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Owner Glen Taylor implores Timberwolves to step up.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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| September 01, 2001 | Pickeral, Robbi | COPYRIGHT 2001 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

MANKATO, Minn._After the Timberwolves lost in the first round of the playoffs for the fifth consecutive season in May, owner Glen Taylor held individual meetings with each of the team's coaches. Taylor's challenges to each: Motivate the team to get a "step on `em" attitude earlier in games, prepare the younger players to step up their participation, and improve the team enough to take the next step of earning home-court advantage in next season's playoffs.

"Improvement really isn't in that playoff game," Taylor said Saturday, the first day he could speak with the media after an 8 {-month NBA suspension for his role in signing forward Joe Smith to a series of contracts that broke salary cap rules. "Improvement is during league time; then you take it into the playoff games. The way we're doing it right now, by ...

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