All Things 2021-2022 Minnesota Timberwolves In-Season Thread

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As someone that’s only watched a handful of minutes this season, have the Wolves been this lazy on defense all season?
 

GophersInIowa said:
As someone that’s only watched a handful of minutes this season, have the Wolves been this lazy on defense all season?
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They've have had plenty of bad games on Defense. Though problem today IMHO, is more on Offense.

Both teams are shooting 50% but Memphis is 4-16 on 3s. Wolves are 11-25.

What's killing the Wolves today is the damn turnovers.
 


Iceland12 said:
They've have had plenty of bad games on Defense. Though problem today IMHO, is more on Offense.

Both teams are shooting 50% but Memphis is 4-16 on 3s. Wolves are 11-25.

What's killing the Wolves today is the damn turnovers.
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It doesn’t help that anyone that breathes on Morant gets called for a foul.
 




Iceland12 said:
They've have had plenty of bad games on Defense. Though problem today IMHO, is more on Offense.

Both teams are shooting 50% but Memphis is 4-16 on 3s. Wolves are 11-25.

What's killing the Wolves today is the damn turnovers.
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That and fouls on drives leading to free throws.
 


MEMPHIS — It was presumed all week that Memphis possessed the best player in the first-round series between the Grizzlies and Timberwolves. Ja Morant was an MVP candidate for much of the season and lifted the Grizzlies to a gaudy 56 wins and a No. 2 seed in the Western Conference.

But when the two sides took the floor Saturday in Tennessee, the best player didn’t sport a Grizzlies’ jersey — he wore No. 1 for Minnesota.

Anthony Edwards is quickly establishing himself in the NBA as a legitimate force to be reckoned with.

Edwards erupted for 34 points and six assists for Minnesota in a 130-117 upset win over Memphis that didn’t much feel like an upset. The Timberwolves take a 1-0 series lead into Game 2 on Tuesday.

Edwards’ fingerprints were all over Minnesota’s play-in victory over the Clippers this week. When the moment gets bigger, the second-year star’s game goes to another level — an elite, top-tier, win-you-a-playoff-road-game level.

There have been flashes of this throughout Edwards’ career, even more so in his second NBA season. But the frequency with which he’s pulling out such performances when it matters most signals the potential not only he has, but what he gives Minnesota.

If you have the best player on the floor, you can beat anyone. And as of late, Anthony Edwards is pretty consistently the best player on the floor...

www.twincities.com

‘He is unstoppable’: Edwards shines as Wolves steal Game 1 in Memphis

The second-year player had 34 points and six assists in his first NBA playoff game.
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Breakin' The Plane said:
Looking forward at the schedule, they play game 4 next Saturday at 9pm. No matter what happens in the next two games, gotta imagine that Target Center is going to be a madhouse.
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This Thursday night's game at Target Center will be rocking too.
 
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How did Tom Crean not win more games at Georgia with Ant? He has such a clutch gene. Every time they tied it he was going to score.
 


The wolves were so damn mentally tough yesterday. They basically held a lead of two to five points for most of the game until they broke the Grizzlies with about a minute and a half to go. That's unbelievably hard to do against a good team, especially on the road.

Ja scored 32 and didn't play that well. Tyus does everything well. He's worth the $9M/year he gets paid. When the Grizz went lob city in the third, I thought they would break the wolves and win by 12-14. The wolves were really, really tough.
 


I think the real question is, can we get the animal rights nutjobs to attend every postseason game for the Wolves moving forward?

It seems to be working for the Wolves up to this point! It's the playoffs, you gotta stick with what works, no?
 


ESPN predictions of the series = Dink-A-Thon:

Memphis Grizzlies (2) vs Minnesota Timberwolves (7)​

Kendra Andrews: Grizzlies in 5

Jerry Bembry: Grizzlies in 6

Jamal Collier: Grizzlies in 6

Nick DePaula: Grizzlies in 6

Nick Friedell: Grizzlies in 5

Kirk Goldsberry: Grizzlies in 6

Israel Gutierrez: Grizzlies in 7

Richard Jefferson: Grizzlies in 5

Tim Legler: Grizzlies in 5

Andrew Lopez: Grizzlies in 5

Zach Lowe: Grizzlies in 6

Tim MacMahon: Grizzlies in 6

Bobby Marks: Grizzlies in 5

Dave McMenamin: Grizzlies in 6

Kevin Pelton: Grizzlies in 6

Kendrick Perkins: Grizzlies in 5

Jorge Sedano: Grizzlies in 6

Ramona Shelburne: Grizzlies in 6

André Snellings: Grizzlies in 6

Marc J. Spears: Grizzlies in 7

Ohm Youngmisuk: Grizzlies in 6

Final tally: Grizzlies 21, Timberwolves 0.

www.espn.com

NBA experts' picks for Nets-Celtics, Pelicans-Suns and every first-round series

Which teams will advance? Which stars won't make it out of the first round? Our NBA experts share their predictions.
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Howl Wolves!!
 

OK, let's start a pool. The bet is - at what point of the next game will play be interrupted by a chicken protestor?

I'll say with 7:45 left in the 3rd quarter.

this is so stupid that I just love it. Honestly, if there isn't a chicken protestor in the next game, I will be disappointed.
 


The game isn't blacked out on NBATV tomorrow is it? It's only showing in my scheduled recordings at 2:30 AM the next day. I have YTTV, so no stupid Bally's. This would be a real kick in the pants if we can't watch a playoff game.

And just incredibly stupid by the NBA.
 

BleedGopher said:
ESPN predictions of the series = Dink-A-Thon:

Memphis Grizzlies (2) vs Minnesota Timberwolves (7)​

Kendra Andrews: Grizzlies in 5

Jerry Bembry: Grizzlies in 6

Jamal Collier: Grizzlies in 6

Nick DePaula: Grizzlies in 6

Nick Friedell: Grizzlies in 5

Kirk Goldsberry: Grizzlies in 6

Israel Gutierrez: Grizzlies in 7

Richard Jefferson: Grizzlies in 5

Tim Legler: Grizzlies in 5

Andrew Lopez: Grizzlies in 5

Zach Lowe: Grizzlies in 6

Tim MacMahon: Grizzlies in 6

Bobby Marks: Grizzlies in 5

Dave McMenamin: Grizzlies in 6

Kevin Pelton: Grizzlies in 6

Kendrick Perkins: Grizzlies in 5

Jorge Sedano: Grizzlies in 6

Ramona Shelburne: Grizzlies in 6

André Snellings: Grizzlies in 6

Marc J. Spears: Grizzlies in 7

Ohm Youngmisuk: Grizzlies in 6

Final tally: Grizzlies 21, Timberwolves 0.

www.espn.com

NBA experts' picks for Nets-Celtics, Pelicans-Suns and every first-round series

Which teams will advance? Which stars won't make it out of the first round? Our NBA experts share their predictions.
www.espn.com www.espn.com

Howl Wolves!!
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Dink-A-thon. Sums it up perfectly. Anthony Edwards Junior disagrees with all of them........
 


WilliamsArenaGuy said:
The game isn't blacked out on NBATV tomorrow is it? It's only showing in my scheduled recordings at 2:30 AM the next day. I have YTTV, so no stupid Bally's. This would be a real kick in the pants if we can't watch a playoff game.

And just incredibly stupid by the NBA.
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So now I can see ahead in my guide, and it says not available in your area. Are you fucking kidding me? If the game was on TNT like the other two tonight it wouldn't be blacked out. So why should this be? Are they trying to alienate fans?
 

WilliamsArenaGuy said:
So now I can see ahead in my guide, and it says not available in your area. Are you fucking kidding me? If the game was on TNT like the other two tonight it wouldn't be blacked out. So why should this be? Are they trying to alienate fans?
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Not sure about any of that, but thanks for the heads up. I had my DVR set to record the NBA-TV broadcast, but switched it now to BSN (which previously had the Twins game listed in the online schedule).
 

WilliamsArenaGuy said:
So now I can see ahead in my guide, and it says not available in your area. Are you fucking kidding me? If the game was on TNT like the other two tonight it wouldn't be blacked out. So why should this be? Are they trying to alienate fans?
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Nope, but that's happening.

NBA TV uses the local cable supplier. Unfortunately ours is Bally's/Sinclair. Sinclair owns Ch.23 ,so they could show it locally.

Instead they're showing a Twins game.

Hope the next NBA TV contract demands a local over-the-air broadcast in the future. Cutting them some slack now. Who would have thought their cable partner would try and turn their focus to a direct-to-consumer deal.

The "Yeah! they're killing cable!" people kept promising everyone that things would now get cheaper and easier to get!. How's that working out?
 
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