Minnesota Sports Forum

lipoli390 wrote:I'm out of town and missed tonight's game. Looks from the box score like Wiggins carried the team with some help from Belly and Ricky. Why didn't Zach play? Did Wiggins look as good as the box score suggests? How about Belly? Ricky looked solid with 10 assists, 4 boards and 3 steals. Did he play as well as it appears in the box score? Towns scored over 20 points but his shooting percentage was pathetic. What's the story with him tonight? Looks like our defense was better than it's been lately. Is that true or did the Lakers just miss shots they should have made? What was the key to tonight's win overall other than the obvious scoring from Wiggins and Belly?

Lavine did not play because of a knee injury (same with Bazz and Rush with a toe) and Lavine was noticeably limping.

Wiggins was a absolute stud tonight did everything will played a lot of point forward and he was just a stud nothing more to say on that.

By far the best game Belly has played this year, he played the 3 all night tonight and it will make things interesting going forward did he play well because he played the 3 or was it because he got to play with Ricky and the rest of the starters.

Towns I would say was bad tonight what is weird to say when you have a 20/10 game but he had tunnel vision tonight. I like what Cool saying that it seems like he was trying to score 5 points every possession. He did make some key 3s though when the Lakers made it close in the 4th. But I think with Lavine out he tried to force things instead of letting them come to him.

Ricky stirred the drink and had a great 1st quarter. Thought his defense was poor in the 4th on Lou Williams (they switched Wiggins on him and Lou slowed down).

I thought the wolves played good team defense, not as many bone headed mistakes on that end, good defensive performance.

We won because players stepped up, Wiggins went from all star level to elite tonight. Belly stepped up in so many ways. Payne played his best game of his career in my opinion. We won the 50/50 balls and got to the line. We did not get killed inside for the first time this year and we rebounded and ended possessions for the most part. Played good team basketball and Wiggins was special tonight.

Thanks for the report, geek. Hope Zach's injury isn't too bad. Whether he starts or comes off the bench in a 6th man role, he's a key to this team's chances of making the playoffs. He's by far our best shooter and he can pick up what scoring slack when Wiggins isn't firing on all cylinders.

Q12543 wrote:LOL Mozgov....Kinda feel bad for the big guy.

I don't feel bad because he fouled guys. He complained about that 5th foul and he fouled Towns shoving him on the hip and got his arm. Lol

thedoper wrote:That Wiggins is good. I don't think it's a coincidence that he had a huge game at the 2. That is where he dominates as an athlete. I would not be opposed to moving Zach to the 2nd unit to get Wiggins more minutes at his natural position.

I've wondered in a couple previous games if that could be something they could do with more as a Manu type talent than Jamal Crawford etc.

Mstermisty wrote:Towns has hit a couple timely 3's, but overall just way too much of him on the perimeter.

Time to shut the door on the Fakers.

I agree he has been way too perimeter oriented. I wonder what the coaching staff is asking him to do offensively.