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|[](/MIN) **126 – 109** [](/PHX)|
|**Box Scores: [NBA](http://www.nba.com/game/MIN-vs-PHX-0042300163/box-score) – [Yahoo](https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/scoreboard/)**|
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|**GAME SUMMARY**|
|**Location:** Footprint Center (17071), **Clock:** Final|
|**Officials:** Tony Brothers, JB DeRosa, and Kevin Scott|
|**Team**|**Q1**|**Q2**|**Q3**|**Q4**|**Total**|
|:—|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|Minnesota Timberwolves|34|25|36|31|126|
|Phoenix Suns|32|21|20|36|109|
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|**TEAM STATS**|
|**Team**|**PTS**|**FG**|**FG%**|**3P**|**3P%**|**FT**|**FT%**|**OREB**|**TREB**|**AST**|**PF**|**STL**|**TO**|**BLK**|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|Minnesota Timberwolves|126|43-87|49.4%|13-34|38.2%|27-31|87.1%|15|60|26|25|5|13|1|
|Phoenix Suns|109|35-76|46.1%|11-28|39.3%|28-32|87.5%|5|33|24|26|8|9|3|
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|**PLAYER STATS**|
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**[](/MIN) Minnesota Timberwolves**|**MIN**|**PTS**|**FGM-A**|**3PM-A**|**FTM-A**|**ORB**|**DRB**|**REB**|**AST**|**STL**|**BLK**|**TO**|**PF**|**±**|
|Jaden McDaniels^SF|30:13|5|1-4|0-1|3-4|3|1|4|1|1|0|0|5|8|
|Karl-Anthony Towns^PF|23:50|18|7-16|3-5|1-2|5|8|13|2|0|0|1|4|-1|
|Rudy Gobert^C|38:23|19|6-8|0-0|7-8|4|10|14|1|1|0|2|2|21|
|Anthony Edwards^SG|42:57|36|12-23|1-5|11-11|2|7|9|5|2|0|5|1|19|
|Mike Conley^PG|34:18|15|6-11|3-7|0-0|0|4|4|7|1|0|3|5|17|
|Naz Reid|17:54|13|5-10|2-5|1-2|0|1|1|2|0|0|0|2|7|
|Nickeil Alexander-Walker|33:06|16|4-10|4-10|4-4|1|1|2|5|0|0|1|5|23|
|Kyle Anderson|08:22|2|1-1|0-0|0-0|0|3|3|2|0|0|1|1|-5|
|Monte Morris|09:01|2|1-4|0-1|0-0|0|0|0|1|0|1|0|0|-4|
|Wendell Moore Jr.|00:28|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Josh Minott|00:28|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Leonard Miller|00:28|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Luka Garza|00:28|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Jordan McLaughlin|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|T.J. Warren|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
**[](/PHX) Phoenix Suns**|**MIN**|**PTS**|**FGM-A**|**3PM-A**|**FTM-A**|**ORB**|**DRB**|**REB**|**AST**|**STL**|**BLK**|**TO**|**PF**|**±**|
|Royce O’Neale^SF|24:19|0|0-5|0-4|0-0|0|5|5|2|0|0|0|3|-23|
|Kevin Durant^PF|42:06|25|8-18|1-5|8-9|0|4|4|5|0|0|2|2|-20|
|Jusuf Nurkic^C|26:02|3|1-4|0-0|1-2|2|5|7|1|2|2|1|2|-11|
|Bradley Beal^SG|43:14|28|10-19|6-11|2-2|3|1|4|4|0|0|2|5|-19|
|Devin Booker^PG|41:37|23|8-15|1-3|6-6|0|3|3|8|2|0|2|3|-8|
|Eric Gordon|34:14|11|2-7|2-3|5-6|0|2|2|3|3|1|2|3|0|
|Drew Eubanks|11:11|9|3-3|0-0|3-3|0|1|1|0|0|0|0|3|-7|
|Bol Bol|07:08|2|1-2|0-0|0-0|0|1|1|0|1|0|0|2|1|
|Josh Okogie|09:09|8|2-3|1-2|3-4|0|1|1|1|0|0|0|3|2|
|David Roddy|00:28|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Nassir Little|00:28|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Isaiah Thomas|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Thaddeus Young|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Grayson Allen|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Damion Lee|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
by edgykitty
26 Comments
3 straight games of Gobert getting played off the floor in the 4th
kd and bron boutta get rd1 swept in the same week 😳
Devin Booker: “Saying it respectfully, I don’t know how teams are gonna guard us.”
Kevin Durant: “You can’t guard all of us at once.”
These playoffs really feel like the official end of the Bron/Steph/KD/Kawhi era
Suns haven’t held a lead in the last 65:49 of game time
EST GANG WHERE WE AT???
So what team is KD trading himself to in the offseason?
51 foul calls in a playoff game is downright preposterous. This game took forever.
I’m pretty sure at the end of the 3rd Quarter, the Suns only had 15 3-Point attempts. Half of the Wolves.
What the fuck is this team doing lmao
Imagine being down 3-0 in a playoffs series lmao.
Can’t believe I get to watch a wolves team this good
Rudy “Played off the floor” Gobert is +53 for the series
The only thing playing him off of the floor is his own team making garbage time mandatory for Phoenix
Gobert and Ant duo is just too much for the top heavy depthless suns. Embarrassing
Defense then tenacious offense. Ant has 16pts in 4th quarter
Generational statpadding by beal and booker in the end
Give us the Wolves/ Nuggets series already
Man I know hindsight is 20/20 but this Suns team’s roster construction just feels like a head-scratcher.
You have 3 guys on the floor who are there to do nothing but score. None of them provide a good amount of rebounding, hustle, defense, or even a playmaking at a high level.
Teams like this Minnesota team or Denver are prime examples of how much more important quality role-players that provide things outside of scoring are than yet another ISO scoring guard.
Awoo
https://streamable.com/st1hhs
The most defining aspect of this series is that the Wolves don’t even have to be outstanding to dominate the Suns. Now obviously their D is amazing and I’m not trying to take away from that, but it’s telling that these big leads aren’t built on the back of red hot perimeter shooting or a star playing going off. They’re just crashing the glass and creating good shots in order to generate buckets. They are just playing their normal basketball, and Phoenix has absolutely no answers.
Rudy should get the dpoy trophy awarded to him next game because this teams defence has been absolutely stifling. Suns can’t get an open shot at all.
uncomfortable fact for certain people is that rudy gobert has been the best player in this series.
The Wolves won the Gobert trade.
I still can’t believe I’m watching the Minnesota Timberwolves
The ref did try their best to foul out the Wolves in the first quarter
This team is so night and day different from every other Wolves team over the past 20 years, it’s surreal to watch
Suns are beyond cooked. No cap space or draft picks. Horrible Beal contract. They 100% have to trade kd who still has value.
Kd has also been glazing the thunder over the past 2 months and dropped a new commercial with chet. Clearly has a reunion in mind. Not sure of the thunder do it.
The Wolves trade for Gobert was better than the Suns trade for KD.