Golden State Warriors will try to win for the first time without Stephen Curry this season, and even the clubs meet in the seven Monday night in San Francisco, the second round of the Western Conference against Minnesota Timberwolves.
The seventh-seed fighters won 99-88 on the way to open the series, but in the process, a tense left Hamstring lost the curry.
Minnesota, the sixth seed, has provided an advantage in two matches since injury and won 102-97 at home on Saturday night when he moved to 117-93 at home and then to San Francisco.
Curry is already excluded for the game 4 and is expected to be re -evaluated in the hope of going back before the end of the series on Tuesday. Clubs, Minneapolis’te on Wednesday 5th game between three days permission and next Sunday San Francisco (if necessary) Golden State star raises more likely to reappear than the latter.
A Warriors guarantees that the Game 6 will be played in both of the next two matches.
The game 3, Timberwolves’ Anthony Edwards and Warriors’s Jimmy Butler III turned into a score competition, and a environment defenses duel. Minnesota won both of them.
Edwards saved 15 points for a bright third quarter, but the Butler left 36-33 behind. In the fourth period, he added four more of the six shots, while Minnesota passed the landlords with a 33-24 run.
Recently, the number of visitors has received five 3 numbers and Minnesota closed a long -range shot screen for 34 to 13 for the game, while Golden State was 10 years old.
This was a good percentage for Warriors, but at least the 23 -point trial season, and this year was nine less than they tried in any of the nine Playoff matches.
Naz Reid (3 to 3) and Jaden McDaniels (4 to 3) were particularly effective for Deep for Minnesota, which rises to 3-1 on the road this season.
During three games, Reid leads the 3 -point (nine) and 3 -point shooting percentage (50.0) to Timberwolves.
Victory Saturday and Golden State’s previous road victory in the series, Curry’nin Curry’nin another game that does not feel comfortable as the reasons.
“There’s no comfort at any point,” he asked. “This is a playoff series for a reason. If you are up or down, you should still take care of it.”
Warriors, Golden State’s first eight playoff match playing for only 63 minutes and Minnesota’da 2nd game with 18 points without responding to Jonathan Kuminga’dan received an unexpected support in the game.
Kuminga then took advantage of the 36 minutes on Saturday and exploded for 30 points after the season.
Kuminga has accepted Butler as a positive role model, even if he did not play too much in the tension of the normal season and playoffs.
“We’re all basketball players. You learn while watching,” he said. “I watch and learn; playing around it makes sense. Actually easy. Steph (curry) in the same way differently. They are two different people, but they attract so much attention that you need to be awake when they get the ball.”
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