These Timberwolves seem to have found the point. This week they have become the best team at an offensive level so far in 2022 and the Warriors endorsed 129 not to be outdone. And, furthermore, beating one of the strongest teams in their conference this season in a back to back dragged. They want blood and what they have is young and fluid. The team led by Chris Finch won Steve Kerr’s in Minneapolis by a +15 make-up, the reality is that there was an agreed cut in the last minutes, on a night in which they dominated a rival that anyone, they too, wants to resemble.
Those from San Francisco have been in the doldrums in recent weeks, counting the All-Star break also despite the fact that Steph will complete one of his all-too-common martianadas at that event. They are only two victories in the last eight meetings. The calendar has been steep for them, it is true, but the forcefulness with which they won at the beginning of the season has abandoned them in this slot. In Minny they were without Bjelica and Thompson and they are waiting for both Green and Wiseman, both in the final phase of their recoveries, but the downturn is noticeable as well.
For Minnesota, this is a recognition of the preparation of the template, always important in the summer, since the idea has caught on. They are, finally, the team that Towns has been wanting them to be for more than five years. They will remain in the area play inbut only two victories away from the Nuggets with whom they also share a division. The pivot from the Dominican Republic was the leader of his team one more day, finishing with 39 points, although it is true that the key advantage that gave them the victory was taken in one of his moments of rest on the bench. His friend D’Angelo, with 22 points, was a perfect complement.
The locals kept the tone throughout the night. They were ahead from the start and struck out, to the surprise of some, with some of the less usual. Demonstrating wardrobe depth against the Warriors, who have been left over in that facet for years. Towns and Curry entered the fourth quarter with 31 each and both disappeared from the schedule when the Wolves found themselves with the strength to sentence. And he kept the block on defense, forcing Curry to make some bad shots and his teammates to execute the plays also in disadvantageous positions. They went from around ten to leaving at twenty and little else was left to do. In attack, a play of rage from Prince after a technique, five points in a row from Russell, a shot against Reid and the triple that ended that brilliant stretch, signed by Malik Beasley (20), fired the Timberwolves to victory on this day.