Wolves vs Bulls End RESULT: Anthony Edwards dominate with 49 points

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Imagine this: The Minnesota Timberwolves To beat a bad team at home. Sounds pretty strange, right?

No longer imagine.

Chicago Bulls entered the Target Center on Wednesday night on the second half of a back-to-back. Lonzo Ball was held out, though he signed a contract extension, and Chicago also rolled without recently acquired three Jones, Zac Collins and Kevin Harter, who didn’t even fill a full 13-man bench.

It was a first -class opportunity for a sputtering wolves -team to the right Previously wrong At home and got back on track, especially considering its .500 home space on the way in the evening and less than the recent appearances of the stars.

It almost started perfect. At the request of the five starting, the wolves jumped out to a 21-point lead in the first quarter at its highest. Anthony Edwards and Naz Reid combined to 22 points in the opening, and it looked like it would be smooth sailing midway through the first one.

Not so fast. From the five-minute brand in the first quarter through the break, Bulls would continue to outsscore Wolves 52-26 and pull within a possession, even as much as pulling ahead with five points in the period in something Be catastrophic.

The wolves fell in a break in the second quarter, plain and simple. Much of it had to do with defective paint defense and bad ball contained. Luka Garza will forever be a fan favorite, but people, he just can’t defend like an NBA center. He sent a minus nine in six minutes and was quickly withdrawn from the game after allowed Jalen Smith to get loose several times.

But not so quickly again! In Michael Scott’s “Snip, Snap, Snip, Snap” fashion, Wolves found a way to get out of a trace meeting with an unhappy team and pull out, largely because of a 49-point gem from Anthony Edwards.

Bulls allow the most points in the paint per day. Battle in the league, which allows about 56 per year. Competition. It was a first -class chance of Edwards to attack, GOBERT to dominate and effective violation to come against a shining lack of edge protection.

While the wolves ended up losing the overall points in the paint match 48-42, it was the increased volume of putting pressure on the edge in the second half that ultimately opened things.

“I thought we sometimes settled too much,” mentioned head coach Chris Finch afterwards. “(I figured), if we tested their holes a little, we could get a little easier down there.”

Seemed as if Edwards agreed.

Key takeaway

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Edwards pull through

“I got five on it,” the song calling out when Edwards leads to the line of one and-1 option, played in his fair share later in the game as he slipped against the bucket of many of his other half points .

Edwards ’49-Point Life Raft dragged him into a draw for first place in franchise history with Karl-Anthony Towns for 40-Point games.

“Cat, I’m on your ass,” he joked after the game in the dressing room. In the wake of passing cities for career-three-point field goals as a member of Wolves, he continues to sip on number 32’s heels for franchise records based on volume scoring.

While coming up a point of 50, the play that was supposed to be critical for tonight in All-Star’s performance was his relative lack of going to the bucket early in the game. It’s a hard needle to thread. How much contact can you keep up with the game after the game, especially at the front end of a back-to-back? It’s nitpicky, but something that could have kept Wolves on Easy Street in large parts of the night as opposed to a match of half the game.

“If he forces the problem, he can take advantage of the bad calling,” Finch said, referring to his starvings tendency to get away from contact earlier in competitions.

Much of it also came on Fastbreak. Edwards have the ability to be a one-man break and few defenders who are already detained on their heels but tend to list away from the drive and settle for Pull-up 3-Pointer. It ended up working against bulls, but sometimes it can be wasted by belongings, and that’s something that Finch seemed to take warning about afterwards.

When you get to the level Edwards are on, it’s little things like fastbreak habits and decision making that can take you up one level. In this case, it could also have taken him up to the 50-point mark.

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Emptying the laptop

  • Jaylen Clark played another nice gameending with a plus-seven. He definitely seems to rise from Nickeil Alexander-Walker mode. It always helps. When asked for the game if Jaylen earns a foothold in the rotation, Finch replied with a rather resounding “Yes”. I want to believe it when I see it, especially when injuries start to iron out, but stating the obvious, it’s hard to keep him off the floor right now.
  • Anthony Edwards were asked for the game If he was contacted by doing the 3-point competition. He mentioned that he was, but that his answer was a resounding number not his thing, it seems.
  • Rudy Gobert recorded his third straight double-double. It was necessary to happen to a version of Nikola VUUCEVIC, who looked like he wouldn’t really play. The wolves won the second chance point 35-16, and much of it was due to Gberber’s work on the glass. Especially in the early one to go when things started to slip away, he came in and reassured things down a bit.

Up next

The wolves will be back in Target Center on the other stage of a back-to-back against one of the West’s leading teams, The Houston Rockets.

Houston comes in as losers of four equal (of which two to a bad Brooklyn Nets hold) and are looking for a win. Second -year player Amen Thompson has played light recently, an average of 17 points, 10 rebounds and five assists in his last 15 games. Tipoff is at. 19:00 ct.

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