Last month, the Miami Heat probably would have considered a matchup with the Minnesota Timberwolves a break during their franchise-record, seven-game road trip.

Unfortunately for the Heat, they visit the Target Center on Tuesday while the Timberwolves are playing their best basketball in nearly five years.

The Timberwolves (11-25) are in second-to-last place in the Northwest Division, ahead of only the Oklahoma City Thunder, who have the NBA's worst record. But they have been on a nice roll since the start of 2009, winning their fifth straight Saturday with a 106-104 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks.

All five of the wins have come against teams with losing records.

Minnesota, which allows an average of 101.8 points, had held its previous three opponents to 88.7 per game. It struggled defensively against the Bucks on Saturday, however, allowing them to shoot 52.6 percent from the field. Although the Timberwolves went 13-of-22 from 3-point range (59.1 percent), they still had to rally from a 13-point second-half deficit behind Randy Foye, who scored 10 of his 11 points in the fourth quarter.

Rodney Carney scored 22 points and Al Jefferson added 20 and seven rebounds.

"What a gutty game. That was a really good win for us," coach Kevin McHale said. "To hold them to 44 (in the second half) after that blitzkrieg they threw at us in the first half, the guys showed a lot of guts."

Foye is averaging 20.8 points during the Timberwolves' winning streak and is 15-of-27 (55.6 percent) from 3-point range during that stretch. As a team, Minnesota is shooting 39.8 percent (41-of-103) beyond the arc during the winning streak.

The Timberwolves haven't won six in a row since a nine-game winning streak to close out the 2003-04 season. They've lost five of their last seven against the Heat (19-17), but face a Miami team that has been struggling since the start of this month

The Heat are 2-4 in January and fell to 1-2 on their franchise-long seven-game road trip after a 108-105 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday. Dwyane Wade scored 27 points and had nine assists while Michael Beasley added 23 points on 10-of-16 shooting.

Miami was outrebounded 53-38 and outscored at the free-throw line 25-10.

Although the results of this trip so far haven't been favorable for his team, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra has been pleased with the effort he's seen during it. After facing two of the top teams in the West during the first half of the trip, the schedule gets a little easier in the second half, with games against Milwaukee, Houston and Oklahoma City remaining.

"This is something that's been an ongoing tale with our team," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "We're getting contributions from different guys. A lot of times we don't know who it's going to be, but guys are stepping up."

The Heat have lost seven of their last eight road games against the Timberwolves, averaging only 87.6 points.