On February 9, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued, and the Kings, who had just completed the transaction, faced the Timberwolves, who had won four consecutive games. The two teams have been clinging to the score in the first quarter, the Timberwolves began to take the lead at the beginning of the second quarter, and the Timberwolves scored consecutive points at the beginning of the final quarter, expanding the point difference to more than 15 points, and finally the Timberwolves beat the Kings 134-114 to win five consecutive games.
Statistics
Kings: Barnes 21 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists, Harkless 6 points, Jones 18 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists, Fox 29 points, 6 assists and 7 rebounds, Metu 12 points and 8 rebounds.
Timberwolves: Vanderbilt has 9 points and 11 rebounds, Towns has 25 points and 9 rebounds, Beverly has 9 points and 5 assists, Russell has 14 points and 7 assists, and McDaniels has 8 points.
Star of the Field: Downs
Towns hit the Kings interior in this game, hitting eight of them in his first 11 shots, especially in the final quarter, when he scored consecutive points to extend the lead, and finally the Timberwolves sealed the victory.
Race highlights
Towns assisted Russell for a three-pointer
Downs buckles
Fox 1V3 one-stop
Russell points to Fly Fox to break through the dunk
Reed violently imprisoned Lane
Game review
Fox scored from mid-range shooting to open the scoring, Russell took down Downs' left three-pointer, Mitchell immediately responded with three points, Beverly also had three points, and Mitchell suddenly scored Jones' one-arm dunk. Harkless stepped forward in Europe, Towns also had three points, and the Timberwolves converted to attack Edwards to miss a layup, but Towns followed up with a violent dunk, and Barnes and Fox hit two consecutive throws.
Downesne's cross gave McDaniels a violent dunk, Mitchell used Jones blocking to split the latter's mid-range shot, McDaniels hit a three-point shot in the bottom corner, Jones turned low and pulled in, Harkless pulled up and put in the basket, and Towns took three big steps to the basket 2+1. Barnes borrowed the block to break down to the basket, the dot fly Downs turned and put in, Beasley hit two three-pointers in a row, and Barnes shot back to stop the bleeding. McDaniels received three points, Metul broke through the top man and Reid converted the offensive catch directly to dunk Lane! The first quarter ended with the Timberwolves 35-34 Kings.
In the second quarter, Metu scored a low low throw, Russell suddenly scored a three-point blast on the left of Prince, then Harkless was injured by a teammate's foot, Reed clipped Fox to complete the steal, and a long pass helped McLaughlin fly to the basket. Fox broke through the trail and stepped forward, Russell used cover to pull out the middle range, Reid fired a three-pointer from the outside, Ramsey gave Ryan a high shot, Russell scored another three points, and then he stole Ryan, and a dragon helped Prince buckle.
Mitchell gave Jones the cover to blast the basket with one arm, Russell switched attacks from mid-range and Fox singled out Beasley on the right to take advantage of his footsteps to score 2+1. Prince steals Fox, a long pass helps Vanderbilt snap in, Meitu pulls mid-range to stop the bleeding, and then breaks through the one-arm basket. Edwards broke through the slow three-step layup, Barnes and Fox three-pointers, Beasley and Beverly also hit three points, Russell used Reed to cover the breakthrough to pick a basket, Fox pulled three points back, and at the end of the half, the Kings 67-73 Timberwolves.
Easy to fight again, Russell outside the point to fly Fox, straight to the box violently bombed the basket, Fox assisted to block the break of the Jones jump step, Fox chased the three points was under the Beverly hat, but he picked up the ball to face Vanderbilt in place. Beverly hit a three-point shot in the bottom corner, Fox fed the pie Jones and put it on fire, Towns and Russell blocked and bounced outside, and after receiving the ball, they hit a three-point shot. Fox broke through and was hit by a Beverly big hat, Edwards had the ball long and flicked the ball across the half, and Vanderbilt quickly and easily dunked in.
Barnes slowed down three paces to give Jones an uptreak, Fox used Jones cover to accelerate the 2+1 to play, Reid cut the ball and fired another one-arm shot, and then he also scored three points to give the Timberwolves a 10-point lead. Beasley hit a three-pointer, Ramsey broke through the middle of the basket, Fox cut through the middle of the basket to take the point, McLaughlin also hit the three-pointer, Metu received ryan's hand pass and threw it in, and Mitchell received a continuous three-point blast. The third quarter ended with kings 90-102 Timberwolves.
In the final quarter, Nowell scored on a layup, Beasley hit a three-pointer, Metu hit two free throws, Downs scored under the basket, Mitchell threw a shot, Jones dunked a score, Towns offense scored, Fox hit a three-pointer, Edwards made a layup, Prince hit a three-pointer, the Timberwolves led by 18 points, the game lost suspense, and the Timberwolves sealed the victory.
Both sides started
Timberwolves: Russell, Beverley, Edwards, Vanderbilt, Towns;
Kings: Fox, Mitchell, Barnes, Harkless, Jones