MANKATO, Minn.(AP) -- Kevin Love had 17 points and Minnesota made
a whopping 50 of 56 free throws to beat Milwaukee 117-103 on
Sunday night, making a winner out of coach Kurt Rambis in his
preseason debut.

"It's about what I expected," Rambis said. "We did a lot of good
things, and we did a lot of poor things. We had way too many
turnovers, and we forced the action too much, but I'm asking
these players to expand their games. They're doing things
they've never done, and that leads to turnovers.

The game was played with replacement officials, who called 73
fouls that resulted in 94 free throws total. The Bucks were 26
of 38.

"I don't think (the officials) had much to do with it," Bucks
coach Scott Skiles said. "A huge percentage of our fouls were
legitimate."

Love had six points and four rebounds in the first three minutes
as the Timberwolves, who never trailed, jumped ahead 12-2. He
finished with 13 rebounds in 21 minutes.

"I love getting in there and getting hit," Love said. "It's
exciting in there, pushing around. That was fun."

Ryan Gomes added 13 points and 10 boards for the Timberwolves,
and Al Jefferson, who missed the final 32 games of last season
with a torn ACL, scored 14 points before sitting out the second
half.

"We're thankful they got Al out of there," Skiles said. "If he
and Kevin would have played most of the time, we probably would
have got beat by 50."

Rookie Jonny Flynn had 14 points - all from the free throw line.
He also had seven assists and three turnovers.

"He has to continue to learn how to read situations and
understand the offense," Rambis said. "I know he can run the
pick-and-roll; he's terrific with that. He has to make sure he
gets his teammates involved."

Hakim Warrick led Milwaukee with 24 points, and rookie Brandon
Jennings added 14 points.

"We have a lot of work to do," Skiles said. "We weren't sharp.
We didn't shoot the ball well, our ball movement wasn't good,
our defense was terrible. We had no answer for how physical they
were.

"They had much more intensity. You could feel it in the first
four, five minutes of the game that we were going to have to
pick up our level of play, and we never did."