#Minnesota Timberwolves at Denver Nuggets
Ball Arena- Denver, CO
[ESPN](https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401585792/timberwolves-nuggets)
[TV/Radio](https://reddit.com/r/timberwolves/comments/1c11zva/game_thread_minnesota_timberwolves_5524_at_denver/kz0cerp/)
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|Time Clock|
|:–:|
|Final|
||Q1|Q2|Q3|Q4|Total|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|MIN |28|24|28|27|107|
|DEN |26|23|34|33|116|
###Player Stats
**Minnesota Timberwolves**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|J. McDaniels|33:30|9|4-8|1-4|0-0|0|2|2|3|1|0|0|2|-17
|N. Reid|30:21|13|6-19|0-4|1-5|1|5|6|2|2|1|0|4|3
|R. Gobert|38:46|13|6-7|0-0|1-3|5|10|15|3|2|1|2|5|-17
|A. Edwards|34:52|25|9-18|2-6|5-7|0|2|2|4|0|0|1|1|-16
|M. Conley|30:14|19|7-12|5-9|0-0|1|3|4|2|1|0|3|0|-10
|K. Anderson|15:13|4|1-5|0-1|2-2|0|1|1|2|0|2|0|4|-11
|M. Morris|14:46|6|2-4|2-2|0-0|0|1|1|1|0|1|0|1|-4
|N. Alexander-Walker|18:14|5|2-4|1-1|0-0|1|0|1|2|1|0|2|1|-8
|J. McLaughlin|10:24|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|1|1|0|0|0|0
|W. Moore Jr.|2:44|0|0-1|0-1|0-0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|7
|J. Minott|2:44|5|2-2|1-1|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|7
|D. Nix|2:44|5|1-1|1-1|2-2|1|0|1|1|0|0|1|1|7
|L. Miller|2:44|3|1-1|0-0|1-2|0|2|2|1|0|0|0|1|7
|L. Garza|2:44|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|1|7
**Denver Nuggets**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|M. Porter Jr.|37:22|18|7-14|2-4|2-2|3|5|8|2|0|0|1|2|7
|A. Gordon|27:58|5|2-7|0-2|1-2|1|4|5|9|1|0|2|0|9
|N. Jokic|38:25|41|16-20|2-2|7-12|2|9|11|7|3|0|2|5|6
|K. Caldwell-Pope|26:18|9|4-9|1-5|0-0|1|2|3|1|0|1|0|4|-2
|J. Murray|27:23|20|8-13|4-6|0-0|2|2|4|6|0|0|4|1|7
|C. Braun|27:16|8|4-7|0-1|0-1|1|4|5|1|1|1|1|1|9
|R. Jackson|20:19|9|3-9|1-3|2-2|0|2|2|1|0|0|3|4|3
|P. Watson|23:01|3|1-2|0-0|1-2|1|3|4|4|0|6|0|2|4
|J. Holiday|8:17|3|1-1|1-1|0-0|0|1|1|0|1|0|0|1|9
|Z. Nnaji|1:40|0|0-1|0-1|0-0|0|1|1|0|0|0|0|0|-3
|J. Strawther|:33|0|0-0|0-0|0-2|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|-1
|H. Tyson|:33|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|-1
|J. Huff|:33|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|-1
|J. Pickett|:17|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|-1
###Team Stats
|Team|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|AST|PF|STL|TO|BLK|OREB|DREB|REB|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|MIN|41-82|13-30|12-21|23|21|9|9|5|9|26|43|
|DEN|46-83|11-25|13-23|31|21|7|13|8|11|33|54|
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Relax fellas. We lost a tough game to the MVP on a back-to-back on the road. Ant definitely didn’t have a full tank after his carry job last night.
Good news is we get to add an All-Star to this team very soon! Let’s lock up that 2 seed now!
I dont usually watch basketball but that was a fun game
Another Ryan Saunders revenge game
Jmac can’t play meaningful minutes in the playoffs. He’s a liability on defense I don’t care what he does on offense
Give me the nuggets in the WCF with healthy KAT pls
All that showed me is that we need KAT and that this would be a fun, incredibly toxic series.
All in all, we played the Nuggets well in the regular season. Blew them out twice, and they got us twice. Ready for that playoff matchup with KAT back.
Tough road back to back against the defending champs. We looked gassed in the second half. Ant disappeared, we couldn’t hit FTs, nobody could make shots- these games happen
I dont like the nuggets and I’m tired of pretending I do
Christian Braun might be the most punchable player in the history of the NBA
(Also yes I am 100% jealous of his dunking ability)
Scoring 7 points over a 7 minute stretch between the 3-4Q is what lost this game. This team will go as far as their offense can take them, and the habits they returned to tonight will not take them very far no matter how good the defense remains.
Suns or Pelicans is almost inevitable at this point
It’s good to get punched in the mouth. People are way too dramatic when we’ve beaten this team twice this season already. We’ve shown we can compete with this team consistently, they’re literally the champs sometimes you’re gonna get overpowered.
It is what it is, if we play them again this season that means it’s a great problem to have because we’re in the conference finals
That was a shitty fourth quarter
The chick fil a run is over. I’m devastated.
The most disappointment in this game was Naz.. The freshest dude, but failed the team.
I’m sorry I didn’t build a Gundam today. 😕
Jokic hanged his nuts all over our team, move on to the next. We’ll meet them in the WCF with a healthy KAT
In reality, 1-3 seed doesn’t really matter until later rounds for home court. There is no easy matchup in the west except maybe the Kings rn but I don’t think their making out the play in. While home court in later rounds is very important, I’m just focused on winning the first round right now.
The most frustrating part is that you know Wolves MUST be up by at least 10 in 4th when Jokic comes back. [I posted it before he came back.](https://www.reddit.com/r/timberwolves/s/W6SlIpUok4) I’m willing to bet a lot of money that Nuggets will never lose a game when the are motivated and the game is tied in clutch. Maybe OKC can beat them, one more team that wins every clutch game. It’s not even prime Steph Curry magic, this just can’t be real. Every time Jokic comes back and they make 5-6 shots in a row. Today they scored on TEN (!!!) possessions in a row after he came back. 1st clutch net rating for a reason. Wolves are 28th.
Naz was just absolutely horrendous. I really hope KAT isn’t too rusty because we need his offense so badly.
Tough game. Gg Denver
Unacceptable 4th quarter at this point in the season, cant have performances like that from our role players going forwards
Pretty good game until the 4th quarter. If Naz played well, this would’ve gone right down to the wire.
Honestly, we played a tough game for 3 quarters and couldn’t pull it out. Missed some shoots late and they made them. I can’t wait for kat to get back because we will need him for this playoff run.
That sequence where Jokic shoved Rudy and got the and-1 was a momentum shifter. Jaden clanking wide open threes is becoming a problem, too.
Loved our fight overall most of this game, would be an awesome series.
The way a lot of ya’ll turned on this team after a road game against the defending champs is crazy to me. Minnesota sports have a bad reputation but our fans have to be some of the softest/most fickle out there. Get better.
It’s honestly hard for me to root against Denver when we don’t play them. What a well constructed team. (Weirdly also by Tim C)
If we aren’t on a back to back… And if we have Towns… I’d honestly see a Game 7 if we see them in the WCF.
For 3 quarters, that was the best game I’ve watched all season. Literally the best of basketball. And then in the fourth quarter, we were shit gassed.
Basketball Reference lists jokic as missing 577 field goal attempts this season. I don’t believe that number. I swear he doesn’t miss.
If they let KAT throw elbows and toss people to the ground when he comes back, we’re in business baby
I am more confident in Gobert free throws than I am in wide open McDaniels threes
Felt like the whole dynamic of the game shifted after the Jackson prayer 3 and the no call Rudy shove to the ground.
At the end of the day, we missed so many shots and got out rebounded hard. We outplayed ourselves
I don’t understand how we consistently lose Non Jokic minutes. Even last year when we played them in the playoffs we lost those minutes. We also got bitched the whole 2nd half, Mainly Naz and Rudy and Jaden on the glass. Rudy bouta be 4 time dpoy and can’t even make it tuff for Jokic when checking him
Disasterclass from finch in the second half
I kind of love Jokic it’s like if a middle aged coach was 7 feet tall and was given precognition. Unique basketball player.
Going from 7 combined fta in the first half to 44 combined fta is something else. First half was so fun and felt like a playoff game. 2nd half felt like a regular season game with nothing on the line, the way they called that shit. I can’t compute it in my head, like obviously there was fouls in the first half that weren’t called, now all of the sudden in the 2nd, you’re going to call too much, while missing a bunch of calls? Games that slow down like that really seem to hurt the wolves mentally.
we’re so clunky on offense