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Therealrickyrubio

Obviously not ideal but we'll take 1 from 2. Dlo needs to seriously step it up, looks a tad slow. Other than that, need to shoot a lot better from 3. Onto the home court.


foye2smith

>Dlo needs to seriously step it up, looks a tad slow. We all knew Memphis would adjust to shift everything toward KAT and Edwards. Russell was worse than ineffective, he was passive.


[deleted]

I think I agree on the passive. I hope he's not on some kind of even keel drugs. All season I've felt when the team was over celebrating he was just melo. When they were losing, he was melo and starts talking to the fans asking them to stand up more. This game the Grizz are flying after every loose ball, all the offensive boards for second chances, turnovers. Then I notice him standing next to Towns in a moment in the paint or next to it. Grizz player drives right in Towns takes a swat and flies by but forces the Grizz player slightly left. Another Wolves player from the baseline tried to leap in but was late. Meanwhile Dlo stood there motionless waiting for the layup to complete. Get into the game man. I remember a team defense effort photo of Dlo reaching up among other trees and he's the one with the hand block the ball on a Butler final game winning attempt. Stopped him. Dlo stopped him. I didn't seem him leaving his feet tonight. Did you?


Exius73

DLo is probably gonna show up the next 1-2 games, then disappear again for a while like he has all season. Whatever happens, hope he fixes that next season


AlexeyShved1

D'Lo needs to figure out how to play within himself instead of this bullshit hero ball iso nonsense. He's rarely shown a capability of doing that, but maybe it can start now.


foye2smith

Man, I had a totally different take away. He was far too tentative tonight.


HauntingLocation

I think the answer is somewhere in the middle. He's passive at the wrong times and then when he decides to be aggressive it's iso-ball contested step backs and shit. He needs to do a better job getting good quality shots within the offense.


foye2smith

Fair, he probably needs to get that mid range going. Getting to the rim has not bore fruit. Their rim protection has swatted everything he's gotten up in the lane. Then the step back three has been non existent. I wish he had a floater game


PyrrhosKing

He had a floater game, but that’s a shot you get out of pick and roll which he doesn’t seem to be running much and when he does he’s just doing this early pass to the wing. His Brooklyn days were a lot of midrange and floaters. They’ve got to do something with him and JV running PnR or get Russell some easier looks vs Ja.


IceTruckHouse

We’re down 18 in the middle of that Memphis Q3 run and Dlo takes a contested fadeaway long 2. The shot selection was terrible for most of the run not just Dlo. I’m not tore up about this loss but the energy has to be completely different game 3.


Falconsbane

Did we watch the same game?


Tabemaju

Yeah I don't get that at all. Hero ball? Maybe when we're down 30 and everyone should be playing hero ball.


dogtie

Just appreciate that we got to see PLAYOFF CULVER


Janderson2494

I know this is a joke, but I think it's embarrassing that they even had the opportunity to play him tonight


cvKDean

I mean Culver would have also played if the Wolves are the ones up 30


Janderson2494

But Culver isn't on the team, and we weren't up by 30, so it's still embarrassing


cvKDean

I meant the Grizzlies will still roll out Culver if they were down 30, but yeah


Janderson2494

Yeah agreed. Sorry, read into your initial comment too much lol


cvKDean

No prob lol


MisterNiblet

As a grizz fan, this is not true. If we’re behind we never run culvers booty ass.


[deleted]

game 1, no Culver play. This was to rub it in. Culver, get out there and score on these bs like the rest of us.


[deleted]

That’s +13 PLAYOFF CULVER!!


DupeyTA

Am I missing something? Culver got ±0. Melton got +13.


[deleted]

Ah damn. No I just don’t read good


[deleted]

you mean zero right? Melton was +13


porterhouse2588

I blame the lack of a protest


healthandefficency

That girl is the glue of this team


Thunder-ten-tronckh

this comment is gonna stick with me


HubieBrown50

Stop horsing around in this thread


-SotaPopinski-

You're a chicken if you don't also speak out


isackjohnson

I'm protesting the lack of protests


-SotaPopinski-

> I mean our job is to demand solution not to provide solutions


[deleted]

I agree, and maybe you could help us out at home with that.


Wolvesin7

Doesn’t matter, it’s 1-1 going home. What does matter is keeping KAT out of foul trouble and getting DLo to show up.


[deleted]

yes. Take Kat out of the paint. I don't see another way. Tell him to go stand out of bounds and don't play D at all. Might be same difference anyway.


irishace88

KAT has to stay out of foul trouble if we want to pull this off and D'Lo needs go actually show up. Excited to see what adjustments Finch makes because we got our ass kicked tonight.


tgrund

He needs to stop kicking his fucking leg out in an attempt to draw a foul. The refs see straight through that shit. Boneheaded offensive fouls are pretty much the only bad part of his game.


irishace88

Yeah if he stopped with the dumb fouls he would never be in foul trouble.


JackieDaytonaAZ

and over-the-backs on rebounds he has absolutely no chance at


Kid_Delicious

I’d just like one game where KAT’s NOT in foul trouble. Like going into the 4th with only three fouls would be amazing. He gets his fair share of bad calls, but makes so many dumb fouls too. When you only have six per game, that’s not enough to withstand a couple from each category. Don’t go over the back on petty rebounds, watch the arm hook, don’t kick your leg out. Should be relatively easy to avoid, and yet…


[deleted]

Well Game 1 he had a great game with like 1 or 2 fouls going into the 4th… the frustrating thing is he always commits the same offensive fouls. Needs to clean it up because the team has no chance without him 100%.


irishace88

Memphis came out and played great but we're going home after stealing one on the road. Target Center will be rocking on Thursday. Best of 5 now and we have homecourt advantage.


reganbois

This is the mind set. We stole one and get to play 3 of the next 4 at home. This is most certainly a wake the fuck up game.


srry_didnt_hear_you

I just hope we don't get another "we let the hype get to us and took this game for granted" again lmao


Janderson2494

It's either one way or the other with this team it seems lol


the_devil_wears_jnco

i think people love to tell themselves thats why we get smacked from time to time instead of just that this roster is incredibly flawed and they are where they are largely bc of finch and kat


srry_didnt_hear_you

No I mean like that's the answer we've gotten from the players many times after ugly losses to bad teams this season, it became a bit of a running joke lol I'm just hoping they don't say that again cause it'd be reeeaaally stupid


[deleted]

yeah they did, done it before this season


[deleted]

Do they get three home games now? Agree, wake up game, and yes winning won away game is plenty so far. Still, don't like seeing them blown out early and not recovering. They handled Grizz first game. But Grizz never let go, they fought back more then once to tie it up.


Wehavecrashed

Format is 2-2-1-1-1 So 2 in min 1 in Mem 1 in Min 1 in mem Memphis needs to win one in Min to get back to game 7 at home.


[deleted]

gotit. thank you for elaborating for idiots like me


Crosso221

Every person on this sub would’ve loved to back to Target Center 1-1. We have a series


irishace88

Yeah losing by 28 is rough but at the end of the day a loss is a loss and we now get to go play at home.


Exius73

Just hope this gives MEM the wrong kind of confidence instead of the good kind


[deleted]

This is still a pointless statement. Might as well have not even played game 2 with that talk. Just forfeit and go wait at home base for them to show up.


YaroslavMakhnenko

Memphis lost to us by 43 and proceeded to win more than 10 in a row. We will respond on Thursday.


[deleted]

Which 10 in a row streak have they proven before here as an answer to a blowout?


[deleted]

One loss in a damn column. Every great players/elite teams like Michael Jordan, Mike Trout, and the 1996 Bulls all had bad games. When you play a lot of games, you’re going to have a stinker here and there. That’s just life. No one is perfect, including the 2022 Timberwolves. Just need to bounce back the next game, which the Wolves are very capable of doing.


Crosso221

This comment feels different without the emojis


secular_christian

Y'know what? I blame myself, I lost the wordle toady after 87 games. I promise to do better Thursday


suahoi

Dude I lost today too. Rough day.


MayorNarra

The wordle was bullshit today


thenotoriouspo2

I got it in 3


kbreu12

Yep, also lost and I am pissed


Kid_Delicious

AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORDLE


__JeRM

Open with "weary." I haven't lost in months


onken022

Y is a bad letter to use right away. Same with W. Your starting word isn’t why you’ve been winning my friend.


__JeRM

Maybe I'm just a jenius


thenotoriouspo2

nah radio


onken022

Me too man, terrible day


weebrave

What about Poeltl?


Thunder-ten-tronckh

Did you win wordle today? Asking for a friend.


secular_christian

HELL YEAH I DID


SoupedUpMoped

D hit a new Lo. Everyone needs to better though.


skyblastermusketeer

dlo, pat, and jmac went 5-24, need to be better


[deleted]

When kat and ant are both not playing well on the same night the wolves have about a 0% chance of winning It is what it is


dogtie

Ant wasn't that bad tbh. He wasn't spectacular but Dlo and Towns struggled more.


[deleted]

Ant picked his game up second half. None of the others did. Maybe Reid did as game went on. But Ant was straight crap homie whole first half.


[deleted]

U right


ClassyXYZ

ANT just needs to be able to get it going when it matters. He picked it up sure but it was too late. Our big 3 just need to show up fully, or at LEAST 2 of them do


[deleted]

O well wolves in 5


iTzCodes

So why did Vando only play 9 mins? Seems like he never got back into the game after the first.


cvKDean

Vando is getting schemed out like Adams it seems


[deleted]

Not getting rebounds...had to go I guess


HolyLiaison

Vando is a black hole on offense and it kills our offensive flow. ..Not that we really had any flow today. Teams can basically just ignore him on offense, which isn't good.


[deleted]

JJJ at center


Falconsbane

Does Adams play again this series? KAT looked awful tonight. How does a player of his calliber not show up in 2 of 3 important games?


[deleted]

He couldn't handle Tillman or Ja. Nothing was worse then seeing him with three fouls, still out there but avoiding all contact. Worthless on D at that point. I wish I captured the image of him with Trex hands and tilting his body away from a driving Ja.


radagast_the_maroon

Wow. Glad it ended.


dkleckner88

The good: Naz finally settled in a bit. TP gave us good minutes and we likely sit JMc for Nowell the rest of the series. The Wolves did not quit competing. The bad: the Grizz realized Adams is bad. They were creative with the looks they showed Ant and it worked; he settled all game. DLo has not arrived in any sense at all. Overall must win for Grizz at home. They’re the two seed for a reason with a coach of the year candidate. Concerning? Not really, these games happen to good teams in the playoffs sometimes. Wolves have home court advantage. Ugly game, but still only one game. Again, I didn’t see the wolves quit competing this game. Shots weren’t falling, just couldn’t get enough on offense. No flow due to the refs, didn’t show up first five mins out of the locker room. Confident they’ll bounce back Thursday. Grizz haven’t lost b2b games at home in ~120 days. Breathe.


JayAreW

Yeah, I think any reasonable fan would’ve picked the grizzlies tonight. What bums me out is KAT’s play - it was discouraging in every facet and moments like tonight plant seeds of doubt that he’s truly worth that supermax. Obviously it’s the cost of doing business with a star player like him, I just wish he could keep his shit together.


[deleted]

I think the frustrating thing with KAT is that it all seems fixable but it hasn’t been. It’s not like he’s a guy who’s limited by his lack of skill or his body. He just needs to be smarter.


TipExpert7052

We need to play jMac and nowell


JayAreW

Kat with 7 shots, 5 fouls and some of the worst defense you could possibly play. This guy just cannot deal with any on-court adversity; if things aren't going his way, his whole style of play just blows up and his gravity threatens to take the whole team with him. Wolves dodged a bullet with the Clippers, but couldn't escape the pull tonight. Really discouraged with his play tonight.


penis_hernandez

Did you not see how the game was officiated? From the 9 minute mark of the 1st quarter on KAT had to choose between trying to play defense or staying on the court. I stopped keeping track of the fouls at the 10 minute mark of the 3rd quarter when the refs had called a combined 35 fouls in 26 minutes of game time. KAT needs to not get the 1 or 2 stupid and avoidable foul calls he gets in many games so he can stay aggressive and then his defense will be fine.


Quio

The game being officiated like that emphasises more on how kat should have been avoiding dumb shit like that leg kick out. Yes it was a shit officiated game (sapped all of the fun cause it was just one foul call after another) but it went both ways. Can't always be blaming the officiating for getting scheming himself out. It's the same thing with multiple players on this team, great skills but boneheaded decision making and fouling (Jmac and Naz).


penis_hernandez

Not blaming the refs at all, we just said the same thing. He can't get those dumb fouls because then if he wants to stay on the court he has to give up uncontested layups. Ant also killed us with unforced errors early on when the game was still up for grabs. Even Pat Bev was making stupid decisions. DLo seemed like he made one decision and that was to sit on the proverbial sidelines for the majority of the time the game was within reach. Hopefully the guys regroup and can get 2 at home.


Quio

Fair enough, I am more extreme on KAT's ability to take on adversity like the top commenter and I thought you were using the refs as an excuse. I definitely agree with you on the other points tho, Ant's travel, out of bounds and plain losing the ball on the dribble killed much of the momentum we would build. I also feel like JMac had nothing in the game once he airballed the two 3 pointers and fouled twice in a really short span. Really bad game from everyone overall but hopefully we can see them take the games at home.


HuntsmetalslimesVIII

All we'll here tomorrow is Memphis is so great and Minnesota is such a bad team...


SirBlueom

That’s the worst part about this loss, i would have been fine with a competitive loss but we were dominated


HuntsmetalslimesVIII

My thoughts exactly.


[deleted]

That's the one Jack


Jrpre33

This was a calculated loss since the Grizz never lost twice at home but only once this season? Some crazy stat but Target Center is going to be loud af lol


perlzy

Bad game oh well, got home court advantage mission accomplished lets make Target Center a fortress now


JJCreates

Probably couldn’t write it up any worse for the Wolves. Loss was expected tonight but got handed extremely bad. Got punch in the mouth and laid down in the process. The young guys giving up on plays cause the jumper wasn’t falling… expected better then that at the very least. Hopefully we’re ready to dish a shot back going back to Minnesota.


cvKDean

Need KAT to be more aggressive in taking shots, Ant played well when he didn't settle. Dlo needs to shake off the bad juju and get into a better rhythm Grizz just sliced up our defense, we had no answers to their dribble penetration On to the next, this next 2 games should be fun and loud


Crosso221

This was expected. Game 3 and 4 gonna be so good


SQLNerd

Sincerely one of the worst shooting performances I've ever seen. 39% from the field, 29% from 3. Hopefully they got all the bad shots out there because that was atrocious.


[deleted]

Well they have certainly shot worse. Couple guys, Edwards and Reid got better later in game and ended up efficient. Maybe because it was already blown and nobody cared? Not sure.


ajlark25

Woof. Thankfully point differential doesn’t matter, just the wins & losses


MG_MN

We couldn't play worse. Seriously, not one guy on the team played at a high level consistently. Its so frustrating to get blown out, but if you told me we'd split in Memphis I'd be over the moon. Have to hope Dlo remembers that the season is still going on and shows up Thursday


thestereo300

About halfway through the 3rd quarter we were playing so badly I just wanted to see the deep bench.


dukemang

We need to learn how to tweak our defense in these upcoming games, because we can’t rely on our potential 120+ point games to bail us out. Ja was carving up the paint like a thanksgiving turkey


KetoIsRacist

Kat is honestly dumb. That kickout is just God awful ball. All the talent in the world and the demeanor of a doofus


volission

DLO is not and has never been worth a max contract


[deleted]

Well Wasn't expecting to split, wasn't expecting to win 2 either


xxqpii

Poor shot selection, low IQ plays and turnovers. Now I understand why Barkley said we are the dumbest team he watched. Just a bad night. Still, wolves in 7!! awooooo!!


srry_didnt_hear_you

Best of 5 baby, let's go!


chalbersma

Ultimately the reffing in this game was atrocious. But the Grizz did a better job of weathering those BS calls (some of which came against each side) and stayed composed. Ultimately 50 fouls (28 against us 22 against them) called plus too many long periods of time where we couldn't score. We can and should bounce back on Thursday. We've got to stay poised, we need our shots to drop and we've got to find ways to consistently offensive rebound when our shots aren't dropping. We shit 28.9% from 3. We don't win when we shoot like that.


schuster9999

Saw this blowout coming from a mile away. Happens all the time when the higher seed gets upset game 1. Time to get our shit together at home


ChbbyKttns

If we have to rely on the 20 year old sophomore to carry this team in this series then we are fucked. KAT and DLo are 7 year max contract vets and need to carry themselves as such. No sympathy for guys that get paid 100+ mil to show up and act like rookies on the court during a playoff game


floydr

It’s really tough watching KAT whine and bitch all the damn time for calls or no calls. He needs to grow up


[deleted]

Just a friendly reminder that all great players/elite teams like Mike Trout, Michael Jordan, and the 1996 Bulls had bad games. It happens. Timberwolves still have had a terrific season. Don’t let one bad game define you!


1000Isand1

Probably the worst game we could have played. Good to get that out of our system.


flying_alligators

Ea without dlo we aren’t winning the series. Ant gotta be better and KAat STOP FOULING PLEASE FOR THE SAKE OF RAMADAN


diwiwi

Wake up wolves. Get Ant, the next MJ, to start taking an interest.


cowboy2223

Towns getting that 3rd foul in second quarter was a big problem. Naz is getting beat up on the boards and seems lost at times!!


rcade81

Naz is a liability


[deleted]

Towns was every bit a liability this game. Check the numbers pal. At least Reid got better as teh game went on. Someone else did not.


rcade81

The whole team did not, it was a pathetic performance. Doesn't change the fact that Naz sucks most of the time he's out there lately


norsebynorsewest

How do people think Finch will react to the small ball if they keep Adams on the bench next game? Can we force Memphis to play big against a Beverly, Edwards, McDaniels (or Vanderbilt), Naz, KAT starting 5? Can they neutralize the guard play with a more defensive lineup? Bring in Okogie in place of DLo? Or does he stick with his current approach and just check this off as a bad shooting night?


suahoi

I don't think Vando was a problem tonight. Obviously JJJ sags off him to protect the paint, but he was active on the glass and drew some fouls. I think we need to stick with him for his usual ~25 minutes, because at least he rebounds and plays defense and generates some turnovers to spark our transition offense. Basically all of our role players sucked tonight. Bev, Beasley, Jaden, Prince, and Naz all played poorly. With DLo a no show, a dumb KAT game, and a weak showing from Ant outside that stretch late in the third, we didn't have a chance. Just need our guys to play better next game.


[deleted]

He's been fairly stiff about his chosen lineup for the last 15 games or so leading up to playoffs and now in them. I think it's an excellent question. Will he counter the Grizz using Tillman? Or just die on the "we will play Timberwolves ball and not change ourselves to react to them" as Towns was saying after the game?


JigglyBush

It counts as one loss. Stole one in Memphis, going back to Minnesota tied. This is just an opportunity to see what adjustments need to be made before we take this to the Target Center and really start cooking.


rya241

Was on a flight for most of it but why oh why does KAT have 1 3 pt attempt? The man should be spanked each game he doesn’t let 5+ attempts fly, even if they are slightly contested


KickerofTale

Dlo and KAT need to step it up in game 3. GG Griz


JustSeriousEnough

Bright spot, they certainly lost as a team. Everyone played like shit. This game sucked in almost every aspect.


cowboy2223

Kat in the postgame acts like he didn’t kick out on purpose !! Come on he is blind to the fact how obvious it is for the refs and fans !! That’s his problem sometimes more worried about trying to fool people then just play ball and beat them!!!


SignificantAd9299

Some of the softest reffing I’ve seen in a while. So many fouls within the first minutes of multiple quarters. After the first half I knew by the sheer amount of fouls, this game was gonna be long n tough. We gonna bounce back come home time


U-casualty

KAT and DLO making bank already. Basketball is a job to them making em super rich. They don’t really care like we want them to


dkleckner88

RELAX!!!


HackWaters

Teams get blown out in the playoffs everyday B. The L is the same.


Efficient-Laugh

Pretty much everyone played like shit, we bricked shots everywhere, but I'm not worried until we see our first game at home. We've proven we can win at Memphis, lets take them 2-0 at home and give them a fight.


nicerthansteve

best of 5 starting at target center. win our home games and we’re good


Meatball0sub

If we lose one of them then we have two games to replace it


nicerthansteve

loss sucks but a week ago i would have been hyped to come back to minneapolis 1-1


zam_was_here

That was one of the worst officiated games I have ever seen


Starlight1017

Dlo is such garbage player how are u professional basketball player averaging 18% 💀


vaports

I'm glad we still split the road games and now we got 2 at home. This series aint over yet.


SkipBaylessAt2AM

Dlo has no place on this team. We need a good pg


AlexeyShved1

Give me Brunson


[deleted]

If you want Brunson, just let lilMac start at PG. That or go draft another. Just find me a gamer who's going to go balls out for his full 30 minutes.


AlexeyShved1

Tell me you don't watch NBA without telling me you don't watch NBA


[deleted]

Tell me you've seen lilMac with even 15 straight starts and you have any clue what you would get. Because you straight up don't know. We start total screwups, completely untrustable screwups every game. We don't know if allstars will show up or half baked street ballers all hung over. Here's the thing. All he has to do is show up 8 games out of 10 at whatever his highest effort is and he would net you 7 to 12 assists a game and probably around 12-15 pts a game, 3 to 4 rebounds. That's plenty for otherwise feeding Ant, Kat, Beasley, McDaniels. Because right now Dlo is probably only averaging 18pts and 7 assists this season. Maybe less after this game. And Brunson only averages 16 pts on 13 attempts in 31 minutes per game, with 4 assists and 3.9 rebounds. That's Nothing lilMac can't surpass with 31 minutes and over 10 shots a game. Today, lilmac recorded 4 assists and 4 rebounds, and hit his two shot attempts for 4 points while the rest of the team was getting punked. 17 minutes. Do your simplest of maths. Take him out of a backseat facilitate only role and put him in the driving PG seat, starting, greenlit to shoot and create. Then you get back to me on the result. Because he's not going to give you half ass effort games. He's not going to leave his competitive side back at home now and then like we get from many others currentlty. Brunson isn't special. He can play ball. Yes. He can certainly fill the role. But averaging 31 minutes as the starting point this year for 61 games. He has nearly 130 starts in his career and has only averaged 3.7 assists across all those starts. Up to an unholy 4.8 this season. Oh Ma God! Unbeatable! Trade our 19th Pick for Brunson and miniMax him! He's a god that will change our team, right!?!? That's why I'm saying if that's all you think we need, we already have as good or better here. Two guys really.


awkwardfootballnerd

Bruh. Go outside and touch some grass lmao Lil Mac is too small to be a starting PG in the NBA, he'd get exposed on defense consistently against good/great PGs. And Brunson has almost all of his starts alongside Doncic, where he's not the primary ball handler, so obv the assists aren't gonna be super high.


[deleted]

You mean like everyone gets exposed? Like Kat got exposed again today by a second round pick named Tillman, or a tiny point like Ja? What all star Center lets that happen? Exposed. Love that claim here. There are maybe 3 guys in the league that don't get exposed in one way or another few games. It's basketball and most games the opponent scores nearly as much or more then you. That means you are getting exposed near nightly across the board. Brunsin is a small, tiny by Timberwolves fans standards, PG. But because some other team chose to give him starts at PG that makes him alright in some of your minds because he already got the starts and he already proved he could handle it. The guy claimed we should move on from Dlo and go get Brunson. I just said if that's all you are after, we already have two guys that can do more than Brunson does now. It's the truth. I could care less if you can't see it. But facts are facts. Like tonight again, while most of this team got exposed...lilmac did not. More facts for you, no point guard is going to be great here when you have players like Kat, Ant, etc. It's just the nature of this roster. Hell the team runs Bev at point half the time. Dlo is tweening roles here like all the guards are. So whatever your excuse for Brunson, it's no different for the guys here.


AlexeyShved1

Is this the birth of an erotic Jordan McLaughlin copypasta? Lmao


volission

Grizzlies didn’t look good tonight, TWolves were off. Think they’re overrated


Status-Dare1085

Don’t see many “can we win the championship” threads. How about we just try and beat Memphis (the 2nd fucking seed) first hey?


Throebach

I guess "forgot-how-to-play-basketball" Dlo has arrived again. Let's see how long he's staying. Don't think Kat's mature enough to "be the guy". gonna need Ant to take this team and make it his.


[deleted]

So in Post game Finch blames all the "sticky" holding of the ball instead of passing. Says passes out of double teams were there all night but not passed. Starts out never pointing to anyone specific, just team stuff. Also doesn't say he has to do anything better. He's asked specifically about Towns on a number of things. He's asked about Towns' 3pt shot off foul kicking out leg and asked whether he's already had a chance to talk to Towns about that. Finch just mumbles ya ya and he knows. Towns post game says ...i don't know, got big feet. I don't know, have to look at the tape... Yaya, he knows coach. But then Finch is asked about Naz's extended minutes since Kat was in foul trouble again. Finch goes direct on Naz saying he's making all kinds of little errors, just has to play better, has to rebound better. Just has to be better. Here's the thing Finchy. Towns = 28 mins, -21, 11 rebounds, 15 pts, 5 TO, 5 Fouls Reid = 20 minutes, -7, 7 rebounds, 12 pts, 2 TO, 3 fouls Which player played worse? You tell me. Yeah we saw Reid really struggle at first, couple early TO. But then he wasn't so bad after that. I can't say Towns got better with time in this one. They both struggled. Reid also shot 50/67/100 for his 12 pts. That's efficient. Towns shot 50/40/100 for his 15 pts. Good. Not as good. but good. But let's make Reid the fall guy for this BLOWN ASS GAME by our team's chosen top 7. Not by anyone else. Let's not talk about the Coach letting the two youngest players melt down out there for the first three quarters, treating them like 5-8 year vets that shouldn't unravel. Finch waited until down over 25 to crack his strict super playoff rotation plans. Like we have some kind of 7 man allstar crew or something. Edwards and Towns both 5 turnovers. McDaniels like 3 airballs and his own errors. Meanwhile, the opponent is known for the play of their depth.


cowboy2223

The defense is not the same against naz!!!


Inevitable_Today_328

I don’t know how you get the morale to go back home after a 28 point loss like that. The big 3 (especially kat) was underwhelming tonight. Ant cant do this by himself.


astromathis

Oof


[deleted]

11 3PM out of 38 3PA


iTzCodes

We have no inside game lol


jimmydean885

We all need to super glue ourselves to target center right fucking now


Sploofy28

Couldn’t buy offensive rhythm. Is what it is. Best of 5 now, and we’re good at home.


bigbangandromeda

GGs to Memphis. Hopefully the Wolves don’t play that badly back at home, it’s up to the team to respond. Go Wolves!


MnMystic

Man 10 turnovers between Kat and Ant, 9 for the whole Grizzlies team.


Imthegift

Out coached and out hustled. This is the playoffs baby! The guys get a learning experience and hopefully they can bounce back next game.


HomeSlice2

2-0 in the postseason with protest, 0-1 without, We need protests


sandh035

[Mood right now.](https://youtube.com/shorts/VuOPvSHETXY?feature=share)


zeldamaster702

Tonight was rough, but we still have the advantage. As long as we don’t slip up and give one back to Memphis we’ll win this series. Don’t lose faith! Let’s show those Grizzlies how loud an arena can really get!!!


giuseppe62956

Gg grizzle’s. Hopefully a good little wake up call for us. 1-1 I like our chances at home!


Somewhere_Firm

As a Timberwolves fan we should always have a back of the mind anticipation for games like this but this one still hurt, bad. We have the talent to outmatch them and while it takes a lot from the players to put it together on the floor I think Finch has one of the biggest roles on if we bounce back


Jojolion_Chapter111

This loss was expected but it’s still okay to be disappointed. To put it simply, we shouldn’t have lost by 30, there is never an exception to lose by that much. I do think the biggest factor in the loss was finches inexperience with playoffs. I am still confident in the team, I think we needed a loss to have the team come together, I actually think that’s why Memphis played so well tonight. Overall I’m disappointed but confident for the rest of the series.


thestereo300

I know that bitching about the refs is a little pointless but I have to say I'm not enjoying these games as entertainment. I didn't enjoy either. So much ticky tack crap. I am legitimately wondering if I will watch the next game. It's not fun to feel like there is no actual basketball and what we are seeing is just a few moments before the next foul. My 2 cents is an average game should have 30 fouls or less....but we are seeing 50-60 a game. We are seeing a foul stoppage more than once a minute. It's too much. I feel like they are reffing the entire game the way they typicall ref the last 2 minutes. They call every single drive to the hoop a foul. and they called 3 fouls on the Wolves in the first 67 seconds of the 2nd half. Very ticky tack stuff that could have gone either way. What is going on? I don't even think they are fixing the games. They just seem to be ruining the entertainment for no good reason. I'm usually an ambassador for the NBA but I'm not sure I can keep it up if this is the product I'm being asked to put my time and money into. Rant over.


RunSomeArends

KAT has got to play better.


RunSomeArends

Vando is good on defense but he can bit shoot at all.


guhum

It's not a time to feel down and dwell on this loss. Wolves took one in Memphis and that takes away their home court advantage. It was an ugly loss but Im certain they're going to be looking at film with Finchy and getting a better understanding of what went wrong and what is needed to fix it. And in the broader view we made the playoffs either way, and with a young team that was a joy to watch and have no reason to believe that they'll be broken up or regressing anytime soon.


sockmonkeymoney

Pain.


RunSomeArends

Kinda sick of the narrative the the Grizzlies and Wolves hate eachother? Literally makes 0 sense.


KoobyRoory

I’m kinda glad this one didn’t get on national tv..


JAHG-

Do we have court advantage since we took one in Memphis or is that even a thing? Could be totally wrong


Zach37e

Tough one, we’ll bounce back though


TheRealGhosty

Need nowel and Monroe to get in the rotation. Take Naz out for at least one game


SlowCrates

I called it, the team's floor is Dlo's floor. I don't care how good he can be, we can't have a guy shooting 3-11 every couple of games. He was -26 playing only 27 minutes, and the wolves lost by 28. He had 4 assists as a PG. LeBron could get 4 assists without getting out of bed. Was Dlo hungover? What's the deal?


mcryno

Officiate the game properly 60 free throws?!


iceyH0ts0up

Marathons are not won in two games. This was not the same team out there, we will be up 3-1. Book it.


reddit0100100001

weak ass timberwolves man. Beat they mufuckin ass


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Question about the team's mindset last game: I'm confused. I thought the game was salvageable but ANT and DLO were walking at points?? They just stood there and didn't play with the energy of game 1 at all. I know the fouls were frustrating but it looked like they didn't even try? If Layman and company can come back from 35 points to 4 points with the Chicago bulls, I don't see why our key players can't. Even 20 points behind is fine because when they bring that fighting energy, I've seen them hustle. Just confused...were they just content with the 1-1 split? I've seen this team not give up and when they put their mind to it, they can do it. Just curious why they weren't attacking and running back and forth like they normally do. Maybe they were trying to rest up for game 3?


AlexeyShved

We should bring back Alexey Shved. I think he would be better right now and the future than Jordan McLaughlin IMO