Minnesota Timberwolves is preparing to rise last -minute in the Western Conference ranking with two wins in the season, starting with the Brooklyn Nets in Minneapolis on Friday.
The eighth place is a game behind Minnesota (47-33), Golden State Warriors and Memphis Grizzlies in a three-way tie and a tightly packaged Western Conference race. All of the five teams want to avoid falling in the seventh or eighth place while making a playoff or play-in dock.
Timberwolves should win the last two matches against both Brooklyn (26-54) and Utah to avoid the game tour. Oklahoma City Thunder, the best record of the NBA, is entering the game on Friday with Jazz (17-63).
When the Minnesota Memphis Grizzlies beat 141-125 on Thursday night, Timberwolves became more tightened when a franchise record poured 52 points in the third quarter.
Anthony Edwards scored 44 points, including hitting 7 attempts from the 3 -point area.
Edwards said that a useful clue from Christopher Hines, a trainer Christopher Hines, said he was behind the perfect performance of the legendary Michael Jordan.
“My instructor C-Hines told me to darken the night, so I tried to do it.” He said. “I know that people will love it – he sent me MJ videos about darkening every day. MJ, ‘Why would I miss if I haven’t shot yet? He said that he was sending me like that.
Edwards also appreciates what happened in the remaining games of his team.
“We have two more difficult games,” he said. “We have to go out and be ready. We don’t know what’s ahead of us with all positions, so we just have to take care of it.”
Nets’s playoff dreams disappeared a long time ago, but on Thursday, they will want to make a better show to Atlanta Hawks than they produced in their first legs, which were lost 133-109.
Brooklyn made a war that was lost for the rest of the game after getting more points with 19 points during the opening period.
“We weren’t ready to play … On me,” Nets coach Jordi Hernandez said. “I did not prepare them to play this game, because you see the first quarter-33-14. The reason for this is not to be connected, the team is not physically ready, mentally ready, and this is on me. One of the worst games we have played this season. There is one more tomorrow.”
A rare positive for Brooklyn received 20 points from the loom, which has the highest of Jalen Wilson’s season.
Nets’s counter, with the efforts of Wilson and Tyrese Martin, left 75-42 of Atlanta behind.
“The bright points were J-Will and Tyrese Martin.” He said. “They are very good professionals. They prepare to play when the numbers are called.
Guard d’Angelo Russell (ankle), the advanced glass Johnson (back) and the center Day’ron Sharpe (knee) lost and will not fly to Minnesota.
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