The Minnesota Timberwolves beat the Atlanta Hawks 100-92 at Target Center on Monday, but their head coach Chris Finch was fuming after the game. The Hawks were missing several key players for this clash but nearly staged an improbable comeback and Finch blasted his Timberwolves players in his press conference.

At issue was a brutal second half in which the Timberwolves were outscored 49-40 by the zombie Hawks, who were missing Trae Young, Jalen Johnson, Dyson Daniels and Bogdan Bogdanović. The Wolves still needed to play Rudy Gobert 38 minutes, Anthony Edwards 35 and Mike Conley 31 to ensure they finished off the Hawks.

The Atlanta Hawks are back home tonight and hoping they can end their five-game losing streak when they face the Houston Rockets, the team with the second-best

Nothing went particularly well for the Timberwolves on Monday at Target Center, even in victory. Minnesota didn’t carry over any momentum from its masterpiece Saturday against Denver. The

Timberwolves big man Rudy Gobert reacts to an object nearly hitting him in the first half of Monday's game versus the Hawks.

Minnesota Timberwolves star Rudy Gobert narrowly avoided being hit by what appeared to be a falling piece of equipment from the jumbotron at the Target Center during a game against the Atlanta Hawks on Monday.

McDaniels 3-7 2-2 10, Randle 7-17 3-3 20, Gobert 7-9 4-7 18, A.Edwards 6-20 9-13 23, Conley 1-9 2-2 4, Minott 0-3 0-0 0, Reid 6-9 0-0 15, Alexander-Walker 2-7 0-0 5, Dillingham 2-5 0-2 5. Totals 34-86 20-29 100.

The Atlanta Hawks and the Minnesota Timberwolves are getting ready to tipoff tonight's game and both teams just announced their starting lineups. Hawks: G- Keat

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Atlanta Hawks (22-23, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Minnesota Timberwolves (24-21, seventh in the Western Conference)