Last season's trade deadline introduced Raptors championship guard Powell to form three Musketeers core lineup of the Blazers, the overall performance is far from the outside world's expectations, which is also the reason for the absolute core Lillard to have a heart, offseason team coach change and a series of operations are to be able to let Lee coach back to the heart, but their new season's poor performance will only make Lillard more chilling, in the first forty-six regular season games, the Blazers' record is only 20 wins and 26 losses, only in the tenth place in the West, It is very likely that they will not make the playoff stage, and Lillard's injury has dimmed their prospects for impacting the playoffs! In this regular season, the Blazers encountered the Timberwolves, who, although perennially the Fish belly team in the West, but this season has made great progress under the leadership of the Big Three Towns, Edwards and Russell, after the game began, the Blazers relied on Simmons's excellent play, once established a 13-point lead, but the poor performance of teammates, and after the Timberwolves improved their defensive intensity, Simmons' offensive efficiency declined, so that the Timberwolves finally reversed the Blazers 109-107!
This season has led to the Blazers' poor record, there is a very important reason, that is, the team has too many injuries, and after the core players were injured, Simmons, who entered the league with the first round of 24 in 18 years, seized the opportunity to play a valuable game, in this game with the Timberwolves, Simmons contributed 17 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists in the opening game, but the problem of too many mistakes by young players was also vividly reflected in him, and there were as many as 6 mistakes in the game.
Under simmons' tandem, Little and Nurkic both played a very good personal performance, with a very high shooting rate combined to cut 40 points, but as the second leader of the team McCollum did not perform well, only hit 5 goals in 15 shots, only scored 15 points, which is also after the game Many fans said that the second boss is the second boss after all, and the ability to lead the team is far from being comparable to the coach.
Although the Timberwolves have a poor record in the past few seasons, but they do not lack talent, the lack of winning culture is regarded as their biggest problem, and with the addition of Edwards, the Timberwolves gradually found the feeling of winning, this campaign against the Blazers, Edwards has also become a nightmare on the opposing defensive end, the top physical quality of Huazi, this season's three-point shooting has made great progress, which also allows him to find the offensive feeling after the completely unrestricted, this campaign Edwards hit 14 goals in 27 shots, Including three-pointers on 5-of-13 shooting, one man exploded with gorgeous personal data of 40 points, 9 rebounds, 3 steals and 3 blocks.
Russell and Towns' personal performances in this game are also remarkable, in which Towns only used 7 shots to cut the big double-double data of 17 points, 17 rebounds, 2 assists and 4 blocks, and Russell also hit 3 three-pointers to get 22 points, 2 rebounds and 4 assists, after winning this game, the Timberwolves further consolidated their seventh position in the West, I believe that as long as they can maintain this state, they are very hopeful to return to the playoffs this season!