Kevin Love had a game-high 25 points and 18 rebounds and Luke Ridnour poured in 22 points to help the Minnesota Timberwolves defeat the Houston Rockets 100-91 on Saturday.

After the Timberwolves built a 13-point lead at the half, Goran Dragic and Kyle Lowry led Houston on a 9-2 run early in the fourth quarter to cut Minnesota's lead to three.

Ridnour and Love responded with clutch 3-pointers down the stretch to put the Timberwolves up by eight and put the game away.

Wolves point guard Ricky Rubio had a double-double with 13 points and 11 assists. Rubio tossed a perfect half-court alley-oop to Wesley Johnson to get the Minnesota crowd energized in the first quarter.

Minnesota shot 57.5 percent from the field in the first half.

Lowry and Luis Scola both had 24 points for the Rockets, who had their eight-game winning streak snapped at Target Center.

Minnesota finally reached the .500 mark after failing in four previous attempts.