{"id":522432,"date":"2026-01-07T12:02:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/522432\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T12:02:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:02:39","slug":"ant-wolves-dominate-in-miami-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/522432\/","title":{"rendered":"Ant, Wolves dominate in Miami win"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Timberwolves might be finding their rhythm.<\/p>\n

Not only did Tuesday\u2019s 122-94 win<\/a> over Miami mark Minnesota\u2019s third straight victory, it was also the team\u2019s third straight strong performance.\u00a0Minnesota was locked in defensively from the jump and overcame a slow shooting start to run away from the Heat in the second half.<\/p>\n

Minnesota has now beaten Miami, the Wizards and Miami again in a span of four days. The latter two victories have been blowouts.<\/p>\n

Everything about Tuesday\u2019s performance was crisp, from taking care of the ball to attacking the paint offensively while getting back in transition, rotating and competing on the defensive end.<\/p>\n

Miami (20-17) shot just 36% from the field in the loss, and struggled to generate quality looks.<\/p>\n

Minnesota (24-13), meanwhile, played good offense for the final three and a half quarters. And once the 3-pointers started to fall \u2014 particularly for Donte DiVincenzo<\/a>, who broke out of a slump by hitting four of his final five attempts of the evening \u2014 the Wolves were able to put space between themselves and the Heat in short order.<\/p>\n

Rudy Gobert finished with 13 points and 17 rebounds, while Anthony Edwards led the charge on all fronts while scoring 26 points.<\/p>\n

How good can Minnesota be when it plays at this level?<\/p>\n

\u201cA championship team,\u201d Gobert said on the floor after the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Timberwolves might be finding their rhythm. Not only did Tuesday\u2019s 122-94 win over Miami mark Minnesota\u2019s third…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3778],"tags":[375,7,144,295,189,3881,152,6,373,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-522432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-heat","8":"tag-anthony-edwards","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-heat","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-miami-heat","13":"tag-miamiheat","14":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-rudy-gobert","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115853718363379136","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}