Wolves' losing frustrates Tolliver, Webster

After the Wolves' loss to Phoenix on Wednesday, two of the more frustrated players in the team's locker room were Anthony Tolliver and Martell Webster.

Webster, in his fifth NBA season, and with a playoff appearance on his résumé, is one of the team's few veterans. Tolliver, in his third season, is a consistently hard worker. Both have been vocal about their views on this difficult season. Tolliver has questioned whether all the players had bought into coach Kurt Rambis' system, an observation Kevin Love echoed earlier this week. Wednesday night both gave their views on the team as the regular season wound down with a 12-game losing streak.

Tolliver's frustration stems from the team losing the same way too often. Namely, by putting together spurts of good play, but not four quarters of it. He also reiterated a familiar theme.

"My urgency has been the same," he said. "We just have to try to get more guys on the same page. ... We just keep doing the same stuff, and that's what's so frustrating. The same mistakes are getting us."

Webster sounds as if he agrees. His point was that a team filled with so many young players is bound to go through a difficult early period while those youngsters learn what it takes to win in the NBA.

"All young guys want to be the top scorers in the league," he said. "They don't understand what it takes to win. You have to let them flush that out. ... Just hope they get it out of their systems fast. Then you can move on."