The NBA regular season continues, with the West ushering in a playoff between teams, with the Timberwolves sitting at home to face the Spurs.
The Timberwolves have been moving low and high this season, and after the initial record fluctuations, the team has gradually begun to find rhythm, and under the leadership of the young Big Three, the team is firmly in seventh place in the West, and it is hoped that a playoff spot will be locked through a playoff.
The Spurs were in a similar situation, with the team at one point at the beginning of the season seeing the rot and rebuild as a team goal, but some of the teams in front of them were too bad, and the Spurs did not waste the opportunity to lock up a play-off place at the end of the season.
As soon as the game began, Edwards showed a strong desire to attack, one person scored two goals in a row to help Forest play a 4-0 start.
Since then, the Timberwolves have blossomed inside and outside, and have been firmly suppressing the Spurs until the end of the quarter, when the Spurs suddenly exerted their strength, the score was reversed, and the Spurs also ended the first quarter with a 5-point lead.
In the second quarter, the Timberwolves found their form on the outside and quickly completed the rebound, and after a short tug-of-war, the Timberwolves began to control the situation, and by the end of the half, they had taken a seven-point lead.
The Timberwolves continued their second-quarter performance, and the point difference was further widened, at one point it was stretched to nearly 20 points.
Fortunately, the Spurs picked up in the middle of the quarter, again forcing the point difference to single digits, but as Edwards opened fire, the third quarter ended, and the point difference was again pulled 15 points by the Timberwolves.
Entering the final quarter of the game, Edwards completely dominated the game, even though the point difference was forced to close to only 4 points, but in the end, under Edwards' leadership, the Timberwolves still withstood the pressure and defeated the Spurs 127-121.
Throughout the game, Edwards is naturally the most eye-catching player of the game, the whole game, Edwards played 39 minutes, 16 of 28 shots, bombed 49 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists.
This set a number of records for Edwards, who is only 20 years old, starting with a new career scoring record of 49 points in a single game.
It is also the third time That Edwards has handed over 40+ and the second time this season, successfully matching Durant, becoming the first player to cut a single game of 45+ multiple times before the age of 21 after Durant in 2008-09.
And before the age of 21, Edwards had scored 40+ 5 times, second only to James's 8 and higher than Doncic and Durant's 4.
Edwards, meanwhile, has hit more than 300 three-pointers, making him the second fastest player to hit at least 300 three-pointers after three-pointers.
At the same time, Edwards' total scores before the age of 21 have ranked fourth in history, and the top three are James, Durant and Anthony.
It's no surprise from a series of records and the names of comparable players that Edwards has great potential as a 20-year-old rising star and his terrifying scoring ability at the moment.
Under his leadership, the Timberwolves have completed their metamorphosis this season and have become one of the dark horse teams in the West that cannot be ignored, and after winning this game, the Timberwolves have locked in the top seven positions in the West.
Coupled with the Nuggets winning in front of them, the Timberwolves are determined to enter the playoffs with the Seventh Place in the West, and will compete with the Clippers for playoff spots through the playoffs.
Not surprisingly, the Timberwolves will enter the playoffs as seventh, or eighth.
Judging by the timberwolves' ceiling, physical resistance and mental tenacity, they look like the grassroots Clippers of the past.
Therefore, whether facing the Suns or facing the Grizzlies, the Timberwolves will not make the opponent feel better, which also makes the Warriors who have a declining record at the end of the season a blessing in disguise, the team ranks third in the West, can avoid the Suns in the first two rounds, and if it slides to fourth, it can play against the Jazz who are internally chaotic in the first round.