Timberwolves Avoid Elimination, Win Game 4 vs. Mavs | Inside the NBA

Timberwolves Avoid Elimination, Win Game 4 vs. Mavs | Inside the NBA

this series is not over the Minnesota timber worlds come to Dallas and looking three nothing Square in the eyes they win game four 105 to 100 Frank roazzi you’re correct Chuck realizing he has to get another suit for game five yes I do ja you got some we about the same side you got uh JC Penny which I own we got Shaq big and tall so okay I’m sure it’ll fit your big ass and we’ve got Inside the NBA presented by KIA Ernie Johnson Shaquille O’Neal fremond green Kenny The Jet Smith you going Charles Barkley no no he he he might come back this was his this was uh the four games real team player D come on I got to do something with my son though okay you can do it in Minnesota no he can’t in London so 10500 is your final score in the uh in the Timberwolves Dodge elimination and what we thought we uh had not seen for three games we saw in game four we saw Carl Anthony towns and we saw Anthony Edwards answer the bell in this one setting up a game five and that will be back in Minnesota on Thursday night and uh so you’ve been waiting waiting for him to to come through and boy they did tonight yeah cat started off slow but uh he responded nicely listen as a big man you can’t be mad at nine for 13 four or five from the three uh he had a couple of silly fouls but he hit some timely shots threes threes I didn’t want him to take but like Chuck always says they look good when they go in but he played well you know when both of those guys play well together they’re tough to beat you know the previous games know only uh Ant-Man was playing well but you know tonight ant a C play well and now we got to go back to cold ass Minnesota it’s not exactly as cold as Chuck made it out to be but a a 20 point second half for Carl Anthony towns he finished with 25 Anthony Edwards goes 2910 and N well I think the key was and I think coach Van gundi said it his first seven shots were in the paint when you can’t make a shot Reggie talks about it all the time you know Kenny was the shoo like sometimes you just need a couple layups to get yourself going his first seven shots before he shot a three cuz when you make a couple shots Ernie it really opens up the rim for you you know I don’t know if it’s too little too late I thought he should have been doing this obviously in game one but you know what hey he they they bought it tonight they did not get swept which is always humiliating give cat a lot of credit and uh like I say man just go to the basket sometime it’ll open up your three-point shooting you’re four for 32 so you’re not making them but like I said coach Van Gund said it he went to the basket his first seven times were in the paint and then it just opened up three-point shooting they they didn’t get swept he hit those but I love Anthony after the game too when Alli says we he says oh you know we ain’t did nothing yet right and I love that response those uh those two three-pointers by cat with about five minutes to go just huge in this game they’re down 90 to 89 bang bang he hits two in a row I thought they were huge and he did a good job of sticking with it uh the way just the series has not gone his way and he had an awful first half foul trouble no rhythm and he he stuck with it in the second half but I got to give credit to Kyle Anderson and you’ll look at this the stat sheet and it won’t show up in the stat sheet but he was huge Antman got in foul trouble and which I thought the whole game I’ve said it all series Kyle Anderson should be on Luca dones he took on that challenge Luca didn’t have one of his best nights and it allow Atman to stay aggressive on the offensive end because he didn’t lose his legs on the defensive end yeah donic six for six Kyle Kyrie Irving 3 for 11 on the night and so now we’re going hey what the delusions of grandor okay you’re down three to one now going home who knows what happens in game but see that’s why you could have a delusion because you’re always in the back of your mind you go well if we go win this we going home like if you’re in game four and you’re in a sweep you’re losing it you’re not going home you’re going on the road that’s a tough mindset so the delusion is is real uh Minnesota found a rhythm and they finished the game early for the Ernie for the first time they actually finished the game got the ball in the right places and they did not give a game away by not following any assignments uh I also thought that Dallas honestly were trying to hit home runs where all the time they were getting doubles doubles were bringing in the runs so to speak they were trying to hit home runs and trying to knock them out from the beginning from the beginning I I I think they were a little UNC characteristic in the way they were playing offensively the ball stuck with Luca the ball stuck with Kyrie at times Kyrie proba actually pitched the ball more than Luca but it’s stuck more in Luca’s hand than he typically had been doing in this series Minnesota shoots 53% in this game they Dodge elimination Dallas still up three games to one in the series here’s Luca um I think that game is on me uh just didn’t give enough energy uh kind of uh so we got to do better they won one game we just got to focus on the next one always got to believe I believed in the end uh so uh it was close at the end but we couldn’t uh so they won the game like I said we just got to focus on the next one energy energy what uh yeah I mean he’s a big piece to our our defense and offense so we miss him a lot so there would be no fourth quarter Domination by the Dallas Mavericks in this game that’s been the difference in this uh in this series so far has been the way they closed but tonight it was Minnesota that got that done and this from a Minnesota team that allowed 30 points off turnovers Dallas got 30 points off turnovers in their gym and still could not win this game I thought that was big uh you never win a game if you give up 30 points off turnovers to do that on a row was incredible but it was their defense their their their defense had Kyrie bottled up all night Kyrie didn’t get good looks he didn’t where he had been starting off I and I talked about him getting mid-range shots and getting a rhythm Luca was getting mid-range shots and getting the r they took all those shots away so they never able to get a rhythm and their defense picked up and you know they was able to pull the game out yeah but also listen and Shaq talks about it Carl Town played ball tonight we can talk about this and this and this Dallas had to lead going the Carlin Town we’ve been waiting on him checkman saying that you know your stars have to play like stars he’s been awful in the series plain and simple he saved the Timberwolf season tonight so just give him his flowers he deserves it you know we criticize he doesn’t play well we got to give him his flowers cuz question he won that game for them tonight and it their team yeah yeah yes yeah he he had a big game but also as you guys always say is your best players have to play great and with Luca and Kyrie going 13 for 39 combined that’s not going to get it done you have to make shots when you’re open or when you take them and at certain times I felt that they got most of the same type of shots but they were quicker in the offense and I was much quicker and I was impressed with Minnesota from the beginning they fought they scrapped you know they weren’t complaining they was out there filing hold holding they did whatever it take to get a win and now they’re going back home where anything is possible earning they’re they got to quit being stupid though yeah they’re one two out there just dumb 54 to 44 uh cat and ant outscore Kyrie Irving and Luka donic in this one and where there will be a game five it is a 3-1 Series right now um and to your point yeah I mean had fouled out in this game going to be that old little Henry Henry little Henry there home how did you fall for this it’s snowing in Minnesota thing somebody sent me a picture you know picture or a text no they sent me a a text that’s okay hey it is it was did they go to Auburn too it was Cottonwood it was Cottonwood education looks like snow

Inside the NBA crew reacts to the Timberwolves winning Game 4 to avoid the sweep against the Mavericks in the Western Conference Finals.

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