The NBA regular season continues, with the Timberwolves hosting the Bucks. Both teams have been in good shape lately, with the former winning 3 straight and the latter also enjoying a 2-game winning streak, but the absence of the alphabet brother has reduced the Bucks' strength. Sure enough, in the first quarter of the game, the Timberwolves who played at home took the lead in entering the state, Edwards scored consecutive B points to open up the point difference, the Second Half of the Timberwolves relied on 9 points, but the Bucks also continued to narrow the point difference, the first quarter ended the Timberwolves led by 6 points; in the first half of the third quarter, the Timberwolves expanded the point difference to double digits, and the Bucks narrowed the point difference to 5 points at the end of the quarter, but the good times were not long, the Timberwolves once again played a 7-0 small climax, the first half of the battle, the Bucks trailed by 12 points. In the third quarter, the Timberwolves felt hot outside the touch, playing a wave of 24-11 attacks, the point difference opened to 24 points; the fourth quarter became garbage time in advance, the two sides sent substitutes to train, after four quarters of competition, the Timberwolves finally won 138-119 over the Bucks to complete a 4-game winning streak.
In this game, Towns performed well, with 25 points, 11 rebounds and 5 assists, and he also made a strong statement after the game, and we are in a state that we can beat any opponent! What's more, Towns has scored 115 points in his last three games, becoming the first in team history. In addition, he also said that Finch is a good coach and he knows how to make every player play to their strengths. Edwards' performance was also remarkable, with 25 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists, and Russell did not want to be outdone, with 16 points and 9 rebounds. In addition, Reid scored 14 points, Noel scored 10 points and Prince also scored 14 points, and they all became good helpers for the Big Three. It is worth mentioning that the Timberwolves completed a double kill against the Bucks this season, the first time since the 2013-14 season. After the game, the Timberwolves finished seventh in the West with 42 wins and 30 losses, and only 0.5 wins away from sixth, and the Timberwolves may not have to play the playoffs. At the same time, this is also the ninth time in 33 years of team history that the Timberwolves have won 50%, and the most recent season is the 2017-18 season, which is the season when Butler led the team to the playoffs.
It is worth mentioning that there was also a large-scale conflict in this game, Ibaka had a verbal altercation when Prince grabbed the rebound in the Nets card position, Beverley was an acute sub, he came out for the rookie, pushed Ibaka, Hill could not look down, two players bullied a teammate, he came up and directly pushed Beverly, for such a thing that affected the image of the league, the referee of course will not ignore it, Ibaka and Prince each got a technical foul, and Hill and Beverley were directly expelled, They should reflect on themselves. After the game, Budenholzer said the reason for the Bucks' loss, which he believed the team lost on turnovers and rebounds. According to statistics, the Bucks only have 14 turnovers in this game, and the number of rebounds is 7 more than the Timberwolves, and I really don't know how the coach summed up the game.