Not much changed for the Minnesota Timberwolves in their first game under Randy Wittman. They try again to get their first win with the new coach and avoid a sixth consecutive loss as they visit the Seattle SuperSonics on Friday.

Minnesota (20-21) lost its first game under Wittman on Wednesday, 101-98 at Portland to extend its season-high losing streak to five games. The Timberwolves have not lost six in a row since their longest slide last season - a seven-game skid from March 7-16.

"I felt these guys deserved to walk out of the building with a win tonight," said Wittman, who was named interim coach after Dwane Casey was fired Tuesday.

Ricky Davis had 23 points but missed a potential game-tying shot with 7.9 seconds left in overtime.

"I'll take that shot and live or die with it," Davis said. "It was a great shot but it didn't go in."

Davis, the Timberwolves' second-leading scorer with 16.0 points per game, has been stellar his last two games since returning from a team-issued, one-game suspension for leaving the bench during an incident in a loss to Detroit last Friday.

The swingman missed Sunday's loss at Phoenix with Kevin Garnett, who was also suspended, before scoring a season-high 32 points in a 106-91 loss at Utah on Monday.

Garnett, who had 31 on Wednesday, leads Minnesota with 22.3 points, but still feels the effects of losing Casey.

"We feel terrible. You've got to feel responsible when someone loses his job," Garnett said. "I looked at myself in the mirror and asked myself questions. Now I've got to answer those questions and apply them to this new situation."

Garnett had a season-low 10 points in Minnesota's 101-82 win over Seattle on Dec. 29, the team's third win in the last four games against the SuperSonics.

A win Friday would give Wittman his first as coach since he led Cleveland to a victory over New York on April 16, 2001.

The Timberwolves, who are 8-13 on the road, are in the fourth game of a five-game road swing that concludes Saturday against the Los Angeles Clippers.

The Sonics (16-26) hope a visit from a struggling Minnesota team - which it has beaten the last three times at KeyArena - will help them rebound from a 117-112 loss to Denver on Tuesday that ended a three-game winning streak.

Ray Allen has averaged 34.0 points in those three wins and is coming off a 44-point effort in Tuesday's loss. The shooting guard is also averaging 34.0 points through the first five games of Seattle's season-high, seven-game homestand, shooting 43.1 percent from 3-point range and 46.8 percent overall.

While Allen has been proficient in the backcourt, Nick Collison has played well of late in the frontcourt. The forward, who has 9.3 points and 7.3 rebounds per game, has averaged 20.0 points and 13.5 rebounds while shooting 64.5 percent from the field his past six games, recording five double-doubles in that span.

"There's no hesitation," Collison told the team's official Web site. "I think it's a combination of being able to stay on the floor a little bit longer and have a nice stretch of games here in a row where I've been able to play enough minutes. I don't know what it was. I'm still getting mostly layups; I'm in the right spots at the right times."

Seattle is 10-4 at home since Dec. 1 after losing six of its first eight games at KeyArena.