On May 13, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs continued, and the results of today's game between the Timberwolves and the Nuggets, it is estimated that everyone already knows, the Timberwolves lost to the Nuggets 107-115. Although the score seems to be not far apart, the actual situation is that the Timberwolves once fell behind by 18 points, if it wasn't for Edwards enough, the Timberwolves would have confessed to this game, and the two sides are now 2-2 back to the same running line.
In this game, Edwards shot 16 of 25 from the field, and 5 of 8 from three-point range, got 44 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 1 block, he tried his best, but his teammates did not give it well, and the Timberwolves' tactical distribution was also problematic, if it wasn't for Edwards' play in the first three quarters, they would have collapsed, Huazi was in good shape, but there was no ball in the fourth quarter, just follow the switchback run, the ball has been in the hands of Gobert and Towns, and it is also speechless.
Huazi scored 7 points in a total of 4 shots in the fourth quarter, and Jokic, on the other hand, saw that the opponent had chased only 9 points in the fourth quarter, he began to exert his strength on the offensive end, holding the ball is alone, and his teammates will also take the initiative to find him, Jokic shot 6 of 10 in the last quarter, and scored 16 points to lead the team to win, Jokic shot 15 of 26 in this game, and got 35 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists in 1 of 5 three-pointers.
Huazi played the firepower that he could fight Jokic against Biao in this round of the series, but his teammates did not give him strength. It can be said that in terms of roster strength, the Timberwolves' lineup is obviously better than the Nuggets, although the Nuggets are the defending champions, but their stars are only Jokic and Murray, Murray has not even been selected as an All-Star, and the Timberwolves have Towns, Edwards and Gobert.
Conley has also been selected as an All-Star before, although he is now old, but he still has a lot of gas in the tank, Conley scored 15 points and 9 assists in this game, and his play is much better than the other two stars of the Timberwolves, Gobert and Towns. Although these two are in their playing years, they give people the feeling that they can't use their strength, to put it bluntly, they have a low ball quotient, and they are used as toys by their opponents in the face of Jokic.
In the first quarter of the game, Gobert defended Jokic alone, but was punished by the opponent's various throws and mid-range punishments, allowing Jokic to score 11 points in a single quarter. Gobert was played by Jokic on the defensive end during the game, and he also thought about eating Jokic alone on the offensive end, but as a back hit, Jokic withdrew the stool, and he was blown away.
Gobert doesn't have the ability to attack with the ball, you just concentrate on blocking and dismantling and covering, and eat cake down, but because he was blown up by Jokic and wanted to fight back with offense, he ended up on the set, he, the best defensive player in the regular season, is an ATM in the playoffs, and it is said that now he has a good effect on small players, but it is still not good in the past two games, the regular season and the playoffs are not a level of players, and he is still very premium.
At the beginning, Gobert got a 5-year, 205 million contract extension from the Jazz, and when he won this contract, he was sneered at by O'Neal and Barkley. Downs's performance is also very bad, because the record is too good, the problem of Downs falling in love with his head is ignored by everyone, he has too many small actions, so he often breaks off early because of too many fouls.
The foul was controlled in this game, and the result was on the offensive end, and he shot the ball with it, no matter who was defending around him, if the opponent was small, you could completely eat him with his back, but Downs was a variety of brainless projections, and the basket grabbed the second offensive rebound with one hand at will, which was not stable at all, too blindly confident, and as a result, he scored 13 points, 12 rebounds and 3 assists on 18 shots and 13 irons in this game.
Back then, the Timberwolves renewed Downs with a 4-year, 220 million contract, and now it looks like a garbage contract, as far as Downs' talent is concerned, as long as he is smarter, he will not be so bad in the playoffs, this player has no ball quotient at all. Huazi scored 44 points, but it still didn't drive them, and it is estimated that the Timberwolves will be busy in the offseason, because Edwards' super cap salary will be implemented next season, the team's 3 200 million cap salary, and McDaniels' hundreds of millions of contracts.
The Timberwolves' luxury tax pressure next season is very high, and there are many media predictions that they may disintegrate in the offseason. Connery's ability to operate is indeed good, but it is not as good as imagined, and it is obviously unrealistic to blindly hoard the interior line to block Jokic, after all, the gap between the supergiant and the All-Star is still very large.
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