Julius Randle has been getting cooked on Wolves Twitter for the better part of five months. Fair. He earned it. But on Wednesday night at Target Center, with Anthony Edwards in street clothes, Rudy Gobert fouled out, and Naz Reid tossed for telling Scott Foster exactly what everyone at home was thinking, Randle dropped 24 and willed this team through the most absurd overtime period in NBA history. The Timberwolves beat Houston 110-108. They were down 13 in OT. They won on a 15-0 run.
Read that again. Down 13. In overtime. Without their best player. Fifteen unanswered to close it.
Overtime of Rockets-Timberwolves was INSANE leading to a fantastic finish in Minnesota!
Minnesota’s 15-0 run to win 110-108 was the LARGEST OT comeback in the PxP era (1997-98) 🤯 pic.twitter.com/3vDUO6gRk5
— NBA (@NBA) March 26, 2026
That’s the largest overtime comeback since the NBA started tracking play-by-play data. It’s not even close to anything else. Houston’s Rockets — a team fighting Minnesota for seeding — had this game wrapped, sealed, and stamped. Kevin Durant was cooking. Reed Sheppard was cooking. Naz was gone. Gobert was gone. The Wolves were playing with a skeleton crew and somehow, some way, Mike Conley buried a three that flipped the entire building.
From there, Houston just… stopped functioning. Durant bricked two free throws. The Rockets committed an EIGHT-SECOND VIOLATION. Jabari Smith missed an open three. Sengun missed an open layup. And Julius Randle, the same Julius Randle who has had Wolves fans refreshing trade machine all year, kept scoring. Terrence Shannon Jr. tipped the final inbounds pass to seal it, and that was that.
The Houston Chronicle reported that multiple Rockets players were huddled around someone’s phone in the locker room afterward, watching replays of their own collapse, genuinely confused about what just happened. That’s what the Timberwolves did to them.
Here’s what makes this matter beyond one wild March game: This was the question. THE question. Can Minnesota survive without Edwards? Ant’s been out since March 17 with knee inflammation — still doing individual work, no timetable, per Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic. The Wolves are 3-1 without him. Ayo Dosunmu is averaging 19.7 points, 8.0 rebounds, and 5.3 assists in his three starts, shooting 46.7 percent from deep. That’s not a placeholder statline — that’s a starting guard on a playoff team.
Anthony Edwards was on the court after Wolves shootaround doing some agility and straight-line running. Good sign that progress is being made in his knee rehab. Still no timetable for a return.
— Jon Krawczynski (@JonKrawczynski) March 25, 2026
Nobody is saying the Wolves are better without Edwards. That would be insane. The man averages 29.5 a game. But what Wednesday proved is that this roster has connective tissue that doesn’t snap the second Ant sits. Randle can be that second scorer when he decides to show up. Conley can still hit the shots that matter. The defense — even without Gobert for the entire overtime — held Houston to ZERO points across the final three-plus minutes. That’s not luck. That’s identity.
And yeah, the Scott Foster of it all. Gobert’s foul-out was a gift. Naz’s ejection was soft. The Pioneer Press reported that at least one Wolves player was heard saying “That stuff didn’t work, Scott Foster” on the walk back to the locker room. The L2M report came back with six blown calls, three each way — confirming what we already knew. It was a mess. But the Wolves didn’t let Foster decide the outcome.
Playoffs are three weeks away. Edwards will be back. And when he comes back, he’s returning to a team that knows it can fight without him. That changes things.
