After winning three consecutive games and ending the road trip, the Nuggets, who ranked sixth in the West, returned home and faced the challenge of the timberwolves, who ranked seventh in the West during their two-game losing streak.
On the Nuggets, the main players are pouring out, and the confrontation between Jokic and Towns in this battle has undoubtedly become a major attraction of this game.
On the other hand, the Timberwolves, Beasley's fireline returned, trying to provide more help for the team, leading the Timberwolves to do a lot on the road and ending the losing streak!
Finally, after four quarters of fighting, with a wave of 14-2 scoring climax, the timberwolves, which were dominated by the guests, squeezed the Nuggets to occupy the initiative on the court in the first half.
Although after returning from the second half, the third saver Keech + Aaron Gordon + Monte Morris successively sent out a series of efforts to lead the Nuggets to seize the score and retain the suspense of the game.
But in the last quarter of the final battle, Edwards ushered in an outbreak, the Timberwolves took the opportunity to establish a 6-point lead, and the Nuggets repeatedly failed to hit, had to lose.
The Timberwolves, who finally withstood the pressure, also beat the Nuggets 136-130 on the road, which was worth the trip and ended the winning streak of the opposing Nuggets!
Rushing to the away game in this game, the Timberwolves swept away the decline during the losing streak, playing a team performance of 5 people scoring in double figures and all the soldiers.
In the case of beasley + Prince + Beverley and other main players, each performing their duties, the three main players Downs + Edwards + Russell play, is obviously particularly critical!
Towns was very efficient in this game, starting 28 minutes, shooting more than 60% of the 11-of-18 shooting, and shooting 4 three-pointers from the outside, bombing the team's high 32 points, plus 9 rebounds, 1 steal and 2 blocks.
Among them, his heroic performance of cutting 16 points in the first quarter, 6 shots on 6-of-6 shooting, not only helped the Timberwolves to open the situation smoothly, but also did not fall behind in the confrontation with Jokic!
In addition, as the main attacker of the team, Edwards' play in this game is also indispensable.
In this campaign, Edwards went low and high, and with only 4 points in the first three quarters, Edwards ushered in an explosion in the last quarter and scored 14 points, delivering 18 points, 8 rebounds , 7 assists + 1 steal.
And his key play in the final quarter, 5 shots, is also almost single-handed, completely ending the Nuggets' idea of trying to fight back, helping the Timberwolves to keep the victory!
Of course, the Timberwolves were able to beat the Nuggets in this game, and the performance of the team's core guard Russell also played a crucial role.
Russell was well defensively and defensively, starting 35 minutes and contributing 24 points, 3 rebounds , 4 assists and 1 steal on 6-of-12 shooting.
Not only did he gain something on the offensive end, he dared to fight and fight to go to the free throw line many times, but also on the defensive end + organizational end, which successfully affected the trend of the game!
On the other hand, on the Side of the Nuggets, the team reversed the defeat in this game and finally lost by 6 points, which obviously made the home fans feel sorry.
After all, jokic played well, bombed a game-high 38 points, plus 19 rebounds, 8 assists and 1 steal, Aaron Gordon + Monte Morris at the same time cut 20+ at the same time, this campaign Barton + Hyland shot only 6 of the sluggish performance, it is indeed hard to blame!
More importantly, the performance of Cousins, the main player in the Nuggets' rotation lineup against the Timberwolves in this game, was also somewhat unsatisfactory.
Cousins was slightly embarrassed, and after only 4 minutes on the bench, he received 5 fouls, as many as 4 personal errors, and to some extent, disrupted nuggets coach Malone's plans and rotation deployment!
In the case of the poor state of the main + role players, in the face of the Multi-point Blossom Timberwolves, the Nuggets who worked hard for a whole game but failed seemed to have no choice but to accept the reality of losing!