But this time, the Wolves did as they should and came away with a 134-93 victory.

Friday featured a balanced scoring effort, with seven Wolves in double figures. Julius Randle led them with 20 points while Anthony Edwards and Jaden McDaniels each had 17. New Orleans committed 26 turnovers to help the Wolves recover from their bad week.

Randle said the energy with the team was “off” after their two-game slide. So what kind of effort did the Wolves want to come out with Friday?

“Just try to get the game over as early as possible,” McDaniels said. “Not messing up to give them confidence to stay in the game, just coming out with a business mindset, for real.”

McDaniels did that in the third quarter, when he had 10 points as the Wolves took the drama out of the evening by extending a 14-point halftime lead to 25.

“I didn’t want to play no more after the third quarter,” McDaniels said. “We all got in, did what we had to do.”

Coach Chris Finch did something a little different to change the energy of the team from the start. He started Joe Ingles, whose autistic son Jacob is now able to attend games in an arena for the first time in his life. Ingles’ family has been living in Orlando this season, and they were here this week, but Ingles hadn’t played. Finch gave Ingles the start, with Ingles’ former teammate in Utah Mike Conley ceding his spot.