The Timberwolves' results this season are still quite surprising, consistently in the top eight in the West, and are very hopeful to return to the playoffs and become a dark horse team. But in the last game, he faced the magic at the bottom of the league, but he failed to resist and lost the game. This time back-to-back to the First Heat in the East, they all thought the Timberwolves were going to lose again, but they didn't expect that this time they would win with more blossoms, and the 8-man score double to beat the Heat 113-104 on the road, avoiding a losing streak.
In this game, the Heat were absent from Butler and Oladipo, and at the beginning the Timberwolves took the lead in the state, making a 9-0 start, and the point difference was once stretched to double digits, but then the Heat bench up to Hiro began to erupt, leading the team to launch a crazy counterattack, successfully reversing the score, and gradually opening up the point difference, leading the half-time to lead by 12 points. In the second half, the Timberwolves regained their form, the Heat fell into a slump, the Timberwolves regained the lead after the third quarter, and the Heat failed to withstand in the final quarter, being suppressed by the opponent, and the game lost suspense as Beasley hit three-pointers.
In this campaign, the Timberwolves' core players are not in very good shape, Towns has 15 points and 10 rebounds on 4-of-9 shooting, Edwards has 15 points and 8 rebounds on 4-of-10 shooting, and Russell has 14 points and 9 assists on 3-of-13 shooting, a total of 44 points, far below their average score. But the result of the game was very satisfactory to them, the Timberwolves still won, this time their teammates around them all stepped forward and gave them enough firepower support.
In addition to the three of them, the Timberwolves had five players who scored in double figures, With McDaniels scoring 14 points and six rebounds, Beasley scoring 12 points, Nowell on the bench scoring a team-high 16 points, Reid 11 points and 10 rebounds, and Beasley 11 points. As many as 8 people scored in double figures, which also made the Heat a bit overwhelmed, after all, the scoring points are too scattered, and someone can always stand up and get points.
The Heat did not have Butler on this side, the responsibility of the offensive end was handed over to Hiro, and this time his play was also very good, playing 36 minutes, shooting 8 of 19, 6 of 10 three-pointers, and got a game-high 30 points, plus 7 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals, plus plus-minus +11. Unfortunately, the other players failed to provide him with enough firepower support, and could only watch the opponent pull the score difference step by step.
Lowry had 14 points, seven rebounds and seven assists on 4-of-12 shooting, Adebayo had 19 points and 12 rebounds, and Strus had 19 points and seven rebounds on 5-of-11 three-point range.