#Denver Nuggets at Minnesota Timberwolves
Target Center- Minneapolis, MN
[ESPN](https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401657184/nuggets-timberwolves)
[TV/Radio](https://reddit.com/r/timberwolves/comments/1cp4ptn/game_thread_denver_nuggets_02_at_minnesota/l3ie4kp/)
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|Time Clock|
|:–:|
|Final|
||Q1|Q2|Q3|Q4|Total|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|DEN |28|28|37|24|117|
|MIN |20|21|25|24|90|
###Player Stats
**Denver Nuggets**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|M. Porter Jr.|30:16|21|6-10|4-5|5-6|0|4|4|1|1|0|2|5|25
|A. Gordon|33:04|13|5-7|3-4|0-0|1|1|2|5|2|0|0|2|18
|N. Jokic|38:05|24|10-18|1-3|3-4|4|10|14|9|3|3|3|3|30
|K. Caldwell-Pope|36:54|12|3-6|0-2|6-6|0|4|4|4|0|0|0|3|31
|J. Murray|37:48|24|11-21|2-5|0-0|1|3|4|5|3|0|3|3|21
|J. Holiday|18:56|6|2-4|2-3|0-0|0|1|1|1|0|0|0|3|11
|R. Jackson|8:12|6|2-4|0-2|2-2|0|3|3|0|0|0|1|1|10
|C. Braun|17:36|5|2-4|1-2|0-0|0|3|3|0|0|0|0|1|5
|P. Watson|5:25|0|0-2|0-0|0-0|0|2|2|0|0|1|0|1|-7
|Z. Nnaji|5:03|2|1-1|0-0|0-0|1|0|1|0|0|0|1|1|-5
|J. Strawther|3:43|3|1-2|1-2|0-0|0|1|1|0|0|0|0|1|-1
|H. Tyson|3:05|1|0-1|0-1|1-2|1|0|1|1|0|0|0|0|-1
|J. Pickett|1:50|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|-2
**Minnesota Timberwolves**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|J. McDaniels|21:42|10|4-6|0-2|2-4|0|3|3|0|1|2|1|4|-18
|K. Towns|32:33|14|4-7|4-5|2-2|0|5|5|3|0|0|3|2|-32
|R. Gobert|26:57|6|3-5|0-0|0-2|2|2|4|1|0|0|0|4|-10
|A. Edwards|37:08|19|8-15|3-8|0-0|0|6|6|5|0|1|5|3|-32
|M. Conley|29:52|10|3-9|1-5|3-3|0|6|6|6|1|0|3|1|-15
|N. Alexander-Walker|25:57|6|2-5|0-3|2-2|0|0|0|2|0|0|2|2|-24
|N. Reid|20:45|7|2-7|1-3|2-2|0|1|1|1|1|0|0|2|-25
|K. Anderson|13:27|3|1-3|0-0|1-2|0|0|0|1|2|0|0|0|-16
|J. McLaughlin|8:02|0|0-3|0-3|0-2|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|9
|J. Minott|5:54|3|1-3|1-2|0-0|1|1|2|2|0|0|0|0|7
|M. Morris|5:54|4|1-4|0-1|2-2|0|1|1|0|0|0|0|2|7
|T. Warren|5:54|0|0-2|0-1|0-0|1|1|2|1|0|0|0|0|7
|L. Garza|5:54|8|2-2|0-0|4-4|1|1|2|0|0|0|0|0|7
###Team Stats
|Team|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|AST|PF|STL|TO|BLK|OREB|DREB|REB|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|DEN|43-80|14-29|17-20|26|25|9|10|4|8|32|45|
|MIN|31-71|10-33|18-25|23|20|5|14|3|5|27|42|
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Look, you had to expect this kind of response from Denver, they shot the lights out and we could not buy a bucket. We’ve already shown twice we can beat them.
One of our worst games of the season and will hopefully be a good crash back to reality for our guys and some of the fans too, we will be alright.
Goddamn please tell me NAW ain’t injured.
Aside from that, it is what it is. They came out and outplayed us, they shot well and schemed way better for us defensively. We’ll need to have a hell of a lot more urgency in game 4.
Still, 2-1 lead is fine. Gotta take Ant’s approach, it’s just one game and this is a series.
Can’t win every game. We came out flat and missed some of the easiest shots of all time, while Denver was making quite literally everything no matter how stupid the shots were. Tony Brothers had an MJ-esque performance highlights of which will be watched for generations. Silver got what he wanted when he allowed Murray to play. But the real winners tonight were Mark Jones and Tim Legler who got to guzzle that Nuggets dick for over two hours straight. On to the next one, Wolves in 5 or 6 depending on how frisky we’re feeling.
Biggest difference between this game and the first two?
I watched a combined 10 minutes of it, and it was more horrible than the wailing of my sick child I’ll probably be trying to soothe again in another 20 minutes.
Forgive me if that + box score watching misleads me into thinking that next game we need to actually bring the energy to close out on shooters and get set off of missed offensive possessions. Good defense leads into good offense, blah blah blah.
Welp. Let’s come back hard on Sunday! Awooooooo!!! LFG!
Team got way too complacent let’s just call it like it is
Finch took opiates tonight.. it’s the only logical way to explain this loss
Big props to Denver. They responded like champions. We got a series and the pressure is back on the Wolves
Now it’s time to see if we can respond.
Just wait until my naz reid towel comes in guys dont worry
First half they made a lot of tough shots, we had like 7 go halfway down and like 6 more that were wide open In the first half that we missed. The Gordon 3s cooked us in the second. Excited to see how this team responds- hopefully refs don’t set the tone early again
Really having a hard time wrestling with what we just saw.
To lose this game with the reigning champs and MVP with their backs against the wall is one thing.
To come out with zero energy, zero urgency, zero quality defense, zero ball movement. That is really concerning.
They looked like the way they looked all year against Wizards and Pistons type teams.
This could have been the KO of the series and instead it was utter domination and humiliation.
Also that the crowd was dead even when it was tied after all the hype leading up was super disappointing, weak crowd
They came out flat tonight but I’ll be damned if that happens twice in a row. They need to fucking go at Joker and Murray those guys can’t defend, put them into actions all game long and take it at them.
Perspective is important. Wolves are still in the driver’s seat, and still own home court advantage. Let’s get game 4.
Kat only shot 7 and ant 15 this game. Kat not a 2nd option now? He became a role player. Murray shot 21 and jokic 18. Ridiculous
Don’t have the energy in me to be upset this game, we were bound to drop a game at some point. As long as we show up next couple games we’ll be good
I blame this loss on all the people who started talking about the Finals over the four day break.
Yeah, that sucked.
Team just got the shit kicked out of them tonight. Simple as that.
Wait we got called for techs??? But Murray and Malone got zero?
Was the crowd as flat as it seemed on TV? Felt like they were more concerned with booing Murray than being loud.
Obviously not the biggest issue of this game, but I fear the uptick in prices will lose us the huge crowd advantage we got vs the Suns.
They definitely adjusted their offense, they didn’t let Jokic bring up the ball at all and Murray always had a convoy of screeners full court. Refs were never gonna allow a game 2 style defense all series anyway.
Those missed bunnies and open 3’s in the first half killed us when they have regular season sub 30% 3 point shooter Aaron Gordon shooting 75%
Meh. Game 4 will be more revealing
I knew we were going to get merced as soon as that “NAW and Order” meme was deployed
Had to expect Denver to come out like that.
I’m happy to be back in the underdog position, please keep saying we can’t win now, let’s get to work and get a good win on Sunday for Mother’s Day.
Also, maybe the brigading will stop now, that was ridiculous lol
Who woulda thought those nuggets are pretty good. Wish the wolves actually competed tonight though.
Playoff basketball ain’t ever gonna be easy. This is what makes great teams great!
This was the worst game I’ve ever seen this current iteration of the wolves play. Just horrible offense all night and zero execution or intensity on defensive rotations.
Way, way too many of those wide open 3s were because Rudy just wouldn’t get out there to challenge. He was particularly awful out of everyone tonight, only 4 rebounds and absolutely no impact defensively. I dunno if he’s staying up late with the baby or what, but if he has another performance like this the Wolves need to go back to KAT and Kyle or Naz mainly
Embarrassing showing tn. Came out flat with no energy, played no d, didn’t rebound, and shot too many jumpers. Coaching staff went away from what worked through the first 6 games which is let Ant initiate offense. For some reason we got a lot of Conley ball after Kat started out hot. 7 shots is rediculous. Also Kyle Anderson shouldn’t play
You knew a game like this was coming. Now let’s see how they handle some adversity.
The 16-1 dream starts now…
Offense started almost purely on 3pt attempts and they just weren’t falling. Denver lead got bigger and bigger and forced us into continuing with 3pt attempts when attacking the paint had worked much better, and that was all she wrote
Not fazed. Wolves in 5
I don’t know what the gameplan was tonight. We did not run the offense through Ant like how we did in games 1 and 2. Not sure if they were expecting the role players to get hot off of the crowd’s energy, it back fired big tonight being that the only two people that showed up were KAT and Ant.
Rudy’s energy was awful tonight.
Also dk if Finch is running things over there or not because the timeouts being called just seems like a different tempo than normal.
Still expecting them to respond in game 4 after getting embarrassed tonight.
I feel like I’m going crazy lmao there was a clear drastic switch in a heilocentric downhill ant offense to whatever this was right??
I think we need to cool it on giving Murray the constant booing “giddey treatment” thing. The energy was always weird in those OKC games, and it was weird tonight. Fuck Murray and everything, and obviously not the reason we lost, but I don’t think it’s helping
Why was our crowd just, lifeless. Even in Q1 when it was 20-20 they had zero energy
There were a lot of people at Target Center tonight who have never seen the wolves lose before…either in person or on tv.
I think we should seriously consider subbing NAW in for Conley earlier in Game 3 to increase the defensive pressure and intensity. Also switching it up to the lineup that full court pressed the Nuggets so effectively when Gobert was out. (Start Gobert and Conley but sub them out and switch up to that other lineup earlier. When Gobert is in Jokic can basically coast on defense too).
Offensively we have to get KAT more shots. If our offense is basically only Ant and guys like Jaden and NAW and Naz aren’t hitting their threes then we can’t score enough to win. Ant, remember that Jokic isn’t a a good rim protector.