On January 12, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued, and the Pelicans welcomed the Timberwolves, who have won four consecutive games at home, and Beverley ushered in a comeback. The two teams won and lost until the final moments, and the Pelicans were almost ahead of the Timberwolves in the final quarter, but Ingram hit a key three-pointer in the final quarter and completed the kill, helping the Pelicans to end the Timberwolves' four-game winning streak of 128-125, and Edwards was difficult to save in the final quarter.
Statistics
Pelicans: Ingram 33 points, 4 rebounds, 9 assists and 5 turnovers, Valanciunas 13 points, 12 rebounds and 4 assists, Hart 21 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists, Jones 10 points, Hayes 13 points, Walker 9 points and 6 assists, Graham 10 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists;
Timberwolves: Edwards 28 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists, Towns 26 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals, Russell 16 points and 7 assists, Beverley 10 points, 3 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals, Beverly 18 points, 4 rebounds, Vanderbilt 8 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals.
The Star of the Field
Ingram scored 33 points, 4 rebounds and 9 assists, and in the final quarter, he played against Edwards and sent a deadlock to end his opponent's 4-game winning streak!
Race highlights
Russell connects Towns
Reid violent back buckle
Hayes dunked under the basket
Ingram scored three points
Temple flew into a buckle
Towns' second offense buckled in
Russell top arced three points
Ingram folds the buckle
Game review
The Pelicans made a mistake, with the Timberwolves countering to give vanderbilt a dragon dunk, Jones' three-point shot from the bottom corner, and Russell's downside Towns. Graham converted two throws, Towns Russell cooperated again, and after receiving the ball, broke through the change of hands to the layup, russell chased the three-pointer and exploded. Ingram received the ball and stepped onto the basket, Valanciunas hit from mid-range, and Hart and Vanderbilt scored the basket successively.
Ingram received Varan's hand to attack the basket to play 2+1, Russell and Jones soared three points against each other, Beverly broke Hart, gave Vanderbilt a quick dunk, and Towns scored two points in front of him. The two teams then went to the free throw line in a row, Alvarado made a steal, and followed Up with Temple, who was about to take three big steps! Beasley and Alvarado scored three points each other. Then there was a sudden accident, Norwell and Alvarado collided with the ball at the same time and both fell back to the locker room. Beverly and Towns went on to the basket and ended the first quarter with the Pelicans 35-36 Timberwolves.
Hart converted to attack a dragon European step forward, the two teams finally had a sports goal in this quarter, Reid broke through Varan, and killed a violent back dunk under the basket! Ingram broke through Edwards, turned over from mid-range after a quick stop, Russell fired a three-point shot in the front, and Jones converted the offense to break through along the bottom line. Towns basket to eat Hayes scored, but the latter immediately responded, blocking and then picking up Ingram to score the basket, and then he countered to receive Walker's clever pass to the empty basket to violently explode the basket!
Edwards arced a three-pointer, then he broke through to the bottom corner of Beasley's three-point shot, and Graham suddenly scored Hayes under the basket to send a violent dunk. Then the Pelicans played a counterattack again, Hayes took the bottom line to pick up Ingram and turned over to blow up the basket, Towns scored Edwards' three-point shot, Ingram's bottom corner received the ball and flew the opponent, directly killing the basket to send a folding dunk. Hart scored a three-pointer, and then the Timberwolves made another mistake, and the Pelicans made a quick attack on Hart's left-handed layup to end the half, and the Pelicans made it 65-59 to the Timberwolves.
Easy to fight again, Hart counter-attacked a dragon leaning on the defense to advance, Varan low against Vanderbilt hooked, Towns face the basket breakthrough throw, Ingram split The Walland basket hook, McDaniels broke through the throw, Towns grabbed the rebound and put the second attack. Russell flanked by Downs and fired in three points, Hart broke through to open Prince's rebound to score, and Ingram was dissatisfied with the decision to eat T.
Hart flew into the basket in the penalty area, Beasley's three-pointer and arrow pierced the heart, Ingram broke through to give Hayes a dunk under the basket, Beverly advanced to borrow Downs cover to kill a throw to the basket, and then he snatched a steal to send Prince a dragon dunk. Ingram chased for three points, then made up for the big hat Beverley, and came back to send another three points! Prince, Temple and Walker scored three points. End of the third quarter, Pelicans 97-89 Timberwolves.
In the final quarter, Towns and Varan fought back-to-back baskets, Russell assisted Beasley to hit three-point shots, and Walker and Edwards also had three-pointers. Downs broke the ball quickly, got the ball between mistakes, and Jones flew down the basket to let the opponent in. Edwards top man three-pointer, then he broke through 1V2 on the rebound score, timberwolves chased 2 points, Graham three-pointers, but Downs top arc three-point salute, and then he hated Varan's shot, Edwards converted offensive breakthrough to throw in, Timberwolves countered by 1 point!
Russell conceded three consecutive points and fouled the defensive end to send points, Graham broke through the unsightly pass to Hart under the basket and dunked, Edwards three-pointer, but immediately Ingram faced Vanderbilt and pulled a three-point blast, and played 3+1! But then Edwards and Ingram exchanged three-pointers, Edwards broke through the basket, and Beasley blasted into the key three-pointer to chase a single point. On 11.9 seconds, Graham made 1 of two free throws, and Russell broke through the 1V2 key to shoot and tie. In the final 3.6 seconds, Ingram completed a three-point shootout! In the end, the Pelicans narrowly won at home, ending the Timberwolves' four-game winning streak!
Both sides started
Pelicans: Jones, Ingram, Valanciunas, Hart, Graham;
Timberwolves: Edwards, Vanderbilt, Towns, Beverley, Russell