All Eyes North | Minnesota Timberwolves Basketball

[kibaxx7]

Threes falling, finally! But you can't let your opponent shoot 60%.

[KimJongBaze]

holy Bron

[The JZA]

Gonna need you to unleash Derrick Rose

[Chillcavern]

Threes falling, finally! But you can't let your opponent shoot 60%.

I was especially happy KAT found his form from deep. But yeah, the Lakers killed me with their shooting. They ran a metric fuckton of like 5 wing lineups and LeBron and Lonzo did the ballhandling so I couldn't even punish them for it. Trying to guard 4 wings who can shoot (and Lonzo) with my 3 guard lineups was killing me. There were times where I had 4 players shorter than their shortest player. I might need to look for a big PG myself to help deal with teams that have bigger guards.

holy Bron

Bron gonna Bron. He just took it to another level in that second half. And I "get" to play the Lakeshow again in like 4 games here, this time in LA. Uh oh

Gonna need you to unleash Derrick Rose

Lol I've really enjoyed using Rose. He really sets the tempo and scoring for the bench - I may need to look into increasing his minutes. But he got exposed defensively against the Lakers, as was Dario - there's a reason their +/- stats were garbage. Granted nobody defended well, but I was physically outmatched by the Lakers in that game
I hate that 2K always has him complain about his role with the Pups (I may or may not have done several sims with the Wolves, lol). He literally had an interview where he said his goal is 6MOTY. How the fuck does that mean "I need to be a starter" in 2K? Smdh
I like having those sorts of complaints though, usually it helps with realism. Just sucks to have a case where he's documented to not have a problem

[C-Dub]

you play myGM over myLeague?

[Chillcavern]

you play myGM over myLeague?

Yup. It’ll probably bite me in the ass, but as stupid as it is I love having to deal with all of the “extra” stuff. Makes the game feel more alive. And I like that the game generates extra goals for you.
If I could get a myGM mode with the flexibility of myLeague, I’d be so happy.

That early 90s Thib though.

As soon as I saw that pic, I knew I had to include it in the chise lmao

Thibs has a plan, I'm sure it's banked

To be fair, LeBron was quiet in the first half. Then he decided to actually try. Was something to see, even if it sucked to be on the receiving end

young Thibs looking like a snack

There's a reason he dated Kate Upton

[Chillcavern]

Timberwolves force Gobert into early foul trouble, blitz the Jazz behind KAT's 43 to win on Halloween night


Jeff Teague uses a no-look pass to escape the double team and set RoCo up for the 3

Starting Lineups

Position	Utah	Minnesota
PG	Ricky Rubio	Jeff Teague
SG	Donovan Mitchell	Andrew Wiggins
SF	Jae Crowder	Robert Covington
PF	Derrick Favors	Taj Gibson
C	Rudy Gobert	Karl-Anthony Towns

Scoring Summary:

Team	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	Total
Utah Jazz (2-4)	30	27	28	22	107
Minnesota Timberwolves (3-4)	42	25	33	21	121

Team Stats:

Stat	Utah	Minnesota
Field Goals	44/86 (51%)	42/79 (52%)
3 Pointers	10/25 (40%)	11/24 (46%)
Free Throws	9/12 (75%)	26/28 (93%)
Fast Break Points	18	27
Points in the Paint	58	58
Second Chance Points	8	8
Bench Points	32	42
Assists	28	32
Offensive Rebounds	10	10
Defensive Rebounds	29	35
Steals	10	14
Blocks	2	4
Turnovers	17	12
Team Fouls	18	13
Biggest Lead	6	19
Time of Possession	26:26	21:33

Jazz Stats:

Name	Points	Rebounds	Assists	Steals	Blocks	Turnovers	Minutes	FG	3PT	FT	Fouls	+/-
Donovan Mitchell	25	3	5	5	0	5	40	11/26	3/8	0/0	1	-16
Jae Crowder	16	4	5	1	0	1	29	7/15	2/5	0/0	1	-7
Derrick Favors	16	12	2	1	2	1	30	6/9	0/0	4/6	3	1
Joe Ingles	14	0	4	1	0	0	24	6/7	1/2	1/1	2	-5
Ricky Rubio	11	4	2	0	0	5	35	4/10	3/5	0/0	3	-6
Rudy Gobert	7	7	7	2	0	1	27	2/3	0/0	3/4	6	-15
Dante Exum	5	3	1	0	0	1	11	2/3	0/1	1/1	0	-5
Thabo Sefolosha	4	2	2	0	0	1	15	2/8	0/3	0/0	2	-14
Ekpe Udoh	4	1	0	0	0	0	14	2/2	0/0	0/0	0	-6
Kyle Korver	3	1	0	0	0	0	14	1/2	1/1	0/0	0	1
Raul Neto	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1/1	0/0	0/0	0	2

Timberwolves Stats:

Name	Points	Rebounds	Assists	Steals	Blocks	Turnovers	Minutes	FG	3PT	FT	Fouls	+/-
Karl-Anthony Towns	43	20	4	1	1	0	38	16/23	2/4	9/9	1	21
Andrew Wiggins	14	2	1	2	2	2	33	6/14	1/5	1/2	1	19
Robert Covington	14	4	4	3	0	2	31	5/9	3/6	1/1	2	12
Derrick Rose	12	0	4	2	0	0	23	3/8	2/2	4/4	1	-1
Dario Saric	11	2	2	0	0	2	20	4/5	2/2	1/2	4	17
Josh Okogie	8	0	3	0	0	1	16	2/4	0/1	4/4	0	-4
Gorgui Dieng	8	2	1	0	1	0	11	3/6	0/0	2/2	2	-7
Jeff Teague	6	2	8	3	0	3	26	1/5	0/3	4/4	0	21
Tyus Jones	3	0	4	1	0	1	15	1/1	1/1	0/0	0	-5
Taj Gibson	2	7	1	2	0	2	27	1/4	0/0	0/0	2	-3

Player of the Game:
Karl-Anthony Towns, C, Minnesota


Up Next:

@ Golden State Warriors (6-2)

[C-Dub]

Teague stylin' on em

[Chillcavern]

Golden State wins easily against Minnesota behind great defense and shooting


Gorgui Dieng threw down the poster on DeMarcus Cousins. Dieng led the TImberwolves in points.

Starting Lineups

Position	Minnesota	Golden State
PG	Jeff Teague	Stephen Curry
SG	Andrew Wiggins	Klay Thompson
SF	Robert Covington	Kevin Durant
PF	Taj Gibson	Draymond Green
C	Karl-Anthony Towns	DeMarcus Cousins

Scoring Summary:

Team	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	Total
Minnesota Timberwolves (4-4)	26	25	32	23	106
Golden State Warriors (6-3)	32	34	40	30	136

Team Stats:

Stat	Minnesota	Golden State
Field Goals	39/88 (44%)	53/88 (60%)
3 Pointers	6/25 (24%)	26/28 (57%)
Free Throws	22/27 (81%)	14/15 (93%)
Fast Break Points	9	46
Points in the Paint	62	62
Second Chance Points	10	0
Bench Points	51	37
Assists	26	37
Offensive Rebounds	14	2
Defensive Rebounds	34	40
Steals	6	10
Blocks	3	4
Turnovers	14	8
Team Fouls	14	18
Biggest Lead	4	34
Time of Possession	26:56	21:03

Timberwolves Stats:

Name	Points	Rebounds	Assists	Steals	Blocks	Turnovers	Minutes	FG	3PT	FT	Fouls	+/-
Gorgui Dieng	23	8	0	0	1	0	21	8/14	0/1	7/9	2	-12
Karl-Anthony Towns	20	14	1	0	2	2	28	8/17	2/4	2/2	2	-23
Andrew Wiggins	16	6	1	0	0	2	30	6/14	2/7	2/3	1	-28
Jeff Teague	8	0	11	1	0	4	30	1/6	0/2	6/7	4	-17
Taj Gibson	8	6	1	1	0	1	26	4/7	0/2	0/0	2	-21
Dario Saric	8	2	1	1	0	1	17	4/6	0/0	0/0	0	-7
Josh Okogie	7	1	4	0	0	0	21	2/9	0/2	2/2	1	-8
Tyus Jones	5	2	4	0	0	3	19	1/3	1/3	2/2	0	-12
Luol Deng	4	2	1	2	0	0	6	2/2	0/0	0/0	0	2
Robert Covington	3	4	0	1	0	1	27	1/4	1/2	0/0	1	-22
Derrick Rose	2	0	2	0	0	0	12	1/4	0/2	0/0	1	-5
James Nunnally	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	1/2	0/0	0/0	0	3

Warriors Stats:

Name	Points	Rebounds	Assists	Steals	Blocks	Turnovers	Minutes	FG	3PT	FT	Fouls	+/-
Kevin Durant	35	5	2	2	0	1	31	15/20	3/5	2/2	2	35
DeMarcus Cousins	22	14	6	3	3	1	38	8/16	2/4	4/5	4	30
Stephen Curry	18	4	6	2	0	1	30	6/12	4/8	2/2	3	25
Draymond Green	14	9	5	0	0	1	29	6/11	2/4	0/0	1	18
Andre Igoudala	12	1	4	0	0	0	20	5/6	2/2	0/0	0	12
Quinn Cook	12	3	5	0	0	2	19	4/5	0/0	4/5	1	6
Klay Thompson	10	2	7	1	1	0	27	4/8	2/3	0/0	1	26
Shaun Livingston	8	1	1	0	0	0	19	3/6	0/0	2/2	4	0
Jonas Jerebko	3	1	1	2	0	0	21	1/2	1/2	0/0	2	4
Alfonzo McKinnie	2	0	0	0	0	1	3	1/1	0/0	0/0	0	-3
Damian Jones	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0/1	0/0	0/0	0	-3

Player of the Game:
Kevin Durant, SF, Golden State Warriors


Up Next:

@ Portland Trailblazers (2-6)

[DJ.]

Encouraging signs from Dieng despite the big loss, positive thoughts.