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With balanced scoring and better defensive efforts, the Minnesota Timberwolves have shown signs of improvement in their past two games.

Winning a season-high third in a row, however, might prove to be a difficult task.

To accomplish that feat, Minnesota will have to snap a 13-game slide against the Dallas Mavericks and an overall nine-game road losing streak Friday night.

The Timberwolves (11-38) earned back-to-back wins for the second time this season with Sunday’s 112-91 victory over New York, a team that beat them by 27 points five days earlier.

Kevin Love led five Wolves in double figures with a career-high 25 points. He was one of six Minnesota players with at least 10 points in a 111-97 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers last Friday.

Minnesota shot 51.2 percent in those wins, during which they were boosted by former Maverick Ryan Hollins in his first two games as a starter. He scored 17.5 points per game in those contests — nearly triple his season average — and added three blocks against the Knicks.

The Timberwolves, allowing an average of 106.7 points, held their last two opponents to less than 100.