After swallowing a wave of three consecutive losses, the Lakers traveled to Minnesota, and the Timberwolves sat at home to face the game.
On the Timberwolves' side, Edwards and Towns are in hot form, and Gobert is ready to challenge Brother Bush.
On the Lakers side, James was absent due to injury, Hachimura entered the starter, and the pressure on Brother Thick Mei to lead the team with a single core can be imagined.
It is reported that the Lakers and the Timberwolves are back-to-back games in this game, but the Lakers lack the strong point of James, and the Timberwolves have the home court advantage.
Finally, after 4 quarters of the game, under the leadership of Edwards, the Timberwolves defeated the Lakers 118-111, the Timberwolves defended their home court, and the Lakers suffered 4 consecutive defeats!
In the first quarter of the battle, the Lakers once dominated the opponents, and once stopped the Timberwolves with a perfect start of 12-5, but after the timeout came back, Edwards and Towns led the team to play a wave of 15-4 small climax to help the Timberwolves turn the tide of the game, and the Lakers fell into a scoring drought, and the Timberwolves led the Lakers 36-32 in the first quarter.
In the second quarter of the competition, the Timberwolves took advantage of the victory to chase down, Conley and McDaniels hit three points in a row, Li Kaier scored 2 + 1, the Timberwolves once expanded the difference to double digits, and at the critical moment Prince was outside **, Reaves scored 2 + 1 to help the Lakers bite the score, and the Lakers trailed the Timberwolves 59-63 at halftime.
After the break, the Lakers launched a counterattack, thick eyebrows and Reddish scored consecutive points to help the Lakers narrow the gap to 1 point, the game entered the white heat, Hachimura and Prince hit three points in a row, Edwards and Gobert responded quickly, Reed hit the Timberwolves three-point shot at the end of the quarter to reopen the difference, and the Timberwolves led the Lakers 87-83 in the third quarter.
In the final quarter, the Lakers continued to chase points, Russell felt warm and scored 13 points in a single quarter, but in the middle of the quarter, the Lakers suddenly lost fire for nearly 4 minutes without scoring, Conley and Gobert played a tacit cooperation and joined forces to blast out a wave of 12-4 offensive frenzy, and the Timberwolves expanded the point difference to double digits in one fell swoop to lock in the win, and finally the Timberwolves narrowly beat the Lakers by 7 points at home.
In this game, the Timberwolves swept away the slump of the last game loss, and the whole team played a team performance of 5 players scoring double-doubles, comprehensively suppressing the Lakers at both offensive and defensive ends.
After the whole game, Gobert scored 15 points, 13 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 steal and 3 blocks to blow up the Lakers' interior, Conley scored 16 points and 8 assists, McDaniels contributed 14 points, and Edwards and Towns scored 20+ at the same time.
In this game, Edwards was good both offensively and defensively, shooting 9 of 19 from the field, 2 of 6 from three-point range, scoring a team-high 27 points, and 7 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals and 1 block, giving the Lakers 4 consecutive defeats.
Downs was very efficient in this game, shooting 7 of 16 from the field, cutting 21 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 steal, Downs personal 0 turnovers and a plus/minus of +12 ranked the highest on the Timberwolves team!
More importantly, after defeating the Lakers in this game, the Timberwolves have a regular season record of 21-6, and the team's record and winning percentage are tied with the Green Army, tied for the first place in the league
In contrast, after suffering a four-game losing streak, the Lakers currently have a regular season record of 15 wins and 14 losses, and their ranking was overtaken by the Rockets and Suns and dropped to tenth in the West, and the Rockets received the gift and rose to eighth in the West, and the Suns ranked ninth in the West!
In this game against the Timberwolves, although the Lakers team scored five double-doubles, the absence of James, the core of the team, still affected the Lakers' offensive and defensive ends.
In this game, Hachimura was ordered to score 18 points efficiently, Prince scored 14 points against his old master, and Reeves scored 20 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals but had 4 turnovers.
Although Russell delivered a comprehensive performance of 17 points, 4 rebounds, 8 assists, 2 steals and 3 blocks against his old club, it was really too late, and he failed to save the Lord in the final quarter!
In the face of the Timberwolves, who have Towns, Gobert and Reed, Brother Thick Mei tried his best in this game, shooting 11 of 20 from the field, scoring a game-high 31 points, and 8 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 blocks, but he had no choice but to drink and hate
I have to say that Brother Thick Mei fought back-to-back injuries in this game against the three towers of the Timberwolves, but it is obviously difficult to defeat the wolves on his own