When put in a last-second, go-to, pressure situation, Timberwolves star Kevin Garnett says you have to "pretty much go with your instinct.''

Thursday night ? against a shorter defender, with a double-team slow to come ? that instinct was to pass.

Garnett's only regret after Anthony Peeler's shot missed and the Wolves lost 88-87 to the lowly Denver Nuggets: "I probably could have been a little quicker, made the defense come a little sooner,'' he said Friday, as his team prepared to play the Phoenix Suns tonight. "But that's how you learn, man.''

Which has some people wondering: Will he ever learn to take clutch shots during clutch runs? And how far can the Wolves go if he doesn't?