[Highlight] The Minnesota Timberwolves get the final stop and take Game 1 with a 104-102 victory over the San Antonio Spurs. Julius Randle scores 21 points and Anthony Edwards adds 18 points in his first career playoff game off the bench.
Maximum Wolves CTE ball at end there
I relived a thousand nightmares in the last 2 minutes of that game
I absolutely thought they threw it. I’ve seen that buzzer beater blown lead go in a dozen times I was fucking bugging
The Julius Randle experience
Dubious Handles my imperfect king. Just sit on the wing please
If that’s all the CTE they have in a game, I’ll live with it. They played extremely well and only 9 turnovers in the game is very rare for this team, especially in the playoffs.
They should have had Joe Ingles to inbound that possesion that got stolen.
2022 flashbacks
Well the rim kinda got the final stop
Ill take some rim in that case
It was a pretty good rimjob.
Salty rim
What. The fuck. I mean…good outcome. But holy shit
*the Wolves and Vikings will kill me before any of my other vices do
They’ll do a study in the future and determine being a MN sports fan was equivalent to smoking 20 cigarettes a day.
Unless you root for the Lynx: the complete opposite of the rest of the Minnesota sports teams
Or Frost
This is the 3rd missed shot at the buzzer to win a playoff game this season, though probably the best look of the 3
what about LeBron’s? I’d say that one was the closest
That was a clean look at the end from one of your better shooters… that being said great win from Minnesota
Both teams leave feeling like the film session tomorrow is gonna not be kind for sure.
ours will mostly be fox being ass and getting outplayed by conley lol
Also to not let TJ drive left…
I feel like Randle vs Castle is an awkward matchup the Spurs let happen all game, but Keldon is the most logical matchup for Randle but he comes off the bench.
You’d think the Spurs would’ve already scouted that after what he did to Denver in that last game
Funny thing about it is TSJ ended up drive right a couple of times but finishing effectively with the inside left.
Wemby shooting like 15 threes lol
I can’t believe they let Conley get legit meaningful minutes in the second round
just dont get why they go for three points when you’re down by 2 though. they’re so programmed to step back but that’s a longer and harder shot. just take the two instead! you were short anyway
Let’s say the two point shot has a 50% of going down, and hitting it gives you a 50% chance to win in overtime - that’s overall a 25% chance of winning the game. A good look at a three-pointer gives you a better chance than that - 33% or better for most players. So it’s the smarter play.
I just play basketball man, I don’t do school
No they miss too often in stressful moments from three. Event the goat Steph curry has only ever made one buzzer beater game winnner in his career.
One of their starters had fouled out.
crazy good look. reid bit so hard, he would’ve (and maybe still did) gotten chewed out by the coaching staff so badly, if that went in
Randle is incredible. He gets a lot of flak from our fan base but we wouldn’t be able to win games like this without him.
He guarded Wemby, hit huge shots and even had a ton of screen assists where he took out multiple spurs at once. He has his rough moments, but there prob aren’t 10 guys in the league who could’ve done what he did down the stretch tonight
Our fans can be way too hard on him. We lose that game ten times out of ten without that man working like a dog to generate key buckets when everyone else is gassed.
He’s just like KAT lol. So frustrating to watch but this team desperately needs what he brings and won’t be able to easily replace it if we were to actually trade him.
They’re 2 of my favorite players and it’s hilarious they got traded for each other. They’re both really special players but they each have like 3 weird quirks that make you want to scream. When you factor in all the great things they do, you just have to learn to embrace the occasional blind spin into traffic or random offensive foul for elbowing a guy for no reason
Sort of ironically, when you need someone to just calmly dribble out the shot clock and take a decent shot at the last second with no help, he is exactly the guy you need
J always gonna have a special place in my heart for bringing the knicks outta the dark ages
Big time
Minnesota deserves all the credit
Be still my beating heart
Open three from your best shooter…damn
Shit had me stressing and its not even my team playing lol
That was too close Wolves barely escaped a total meltdown. What a nice game
My heart could barely take this! Such a fun game!
Neither team ever had a double digit lead. Came down to the final shot. More games like this and we are in for a great series.
Tough matchup for a young team.
Win or lose this is gonna be amazing experience for a team that’s ahead of schedule.
Yeah you guys are going to be competing for titles for close to the next decade whether it’s this year or not
Man. Spurs are such a fun team to watch. Its so crazy because Wemby does shit weekly we have never seen and the ground he covers with those arms doesn’t make sense. It will be a long,tough physical series and both teams will be beat up. You could see the youth a little bit down the stretch, you said it perfect though
Harper grabbed the rebound and looked for wemby, wemby gae it right back.
By this time next year Harper is grabbing that rebound and going coast to coast.
This is great experience
Thank god he missed
Didn’t expect this game to go all the way to the last shot
Really? It was kinda that way all game. Until the early parts of the 4th. I have a feeling these two will do OT at least once this series.
well I mean before the game started
Yuhhh spurs fans told me their non shooting wouldn’t be a problem
Gotta call timeout there Mitch.
On to game 2
Yeah I thought that too. At the same time, I get it. Whatever play he draws up would be lucky to give them that open of a look
100% the right call there.
How? You got a wide open 3 in rhythm to win the game. You can’t draw up a better play unless youre going for a tie
This. Didn’t need a 3, shoulda TO’d and went for tie
Fox and Wemby struggles. The team is having a hard time executing with the wolves defense. We have a great shot. Unfortunately. Juju came up short.
nahh they got a good look. Plus a timeout lets the other team set up their defense
I get that, but we have young guys and almost all of them were expecting the TO. I’d like the chance to calm them down. I ain’t mad though it almost went in.
Then Minny would’ve set up their defense and put Rudy in. Spurs got a solid look at 3 against a scrambling defense, they weren’t gonna draw up anything better than that
Eh, IDK. Open court fast break and got a shot from your best shooter. You call a TO, you go against a set defense matched up. And Minnesota played great defense.
Our best* shooter got an open look. On to game two
nah man spurs needed to take a timeout there, idc what anyone says about julian shooting an open 3. That shit was not easy he had to pump fake and step back. Something I guarantee you he has not done more than a few times this year. This is not wemby passing up a contested look to an open corner 3 for him. But still great game! We’re in for a good series.
Howwwll!
Wouldn’t say they got a stop considering the open look he had, but overall the Wolves played well
Man…Randle gotta drive and draw Wemby and kick that to Shannon. Wemby was hunting the help.
Shannon can’t shoot
It’s a series now
Ant knows they stole one, he will lock in those final stretches. They need Ayo back too.
We got us a series
This must be some sort of cosmic joke. I will not get my hopes up as a lifelong Minnesota sports enjoyer I know this is the pride before the fall….unless….NO I MUST STAY STRONG
I feel you bro. I wasnt going to watch until ant played. Conley played GREAT. 0 turnovers, 4⁄7 from 3. TSJ was on demon time again attacking the rim. Wemby got 16000020 blocks but we held him to 11 points on rough shooting. Honestly though I know a lot happens in the off season, but I feel better about next year then I ever have…these young guns have been unlocked
That should have been in. Stole one. Pumped for the rest of this series.
I knew that JC shot wasn’t going in. He’s not clutch in the slightest. Same dude who has missed 2 clutch free throws twice this season, 2 different games. He’s not that guy.
Get the stop feels a little off. Both teams are so strong defensively that I think it’s just gonna be a rock fight every game. I loved it
Gonna be a fun series for sure!
I know they lost. But don’t go crazy, Spurs are a good team, they will adjust and if Wemby bounces back on offense, with this defensive presence, they will win.
how do you not call a timeout and run a play for Wemby? i dont give a damn how good of a look they got in transition
My apple watch called the ambulance
I feel like the Spurs players thought they WERE gonna call a timeout initially, cuz it took like 1-2 seconds for them to get running. They still got an open three out of it, but who knows? Maybe they could have gotten an easy layup to tie it?
Wtf is Ant doing. Dude guarding the air
Ant played the shot clock terribly lmao
Rudy back to his standard playoff impact, riding the pine in the 4th