The Minnesota Timberwolves played the Spurs on Monday night and didn’t go as planned. Tonight the Timberwolves came into this game with revenge on their minds. It seemed the Timberwolves were in attack mode and didn’t look back. The Spurs were without Vassel and Primo but the Timberwolves didn’t have Kyle Anderson. Anthony Edwards set the tone on the offensive end from the tip-off. Edwards said that he put the loss to the Spurs on Monday on him. So he came out, put on a show, and didn’t look back all night. On the night Anthony Edwards finished with 34 points, 9 assists, and 3 rebounds. He was able to get to the basket at will and he was hitting his 3-point shot at a high clip. When Edwards is playing like this he’s unstoppable and there is nothing an opposing team can do about it. The Spurs were putting multiple defenders on Anthony Edwards but it wasn’t working at all. Edwards play was able to create and draw a couple of double teams which opened things up for his teammates.
The Timberwolves in total had 4 players in double figures tonight against the Spurs. Anthony Edwards had the most points but it was the 6th man Jaylen Nowell who stole the crowd spotlight. Jaylen came in the game and gave the Timberwolves instant offense as he makes scoring look effortless. Jaylen has improved his defense and he showed that by guarding multiple players on the Spurs. It was Jaylen Nowell’s scoring that came and gave the Timberwolves a spark when it was needed. Jaylen was scoring inside and out tonight against the Spurs. Nowell even had a poster dunk on Poeltl that got the crowd hyped as they were chanting his name.
This Timberwolves team has a lot of potential to blow teams out every night but they need to buckle down on the turnovers and the defensive end. Karl-Anthony Towns and Rudy Gobert had some great stat lines as well but it’s always nice to take the backseat when you have a couple of other scorers that got it going like Nowell and Edwards. Jaden McDaniels showed a lot of promise tonight as well hitting his jumper consistently. If McDaniels adds that to his game it could be scary because the Spurs weren’t able to stay in front of him. McDaniels had a couple of dunks in the game and made the Spurs pay on the defensive end with his quickness and length.
The Spurs Keldon Johnson had 27 points on the night but the Timberwolves just had too much firepower. The Spurs have a great future ahead of them and they ran into a Wolves team that’s built for the present.
The Timberwolves will be playing against the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday as they look to stay in the win column. The Lakers are coming into this matchup against Minnesota (0-4)
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