The last time the Timberwolves played the Jazz on Feb. 28, Anthony Edwards was watching somewhere away from the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, serving a one-game suspension for picking up 16 technical fouls during the season.

The Wolves lost that night to the worst team in the Western Conference in the final seconds, and after that game, Jaden McDaniels said it was “desperation time, for real.” The Wolves haven’t lost since.

Edwards was back in the lineup Sunday night as the Wolves faced Utah again. He and his teammates weren’t going to let this game slip away in a 128-102 Wolves win and their eighth consecutive victory, the team’s longest winning streak since 2004.

“We responded well [since that loss],” said McDaniels, who had his 10th double-double of the season with 20 points and 12 rebounds. “We’re on a little mission right now trying to not be in the play-in. All these games count. We just gotta keep stacking.”

It was a performance coach Chris Finch called “professional,” because the Wolves were up 30 early in the third quarter, and that allowed Finch to pull his regular rotation players with over nine minutes remaining on the first end of a back-to-back to conserve some energy. The Wolves started strong, gave back most of a 19-point lead in the second quarter before regrouping with a dominant third quarter that effectively ended the night.

“Couldn’t have asked for anything better,” said Finch, who picked up his 200th victory with the Wolves. “You didn’t have to burn through a lot of guys’ minutes tonight unnecessarily, which is a good sign with a good professional win.”