#Minnesota Timberwolves at Denver Nuggets
Ball Arena- Denver, CO
[ESPN](https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401468831)
[TV/Radio](https://reddit.com/r/timberwolves/comments/10fpclo/game_thread_minnesota_timberwolves_2223_at_denver/j4y5woy/)
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|Time Clock|
|:–:|
|Final|
||Q1|Q2|Q3|Q4|Total|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|MIN |27|33|35|23|118|
|DEN |30|25|33|34|122|
###Player Stats
**Minnesota Timberwolves**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|J. McDaniels|33:55|18|7-10|2-3|2-2|1|2|3|2|0|3|3|3|-1
|K. Anderson|34:29|13|6-10|1-1|0-2|2|9|11|8|4|1|2|3|-12
|N. Reid|25:56|17|4-9|0-5|9-10|1|2|3|2|0|3|3|5|2
|A. Edwards|37:11|16|7-17|0-4|2-3|4|5|9|3|1|1|3|0|-12
|D. Russell|31:44|13|4-8|3-6|2-2|0|0|0|7|0|0|4|1|-4
|T. Prince|31:35|14|5-9|2-4|2-2|1|3|4|1|1|1|1|2|5
|W. Moore Jr.|9:11|0|0-1|0-0|0-0|0|1|1|1|0|1|0|1|-6
|L. Garza|17:24|16|4-9|3-5|5-6|3|1|4|0|0|0|0|3|-3
|J. Nowell|14:13|9|4-6|1-3|0-0|0|0|0|2|0|0|0|5|14
|N. Knight|4:19|2|1-2|0-1|0-1|0|1|1|0|0|0|1|4|-3
**Denver Nuggets**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|M. Porter Jr.|22:13|4|1-6|0-3|2-2|0|6|6|0|1|1|2|1|-3
|A. Gordon|29:04|12|5-9|1-4|1-2|2|1|3|1|0|1|2|4|10
|N. Jokic|31:12|31|12-20|0-0|7-7|4|7|11|13|1|0|3|5|21
|K. Caldwell-Pope|34:50|11|4-6|2-2|1-2|0|1|1|2|3|0|1|1|18
|J. Murray|33:18|28|10-18|2-5|6-6|0|2|2|4|2|0|1|0|-13
|B. Brown|32:38|16|7-11|1-1|1-5|1|4|5|4|0|0|1|4|10
|V. Cancar|15:59|4|1-4|0-1|2-2|0|2|2|1|1|0|1|2|-5
|B. Hyland|18:31|9|2-5|1-3|4-4|0|1|1|2|0|0|1|0|-2
|Z. Nnaji|16:02|7|3-4|1-1|0-2|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|2|-13
|C. Braun|6:12|0|0-2|0-1|0-0|1|2|3|0|2|0|1|0|-3
###Team Stats
|Team|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|AST|PF|STL|TO|BLK|OREB|DREB|REB|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|MIN|42-81|12-32|22-28|26|27|6|17|10|12|24|43|
|DEN|45-85|8-21|24-32|27|19|10|14|2|8|26|50|
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obligatory **Pain** post
Good fight from an undermanned team but I’m so fucking sick of watching FT contests every night.
NBA needs to figure out their reffing so badly.
Would’ve been nice if Ant showed up
We let them off the hook
Unsure why I tuned in for the 4th. Classic wolves. Can’t do a thing with Ant doubled.
Another morale victory. ^^^^end ^^^^me
Being a MN sports fan has been rough this week….
Can’t believe I stayed up for that… Oof. Not a great finish.
Russell has to be gone. We need a point guard and he’s not running the offense. He can’t get anyone a clean look and is dribbling the air out of the ball and making awful decisions down the stretch. Gotta move him to salvage the season
Jokic just gets to BULLY everyone. Got lucky he didn’t foul out, but whatever. They could barely keep up with us without KAT or Gobert I ain’t pressed.
Just can’t seem to get over the top.
This happens of course when you’re a subpar team. Also hurts to have Rudy and KAT out too I guess
If i had a dollar for every time this franchise has blown a 4th quarter lead in my lifetime I might be the richest person on earth. It’s absolutely astounding
poorly officiated game on both ends but honestly we fought hard. The 4th quarter collapse was unfortunate but the biggest takeaway is how tough and gritty we were for most of that game. That’s all
Feel like pure shit just want KAT back
Not sure why I’m upset right now…no right to be in that game in the first place.
Fuck me. We had it.
I know we’re hurt, but I’m tired of losing games it feels like we should be able to win. Blowing leads late like this is just painful.
We gave away at least 6 points off where the nuggets inbounded a dead ball quickly and the wolves were scrambling to get back on defense. So frustrating, that’s some highschool stuff
Tough loss. Really missing KAT and Gobert in this one.
Just a very mentally weak team in the clutch. Don’t know how you fix that when it’s been an issue for years.
Still a good effort being short handed against a healthy Finals favorite.
Really have to score on one of those last 6 possessions lol
We all knew this is how it would end the entire way. This team is embarrassingly predictable. Nobody is better at giving away games than the Timberwolves.
Why do they close with Russell, how do you hit the side of the backboard
I came in expecting a loss, but that one still hurt. Absolutely no stopping Jokic without Rudy, hopefully he’s not out for an extended stretch.
this game was a great game by us i feel , we did very well
no rudy and kat so i never expected us to win
ant could’ve done better maybe but apart from that great game
love naz reid
Can’t wait to see what they get for D-Lo. I’m over that dude.
Wolves shit their pants deep in the 4th quarter 2 games in a row
Not having our draft pick makes these losses so much more painful. So tough to be optimistic right now.
Honestly proud of how hard they fought. As good as the nuggets are, if we have KAT and Rudy to defend Jokic, we match up fucking well and I wouldn’t mind having a series with them in the post season (if we make it obviously)
I hate that I stayed up for this
Felt inevitable. Denver was literally unstoppable those last several minutes.
We run no plays in the 4th quarter down the stretch..
We consistently choke down the stretch with Finch as HC.
We almost beat the refs and the best team in the west, on the road, without our 2 highest paid players
I am once again broken. This team is just so dumb.
Clutch is not our time sadly. Last game, today, Pelicans, many others. Up by 5 and give up 9-0 run.
Great effort, nice game. Would be cool to go 5/5 from 3 in last quarter after starting 3/16 but this is allowed only against Minnesota, our team can’t have it. Had 10+ lead in last 12 games, won only 6 of them. This team can play, just can’t win as much as they should have.
Murray and Jokic are a great duo
Sad the way it ended, kinda reminds me of the old days, but then again, we are extremely short-handed and they are leading the West. But yeah, could have won this.
I’m begging the front office to please get a point guard that can actually control the floor. Get DLO out of here
Finch has no idea how to use challenges. Tired of watching him save these when he might have a saved a few points earlier in the game.
Ima casual fan but I feel like we lose a lot of games like that. I can see us turning the corner but it never seems to happen.
Ending was disappointing, but it was about as good of a game as one could expect with our top 2 centers out against the two time reigning MVP and current #1 seeded team. I hope Ant learns how to operate when people focus on him more, I get they were playing him tougher than normal but he didn’t really do much as the team’s best player down the stretch. Tough game but good effort honestly.
As soon as Jamal hit that three you knew it was done! We gotta win these games if we wanna be anything above the 9th seed
That Gobert trade sucks but the real problem is DLo and Ant decision-making fr
We had our foot on their neck and couldn’t finish it off. If we had gotten blown out I could understand the injury excuse but we were leading for 46/47 minutes of the game
Watching the highlights of today’s games, man I fucking hate the Grizzlies and Ja. Sucks to lose to the Nuggets tonight but I hope the Nuggets destroy the Grizz in the playoffs.
How many stops did we get in the 4th? 1?
This team gotta grow up at some point. They’d have a much better record if they knew how to operate in crunch time. All these other teams keep showing us 1st hand how it’s done. I don’t know if it’s coaching or not having an actual point guard, but it doesn’t feel like anything was learned from the Memphis series.
ANT needs to make his decision faster. He had Jokic 1 on 1 and didn’t try to drive or shoot until someone doubles him. He needs to catch the ball and move. Make double teams tough to execute.
Naz had Ant wide open for 3 and he deadass threw it in the stands, the IQ in this team is just something ain’t it?
We need an assistant coach specifically to help Finch draw up plays at the end of games and out of timeouts/out of bound plays.
His “free-flowing offense” works great for the majority of the game, but when the game slows down it looks like our players have no idea what to do and start to hesitate.