On March 20, Beijing time, the Bucks played away against the Timberwolves, and the Bucks lost to the Timberwolves 119-138 at the end of the game. The Timberwolves have recently been in hot form to win consecutive wins, and the Timberwolves are very eager to play in the playoffs this season, but now the Timberwolves are only in the seventh position in the West, so the Timberwolves want to enter the playoffs or need to be verified, so at this time the Timberwolves definitely want to impact the sixth position in the West, but it is undoubtedly difficult to win against the Bucks Timberwolves, but this game the Bucks lack letter brothers, the Timberwolves in the game is a good offensive state, and finally the Timberwolves won a big victory.
The Bucks started 10-3 in the first quarter, Russell scored to stop the bleeding, Allen responded, and the next game Edwards broke out with three points to help the Timberwolves complete the rebound, and then the two teams of offense played alternately to rise, but then Towns scored consecutive points, Matthews hit a three-pointer, and the Timberwolves led by 6 points at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter, Reid helped the Timberwolves extend their lead, Allen stopped bleeding by three points, and the Timberwolves firmly grasped the lead in the following game, Middleton and Allen helped the team chase points, but Towns and others also responded, and the Timberwolves led by 12 points at the end of the half. In the third quarter, Lopez helped the team chase points, but the Timberwolves played a number of people, relying on Towns, Edwards and other Timberwolves to lead to more than 20 points, although Matthews and Ibaka helped the team chase points, but Prince and Towns responded, and the Timberwolves led by 24 points at the end of the third quarter. There wasn't much suspense in the fourth quarter, with the Timberwolves always maintaining a big lead and the Bucks losing miserably.
The Timberwolves performed well in this game, among which Towns and Edwards played an explosive performance, which gave the team a lot of help in the game, of which Towns had 25 points, 11 rebounds and 5 assists at the end of the game, and Towns scored 115 points in the last three games, which made Towns break the record of the highest total score in three consecutive games in the history of the Timberwolves held by himself. Edwards showed his talent in the game, with Edwards having 25 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists, and Russell having 16 points, 3 rebounds and 9 assists.
At the same time in this game, Beverly was expelled, in the game between Ibaka and Prince clashed, and this time in order to protect his teammates, Beverley quickly rushed up and pushed Ibaka, and then Beverly was also pushed by Hill, in fact, after the game began, the two teams played a little angry and also spewed garbage words, and finally the referee blew Beverly and Hill to be expelled, and Ibaka got a technical foul. The Bucks' lack of letters in this game has been affected a lot at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, and this game Middleton and Holliday did not stand up in the game, the end of the game Middleton got 15 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists, Holliday got 14 points, 2 rebounds and 7 assists.
In fact, every game is very important for the Bucks now, after all, the current Bucks are still expected to continue to improve their rankings, originally facing a team like the Timberwolves, the Bucks should win the game, but in this game the Timberwolves suppressed the Bucks early, and finally the Bucks also suffered a defeat. And looking at the current Bucks, there are also people who question that the Bucks are deliberately avoiding the Nets, after all, from now on, the Nets will most likely rank in the seventh or eighth position this season, so the first and second in the East will be against the Nets, so at this time, the Bucks will undoubtedly attack the Top Two in the East against the Nets, but now the idea of the Bucks impacting the top two in the East is not too big, so the Bucks may really want to avoid the Nets, after all, in the absence of back-to-back games, the alphabet brother should have the opportunity to play, But in the end, Alphabet Brother was absent due to injury.
However, the Bucks want to avoid the Nets is also understandable, although the Nets are not well ranked in the East, but the playoffs will have great difficulties if they encounter the Nets, especially if Irving and Simmons can play, such a Nets will become very scary, so in the first round of the playoffs, the top four teams in the East do not want to play against the Nets, so it is not surprising that the Bucks have such an idea, after all, no one wants to encounter such a big difficulty in the first round of the playoffs.