#Denver Nuggets at Minnesota Timberwolves
Target Center- Minneapolis, MN
[ESPN](https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401657185/nuggets-timberwolves)
[TV/Radio](https://reddit.com/r/timberwolves/comments/1cqkjea/game_thread_denver_nuggets_12_at_minnesota/l3rwqds/)
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|Time Clock|
|:–:|
|Final|
||Q1|Q2|Q3|Q4|Total|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|DEN |29|35|26|25|115|
|MIN |24|25|30|28|107|
###Player Stats
**Denver Nuggets**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|M. Porter Jr.|35:27|4|2-4|0-2|0-0|0|3|3|1|0|1|1|3|5
|A. Gordon|41:08|27|11-12|2-2|3-3|2|5|7|6|1|2|2|4|9
|N. Jokic|39:04|35|15-26|1-5|4-6|2|5|7|7|3|1|4|4|3
|K. Caldwell-Pope|31:55|3|1-6|1-4|0-0|0|1|1|3|1|2|0|2|-1
|J. Murray|38:38|19|8-17|3-7|0-0|1|4|5|8|2|0|3|3|0
|R. Jackson|9:22|6|2-4|2-3|0-0|0|2|2|3|0|0|1|0|8
|J. Holiday|19:09|10|3-6|3-5|1-2|0|3|3|0|0|0|1|1|11
|C. Braun|25:16|11|3-4|1-1|4-4|0|3|3|1|0|0|0|3|5
**Minnesota Timberwolves**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|J. McDaniels|37:38|11|4-8|1-3|2-4|2|0|2|0|1|1|1|2|-4
|K. Towns|37:56|13|5-18|1-4|2-4|5|7|12|3|1|0|1|3|4
|R. Gobert|35:29|11|3-5|0-0|5-9|5|9|14|1|0|1|5|5|9
|A. Edwards|45:20|44|16-25|5-8|7-8|0|5|5|5|2|1|3|2|5
|M. Conley|34:09|15|5-12|3-7|2-2|0|2|2|9|1|0|0|4|-7
|N. Alexander-Walker|24:23|2|1-7|0-4|0-0|0|3|3|3|0|0|1|1|-20
|N. Reid|18:51|11|5-6|1-2|0-0|0|4|4|0|0|0|0|3|-9
|K. Anderson|6:11|0|0-1|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|-18
###Team Stats
|Team|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|AST|PF|STL|TO|BLK|OREB|DREB|REB|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|DEN|45-79|13-29|12-15|29|20|7|12|6|5|26|36|
|MIN|39-82|11-28|18-27|21|21|5|11|3|12|30|53|
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KAT with one of the worst playoff performances I’ve ever seen and at the worst time possible. At some point we’re gonna have to come to grips with paying this guy $55m per year.
KAT needs to get his ass right.
Any chance of them missing a damn shot? Like bloody hell they all turned into prime Steph
Wolves in 6
fakest game i’ve ever seen we win if aaron gordon doesn’t decide he’s prime steph curry wolves in 6
Fucking Playoff KAT. For fucks sake
It’s not a series until the home team wins a game, and we still have away court advantage. Rough game from Karl and Rudy but they’ll bounce back. We wouldn’t be anywhere near here without them and if we want to go anywhere they need to be contributors.
Tough loss and blowing both games at home when you had the chance to at least go up 3-1 is an absolute killer… but I actually feel pretty good about our chances after tonight.
If Denver is going to shoot 60%+ again then it obviously doesn’t matter but if they literally don’t do that then we can win this shit. This felt like a perfect Denver game against a far from perfect Wolves game.
Denver is the defending Champs but I just don’t think they can play this perfectly for 2 of the next 3 games.
Keep the faith Wolves fam, we haven’t lost 3 in a row all season!
Yeah whatever. Wolves in 6
Blown assignments, no effort boxing out, dumb turnovers, dumb fouls, some horrific offence (chiefly KAT postups), terrible FT shooting… The only reason this game wasn’t a blowout like g3 was because Ant went supernova. Sure their bench and Aaron Gordon shot at a ridiculous clip but the quality of looks they got was much better. Wolves seem to have lost their offensive and defensive identity the last two games. I put that down to our two star bigs. Role players will be role players but the second and third best players on the team cannot play like this. They have been horrific.
Stupid end of 2nd quarter sequence was the difference, couldn’t overcome it vs a really good team
Well at least now we get to go back to Denver and get that altitude advantage
Gonna be a lot of doom and gloom here, justifiably, but still gotta keep in mind:
It’s 2-2. We’re even. It feels awful right now, but we still got first to 2 wins. We’ve beaten them twice this series already.
We’ve made a lot of silly mistakes that can easily be eradicated, while they have been making shots at a ridiculous clip, with our shooters missing easy ones.
This is not over. We haven’t gotten this far to give up now.
Guess only Ant decided to show up
Fuck Denver, I fucking can’t stand Murray.
Bench Kat for Reid in the 4th and it’s a different outcome
Such fing bs… Hall of shame performance by everyone except ant.. I really thought this was our year.
It’s the hope that kills you.
So embarrassing to watch, any one guy besides ANT shows up tonight and we win. Just a miserable game to watch as well, if you missed it consider yourself lucky.
The end of the first half was disgusting.
Now it’ll be Finch’s turn to make a film reel of all the talking heads saying the series is over.
ant deserves better
We don’t need to see Slow-Mo for another minute in these playoffs.
I’m cool with trading home losses if Denver is.
I just need people to understand that if this is the Aaron Gordon denver is getting this becomes an offense on par with the 2017 warriors
Ant tried to do everything he could but the rest of the team let him down in this one
Why is Edwards individually defending Jokic in that last minute????
The optimist in me says it ain’t a series until the home game wins a game, but man this was demoralizing af and the 33 years of MN sports fandom in me thinks it’s done
Jesus, can’t wait to get back home in Denver.
ANT was a one man band tonight. KAT & Gobert had stage fright.
Add Aaron Gordon 11/12 shooting today to Caruso 7/8 from 3, Brandon Miller 11/13 from the field, and annual Bradley Beal game (6/6 from 3 this year). Target Center makes average players absolute gods. We did not play bad, I hope we have a better shooting variance in Denver.
Aaron Gordon and their bench getting 54 points on 24 shots is not sustainable. Problem is, it doesn’t need to be sustainable now that they’ve made it a 3 games series with 2 games at their place.
Why the fuck did Naz have less than 20 minutes with how useless the other two were all night?
You tell me that the Wolves are 2-2 against the defending champs and I’d be cool with that. Sucks it’s happened this way, but next game up. It’s there for the taking.
Nothing to say about the other players, but damn I’m so proud of ANT, both sides of the ball played a hell of a game
KAT gonna be traded if that’s how he plays for Supermax contracts….
Kyle -18 in 6:11
9 missed FT is a fucking killer.
Are we gonna talk about the lineups played in the first half that were played during our scoring drought that included Anderson, gobert, and an ice cold NAW?
Why did Naz Reid only play 18 minutes?
How many career playoff games of KAT being the dumbest fucking basketball player on the court do we need to see? We have Naz who replicates 75% of his skill set who was playing well and is willing to play his role so why not play him and sit KAT to send him a message? Maybe it was the gameplan but the amount of times KAT went to help only to have his assignment immediately score made him look lost rather than it being the gameplan.
Going to be tough to get another win with the defense playing like it has these last two games and our team not having much offensive talent to begin with
Naz needed more minutes
Ant came out to ball tonight and didn’t lose his composure one bit in a tough game. Love to see that from our 22-year old superstar.
Kyle Anderson was -18 in 6 minutes of play. Rudy and KAT looked terrible and were +9 and +4, respectively.
Ant was a +5 in 45:20 played tonight. Dude sat down for 2:40 and we got smoked lol.
PSA to MN Fans: Drop the victim card.
Your personal excitement doesn’t entitle you to a sweep of the NBA champions.
If ANT is on your team, you’re never out of it. The same goes if the team has the MVP.