On January 10, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued, with the Timberwolves, who had won three consecutive games, challenged the Rockets at the bottom of the West. The Timberwolves were in full swing, leading 20+ at halftime, and finally won four consecutive games away from home 141-123, and Downs blasted a new 40 points next season.
Statistics
Rockets: Gordon 13 points, 3 assists, Wood 22 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 blocks, Porter Jr. 9 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists, Green 10 points, 3 assists, Christopher 16 points, Martin Jr. 11 points and 7 rebounds, Tate 8 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists, Matthews 14 points;
Timberwolves: Towns 40 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists, Russell 22 points, 5 rebounds and 10 assists, Vanderbilt 21 points, 19 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks, Edwards 19 points, 3 rebounds, 6 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks, Beasley 13 points, Norwell 11 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals.
The Star of the Field
Towns blasted 40 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists, and blasted 40 points to set a new season high, breaking through the opponent's interior line to lead the team to four consecutive wins.
Race highlights
Porter sent a ball to Martin Jr
Downs singled out Wood
Green blasted in for three points
Russell bottom corner three-pointer
Edwards pulled the lever against the sky
Christopher one-arm fried basket
The Rockets countered with Porter Jr. connecting Green with a dunk
Russell's clever pass connects to Downs
Game review
In the game, Jaylen Green made a foul on the free throw line to open the record, Russell cut into the middle of the free throw line jump shot steadily hit, Gordon, Towns, Tate successively attacked the basket, downs arced three points into the top. Green picked up Tate's hand and handed over a three-point shot directly to shoot a three-point shot, Russell scored two consecutive three-pointers, Porter made a mistake in the kick-off, and Vanderbilt broke the ball and slammed in. Gordon scored on a layup with the ball, and Towns also shot a three-point three-pointer.
Towns scored a 2+1 layup with Wood's big three steps, Martin Jr. cut the ball under the basket and dunked, Towns hit the Rockets in the middle of the road, wood handed it to Porter, who rushed to the basket to score. Wood opened Vanderbilt to the basket, Edwards turned away from the defense and changed hands to attack the basket, then he broke Porter, a dragon did not make a layup, Andes made a basket. Towns hit a three-pointer, Edwards broke through the pull bar to make a layup, Wood made a three-pointer to stop the bleeding, Beasley and Matthews scored three points, and the first quarter ended, the Rockets 26-36 Timberwolves.
In the second quarter, Reid was whistled for defensive and offensive fouls in succession, Tate singled out Russell to attack the basket for a left-handed layup, and Okoji chased the three-pointer without Reid's basket to make up for it. Gordon cut the ball to Nowell, a dragon helped Christopher score a layup, Russell made a low layup, Martin Jr. scored three points, Norwell scored six points in a row, Okogie picked up a leak under the basket, and the Timberwolves led by 17 points to stop the Rockets.
Christopher stopped bleeding on three points, Reed fed the ball low in the top arc to help Vanderbilt score under the basket, Christopher controlled the ball to the front of the field to stop the jumper, and then he cut off the Timberwolves' pass and dunked it. Vanderbilt basket against Matthews, burst straight into the dunk! Russell, Edwards and Towns went down three-point baskets, and the Timberwolves stretched the gap to 20+! Russell's fifth three-pointer also, Porter's retreat for a three-pointer, halftime, the Rockets 54-75 Timberwolves.
Easy side fight again, Towns received the ball and missed three points, McDaniels made up for the basket, the Rockets converted the offense, Porter fed green the ball and dunked in the air, Russell cut in the middle of the road to Vanderbilt to do it, and glided to the basket. Wood opened three-pointers, Vanderbilt and Towns scored consecutive baskets, Towns had three points in front, and the Timberwolves maintained a 20+ lead.
Russell went straight to the basket under Downs to blast the basket with one arm, then Porter complained that the referee received T, Wood turned around and pasted Prince, and the basket burst into flames. Towns' long pass helped Vanderbilt dunk in an empty basket, Green flew to the basket, Norwell scored under the basket, Wood hit three points in a row, and Edwards and Matthews hit long-range shots. Martin Jr. converted the offense to catch the ball, three big steps almost completed the earth-shattering dunk, Towns three-point burst, Norwell grabbed a dragon, against Matthews a dragon two-handed dunk, Wood helped the basket under Christopher scored, Towns immediately basketed down the empty cut to return the basket, the end of the third quarter, the Rockets 88-111 Timberwolves.
In the final quarter, Matthews swung his opponent in the bottom corner and shot a three-point shot, Beasley and McDaniels scored two three-pointers in return, and then Vanderbilt cut Christopher and helped Beasley fly to the basket in front of him. Russell hoisted vanderbilt under the basket to cut in, then converted the offense and the two of them connected again to dunk, and the Timberwolves led by 26 points!
The Rockets went on an 11-0 run, towns hit the basket again to score a 2+1, scoring a season-high 40 points, and Edwards hit three points. Soon after, the game entered "garbage time", the two sides gradually withdrew the main force, and finally the Timberwolves took the Rockets away and won four consecutive games.
Both sides started
Timberwolves: Russell, Edwards, Vanderbilt, McDaniels, Towns;
Rockets: Potter, Gordon, Tate, Wood, Green