Warriors need a break and that break can come now that they have to play 7 games in a row at home saying goodbye to the hustle and bustle of traveling. Because right now the team is without Stephen Curry and without Draymond Green and has lost 5 of his last 7 games.
Minnesota took advantage of the rival’s losses to show its growing maturity under the leadership of Karl-Anthony Towns. Resounding victory (119-99) to match the Lakers (21-22), victory despite the gray night in the annotation of Anthony Edwards (9 points) and D’Angelo Russell (7), although the latter did have clairvoyance when it came to distributing the game, finishing with 12 assists.
Towns was the undisputed engine of the team in the first three quarters, when he scored all his points, 26. He also finished with 11 rebounds and 55% shooting from the field. And the rest was done by the substitutes at the beginning of the last quarter. Splendid performance of the team’s second unit, with Nowell in 17 points and 4 assists and Beasley in 16 points after hitting 5 triples in the second half. Very good minutes also in that second unit of McDaniels Y Reid.
The third quarter ended 91-81, and it was at the beginning of the last that all evil broke out for Golden State, which in the first 6 minutes of the quarter conceded a devastating 20-3 to stay 27 points down on the scoreboard (111- 84). Meeting resolved.
Warriors fell apart. In the second half he missed 16 shots in a row. The team was in the end under 40% in the field goal and did not defend well. Jordan Poole scored 20 points, the rookie Jonathan Kuminga added 19 points and 7 rebounds, Klay Thompson signed 13 points in 23 minutes, Kevon Looney fulfilled on the rebound and Otto Porter Jr. contributed something. But the team could not go any further after being thrashed early in the final quarter.
Just Andrew Wiggins before his former team, when he should have carried his team on his back.
The Argentine played Leandro Bolmaro on the local computer. He did it for 2 minutes, in a testimonial way, when everything was decided. And the Mexican played Juan Toscano-Anderson. He was on court for 8 minutes and added 5 points and 2 rebounds.
Minnesota is comfortably embedded in the West play-in, which is considerably cheaper than the East. The 10th from the East is 22-21 and the 10th from the West is 17-25. A whole abyss.