After fueling one of the Portland Trail Blazers’ most explosive offensive performances of the season, Deni Avdija couldn’t help but imagine the possibility of his up-and-coming team.

“We’re very dangerous,” Avdija said Monday after the Blazers’ 135-118 win over the Philadelphia 76ers. “That’s what winning teams do and I think there is a capability for a very, very good team here.”

But two nights later, the only danger came from the Blazers’ opponent.

The Minnesota Timberwolves punked the Blazers 133-109 on Wednesday night in Minneapolis, handing Portland one of its most lopsided defeats of the season before 19,988 at Target Center.

Julius Randle erupted for a season-high 41 points, Jaden McDaniel finished with 21 points and six assists and Rudy Gobert added 17 points and eight rebounds as the Timberwolves (34-22) delivered a start-to-finish beatdown, looking every bit like a team that has played in the Western Conference finals two consecutive seasons.

“It was not a great game,” Portland acting coach Tiago Splitter told reporters in an understatement. “I think they did a tremendous job with their defense.”

Yes, that explosive Blazers offense from Monday — the one that handed out a season-high 35 assists, made a season-high 22 three-pointers and came within four points of its season-high in scoring — was nowhere to be found. In its place was a sloppy, careless and haphazard mess.

The biggest issue was something that has plagued the Blazers off and on for weeks: turnovers. The Blazers coughed up a season-high-tying 26 of them and most led to points.

Minnesota scored a whopping 43 points off turnovers and finished with 25 fast-break points.

Nine different Blazers committed at least one turnover, but the bulk of them came from their primary ball-handers, as Avdija (five), Jrue Holiday (six) and Scoot Henderson (five) combined for 16.

At least Holiday (23 points, five assists) and Henderson (18 points on 5-for-8 shooting) made up for some of the miscues with scoring. Avdija, who has just one more game left before he makes his All-Star debut, labored through one of his worst individual performances in what has been a sensational season.

He recorded 11 points and three assists, equaling his season-low in scoring, and made just 3 of 14 shots, including 0 of 7 three-pointers. Early in the fourth quarter, shortly after the Timberwolves had taken a commanding 101-82 lead, Avdija sprung free for a wide-open three pointer in the corner.

The shot bricked off the rim.

Blake Wesley corralled the rebound, lobbed a pass right back to Avdija, who remained wide open in the corner.

And his shot bounced off the rim for the second time in seven seconds.

It was that kind of night for Avdija — and the Blazers (26-29).

“I think it was an off game for everyone,” Splitter told reporters. “We’ve got to bounce back. We’ve got another game tomorrow night. We’ve got to go to Utah and play better.”

One of the few bright spots was the play of Vít Krejčí, who scored 17 points on 7-for-10 shooting in 20 minutes off the bench.

But his performance was an outlier.

In the end, the Blazers were a no-show on both ends and had no handle on Randle, who put on a show.

The 6-foot-9 forward punished Portland from every angle, slithering his way to the rim for four layups and dunks, swishing three three-pointers and drawing multiple shooting fouls. He finished 14 of 24 from the field and 10 of 11 from the free-throw line.

But his most impressive bucket came on his last shot with 3:53 left, when he leaked out on a fast break, gathered a pass and hammered home a left-handed windmill dunk.

It was an exclamation point on a jaw-dropping night for Randle and a dominant win for the Timberwolves.

“He was aggressive, he got to the free throw line, he was just more physical than us on both ends,” Splitter told reporters. “Good game for him.”