In the past many seasons, the Timberwolves have been the laughing stock of the whole league, with many high-ranking players, but they can not transform their talents into on-court combat effectiveness, over time the Timberwolves have also become the husky in the mouth of the fans, but after selecting Edwards with the title of the champion, let him and Towns, Russell form the Big Three, the Timberwolves have made great progress, this season is in the top eight of the West, it is likely to return to the playoff stage, but the Timberwolves, who are temporarily in seventh place, If the regular season ends with this ranking, they need to compete for a playoff spot through the playoffs, so they will definitely want to improve their rankings further, and to achieve this goal, the Timberwolves will need to win more games in the closing stages! In this regular season, the Timberwolves encountered the Eastern Conference leader Heat, after the game began, the Timberwolves took the lead in entering the state, but the second quarter was played by the opponent to play an offensive climax net win of 17 points, the Timberwolves who have always had the habit of wolf three collapses in the third quarter of this campaign stormed, won the opponent by 15 points and entered the final quarter with a 3-point lead, although the Timberwolves Triumvirate did not perform well, but the excellent performance of the role players, let them finally beat the Heat of the East with a 113-104 upset!
The Timberwolves have been able to make great strides this season, and the Big Three have played a crucial role, but in this game, the performance of all three of them has not met expectations, the best performance is the interior core Downs, but he only has 9 shots and 4 of 9 performances, got 15 points and 10 rebounds, and Adebayor who is in position with him is obviously more dominant, hitting 7 goals in 12 shots, contributing a comprehensive personal data of 19 points, 12 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals. This is also the reason why the Heat have the advantage in the internal confrontation.
Compared with Towns, Edwards and Russell have a very low sense of existence, the two of them combined 23 shots only hit 7 goals, a total of only 29 points, 14 rebounds and 14 assists, but the excellent performance of role players is the Timberwolves can keep the suspense of winning and losing to the last moment, and the fundamental reason for the upset overturning the Eastern Conference leader, in addition to the Big Three, the Timberwolves have five players who scored double digits.
In this game, the heat's core Butler and the newly returned Oladipo hung up the free card, which also made the overall strength of the team decline, especially their starting five Tiger performance was destroyed by the opponent, Robinson, Tucker and Vincent combined only 11 points into the account.
Fortunately, the Heat also have a brave Thironic, almost has booked the best sixth man Hiro, this game off the bench played 36.3 minutes, 10 shots outside the three-point line 6, contributed 30 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals, but he got the support of teammates is obviously not enough, compared to the Timberwolves 8 people score double-double overall performance, the Heat only 4 people in this game to reach double digits, only relying on Hiro's brilliance is doomed to be difficult to laugh to the end.
The situation in the East this season is in chaos, if the Heat can't get back on the winning track in time for the next game, they are likely to give up the lead position at the last minute, which team will win the Eastern Conference regular season championship, let's wait and see!