Four months of absence and then zou, Karl-Anthony Towns carried out his come-back with a smile and a victory at home against the terrible Hawks. It was he who offered the win to his team and more: return with great fanfare for the NBA cat.
The pretty homemade boxscore is HERE!
We knew that Karl-Anthony Towns liked to collect injuries since the beginning of his NBA career. But the last suffered on November 30 really hurt. The Wolves had just mortgaged their future to form a Big 3 Edwards-Towns-Gobert. The timing was really bad. But despite everything, Minnesota did well and remains in the race for the Top 6 in the West. Back after 51 missed games, KAT signed a good performance against Atlanta: 22 points, 4 rebounds and 2 steals. But above all, more than one “good performance”he offered victory to the wolves with a big game-winner… a bit simplified in two successful free throws to pass. Hey, no matter how, it’s still a game-winner. Already that the public of the Target Center gave everything to welcome back the big cat, he gave back the double during his speech after the game.
KAT was hype in his postgame interview after hitting the game-winning free throws.
His first game back in 4 months ???? pic.twitter.com/08vS5xfIx2
— NBA (@NBA) March 23, 2023
It’s safe to say Towns is returning to the best of times for Wolves. In the finish of the most tense regular season in history where everything will be played until the end. Today, 7th in the standings, victory or defeat can really push a franchise into the elevator. There are only eight games left in Minnesota to best position themselves before the Playoffs. And the end of the calendar is not so simple. A short detour to California with the Warriors and the Kings in back-to-back. Then go to Phoenix which also plays an important role higher up the leaderboard. It continues with a new back-to-back against Lakers and Blazers. Simpler, but be careful all the same, maybe LeBron will have made his comeback by then. The end of regular looks more docile with a Nets, Spurs and Pels sequence. Big program however, and Wolves will not say no to a dominant KAT. The big cat looks motivated as ever and will probably heat up. Bad time for the conception of the soft belly.