On today’s episode, Ryan Eichten and Leo Sun go over Leo’s experience at the Intuit Dome and the Minnesota Timberwolves’ 117-108 win over the Denver Nuggets.
— Anthony Edwards only scored 21 points on 9-19 shooting, but made the correct pass down the stretch of the game when the Nuggets guarded him with two players the moment he crossed halfcourt.
— The Timberwolves opted to guard Nikola Jokić straight up with Rudy Gobert, and despite the three-time MVP scoring 35 points, it took him 26 shots, and he turned it over five times. Overall, Gobert and McDaniels did well slowing down the two-man game of Jokić and Jamal Murray.
— For the first time this season, the Wolves bench felt like a weapon in the game as Naz Reid, Ayo Dosunmu, and Bones Hyland combined for 38 points, 10 rebounds, and 8 assists. All three players provided quality minutes as the Wolves dominated the minutes when Jokić was on the bench for Denver.
— Kyle Anderson is re-joining the Timberwolves after being bought out by the Memphis Grizzlies. Slo-Mo will provide even more depth for a team that just a month or so ago was desperately searching for even a seventh quality player to come off the bench.
— Donte DiVicenzo has been playing great basketball. On the Wolves’ three-game road trip where they went 3-0, DiVincenzo averaged 18 points, 4.3 assists, and 2 steals per game. In the game against Denver, Donte had a highlight where he saved a ball from going out of bounds and then single-handedly stopped a three-on-one fastbreak with a block.
— The Wolves now sit as the fourth seed in the Western Conference, just a few percentage points behind the current three-seed Houston Rockets. Despite the up-and-down season for the Wolves, they still have the chance of accomplishing their regular-season goal of finishing with a top-three seed.
