105 - 110

Box Scores: NBA - Yahoo

GAME SUMMARY

Location: Toyota Center

Officials: Ed Malloy, Brian Forte, and JD Ralls

Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Total
Minnesota Timberwolves	34	21	27	23	105
Houston Rockets	29	24	28	29	110

TEAM STATS

Team	PTS	FG	FG%	3P	3P%	FT	FT%	OREB	TREB	AST	PF	STL	TO	BLK
Minnesota Timberwolves	105	37-81	45.7%	11-30	36.7%	20-35	57.1%	13	64	21	27	7	14	7
Houston Rockets	110	39-84	46.4%	12-28	42.9%	20-34	58.8%	10	56	19	23	10	12	5

PLAYER STATS


Minnesota Timberwolves	MIN	PTS	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	ORB	DRB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	±
Jaden McDaniels^SF	35:03	15	5-14	1-4	4-5	3	4	7	4	2	2	1	6	-5
Julius Randle^PF	40:13	39	14-25	2-5	9-11	0	4	4	2	0	1	5	4	-12
Rudy Gobert^C	32:26	10	4-7	0-0	2-10	5	8	13	1	2	2	2	5	-3
Donte DiVincenzo^SG	39:53	8	3-10	2-7	0-0	2	6	8	4	1	1	2	4	5
Mike Conley^PG	26:09	6	2-8	1-5	1-2	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	8
Bones Hyland	16:54	2	1-4	0-2	0-2	0	0	0	5	0	0	1	1	-11
Naz Reid	32:03	25	8-12	5-7	4-5	1	9	10	4	1	1	2	4	0
Jaylen Clark	10:43	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	2	-7
Joan Beringer	06:33	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
Rob Dillingham	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Ingles	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Johnny Juzang	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Leonard Miller	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Anthony Edwards	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
Houston Rockets	MIN	PTS	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	ORB	DRB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	±
Kevin Durant^SF	40:01	39	11-18	6-8	11-14	1	3	4	7	2	1	5	3	15
Jabari Smith Jr.^PF	37:36	9	3-12	1-4	2-5	2	3	5	2	0	3	0	2	-5
Alperen Sengun^C	32:11	25	11-22	0-1	3-9	4	10	14	3	1	1	4	6	-7
Josh Okogie^SG	33:01	1	0-4	0-3	1-2	0	2	2	0	1	0	0	2	2
Amen Thompson^PG	35:38	14	5-12	1-3	3-4	1	6	7	4	1	0	3	2	7
JD Davison	03:38	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	-5
Dorian Finney-Smith	16:04	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	3	3	0	1	0	0	2	-3
Clint Capela	12:27	4	2-2	0-0	0-0	0	3	3	1	1	0	0	2	8
Reed Sheppard	18:41	14	5-9	4-6	0-0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	2	11
Jae’Sean Tate	10:41	4	2-2	0-0	0-0	2	1	3	0	1	0	0	2	2
Steven Adams	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jeff Green	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Aaron Holiday	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Isaiah Crawford	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tari Eason	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tristen Newton	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fred VanVleet	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Palifaith | Lakers

105 | 4 hours ago

This had to be the worst combined FT shooting game in a while.

pmurt007 | Lakers

30 | 4 hours ago

3rd quarter of this game took almost 1 hour of real time

gumbyguy1985 | Heat

10 | 3 hours ago

I decided to catch the second half at a bar and left about 30 minutes through the 3rd quarter.

From_Jerusalem | Lakers

1 | 3 hours ago

Honestly a pretty ugly game. Sometimes I wonder why I watch the NBA

Broakley | Thunder

1 | 2 hours ago

Clock issues certainly didn’t help. When the fuck are they gonna figure this out? Keeps happening

NuttedInHerB4You

16 | 4 hours ago

Gobert sold hard. ²⁄₁₀ from FT line lmao

Huntermainlol | Timberwolves

-14 | 4 hours ago

You really don’t like Gobert lmao. No one shot well from the line. Is what it is

IllegitimateRisk | Nuggets

15 | 3 hours ago

sengun and gobert dragged down the stat line. jabari watched his idols and followed suit lol

Huntermainlol | Timberwolves

2 | 3 hours ago

lol true

sorendiz | HOU

1 | an hour ago

on the one hand they were certainly the… standouts… but before the game if you had asked me the chances of KD going to the FT line and missing both FTs on one trip i would have probably laughed at you

just a bizarrely shit night in general from the line for both teams, and the funniest thing for the Rockets is that it happened when we shot 42% from 3 after having 7 straight games of shooting between 22% and 29% from 3. some real monkey’s paw shit

NuttedInHerB4You

12 | 3 hours ago

brother he shot 20% from FT line

don’t group the other guys that shot at least 30% better with booty Gobert

From_Jerusalem | Lakers

5 | 3 hours ago

Including two airballs lol

LouieM13 | NYK

10 | 3 hours ago

Randle shot 9 for 11.

McDaniels shot 4 for 5.

-xXxMangoxXx- | Raptors

6 | 3 hours ago

I mean he dropped your teams ft percent by almost 14 percent himself. As a whole your team didnt shoot well but he shot especially ass. I try to defend gobert a lot, and as a player I think hes really good but ²⁄₁₀ is ass.

rawchess | Minneapolis Lakers

3 | 3 hours ago

No one else shot double digit FTs and MISSED eighty percent of them

Aumissunum

2 | 3 hours ago

Why you lying lmfao.

sorendiz | HOU

3 | 3 hours ago

Imagine shooting below 58.7% from the free throw line LMAO could never be us

Lizpy6688 | Rockets

2 | 3 hours ago

Jesus man it took forever… What made it even worse was neither team could make them

LeeShakerMoneyMaker | Timberwolves

1 | 3 hours ago

Yeah, maybe it was the lights or something but the FT shooting was horrible.

Putrid-Peehole | Rockets

85 | 4 hours ago

Fans of refs ball and horrible free throw shooting are the real winners tonight. Just a weird game all around.

Sharcbait | Timberwolves

29 | 3 hours ago

I don’t think a lot can be taken from this game for either team.

No Ant so Wolves didn’t have a “give the ball to Ant” as a play in the playbook. When Gobert was struggling from the FT line it would have been helpful to go small ball and let Julius wrestle Sengun down low.

On the other hand, give the ball to Durant or Sengun seemed like the ONLY play for the Rockets. If they don’t figure out offense outside of that teams will solve them quick in the playoffs.

NeedleworkerSad9532 | Rockets

5 | an hour ago

Udoka system

KennyDenn1s

4 | 3 hours ago

Just so annoying when they change the whistle in the second half and a fun game became terrible to watch. Not to mention ANOTHER CLOCK MALFUNCTION! This is ridiculous how many times it’s happened this season and it shouldn’t be happening in a multi billion dollar league

NAMJAY | Timberwolves

4 | 3 hours ago

There were several moments that seemed like JV basketball…Rudy’s 2 airball FTs and Amen’s airball 3 were egregious

sorendiz | HOU

0 | an hour ago

i actually laughed out loud at the second Rudy airball

genuinely appreciated the audacity of him trying to play it off by shaking his hand afterwards like ‘damn what’s wrong with me man’ 💀 like i think you can get away with one of those after a single airball but after the second one i’m afraid you just gotta accept that it’s like that

Sc0rch1ngDr4g0n | Rockets

41 | 4 hours ago

2nd night of a B2B but no Ant, and 30 minutes in delays from fouls and the clock failing (again, Tillman put some money into the arena). You’re just happy to win, especially with how this team has trended.

Glad the team found the energy to comeback in the 4th despite being on tired legs. Hopefully they start to pick it up and the stain of the past several losses doesn’t follow them into ASB. Even if they’re still not making shots.

sloBrodanChillosevic | Supersonics

15 | 4 hours ago

Dude, what is wrong with the clocks this year

SomeGuyNamedGuy | Lakers

10 | 3 hours ago

I remember Zach Lowe going on tirades about this lol

TheGargageMan | Rockets

7 | 3 hours ago

I won’t be buying any Tissot Watches anytime soon.

hickok3 | Raptors

7 | 3 hours ago

Tissot fucked up, is what is wrong with them. Took 18 months, and who knows how much money to make them look nice, and then they break once a week.

From_Jerusalem | Lakers

2 | 3 hours ago

Didn’t they get a new clock set up? Is circular now

Exotic_Pension_9993 | Suns

1 | 3 hours ago

Our game in Houston a couple weeks ago had to have the PA announcer count down when there were 5 seconds left on the shot clock because they couldn’t get them to work

sorendiz | HOU

1 | an hour ago

fr absolute nightmare of a first half that game

HarryPauler | Timberwolves

2 | 3 hours ago

From my side, sooooooo frustrating. Like, top 7 most frustrating game of the season for me

zachthompson02 | Warriors Bandwagon

24 | 4 hours ago

“That was the longest last 2 minutes I’ve ever seen” I say for the 20th time this season.

sorendiz | HOU

20 | 4 hours ago

the Houston Construction Workers overcome the Minnesota Bricklayers in the 2026 Whiffbowl

Patient-Net9343 | Timberwolves

18 | 4 hours ago

Good game Rockets (well, horrible game due to clock issues, no calls on both sides, constant whistles, and missed free throws but you get the idea). Watch out for when Ant comes back though!

Lizpy6688 | Rockets

11 | 3 hours ago

Ggs to ya also! And yes, we know about our shot clock issues

Jesus the refs today were bizarre. They favored no one which is absolutely good but they called everything minor then missed big stuff.

And yeah, no team could hit their free throws but that’s our norm

stochGradientDescent

4 | 3 hours ago

Welp watch out when FVV returns :)

Patient-Net9343 | Timberwolves

1 | 3 hours ago

Touché

EveningHealth9465

0 | 3 hours ago

FVV is not nearly the same caliber of a difference maker as Ant 😂

sorendiz | HOU

1 | an hour ago

in a 1 to 1 comparison of players, no, certainly he isn’t

however as the only actual person on the roster who has a shot at running a proper offense for us he is absolutely a huge difference maker because boy is our offense ass without a real point guard

ifuckwithit | Spurs

0 | 3 hours ago

is Ant back tomorrow? asking for a friend…

Patient-Net9343 | Timberwolves

1 | 3 hours ago

Not sure. I hope so!

ifuckwithit | Spurs

1 | 3 hours ago

i do too, would be great. even though y’all have 2-0’d us the matchups have been fun

sloBrodanChillosevic | Supersonics

16 | 4 hours ago

Viva Kevin Durant

NuttedInHerB4You

9 | 4 hours ago

yall know who he is

IceTruckHouse | Timberwolves

13 | 4 hours ago

Sengun is a certified terrible watch. Dude spends as much time flopping to the ground as he does standing.

KD is still tough. Insane how hard he carried tonight.

Terrible Gobert game. Need Ant back asap.

NotedBurnerAcct | Timberwolves

12 | 4 hours ago

I know Minnesota without Anthony Edwards isn’t the sexiest matchup, but is it usually that empty in Houston? Seats in the lower bowl were noticeably empty the entire game

E_boiii | Thunder

6 | 3 hours ago

As someone who lives in Houston traffic is so bad during the week, I didn’t even want to go to the okc game because of it.

Lizpy6688 | Rockets

4 | 3 hours ago

Yup, just replied to him. I love Houston, was born and raised there and I moved about 7 years ago about a few hours away. The traffic was brutal. Whenever I hear people complain about the traffic, I just roll my eyes. I literally remember leaving the mall to go to my home and it would take half an hour to do half a mall and just a few turns.

E_boiii | Thunder

1 | 3 hours ago

Yeah, wife and I went to the rodeo a few years back and Uber’d ended up getting stuck there starting at 11p till 1am because no one would pick up uber unless we payed extra for uber black or whatever.

Typically we just stay in our side of the city. But just like you I love Houston. Just a bitch to drive around lol

Lizpy6688 | Rockets

1 | 3 hours ago

Oh God I would dread when the rodeo was happening. Really any major event was a shit time. I’m not surprised that happened to ya lol

Great city but living there can be brutal at times. It’s why I now just go visit instead of living there lol

Lizpy6688 | Rockets

8 | 3 hours ago

No so our city is AWFUL for driving. We have no public transportation basically but our roads suck. I moved about 7 years ago just a few hours away but still go often. It would take me 30 minutes to go from the mall to my house.

Barely half a mile away

Our city planners decided to make it worse by opening a 28 lane highway that’s backfired badly, the roads are shit and there’s random construction. You can literally be driving in a 3 lane road that will end up as a 1 lane forever so you’re royally fucked if your stuck behind someone going 10 over which in Houston everyone is either speeding like they robbed a store or driving like it’s their first day without their parents.

So people aren’t always willing to drive far which makes it even worse as Toyota center is dead ass in the middle of the city.

My theory is whoever picks the contractors is taking a cut of it so they keep giving contracts out that’ll never get finished and just abandoned.

Tandrae | Timberwolves

2 | 2 hours ago

JUST ONE MORE LANE BRO, I PROMISE

In all seriousness it saddens me that one of the fastest growing regions in America can’t get proper public transportation!

Professional-Play-38 | Rockets

3 | 3 hours ago

its always empty, traffic and parking are a pain in the ass and tickets are very expensive. The last time the arena sold out was 2018 when harden use to wear 13….

sorendiz | HOU

1 | an hour ago

the two issues with being a rockets fan and wanting to attend with lower bowl tickets are that 1, houston traffic is miserable and you have to go basically bang into the middle of the city to go to Toyota Center, so a lot of people just don’t want to deal with that and even a good chunk of the people who do attend will always be late on weekday games. and 2, a ton of our lower bowl seats are corporate seats so it’s either difficult to get them at all or prohibitively expensive, so they go empty a lot of the time

NigelSexMachine | Rockets

10 | 4 hours ago

Last 2 minutes I thought we were about to see Choke City again

rawchess | Minneapolis Lakers

3 | 4 hours ago

Amen and Sengun certainly thought so too but yall have your closer now

DementedWarrior_ | Timberwolves

9 | 4 hours ago

Sengun hits the floor every other play

One_Frosting_5507

2 | an hour ago

With his ankle injury, he is just focusing on distributing his weight rather than straining his right ankle

Morezingis | Timberwolves

7 | 4 hours ago

The other team missed 14 free throws, and we still somehow shot worse from the line. Also, Rudy and Randle have a combined IQ of 43.

rawchess | Minneapolis Lakers

6 | 3 hours ago

How on Earth are you blaming Randle for this one lmao. Your guards and Gobert built a brick house and McDaniels let KD fry his face off

viktorfbg9 | Rockets

9 | 3 hours ago

I’ve seen this so many times where a player carries the entire game but makes a bad mistake towards the end and gets all the blame, it’s too funny

Morezingis | Timberwolves

-3 | 3 hours ago

Randle scored. But he also turned it over in the paint multiple times by doing his crazy ass spin-into-multiple-defenders paint move that always leads to a turnover against teams with fast hands.

Great player. Love him. Still dumb.

bishopbeaniepower | Warriors

2 | 3 hours ago

At this point the only explanation for Rudy’s free throw shooting is some sort of mental inability to comprehend the mechanics of a jumpshot lol.

Al_Bundys_Remote

1 | 3 hours ago

Free throw and jump shot in the same sentence

bishopbeaniepower | Warriors

1 | 3 hours ago

You get what I’m saying. I know players don’t actually jump on free throws

HuruHara | MIN

7 | 4 hours ago

As a refball fan, the 70 FTs attempted were euphoric.

bwehx

5 | 4 hours ago

That third quarter lasted forever. The timeclock issue, the many stoppages due to bad ref calls and then to add insult to injury, both teams get into the bonus. Like, c’mon man. Still a fun game though

Thornton__Melon | Rockets

6 | 4 hours ago

Fuck Free Throws 🤷‍♂️

HarryPauler | Timberwolves

3 | 4 hours ago

Same.

rawchess | Minneapolis Lakers

6 | 4 hours ago

Can’t believe I’m saying this but get Dubious Handles some help

i-race-goats | Rockets

4 | 4 hours ago

Assuming that’s our first win on the 2nd night of a b2b

Azpilicueta_Is_Goat | Nuggets

4 | 4 hours ago

Jabari had some insanely good defense in the clutch

raza_is_gay | HOU

4 | 4 hours ago

All I got to say about this game is: D’oh! Ed Malloy!

But seriously what a horrendously reffed game.

Expensive-Salad-7828 | Lakers

4 | 4 hours ago

Kevin Durant

Huntermainlol | Timberwolves

3 | 4 hours ago

3rd quarter abomination to god, KD is still good, refs were really fucking bad.

Awoo :(

sorendiz | HOU

1 | an hour ago

3 of the 4 challenges this game were successful, and probably would have been 100% if finch hadn’t just used the last challenge as a 1% hail mary cause why not

like come on if there’s going to be 70 FTs in a game can we at least get the calls right

E_boiii | Thunder

2 | 4 hours ago

Freethrow practice for both teams lol

WetShots | Rockets

2 | 4 hours ago

Thank you Anthony Edwards for being injured/taking the night off. Much appreciated

Renegadeforever2024 | Raptors

2 | 3 hours ago

Rockets needed this one badly

lambopanda | Rockets

2 | 3 hours ago

Both team combined for 29 missed FT.

DrSwaggenheimer | Timberwolves

2 | 3 hours ago

GGs rockets.

I think both our teams shot like stormtroopers from the line today. We had no business being in this match today lol.

sorendiz | HOU

1 | an hour ago

GGs bud

Frankly think the league should consider awarding both teams a loss for this game just based on the 29 combined missed FTs

Cul_what | Lakers

2 | 3 hours ago

His name is Kevin Durant, yall know who he is

eyeinthesky0 | Nuggets

2 | 2 hours ago

Twenty-nine missed free throws in this game. 69 (nice) total free throws shot. Awful.

DenalAFK | Rockets

1 | 4 hours ago

Thank god this game didn’t end in a free throw contest

And thank you Rockets for finally closing a game

HarryPauler | Timberwolves

1 | 4 hours ago

Tomorrow is a scheduled loss. Congrats on moving up in the standings Houston

bigtice | Rockets

1 | 4 hours ago

Jabari and the defense coming in clutch down the stretch.

Durant is a walking bucket.

HawaiianPunch42 | Timberwolves

1 | 4 hours ago

Missed Ant. On to the next, hopefully hes back to face the Spurs

PruneNo8272

1 | 3 hours ago

Epic duel between KD and Randle

Odoaiden | Timberwolves

1 | 3 hours ago

That was certainly a game, we are awful without Ant I don’t know the record but I’d guess like 3-5

Training_Ad7030

1 | 3 hours ago

Randle was absolutely gassed halfway through the 3rd. Just not our night between the free throws and the turnovers. Despite the 39 points I think Randle was hurting us more than helping down the stretch.

fred_crumbs

1 | 3 hours ago

Popped blood vessel in my eye from clenching my buttcheeks

Ham-Star

1 | 3 hours ago

Rudy just… God it’s so hard to be a fan. 8 missed free throws to 2 makes is sad shit.

TabletopThirteen | Pistons

1 | 3 hours ago

Maybe Gobert shouldn’t have sucked ass if they wanted to win

rjcarr | Supersonics

1 | an hour ago

Almost 70 free throws. If the league is going to keep calling this many fouls they need to change the rules so if you make your first FT it counts as two. This is just getting dumb now.

Briggity_Brak | Tampa Bay Raptors

1 | 27 minutes ago

Why isn’t Anthony Edwards playing?

heat_fan_ | Raptors

0 | 4 hours ago

Durant went en fuego 🔥

Andy_Wiggins | Timberwolves

0 | 3 hours ago

Obviously the Rockets won, and maybe it was weird because it was the 2nd night of a back-to-back (and missing Adams), but I was not impressed at all by their team.

They’re not the defensive force they were last year, and their offense is just so ugly. It was essentially just “let KD iso and pray his 37 year old legs hold up.” The complete lack of shooting from guys like Amen and Sengun is just so hard to build around. And then surrounding them with guys like Okogie or Tate is just…yuck.

kyleyle | Raptors

-1 | 3 hours ago

I could see this being the WCF. I have an odd feeling that OKC is gonna falter to one of these two

Kodak333 | Hawks

-3 | 3 hours ago

Sengun is ass

CLGbyBirth | Timberwolves

-3 | 4 hours ago

Was Sengun throwing the game there? Like how do you get 3 fouls in less than 5 minutes and fouled out.

Aussie_Spur | Spurs

-4 | 3 hours ago

What a shit game to watch. Rockets are frauds

ArtExtra6717 | Timberwolves

-8 | 3 hours ago

Sengun is honestly unbearable. Whines more than Doncic and constantly fouls on offense but still gets a ton of free throws because he dives like a soccer player.

Aussie_Spur | Spurs

-7 | 3 hours ago

Sengun has to be the most unwatchable all star of all time. I’d rather watch Chris Kaman

pokemonxysm97 | Timberwolves

-9 | 3 hours ago

Sengun is the most overrated player in the NBA by a considerable margin. Nothing he does should scream “12th best player in the NBA!” like where the Ringer has him

The Houston Rockets (24-15) defeat the Minnesota Timberwolves (27-15), 110-105.