134 - 146

Box Scores: NBA - Yahoo

GAME SUMMARY

Location: Rocket Arena

Officials: Tony Brothers, Jacyn Goble, and Brandon Schwab

Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Total
Minnesota Timberwolves	33	32	26	43	134
Cleveland Cavaliers	29	34	36	47	146

TEAM STATS

Team	PTS	FG	FG%	3P	3P%	FT	FT%	OREB	TREB	AST	PF	STL	TO	BLK
Minnesota Timberwolves	134	51-89	57.3%	16-32	50.0%	16-20	80.0%	11	44	31	19	8	15	7
Cleveland Cavaliers	146	55-92	59.8%	15-30	50.0%	21-25	84.0%	8	39	36	18	10	9	2

PLAYER STATS


Minnesota Timberwolves	MIN	PTS	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	ORB	DRB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	±
Jaden McDaniels^SF	26:40	12	4-7	0-2	4-5	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	4	-17
Julius Randle^PF	30:48	22	9-16	1-5	3-3	0	4	4	4	1	0	2	2	-20
Rudy Gobert^C	31:24	8	4-6	0-0	0-0	3	9	12	2	1	3	2	4	-8
Anthony Edwards^SG	35:08	25	10-24	4-9	1-2	1	4	5	3	0	2	1	1	-16
Donte DiVincenzo^PG	34:30	15	6-9	3-6	0-0	2	1	3	6	2	0	4	0	-11
Naz Reid	28:08	23	8-11	5-6	2-2	2	3	5	3	0	2	3	3	-4
Jaylen Clark	15:15	1	0-1	0-1	1-2	0	3	3	1	0	0	0	3	5
Bones Hyland	20:27	12	5-8	2-2	0-0	0	2	2	7	1	0	1	0	-5
Joe Ingles	06:19	5	1-1	1-1	2-2	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	2	0
Rob Dillingham	02:50	1	0-1	0-0	1-2	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	4
Johnny Juzang	02:50	4	1-1	0-0	2-2	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	4
Joan Beringer	02:50	6	3-3	0-0	0-0	1	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	4
Leonard Miller	02:50	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4
Mike Conley	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Enrique Freeman	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Terrence Shannon Jr.	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rocco Zikarsky	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cleveland Cavaliers	MIN	PTS	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	ORB	DRB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	±
Sam Merrill^SF	25:30	20	5-7	5-6	5-5	0	2	2	1	3	0	2	2	20
Evan Mobley^PF	31:33	24	11-16	0-3	2-4	1	3	4	3	2	0	1	1	0
Jarrett Allen^C	28:10	16	6-10	0-0	4-5	4	7	11	4	1	1	0	3	22
Donovan Mitchell^SG	31:25	28	9-21	4-9	6-7	0	3	3	8	1	0	1	2	1
Darius Garland^PG	28:42	22	10-13	1-3	1-1	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	2	21
De’Andre Hunter	21:06	4	1-5	0-2	2-2	0	2	2	2	0	0	0	1	-6
Jaylon Tyson	26:19	23	9-12	4-4	1-1	0	2	2	2	0	0	2	2	14
Craig Porter Jr.	25:34	0	0-4	0-2	0-0	3	3	6	8	1	0	1	1	-5
Nae’Qwan Tomlin	16:08	4	2-2	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	1	2	0	1	3	0
Tyrese Proctor	02:50	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	-4
Thomas Bryant	02:42	3	1-1	1-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	-3
Lonzo Ball	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Larry Nance Jr.	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chris Livingston	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Max Strus	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Luke Travers	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dean Wade	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

H2-nL | Timberwolves

272 | 13 hours ago

Cavs shot 70% in second half and 80% in final quarter, just wow lol

lafixka | Cavaliers

120 | 13 hours ago

Great game for those who hate defense and love buckets

Snorlaxative9 | Cavaliers

12 | 13 hours ago

🙋‍♂️

JohnySilkBoots | Cavaliers

3 | 9 hours ago

I agree, go Cavs

horse_renoir13 | Timberwolves

44 | 13 hours ago

Cant even be mad, that was crazy

Focused_Sky

-32 | 13 hours ago

You should be.The defense sucked.

horse_renoir13 | Timberwolves

85 | 13 hours ago

Okay…uh….grrrr shakes fist

FightingDreamer419 | Cavaliers

12 | 12 hours ago

If I wasn’t broke from the holidays, I’d give a reward lol. Made me genuinely laugh out loud.

15b17 | Thunder

3 | 8 hours ago

Start saving up for next Christmas instead

crapsence | Celtics

5 | 13 hours ago

Transition defense were so lackluster at times,teams just got free buckets

SquidwardLover48 | Cavaliers

21 | 13 hours ago

We used to be good for a game like this once a week ☹️

Throwawayforme3123 | Celtics

12 | 13 hours ago

I find it so funny how Rudy is so amazing on defense but he has games where everybody just cooks him.

Mobley/Allen got pretty much everything they wanted at the rim that 2nd half

CravilityZ | Cavaliers

36 | 13 hours ago

Mobley was really good against him, but Minnesota also gave dang near 50 points in the 4th quarter when Gobert was on the bench.

Specific-Wonder-7925

18 | 13 hours ago

He was in foul trouble so couldn’t play as aggressive

HarryPauler | Timberwolves

28 | 13 hours ago

That’s generally teams goals. Get him in foul trouble and then they can score at will. That’s why Beringer needs to develop quick because we need a backup shot blocking big.

Specific-Wonder-7925

6 | 13 hours ago

I think he won’t be ready to play real minutes until next year.. but god I’m excited about Beringer. Once he gets used to the speed and nuances of the game he’s going to be such a beast

PhasedVenturer

11 | 11 hours ago

Once again the attention is always on Gobert when shots are made, not the other guys like Dante who let their assignments blow past them relentlessly. Mobley was making tough shots against Gobert, I’m not going to lose sleep over this

Exact-Ant1064

-5 | 13 hours ago

Mobley and Allen are both defense first bigs that get played off the court semi-regularly.

That’s just the modern state of the NBA, slanted heavily towards the offense. Draymond and LeBron are among the only modern players that you can’t just remove from the game entirely if you want to, because of how versatile they are.

EightBlocked | NBA

11 | 13 hours ago

a cavalanche in 2026… 🥹🥹🥹 #istillbelieve

tomdawg0022 | Timberwolves

5 | 13 hours ago

Our defense sucked but so did Tony Brothers and Jacyn Goble.

jj44j | Cavaliers

96 | 13 hours ago

I still don’t know if we suck or not

SquidwardLover48 | Cavaliers

75 | 13 hours ago

What if we’re trolling on purpose to throw teams off for the playoffs

Impossible to gameplan for the dumbest team you’ve ever seen tbh

jj44j | Cavaliers

33 | 13 hours ago

This level of cope is what I like to hear. I need this to be true

Snorlaxative9 | Cavaliers

30 | 13 hours ago

“We tanked to the play-in as a joke”

BananaRepublic_BR | Spurs

3 | 6 hours ago

Going for that “first play-in-tier team to win a championship” record. Gotta find something that matches being the only team to win a championship after being down 3-1.

EightBlocked | NBA

14 | 13 hours ago

i really hope this season the cavs have decided to do the reverse where they underperform in the regular season and overperform in the playoffs

CravilityZ | Cavaliers

8 | 13 hours ago

That said, Kenny definitely is experimenting a lot this regular season. So you aren’t totally wrong haha

-xXxMangoxXx- | Raptors

4 | 12 hours ago

“If you don’t know what the fuck you’re doing, how are your enemies supposed to know what the fuck you’re doing”

i4get2wipe

26 | 13 hours ago

We don’t. People truly don’t understand how important Garland is to this team. They see small guard and automatically think he’s the weak link but when he plays like he has been again lately, this team is on a different level. It unlocks everyone.

penguin_torpedo | Nuggets

7 | 12 hours ago

Donovan is just not a PG. We’ve seen it countless times, he can score it like nobody but team is not as his best when he’s the only one cooking.

Opposite-Skirt5158

1 | 7 hours ago

This and more of this

Inowknothing

7 | 13 hours ago

12th in net rating and currently don’t have home court in an absolute dog shit eastern conference.

defiantcross | Suns

6 | 13 hours ago

Still a damgerous team even though it’s not matching last year. You guys got a lot of size which is a matchup problem

ffball | NBA

5 | 13 hours ago

Offense is really good but defense is booty. Hopefully its an effort thing

C_moneySmith | Timberwolves

83 | 13 hours ago

Jaylon Tyson remembered what McDaniels did on Thursday 😂

Huntermainlol | Timberwolves

56 | 13 hours ago

Gg Cavs, next time we won’t showboat dunk lol

Dakaraim | Timberwolves

24 | 13 hours ago

Bro you know thats not true. Glad they gave it back to us tonight though lol

Huntermainlol | Timberwolves

3 | 13 hours ago

(Shhh they don’t need to know lmao)

HenrikCrown | Pelicans

49 | 13 hours ago

Joe Ingles at the end legit looking like an assistant coach out there lol

M6Df4 | Timberwolves

10 | 12 hours ago

He’s legit going to be a very good coach I think. Clearly has an incredible understanding of the game, but more importantly seems to be a great teacher, and other players love him.

twistednicholas

3 | 10 hours ago

i really enjoyed Mr Ingles as my Trig/Pre Cal teacher

I_Need_A_Mehdic | Cavaliers

45 | 13 hours ago

Score makes it seem like neither team played defense but imo this was much more about both teams playing really good offense. Shot making was incredible on both sides.

GeneralJMan | Cavaliers

31 | 13 hours ago

Transition defense was very poor for both teams but when they got set they played good defense.

DPA_404 | Cavaliers

13 | 13 hours ago

Shot making was incredible on both sides.

Agree.

Cavs shot 80% in the 4th quarter and 70% in the 2nd half lol

WhyNotMosley

5 | 13 hours ago

if yall can get consistent… scary sight, yall have the talent. merrill a sniper !

archivedpear

6 | 13 hours ago

it’s just night and day what our team looks like when we have our offensive pieces healthy. merrill has been insane for us all season but that stretch he was hurt we bricked everything from deep wo him

DPA_404 | Cavaliers

40 | 13 hours ago

Great W now please don’t make me listen to these announcers ever again.

Andy_Wiggins | Timberwolves

29 | 13 hours ago

Eric Collins is fucking awful.

He literally got famous because of screaming LaMelo really loud when something crazy happened. It doesn’t work over a full game and the other 47 minutes and 53 seconds are bad commentary.

M6Df4 | Timberwolves

5 | 12 hours ago

I really wish we could just have Jim Pete and Grady for all our nationally televised games too, except then I’d be worried we end up losing both of them, and just the fact we’re likely to lose Grady eventually is upsetting enough. We’ve really been spoiled having those two for our regional broadcasts though, despite FanDuel being ass.

WindlerDeepInTheRock | Cavaliers

2 | 9 hours ago

I disagree with the Eric Collins hate, I think that the Hornets broadcast is pretty good, between the screaming is usually pretty entertaining and informative. But I was extremely pleasantly surprised when I learned that Grady was doing national games, because he is excellent and is almost enough of a reason to watch Wolves games by himself.

UnbiasedExpert | CLE

9 | 13 hours ago

people seem to enjoy that screaming shtick

tomdawg0022 | Timberwolves

8 | 13 hours ago

If there were an announcers hell it’d be Eric Collins and Mark Jackson together.

MooseHarmonies | Trail Blazers

4 | 13 hours ago

I’m imagining Eric Collins putting hype into “Mama, there goes that man”.

dwilkes827 | Cavaliers

1 | 11 hours ago

that is my sleep paralysis demon

nobraininmyoxygen | Cavaliers

1 | 13 hours ago

Damn that’s a terrible thought

Wrsj | Knicks

7 | 11 hours ago

Van Gundy gives me male Doris vibes

Snorlaxative9 | Cavaliers

33 | 13 hours ago

Solid win. Naz Reid is automatic though, good lord

7FromTheFuture | Timberwolves

15 | 13 hours ago

Naz Reid is automatic though, good lord

Not quite, he’s had some shooting struggles this season but I get it, this game had me saying the same about Garland and fucking Sam Merrill.

Garland was nasty with the floaters, feels like he didn’t miss a single one and most of them didn’t even touch the rim. Watching Merrill pissed me off so bad, I couldn’t believe the shit he was hitting. Hard to beat a team that’s hitting everything, GGs.

Easy_Money_40

11 | 13 hours ago

Merrill has been money all season.

CommentJunior9653 | Jazz

1 | 9 hours ago

Utah State fan here. He has always been money.

B4LLISL1F3

2 | 12 hours ago

His little three shot is so unique

An-Angel-Named-Billy | Timberwolves

1 | 10 hours ago

When he is on. When he is not? rough to watch.

pollinium | MIN

30 | 13 hours ago

Sam Merrill has hit damn near 250 3’s in the past three days

I’m pretty bummed by how we responded to such a bad 3rd quarter after seeing the Cavs fight back the other night. Couldn’t really figure out how to get anything going, and we were not disciplined in a lot of the details (which I don’t think was an issue of caring enough, I think it was just funky)

gg Cavs, don’t recall seeing anyone do this to the Wolves in a few years

narcistic_asshole | Cavaliers

20 | 13 hours ago

Our disappointing season has overshadowed how awesome he has been this year. Absolutely unreal shooter and a very solid defender

DirectInvestigator66 | Cavaliers

19 | 13 hours ago

Sam Merrill and Tyson have been amazing and to a lesser extent CPJ has also been a bright spot.

diiron | Cavaliers

3 | 9 hours ago

cpj, tyson, tomlin and merrill have been the highlights of the season along with mitchell doing mitchell things. offsets how terrible/absent hunter, ball, nance jr (injuries) and strus have been.

Hot-Implement-7483

2 | 8 hours ago

Cpj had more rebs than Mobley…how?

SomeFatherFigure | Cavaliers

3 | 7 hours ago

They clearly learned from Thursday’s game. They went with the strategy of having the bigs put a body or two on Rudy, and having the guards swoop in to grab loose rebounds.

That, and CPJ did actually lead his college team in rebounding. Dude is just a baller and freak athlete.

SomeFatherFigure | Cavaliers

2 | 7 hours ago

The Cavs record is far more understandable when you consider that Merrill has missed significant time, and during that time most of his minutes went to Lonzo.

HarryPauler | Timberwolves

25 | 13 hours ago

I hate when game threads devolve into people just complaining about the refs.

the-big-dingo | 76ers

17 | 13 hours ago

You must hate every game thread in every sports sub then

HarryPauler | Timberwolves

8 | 13 hours ago

⁵⁰⁄₅₀. But the nba really devolves sometimes.

AntIsMyFather05 | Timberwolves

2 | 12 hours ago

Tony brothers will do that to fans

Morezingis | Timberwolves

17 | 13 hours ago

Outshot, outcoached, outplayed - Thats the Cavs I remember.

CravilityZ | Cavaliers

14 | 13 hours ago

Don’t know why Atkinson practically threw the previous game starting 3 6’2 or smaller guards

Standard-Juice-3738 | Cavaliers

3 | 10 hours ago

Starting them was stupid. But starting the second half with them after it clearly didn’t work was baffling

SquidwardLover48 | Cavaliers

15 | 13 hours ago

Kenny the formula is there. Send Lonzo Ball to the gulag & maybe don’t start Donovan Mitchell at sf.

Funny-Transition7869 | Pacers

13 | 13 hours ago

90 points combined in the 4th quarter. curious what the record is

narcistic_asshole | Cavaliers

9 | 13 hours ago

Outside of that cursed 3 small guard lineup we started last game, the Cavs were +24 over this pair of games against the Wolves. Today looked like last year’s Cavs team

Over-Awareness2428 | Timberwolves

-4 | 13 hours ago

Do the same stat taking away the Wolves worst defensive lineup lol. This is such a weird look at a series.

narcistic_asshole | Cavaliers

10 | 13 hours ago

Just highlighting how dumb that lineup was rolling out 3 guards 6’2 and under and how much better this team is when we aren’t throwing out stupid experimental lineups like we have been all season. That lineup dug us into a 21 point deficit in like 7 minutes of play the other night

Outside of that, we’ve looked pretty good against a very good Timberwolves team and hoping that’s a sign that we’re finally turning the corner

Renegadeforever2024 | Raptors

9 | 13 hours ago

Cavs best performance of the season by far

narcistic_asshole | Cavaliers

14 | 13 hours ago

Idk our recent win over the Spurs and our 20pt win over the Pistons earlier in the season are up there

thecameraman8078 | Cavaliers

7 | 13 hours ago

That you’ve watched* But yes it’s up there. That Spurs game was something else

Gyroflex | Timberwolves

9 | 13 hours ago

did the cavs shoot like 70% in the 2nd half? seemed like no one could miss

heat_fan_ | Raptors

9 | 13 hours ago

5 scorers with 20+ points sharing the wealth

They didn’t forget what McDaniels did last time lmao

crapsence | Celtics

7 | 13 hours ago

Cavs were so on fire tonight crazy shotmaking

DirectInvestigator66 | Cavaliers

8 | 13 hours ago

It really feels like Kenny hasn’t coached nearly as well as last year. We finally bench Lonzo and then for some reason bring him back against the Pistons and he’s -19 in 10 minutes and we lose by four. Now we see Cavs vs TWolves without the stupid three guard lineup from last game and it’s a win. I’m glad he’s learning but it feels like he needs to touch every burner on the stove before he finally accepts that it’s hot.

Cavs have been much better since getting healthy, my concern is much lower than it was.

Bleach-Is-Nice | Thunder

7 | 13 hours ago

cavs PNR was just phenomenal

EveryManAViKing | Timberwolves

7 | 13 hours ago

Oh.

HarryPauler | Timberwolves

5 | 13 hours ago

HAVE to win tomorrow

Baright | Thunder

1 | 11 hours ago

Do it for me

HarryPauler | Timberwolves

3 | 11 hours ago

Hopefully we end up in the playoffs again this year and we get revenge

fckpcklball

5 | 13 hours ago

No wolves starter shot a free throw until 4 mins left in the 3rd of something. Someone got the memo

nowhereman1917

0 | 5 hours ago

lol everybody knows that Cleveland gets all the calls in pro sports!

The wolves shot free throws before the cavs did. Maybe they didn’t count them because it wasn’t a starter? Wolves got 20 free throws, cavs got 25, not a big difference.

Known_Western8013

-4 | 8 hours ago

“someone got the memo” 😂😂😂. Y’all are so dramatic man. The Cavs outplayed the Wolves. Not everything is a conspiracy

fckpcklball

1 | 8 hours ago

Starters not shooting a FT until like 4 mins into the 3rd is nearly improbable. I’m not calling it a conspiracy, but I am calling it unequal reffing.

Known_Western8013

0 | 8 hours ago

I thought the reffing was pretty equal honestly. The Cavs didn’t shoot a single FT until several minutes into the second quarter.

fckpcklball

0 | 8 hours ago

This is not true. They were calling ticky tacky fouls for cavs and nothing for the wolves.

Creative_Meringue377

1 | 5 hours ago

Edward’s literally hacked the shit out of Mitchell and it got called a block, please lol

Bratstvo_Jedinstvo | Bulls

4 | 13 hours ago

This is tied for the 5th highest-scoring NBA game ever right? 280pts and just in regulation is crazy even by modern standards.

Afraid-Department-35 | Mavericks

4 | 11 hours ago

This version of the Cavs is what we all expected, just buckets from everyone, but idk wtf has been happening lately lol.

SomeFatherFigure | Cavaliers

2 | 7 hours ago

Injuries + Lonzo getting 22+ minutes a night putting up like 30/20/70 type splits.

Otherwise-Radio-8787

3 | 13 hours ago

Cavs locked TF in

yandisigenu

3 | 13 hours ago

Game was lost on defence, but Minnesota can’t generate offence consistently when Ant isn’t on the floor. Random possession after random possession.

close-encounters13 | Cavaliers

3 | 13 hours ago

Might be our best win of the season.

Motor-Platform-200

3 | 13 hours ago

didnt watch the game but damn was the 4th quarter entirely defense-free?

SomeFatherFigure | Cavaliers

3 | 7 hours ago

Defense wasn’t bad. A few breakdowns on each side getting back in transition. The shots were just falling like crazy.

Imaginary0atmeal

3 | 12 hours ago

wow this filled me with hopr

iro3 | Spurs

1 | 13 hours ago

London out the rotation or hurt ?

DirectInvestigator66 | Cavaliers

4 | 13 hours ago

Lonzo is thankfully out of the rotation. Hopefully he gets a chance down the line and is able to put something together but we’ve lost multiple games by playing him over CPJ and I think the coaching staff has seen enough for now.

iro3 | Spurs

1 | 13 hours ago

Got it

FutureGrassToucher | Suns

1 | 13 hours ago

As a suns fan im loving all these west teams above us losing lately

rend1670

0 | 13 hours ago

270 total points without overtime is a disgrace.

Wrsj | Knicks

0 | 11 hours ago

Gobert started to piss me off in the 3th onwards and I don’t even care about either team playing.

Mother_Event_6736

0 | 9 hours ago

These scores are disgusting man. Almost completely ruined the impact of big stat lines.

Shepher27 | Timberwolves

-2 | 12 hours ago

Finch put Joe Ingles in and the Cavs immediately got hot and stayed hot.

TNT_FC

2 | 10 hours ago

I’m not sure how you reached this conclusion.

Ingles had 5 points and 3 assists in 6 minutes with a +/- of zero. Even when he played in the second quarter it wasn’t as though the Cavs ran riot during his whopping 4 minutes on the court…?

Shepher27 | Timberwolves

0 | 9 hours ago

IN the second Quarter he had a +/- of -4 in 2:40 and even though he hit a three, he got burned on four drives in a row leading to either open layups or someone having to over-help and leading to a wide open kick-out three. I know this because I actually watched the game.

You’re adding in his garbage time.

FiIeofLife | Raptors

-4 | 13 hours ago

Antman with 25 on 24 shots. Yikes!

Over-Awareness2428 | Timberwolves

12 | 13 hours ago

Ant 50/50/80 like the last 10 games and you post this lmao. Insane.

HarryPauler | Timberwolves

4 | 13 hours ago

Ah now we gonna start saying he sucks

CravilityZ | Cavaliers

7 | 13 hours ago

He was keeping them in the game in the third quarter attacking the basket again and again. Cavs just looked really dominant on offense tonight.

HarryPauler | Timberwolves

6 | 13 hours ago

Correct. But anytime a player has a bad game people gotta bring it up as if he’s cooked.

I’m probably reading into it too much, but the Rudy slander right now is heating up, even though he’s been largely great this year

the-big-dingo | 76ers

7 | 13 hours ago

It’s from box score watchers .

The Cleveland Cavaliers (22-18) defeat the Minnesota Timberwolves (25-14), 146-134, as five Cavaliers score 20+