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Post Game Thread: The Oklahoma City Thunder defeat The Minnesota Timberwolves 102-97



#Oklahoma City Thunder at Minnesota Timberwolves

Target Center- Minneapolis, MN

[ESPN](https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401585227/thunder-timberwolves)

[TV/Radio](https://reddit.com/r/timberwolves/comments/19bpsve/game_thread_oklahoma_city_thunder_2813_at/kitbjzt/)

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|Time Clock|
|:–:|
|Final|

||Q1|Q2|Q3|Q4|Total|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|OKC |30|27|17|28|102|
|MIN |24|30|29|14|97|

###Player Stats

**Oklahoma City Thunder**

|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|L. Dort|33:16|14|5-12|3-7|1-2|2|3|5|1|2|0|1|4|11
|J. Williams|35:34|20|6-18|0-2|8-10|3|2|5|3|3|0|0|4|17
|C. Holmgren|33:05|15|4-8|1-2|6-6|1|4|5|2|1|2|0|4|8
|J. Giddey|24:51|5|2-8|0-4|1-2|1|7|8|4|1|0|1|0|1
|S. Gilgeous-Alexander|37:10|33|10-22|1-2|12-13|1|1|2|6|2|0|2|0|14
|C. Wallace|12:32|0|0-1|0-0|0-0|1|2|3|0|1|0|1|2|-15
|I. Joe|22:09|5|1-3|1-2|2-2|0|5|5|5|1|0|0|4|12
|J. Williams|11:38|5|2-3|1-2|0-0|0|1|1|0|0|2|1|1|2
|A. Wiggins|12:26|5|2-2|1-1|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|-14
|V. Micic|7:38|0|0-2|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|-10
|K. Williams|9:38|0|0-2|0-2|0-0|0|3|3|0|1|0|1|1|-1

**Minnesota Timberwolves**

|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|J. McDaniels|27:24|15|6-11|3-5|0-1|1|1|2|0|0|0|2|4|-12
|K. Towns|35:46|19|4-10|1-4|10-10|1|10|11|2|0|1|3|6|-19
|R. Gobert|33:21|7|1-6|0-0|5-8|4|14|18|2|0|0|2|4|-4
|A. Edwards|38:00|19|6-10|1-3|6-10|0|5|5|5|0|0|5|2|-13
|M. Conley|28:33|3|1-11|1-9|0-0|0|3|3|4|0|1|3|3|-22
|K. Anderson|19:15|5|2-4|1-3|0-0|1|0|1|4|1|0|0|2|13
|N. Reid|25:50|18|7-13|4-8|0-0|0|3|3|0|0|4|4|3|17
|N. Alexander-Walker|19:10|3|1-3|1-2|0-0|0|5|5|2|1|1|2|1|8
|J. McLaughlin|12:39|8|3-7|2-3|0-0|2|0|2|3|2|0|0|1|7
###Team Stats

|Team|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|AST|PF|STL|TO|BLK|OREB|DREB|REB|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|OKC|32-81|8-24|30-35|21|20|12|8|4|9|28|45|
|MIN|31-75|14-37|21-29|22|26|4|21|7|9|41|61|

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28 Comments

  1. Not going to win only making three FGs and having seven turnovers in last quarter

  2. Therealrickyrubio

    I cannot believe he missed those free throws man that sucks.
    We really just turned into mush in crunch time. It felt like one of the meltdowns against Memphis in the playoffs a few years ago.

    Can’t start the game like we did either. Takes so much energy to make a big run like we did just to have to tie it up.

    Also, same old story with the shit turnovers killing us all game though.

  3. irishace88

    21 turnovers is absolutely pathetic. We really need to let our PGs run the show a hell of a lot more. Having Conley and Jmac play off ball 80% of the time just doesn’t make sense.

    At least the bench mob plays team basketball. Watching iso Ant when he’s guarded by someone like Dort and everyone else watches is just awful basketball.

    Just one game game but watching us beat ourselves in most of our losses is just tough.

    Those 4 points that went against us from the Naz “goaltend” and Euro “travel” kinda hurt

  4. Terrible loss. You can’t turn the ball over that many times and expect to beat a good team

  5. I blame Kyle Anderson, probably didn’t say anything to Ant at halftime

  6. pollinium

    Very winnable game despite the bullshit and our poor play. It’d be a tough series, but not too scared of this team in the playoffs if we can keep homecourt. I liked that we imposed our style on them insetad of the other way around.

  7. Hopefully that was a humbling moment for Ant and turns out to be a blessing in disguise

  8. Potential-Ad-7792

    First game where Conley contributed more to losing than winning unfortunately

  9. Pretty awful game but almost won anyway? Is that my takeaway? Or am I pissed at the ineptitude?

  10. pm_me_ur_tigols

    Turnovers turnovers turnovers. Ant is handling the ball way too much for as careless as he is

  11. PlayInChampions

    No defense can overcome 3 made buckets in 4th quarter.

    Also, last week 72% free throw shooter made 13/13 against us. Today 84% shooter went 6/10 for us. And 46% 3pt shooter went 1/9 on wide open 3s. Losses against Boston and OKC were just a crazy bad luck.

  12. This mid 4th quarter turnover fest is like clockwork at this point and it’s getting old. Ant is disappointing in the clutch when trying to run the offense

  13. FlyingScissor

    Mike being cold, Ant choking, and refs giving Thunder a 4 point cushion. Having said all that Wolves defense is real and they are still good.

  14. powderedtoastman15

    I really wanted to win this one. Ugly ending

  15. soft-cookie

    No one in the starting lineup played particularly well, we turned it over a stupid amount of times, and still only lost by 5.

    Playoffs don’t start tomorrow, that was a great game. OKC’s legit

  16. ItzSeeSaw

    SGA with 33 points with only 10 made shots is completely fucked too

  17. Unfrozen__Caveman

    Jim Pete summed it up perfectly. Officiating was bad. Wolves were bad. OKC played well. 

    The Naz hate by the refs tonight was really weird but we still should’ve won. Oh well though… on to the next.

  18. raven_miyagi666

    that was a really really REALLY dumb way to throw away a game in the 4th BUT
    1) we lost by a super small margin to the 2nd beat team in the west.
    2) we’re still nr 1 (i think?? lmao)
    3) we’ve been through worse shit than this let’s go onto the next one

  19. Disappointing game but hopefully everyone learns something here. 

    I’m still baffled Naz was out for a long stretch when we can’t buy a bucket. 

    But I guess Finch trusts his players, and we live or die by it. 

  20. BLarson31

    This team really needs to learn how to take care of the ball. I don’t care how many games we win in the regular season, we’ll get bounced in the playoffs easy if we keep this up.

  21. Falconsbane

    Too many turnovers and it’s nothing new. Just take care of the ball better…

  22. Global-Direction-657

    Turnovers obviously still a huge problem with this team. Conley went 1-11. Ant needs more than 10 shots. KAT honestly needs more shots. I understand KAT was -19 but OKC had no one to gaurd him. They were forced to double or foul him. Just saying the last time KAT had 10 free throws in a game was 2 months ago vs Jazz. It doesn’t happen often. And after all that we had a chance to still tie it. Then Ant missed all 3 free throws. 🙃 This game is going to be a hard pill to swallow for everyone. Can’t dwell on these things though. Keep our heads up and move on. We have one more game vs OKC, let’s hope we take care of business next time.

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