Extremely difficult sequence for the Wolves. After their great victory at Madison Square Garden, Anthony Edwards and his comrades welcome the Cavaliers, the best team in the league, back-to-back…
It was even the third match in four days for Chris Finch's players, who clearly suffered the blow in the second half, letting go of the match straddling the third and fourth quarters.
“We have to find ways to improve” complained a good Rudy Gobert (17 points, 12 rebounds) after the defeat (124-117) of his team. “But it was also a match where we were tired in the second half. We can't focus on that. We still have to find ways to play despite fatigue. »
Julius Randle railed against the offensive rebounds left to Georges Niang and company. Particularly in a third quarter where the Cavaliers won the rebound battle 19 to 8!
“We score a lot of points but we have to do a better job on this subject. We let their movements put us out of position on rebounds” explained the strong winger.
Did the Wolves have too heavy legs? “I don’t know if it was related to fatigue. But at the end of the day, we have to keep moving and stay in action” simply recalled the Minnesota coach.
| Shots | Rebounds | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | L.F. | Off | Def | Early | Pd | Bp | Int | Ct | Party | Pts |
| Anthony Edwards | 42 | 36.7 | 44.4 | 42.9 | 84.5 | 0.7 | 5.1 | 5.8 | 4.3 | 3.3 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 1.9 | 26.1 |
| Julius Randle | 42 | 33.0 | 47.9 | 34.2 | 81.2 | 2.1 | 5.2 | 7.2 | 4.5 | 3.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 2.5 | 19.3 |
| Naz Reid | 42 | 25.0 | 47.5 | 39.9 | 77.8 | 0.9 | 4.2 | 5.1 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 2.4 | 13.3 |
| Donte Divincenzo | 40 | 26.4 | 39.7 | 36.9 | 82.0 | 0.6 | 3.1 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 1.8 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 11.0 |
| Rudy Gobert | 42 | 33.3 | 64.9 | 0.0 | 66.4 | 3.3 | 7.1 | 10.4 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 10.2 |
| Jaden Mcdaniels | 42 | 30.4 | 45.2 | 33.5 | 75.6 | 1.5 | 3.4 | 4.9 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 2.9 | 10.1 |
| Nickeil Alexander-walker | 42 | 22.8 | 45.7 | 41.1 | 69.6 | 0.5 | 2.2 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 8.4 |
| Mike Conley | 38 | 24.3 | 36.2 | 37.5 | 88.5 | 0.5 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 4.1 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 7.9 |
| Rob Dillingham | 17 | 9.3 | 47.8 | 44.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 1.8 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 4.5 |
| Luka Garza | 12 | 4.3 | 57.1 | 25.0 | 62.5 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 3.3 |
| Josh Minott | 26 | 7.2 | 50.8 | 23.1 | 77.8 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 2.8 |
| Terrence Shannon, Jr. | 10 | 4.5 | 53.8 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.5 |
| Pj Dozier | 9 | 3.9 | 66.7 | 66.7 | 16.7 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.8 |
| Leonard Miller | 3 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 |
| Daishen Nix | 3 | 4.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Joe Ingles | 9 | 3.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 |
| Tristen Newton | 1 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
| Jaylen Clark | 3 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
