Spend one quarter! Lose 40 points! No team won the championship before...

NBA Western Conference Finals continue, and the Timberwolves will play against the Thunder at home to start the third game of the series. In the first two games, the Thunder defeated the Timberwolves two at home, leading 2-0 in the total score.

The Timberwolves, who had no way out, broke out in desperate situation. On the defensive end, they lost only 9 points in nearly 10 minutes, completely curbing the opponent's offense. After a brief fire on the offensive end, they began to recover. Edwards scored 10 points in less than 2 minutes, and while scoring 16 points in a single quarter, they led the team to a 25-7 offensive directly to open the score;

The Timberwolves led the Thunder 34-14 20 points in the first quarter. Huazi played in the first quarter, 6 of 8 shots, 3 of 5 three-pointers, 1 of 2 free throws, scored 16 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 steal, plus or negative value +20! The individual score is more than the Thunder team! The Thunder's offensive end rebounded in the second quarter, but the Timberwolves were already crazy and were completely unstoppable. The substitute group, who performed poorly in the first two games, made 11 of 15 shots at halftime to help the Wolves continue to widen the gap! The Thunder's 30% shooting percentage and 26.1% three-point shooting percentage in the first half could not create a threat at all. The Wolves led by 31 points 72-41 in the first half!

Paul turned on the TV excitedly! In the second quarter, ESPN updated the real-time winning rate of this game. The probability of the Timberwolves winning this game has reached 99.4%, and the probability of the Thunder turning around is only 0.6%.

In the third quarter, the Thunder started with an 11-2 offensive and eroded the score difference, but the Timberwolves were briefly passive and then responded to the 20-4 offensive and opened the score again, and the game also entered garbage time directly! Before the third quarter ended, Thunder withdrew all the main forces and surrendered! In the end, the Timberwolves beat the Thunder 143-101 at home, scored 42 points and won the game back, chasing the score to 1-2!

Thunder's overall offense is not good. They made 35 of 86 shots, shooting 40.7% from the field and 14 of 44 three-pointers, shooting 31.8%. In addition, the Thunder made 14 mistakes in the game.

Defensive end, the Thunder were scored 143 points by their opponents in this game, setting a new high for this season (regular season + playoffs), which was previously the 140 points lost against the Nuggets on March 11. Interestingly, this is the 31st time in NBA playoff history that there has been a net loss of 40+. Among all the teams that have lost 40+, none of them won the championship in their playoff journey that year!

Huazi played in 30 minutes and clocked in three quarters, made 12 of 17 shots, 5 of 8 three-pointers, 1 of 2 free throws, scored 30 points, 9 rebounds, 6 assists and 2 steals, plus or negative values ​​+36! In this game, Randle swept away the shadow of being abandoned in the fourth quarter of the previous game. He played in 30 minutes, made 9 of 15 shots, 2 of 5 three-pointers, and 4 of 4 free throws. Efficiently scored 24 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, without any mistakes, plus or negative values ​​+ 38 championships in the whole game! McDan scored 10 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists.

The Timberwolves' two major substitutes finally showed their strength. Reed made 4 of 6 shots, made 2 of 3 three-pointers, scored 10 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists; Walker made 5 of 9 shots, made 2 of 4 three-pointers, scored 12 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists.

Xinke MVP Alexander performed poorly in this game. Not only did he feel bad in his personal offense, he was also very hesitant to handle the ball, and even had an outrageous eight-second violation. He played for 27 minutes in the whole game, made 4 of 13 shots, 2 of 5 three-pointers, 4 of 4 free throws, scored 14 points, 2 rebounds, 6 assists and 1 block, and made 4 mistakes, with a positive and negative value -32 the lowest in the game.

In addition, Mitchell scored 14 points and 1 assist, Jaylenway scored 13 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists, Homgren scored 10 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists, Dillon Jones scored 10 points, 3 rebounds and 1 assist, Kenway scored 8 points and 1 assist, Haltenstein scored 6 points and 6 rebounds, Dortmund scored 6 points and 1 rebound.