The Minnesota Timberwolves are a victory to ensure a discomfort of the first round over the Los Angeles Lakers, obtaining a 116-113 victory in game 4 on Sunday to take an advantage of the 3-1 series.
In a game that was back and forth during the 48 minutes, the Timberwolves could retire due to a series of clutch plays in the last 40 seconds. First, Jaden McDaniels made a tray while Austin Reaaves with 39.1 seconds remaining to tie the game with 113-113. McDaniels gave the next free kick to give his team an advantage of a point.
McDaniels played a strict defense in Luka Doncic inside after his free throwing brand, with the Lakers star stumbling half the court with 33 seconds. Los Angeles was forced to call a waiting time as a result of the play, leaving the Lakers JJ Redick Nothvy go coach go on bank.
“To begin with, Luka was,” Redick told journalists after the game. “That was a flagrant trip. Not only does we fall alone. We saw it again, they stumble upon it. Therefore, we should have bone in the free throw line. It is not an excuse of why it loses us, but they sank it. We had the opportunity to climb.”
Doncic also believes he was stumbled.
“What do you think, do you think they stumbled on me?” Doncic replied when asked about the work. “Oh yes, I think they stumbled, sure. We had to call Timeout.”
After the waiting time, McDaniels came up with a robbery in LeBron James’s pass with 30 seconds removering. While the Timberwolves sought to add to their leadership in recent seconds, Anthony Edwards led to the edge, but lost the ball and saw him get out of the limits with 10.1 seconds. However, the coach of the Timberwolves, Chris Finch, challenged the call, who was exaggerated and ruled to be a foul on James.
James opposed the dump of the call, believing that he obtained a clean strip.
“That work happens all the time,” James said. “Hand is part of that ball. That is what they say. I feel that the hand was part of that ball. I could hit his hand on the ball, stripped and out. I have played again and again.”
Of course, Edwards’s disagreement with James’s statement.
“I knew he committed a foul because he slid very strong and hit my arm,” Edwards said. “That was a great revolution of the referees, we appreciate them.”
With the Lakers on the foul limit, Edwards went to the free throw line and made both attempts to give the Timberwolves an advantage of 116-113.
The Lakers called their last time after Doncic’s trip, so they could not advance the ball after Edwards. However, they could still get a good look to try to tie the game. The Timberwolves chose not to dirty three, with reaves opening in the corner in recent seconds. His 3 -point attempt that he tied just before the bell, he thought.
The two of Edwards made free throws at the end they gave 43 points to the maximum when he exceeded the two main stars of the Lakers. Doncic finished with 38 points, while James had 27 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists in 46 minutes. But James did not score in the fourth quarter of defeat.
“I have been dreaming about my whole life, whether football or basketball,” Edwards said about his performance on Sunday. “Just being in these situations, and now goes against LeBron and Luka. Luka is probably the best young player in the game and LeBron is the best player who has ever played the game. Just trying to prove that I belong and say all my tht.” The Thans and the people of critics, therefore, Therm Thers. “
James and Doncic also put important minutes in the loss of the Lakers, with each one registering 46 minutes. In fact, James, Doncic, Reaves, Rui Hachimura and Dorian Finney-Smith played the entire second half of Sunday’s game. He scored the first time a coach played the same five players for a complete half of a playoff in the game era per game.
“It was planned, but we had just made the decision halfway,” said Redick.
There was a drama in the first half too. James and Edwards were a bit physical, they exchanged some games. Edwards admitted that he wanted to send a message.
“Just let him know that we are not going to push us all night. Just trying to be a plague for him,” Edwards said. “Hello, much stronger than me. So, let him know that we will be here all night and I will be a plague for him.”
Edwards succeeded doing that on Sunday. Now, he and the Timberwolves are 48 minutes from ensuring a discomfort of the first round over the Lakers for that. They will get their first of the three Chans to finish the series on Wednesday, when the Lakers receive them for game 5 in Los Angeles.
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