On January 26, Beijing time, the Blazers played at home against the Timberwolves, and the Timberwolves successfully defeated the Blazers 109-107 at the end of the game. Despite the current Blazers' lack of Lillard, the Blazers are still in good shape after McCollum's return, and the Blazers who have won consecutive games are expected to continue to win back and forth against the Timberwolves. In this game, the Blazers also took the lead for a while, but unfortunately, in the second half of the game, the Blazers performed poorly and were overtaken by the Timberwolves, and in the fourth quarter, the Blazers saw the opportunity to reverse, but in the end Russell hit the quasi-kill to let the Blazers lose the game.
The Timberwolves were in good shape in the first quarter, and then McCollum and Little also helped the team stabilize the situation, and then the two teams took a slight lead against the Blazers, and the Timberwolves trailed by 3 points at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter of the game, McLemoredo played to help the Blazers stay ahead, and then Edwards helped the team stop the decline, but the Blazers broke out at a critical moment to open the score, and then Edwards continued to help the team score, Nurkic responded, and the Blazers led by 8 points at the end of the half. In the third quarter, Russell led the team to chase points, and then the two teams were in a slump in offense, vanderbilt, Towns and Edwards helped the team score points at key moments, especially Edwards' explosion helped the team complete the rebound, and the Timberwolves led by 2 points at the end of the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, the Timberwolves maintained the lead, and nurkic and McCollum helped the team score at the key moment, and McCollum hit a three-pointer to tie the score, but soon Russell scored a layup, and finally the Blazers attacked and lost the game.
Edwards played an excellent performance in this game, but the two missed shots at the end of the fourth quarter really gave the Blazers the opportunity to chase points, fortunately, the Blazers did not grasp it in the end, and Edwards got 40 points and 9 rebounds at the end of the game. Russell made 1 of 2 free throws at key moments, which also gave the Blazers the opportunity to tie the score, but russell hit a cross-kill to win the game, and Russell got 22 points, 2 rebounds and 4 assists at the end of the game. Towns did well in the game, ending the game with 17 points, 17 rebounds and 2 assists.
As for the Blazers' side losing this game, it is really a pity, although McCollum hit the key three-pointer, but unfortunately it was still not able to help the team win, and McCollum got 15 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists at the end of the game. Other Trail Blazers players, Nurkic had 20 points, 14 rebounds and 4 assists, Little had 20 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists, Covington had 8 points, 6 rebounds and 1 assist, Powell had 8 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists, and McLemore had 9 points and 2 rebounds.
And Simmons did not perform well in this game, it can even be said that such Simmons is disappointing, after all, at the critical moment Simmons first defended Russell was blown offensive interference ball, and then the Blazers successfully completed the tactics in the game, but unfortunately Simmons did not hit the three-pointer, it can be said that such Simmons still needs to grow, and it is obviously too early to let him complete the kill at the key moment, and Simmons got 17 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists in 5 of 18 at the end of the game.