They had to survive a few fears in match 2, but the Minnesota Timberwolves equalized their second round 1-1 eliminatory series against the Golden State Warriors THURSDAY.
Minnesota went wire A 117-93 victory over a Warriors team Always in shock of lose the superstar Stephen Curry for at least a week. However, the Timberwolves seemed ready to lose their own leader when Anthony Edwards fell with an ankle injury.
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There were therefore several relief sighs when Edwards returned after half-time, without apparent problems. He finished the match with 20 points on 6 shots out of 13, 9 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 interceptions. It was Julius Randle Who paved the way for Timberwolves throughout the night, with 24 points, 11 assists and 7 rebounds.
Meanwhile, without curry, Jonathan Kuminga came out of the bench and led the Warriors by scoring 18 points.
Match 3 is scheduled for Saturday at 8:30 p.m. he at the Chase Center in San Francisco.
Anthony Edwards is good, just like the Timberwolves. (Photo by David Berding / Getty Images)
(David Berding via Getty Images)
Anthony Edwards returns from the ankle sprain
Edwards' injury occurred in the second quarter, when Edwards went down to the ground, tightening his left ankle. The reruns have shown The foot of the Warriors Big Man Trayce Jackson-Davis landed on Edwards' ankle, leaving the 23-year-old sitting on the floor while holding his leg down the game.
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Edwards was then helped in the locker room, the coaches preventing him from putting weight on the ankle. Timberwolves Later announced It was questionable to come back with a sprain from the left ankle.
However, during the half-time, Edwards barely be able to walk on an ankle trampled in the field with the rest of the team. He was in good health enough to start the third quarter for the Timberwolves, despite the team largely with an advance of 56-39.
Again, the videos immediately above and below were taken less than half an hour.
Edwards had previously changed this ankle in match 1 Tuesday, in the middle of a performance poor enough for Timberwolves head coach Chris Finch called Edwards after the match.
What are warriors trying without curry? Everything, apparently
Warriors must survive any more time than one curry without curry is not an enviable position. The whole attack of the team turns not only what the greatest shooter in the history of the NBA does with the ball, but what the defenses must do when it does not have the ball.
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Without curry, the calculation of how you keep each player of the warriors is transformed into a basic arithmetic. So, of course, Kerr's plan for match 2 was to throw everything against the wall and see what sticks.
And this is how you become the first team in the history of the NBA qualifiers to use 14 different players in the first half.
Draymond Green Sehing Suspension
The Warriors are already broken down an All-Star. They don't need to lose another, even for a single match.
Draymond Green is now dangerously close to the realization. The great veteran man and the storyteller took his fifth technical fault of the playoff series in the second quarterLeaving him two technicians of an automatic suspension of a match.
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The fault took place in match 2 of the western semi-finals against the Minnesota Timberwolves, when the great man of T-Wolves Naz Reid committed it in the second quarter. Green responded to Reid's contact by jumping and beating his arms, grabbing his opponent at the back of the head and sending him to the ground.
The officials examined the room and considered as a common fault on Reid and a technical fault on Green.
Not only is Green two technical faults of a suspension, but there are also two blatant faults to have to miss a match.
Timberwolves avoids becoming the last team to blow 20 points in advance
When Buddy Hield hit the pointer at 3 to cut the advantage of the seven points of Timberwolves in the middle of the third quarter, we would not have blamed you to think that another 20 -point return was in progress, even with curry in street clothes.
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This playoff series has already seen an NBA record in reception of five return victories at least 20 points, the most recent being The detangling of the New York Knicks of the Boston Celtics in match 2 Wednesday.
Fortunately for a crowd from the briefly nervous target center, the Timberwolves responded with an 11-0 race to put the match out of reach.
