as Dallas Mavericks guard Delonte West did Monday night, costs $25,000. So get your Kickstarter game on point, I guess, ear weirdos.

(Let us remember that, dominant reporting aside, it is not a "wet willy" unless you wet your finger, which West did not do, and it is not a "dry willy," because that somehow sounds even grosser than the other thing.)

That's a considerable sum even for someone making many times that for a single season of NBA work; as a result, even though he was clearly in the wrong on the infraction in question, it wouldn't have been shocking if West had decided to exercise his collectively bargained right to appeal the fine levied by the commissioner's office through the National Basketball Players Association. It would be like showing up to the court date for your speeding ticket, even though you know you were lead-footed, just to see if you had a nice judge in a good mood who'd slash your summons in half.

Instead, though, West decided against raising a stink, according to Eddie Sefko of the Dallas Morning News:

"When you've been to the principal's office," West said, "you don't really want to go back and see that ruler again." [...]

At least he didn't lose his sense of humor over the fine, which is considerable since he makes the NBA veteran's minimum of $1.18 million.

"I didn't think it was going to be that steep," West said before Wednesday's game against Houston. "That's a whole month's check for me. I probably won't have cable in a couple days."