Minnesota Timberwolves hopes that the third California adventures after the season are as efficient as the first two playoffs of the Western Conference against Golden State Warriors in Saturday night on Saturday night.
The teams are planned in the seven series on Saturday and on Monday in the game 4 and each of the clubs won a match when they opened at the beginning of the week at Minneapolis.
As the Sixth Seed in the West, Timberwolves were Unders when they started their first round series with a road win on the third seeds last month.
Minnesota moved away from the journey with a division, then never lost again in Lakers’ elimination of 4-1, a three-game winning series with a clinical victory in La in La.
The sad win, Timberwolves, won the advantage of a home field against Warriors, the first round of the West as the Number 7 of the West, and left Houston Rockets behind in seven games.
When it was seen in the last house, Golden State had the chance to complete the first round series in six games and dropped the 115-107 decision to Rockets, which was the second seed last Friday.
Since then, warriors have returned to Houston for a successful Game 7.
As against Rockets, Golden State won the 99-88 road win on Tuesday, and immediately won the advantage of Timberwolves. However, they lost his star keeper Stephen Curry to a tense left Hamstring in the process.
Curry lost 117-93 at the rematch in Minnesota on Thursday, already removed from games number 3 and 4. When the clubs return to Timberwolves’ home floor, the game is planned to be re -evaluated on the eve of the game.
Coincidentally, Warriors was without Jimmy Butler when they hosted Rockets in Game 3 after the in -season acquisition had a pelvic contusion in Houston. This did not prevent the rise of 2-1 in the series behind Curry’s 36 points of Golden State before returning to contribute to 27 points for Butler’s game 4 victory.
If the explosion on Thursday was positive, Warriors coach Steve Kerr could try different combinations to find new production sources that could help minimize the impact of Curry’s output.
Jonathan Kuminga, who acted in only three of the seven matches in the Houston series, shot 8 out of 11 shots with an eye -catching performance of 18 points. Trayce Jackson-Davis, who left the counter for only 24 minutes against rockets, was carved with 15 points and six rebounds.
“No Steph. A completely different team,” Kerr asks if there were changes in return for Game 3 on Friday. “Everything must be about finding a new formula, and JK (Kuminga) is definitely part of this formula.”
“(Jackson-Davis) showed that he could be effective against this team.”
Golden State’s new appearance almost affected Timberwolves from Julius Randle (24 points, 11 assists) and Nickeil Alexander-Walker (20 points).
Do not make mistakes, Minnesota coach Chris Finch insisted later, the best thing all night, the second quarter of the left ankle after a injury to the locker room after the first half of the star Anthony Edwards returned to the series.
“There are many ways to be an elite athlete.” “To shake these things is definitely one of them. I was really planning not to see him the rest of the game.”
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