The Minnesota Timberwolves are one of many NBA’s hottest groups these days. By way of the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
The luck of the Timberwolves.
Not a phrase you might need heard a lot the previous few years. However with regards to being fortunate and good, these days, the Wolves have been a little bit of each.
Which brings us to Saturday’s recreation with Milwaukee at Goal Heart, when it was introduced earlier than the sport that Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo was out with a sore proper knee. Wolves coach Chris Finch talked about his workforce having to pivot after devoting a superb 80% of its recreation plan to the the Milwaukee star.
They managed.
Going 22-for-47 on three pointers – 9 gamers hit no less than one – and main from late within the first quarter on, and capturing higher than 50%, the Wolves beat the Bucks 138-119. Minnesota (42-30) has now received 4 straight and 10 of 11.
It was a high-intensity recreation, one which featured a shoving match, matching technicals and ejections for Patrick Beverley and Milwaukee’s George Hill and, later, matching T’s on Naz Reid and Bobby Portis Jr.
The win retains the Wolves seventh within the Western convention, far forward of the Eighth-place L.A. Clippers, and simply half a recreation behind the sixth place Denver Nuggets.
