| 126 – 109 |
| Box Scores: NBA – Yahoo |
| GAME SUMMARY |
| Location: Footprint Center (17071), Clock: Final |
| Officials: Tony Brothers, JB DeRosa, and Kevin Scott |
| Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota Timberwolves | 34 | 25 | 36 | 31 | 126 |
| Phoenix Suns | 32 | 21 | 20 | 36 | 109 |
| TEAM STATS |
| Team | PTS | FG | FG% | 3P | 3P% | FT | FT% | OREB | TREB | AST | PF | STL | TO | BLK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota Timberwolves | 126 | 43-87 | 49.4% | 13-34 | 38.2% | 27-31 | 87.1% | 15 | 60 | 26 | 25 | 5 | 13 | 1 |
| Phoenix Suns | 109 | 35-76 | 46.1% | 11-28 | 39.3% | 28-32 | 87.5% | 5 | 33 | 24 | 26 | 8 | 9 | 3 |
| PLAYER STATS |
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3 straight games of Gobert getting played off the floor in the 4th
kd and bron boutta get rd1 swept in the same week 😳
Devin Booker: “Saying it respectfully, I don’t know how teams are gonna guard us.”
Kevin Durant: “You can’t guard all of us at once.”
These playoffs really feel like the official end of the Bron/Steph/KD/Kawhi era
Suns haven’t held a lead in the last 65:49 of game time
EST GANG WHERE WE AT???
So what team is KD trading himself to in the offseason?
[https://imgur.com/a/SB1kiAB](https://imgur.com/a/SB1kiAB)
Welcome to hell
51 foul calls in a playoff game is downright preposterous. This game took forever.
There is a chance that LeBron, KD, and Steph combined wins a total of 0 playoff games this year.
The Suns defense is swiss cheese and Anthony Edwards is actually just him.
wolves, moon, sun, total eclipse…lookintoit!
Devin Booker has been taken hostage as a prisoner of war.
He thinks to himself, knees trembling, will it be water boarding, sleep deprivation, or some other horror.
*In walks Jaden McDaniels with a basketball*
Booker immediate bursts into incoherent mumble of tears and screams
I’m pretty sure at the end of the 3rd Quarter, the Suns only had 15 3-Point attempts. Half of the Wolves.
What the fuck is this team doing lmao
The last time Phoenix was leading was 5:49 in the 3rd quarter of game 2.
Imagine being down 3-0 in a playoffs series lmao.
Can’t believe I get to watch a wolves team this good
I don’t want to hear about “quit” after today. Tony Brothers kept going hard to the final… well, whistle.
This might be the end of the old guard…
Out of the playoffs:
– Steph, Klay, and Draymond
Down 0-3:
– LeBron and Durant
Down 1-2:
– Kawhi, Harden, PG, and Westbrook
Rudy “Played off the floor” Gobert is +53 for the series
The only thing playing him off of the floor is his own team making garbage time mandatory for Phoenix
Gobert and Ant duo is just too much for the top heavy depthless suns. Embarrassing
Defense then tenacious offense. Ant has 16pts in 4th quarter
Generational statpadding by beal and booker in the end
Give us the Wolves/ Nuggets series already
One of the worst superteam of all time, even the Nets managed to win the First Round. This Suns team are on the verge of getting swept and have gotten worse/regressed every season the more stars the try to add 💀
Man I know hindsight is 20/20 but this Suns team’s roster construction just feels like a head-scratcher.
You have 3 guys on the floor who are there to do nothing but score. None of them provide a good amount of rebounding, hustle, defense, or even a playmaking at a high level.
Teams like this Minnesota team or Denver are prime examples of how much more important quality role-players that provide things outside of scoring are than yet another ISO scoring guard.
Awoo
https://streamable.com/st1hhs
The most defining aspect of this series is that the Wolves don’t even have to be outstanding to dominate the Suns. Now obviously their D is amazing and I’m not trying to take away from that, but it’s telling that these big leads aren’t built on the back of red hot perimeter shooting or a star playing going off. They’re just crashing the glass and creating good shots in order to generate buckets. They are just playing their normal basketball, and Phoenix has absolutely no answers.
Rudy should get the dpoy trophy awarded to him next game because this teams defence has been absolutely stifling. Suns can’t get an open shot at all.
Absolute nightmare matchup for the Wolves in round 1. You really hate to see it, awful luck
uncomfortable fact for certain people is that rudy gobert has been the best player in this series.
The Wolves won the Gobert trade.
I still can’t believe I’m watching the Minnesota Timberwolves
I was promised a series that would tire out the Wolves, with a good chance to duck them outright.
https://i.imgur.com/XHtqfOz.png
The ref did try their best to foul out the Wolves in the first quarter
as a Rudy Gobert respecter, I am enjoying this series a lot.
Also, the Suns got outrebounded by fucking 27. What’s the point of having Nurk, when rebounding is the 1 fucking thing he can do. the suns deserve this for the constant Ayton slander
Gotta feel bad for the Refs man, they did all they could but the Wolves were just too much for them.
This team is so night and day different from every other Wolves team over the past 20 years, it’s surreal to watch
Mike Conley Jr.
Nickeil Alexander-Walker
3 second round picks
As great as this game was for the Timberwolves, it was equally pitiful for the Suns. You’re telling me in a game 3 MUST WIN or you go down 3-0, which is a death sentence, that is the effort you put out. You can pick any point in the game, whether it’s a loose ball, a rebound, a regular defensive possession, or walking to the bench for a timeout, all 5 Timberwolves players are working harder than any Suns player. The Wolves get a lot of rebounds because they’re huge, but they got at least half of theirs tonight by just out working the sons. When the Suns got a rebound it was because it fell into their hands
r/NBA told me the Suns will play Rudy Gobert off the court. Big hit to this subs credibility.
Suns are beyond cooked. No cap space or draft picks. Horrible Beal contract. They 100% have to trade kd who still has value.
Kd has also been glazing the thunder over the past 2 months and dropped a new commercial with chet. Clearly has a reunion in mind. Not sure of the thunder do it.
The Wolves trade for Gobert was better than the Suns trade for KD.
For 20 years. 20 fucking years through Corey brewer. Through fucking Anthony Bennett. Through fucking Andrew Wiggins. I have watched this team. I watched coaches come and go. I have seen my team in the basement I have seen my team clowned on constantly. I’m from Minnesota where sports wise nothing good happens. It’s one game to go. Mike Conley tha god.