It feels like it was in 2018 in Minnesota on Tuesday night, and it wasn't a good thing. That fall, Jimmy Butler tried to impose trade from Minnesota, he walked into a legendary practice, grabbed the players in four steps and led them to a melee against the starters, talking throughout the process and leading the scrub to win.
Minnesota's nightmare returns Tuesday. night Stephen Curry left the game with nervous hamstrings in the second quarterJimmy Butler led a team of no one with 20 points, 11 rebounds (4 offenses) and 8 assists. Curry or No Curry Warriors played a strong defense and shot in time, like Draymond Green beat four 3s to push their lead to 23 points before ending up maintaining a 99-88 victory.
Friends, Jimmy and Draymond stepped up their efforts to win the first game 🙌@buddyhield: 24 pm, 5 3 pm, 8 reb@jimmybutler: 20 points, 11 reb, 8 ast, 2 stl@Money23Green: 18 pm, 4 pm, 8 Rebs, 6 AST, 2 STL
GSW/min Game 2: Thursday 8:30 pm/et on TNT! pic.twitter.com/lwnegpqqyg
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Golden State now leads 1-0, with its second game at Minnesota on Thursday.
There are two key points in this game.
One is whether the curry is available on Thursday night or in the rest of the series. Curry will get an MRI on Wednesday to determine the severity of the hamstring strain, but reporter lim saw him as he left the arena.
The Warriors’ focus is that even if it’s “moderate” level 1 pressure, Curry may miss most of the series.
The severity of the strain will ultimately determine how much time Stephen Curry has to miss. The average time for confirmed strain loss in G1 is about 10 days. For the G2 strain, this will jump to about 31 days. The loss time for non-descriptive strains was about 12 days.
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Another point is that Anthony Edwards was bland, playing 0 out of 10 to open the game, scoring only 1 in the first half, and the rest of the Timberwolves followed his lead. Anthony and his teammates appeared to be abandoned by area defender Steve Kerr, who threw for the big chunk of the night. This is what Timberwolves coach Chris Finch said Jon Crouch Sinski via Track and Field.
"It's started with Anthony. He struggled early, the lights went out...you're the head of the team. You have to come out and set the tone."
"People are going to try to blame any blame, who are you blame," Edwards said through the Associated Press. "They can blame me. I'm not doing well enough."
Minnestoa started putting it together in the fourth quarter and lowered the Warriors' lead to the unit number, but Buddy Hield and the Warriors hit enough key shots to keep enough hits. Hilder scored 24 points and had 5 three-pointers.
Minnesota's team hit less than 40%, while Edwards returned to lead the team and shot 22 with 23 points. Julius Randle was ranked 4th on the way to 18 points, with Naz Reid adding 19 places to the bench.
There is a different Timberwolves in Game 2, and if not, they will be in a hole that may be too deep to climb.