#Minnesota Timberwolves at New Orleans Pelicans
Smoothie King Center- New Orleans, LA
[ESPN](https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401468879)
[TV/Radio](https://reddit.com/r/timberwolves/comments/10ldwn4/game_thread_minnesota_timberwolves_2425_at_new/j5w6r1z/)
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|Time Clock|
|:–:|
|Final|
||Q1|Q2|Q3|Q4|Total|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|MIN |26|20|39|26|111|
|NOP |34|18|21|29|102|
###Player Stats
**Minnesota Timberwolves**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|J. McDaniels|34:01|10|4-7|2-4|0-0|0|0|0|2|1|0|0|6|4
|K. Anderson|33:27|10|3-6|0-0|4-4|1|2|3|7|2|2|4|2|16
|R. Gobert|34:30|17|7-12|0-0|3-5|2|10|12|3|1|1|0|2|13
|A. Edwards|37:18|37|12-25|4-10|9-10|0|6|6|5|0|0|4|1|13
|D. Russell|38:49|19|8-17|3-8|0-1|0|3|3|5|2|0|0|2|12
|A. Rivers|23:54|2|1-6|0-4|0-0|0|3|3|0|0|0|0|0|-2
|N. Reid|13:30|6|1-1|1-1|3-4|1|6|7|0|2|2|1|2|-4
|J. Nowell|12:57|5|2-5|0-0|1-4|0|2|2|0|0|0|0|0|-7
|N. Knight|2:33|2|1-1|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|2|-4
|M. Ryan|9:00|3|1-2|1-2|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|4
**New Orleans Pelicans**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|T. Murphy III|20:30|6|2-5|0-3|2-2|0|0|0|1|0|2|0|1|-9
|B. Ingram|25:39|13|4-18|0-6|5-5|1|4|5|5|1|0|4|2|-19
|J. Valanciunas|28:41|15|7-9|1-2|0-0|2|10|12|0|0|1|2|4|-13
|H. Jones|26:05|4|2-9|0-5|0-0|4|1|5|1|0|0|1|3|-19
|C. McCollum|34:22|25|9-17|5-9|2-4|1|4|5|8|1|2|0|1|-16
|N. Marshall|26:47|5|1-6|0-2|3-4|0|4|4|4|1|1|3|0|-3
|D. Graham|16:01|12|4-4|4-4|0-0|0|1|1|2|1|0|0|1|9
|L. Nance Jr.|22:06|7|2-3|1-2|2-2|0|3|3|0|0|0|0|1|6
|W. Hernangomez|15:26|8|3-5|0-1|2-4|0|3|3|1|0|1|2|4|7
|J. Alvarado|24:22|7|3-9|1-4|0-0|0|4|4|3|0|0|2|4|12
###Team Stats
|Team|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|AST|PF|STL|TO|BLK|OREB|DREB|REB|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|MIN|40-82|11-29|20-28|23|18|8|9|5|4|32|46|
|NOP|37-85|12-38|16-21|25|21|4|14|7|8|34|57|
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Big time game from Rudy tonight. He was dominant in all aspects of the game.
All-Star Ant continues to make his case.
Back to .500!
2022 Play-in Champs
January 2023 3rd Quarter Champs
3rd quarter Wolves apology form:
**Reason for behavior**
* I didn’t know your game ✅
* The media convinced me you were bad ✅
* I only looked at advanced analytics ✅
* I watched all Wolves games this season ✅
* Mercury was in Retrograde ✅
Jmac clutch when everybody else was clenched
Back to .500 off a tough fight! Hell yeah Wolves
Get my man ant to the all star game
Jaden McDaniels quiet on offense all night then saves the day. Also really happy with the play of Rudy in that second half holding things down.
Ingram in his first game after injury: 4/18 from the floor, 4 turnovers.
It ain’t sweet, indeed!
If you don’t like that, you don’t like Timberwolves basketball. That being said, that 4th quarter had me on edge.
Always so stressful
Gobert really played great
I am a HUGE fan of D’Lo in a Jordan Clarkson role
ANT is an all star man what a sight to see
Credit to Finch. He made some great adjustments at half time and was very smart in when he used his TOs
Big game by Rudy and got a road dub. Wolves will be OK.
Uh oh, .500 again. 12th time will be the charm to break above it. Surely.
You choose your first game back to be against Jaden McDaniels? I guess he likes a challenge.
[Jaden McDaniels hitting the biggest shot of the game and reacting like he has to spend all Friday at the DMV is just perfect.](https://twitter.com/KyleTheige/status/1618450798362656769)
Jaden is a fucking killer
It ain’t sweet imma right
Coming back against the Wolves ain’t sweet
Rudy 3 assists
*Twists invisible moustache*
u/wolvesplug your dream lives
The iso ball almost killed the game but I’m glad they figure it out in the last few possessions. That has killed us in the past
Rudy’s best game as a Wolf. Defensively, he was a monster and offensively his screens were really good and got ANT alot of open looks. Gives me hope that he can eventually be a positive on both ends of the floor or at least neutral on offense like he was with the Jazz.
Finch worked a perfect DLo/Ant rotation stagger
Edwards last three games are just pure stardom. He’s really turning into an offensive power house scoring from every which way and his play making is coming alive.
The first game against solid opponent where things actually seemed to mesh.
Kyle was passing well to Gobert.
Gobert was getting good screens for both Ant and DLo.
Jaden doing his elite role-player thing.
Obviously, Rudy’s defensive presence was valuable, as opponents find themselves double-guessing whether going to the paint is a good option.
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The only real problem to me is scoring off the bench, plenty of opportunities are being created when Finch staggers DLo with the bench unit, but they fail to capitalize on it. We need to trade Naz and Nowell for the best bench player we could possibly find. Getting Mann or Bones would make it a very sexy line-up for our bench.
I really want Gobert-Anderson Oop fest. Gobert-Jingles connection vibes
Ninth times a charm? Friday will be the Wolves ninth attempt to go above .500 since Thanksgiving.