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RE: Timberwolves 2024/2025 Season - 5/13/2025 11:46:10 AM   
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Jimmy got going last night, as I figured he would have the game before. It just took them a game to adjust to Steph’s absence I guess. They are well coached and I imagine Kerr can’t be too unhappy with how the game went but they just couldn’t quite pull it off. I expect the next game to be more of the same. A battle if the Wolves don’t play their A game, a comfortable win if they do.

Randle has been an intense playoff performer. Take this game and bottle it. If you could have seen this game in a time machine last fall you would have said, hell yeah, let’s go. His baskets seem to come at clutch times too, when the team looks a little off and they need someone to step up.


Until Jaden absolutely locked him down. Butler did not score a single point the last 8 minutes of the game.

Butler was gassed.

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RE: Timberwolves 2024/2025 Season - 5/13/2025 12:39:01 PM   
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2. The Curry-less Warriors are more formidable than I thought. The remaining old farts provide stability and accountability and the role players are executing at a high level. Kuminga has stepped into a much bigger role and met the moment.



Warriors are a much better defense without Curry.

Kuminga is going to get an inflated contract after this series. Nice player, but he's exactly the kind of roleplayer we always struggle against. Long athletic tweener forward that is a streaky shooter. See: Rui Hachima, Obi Toppin, Kyle Kuzma...
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RE: Timberwolves 2024/2025 Season - 5/13/2025 3:00:20 PM   
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Jaden is now in 4th place in Wolves all-time playoff scoring history.

The wolves now have 19 playoff wins with Edwards. They had 18 playoff wins without him.

ESPN: The Wolves have now won 10 playoff road games in 2 years, the best road record of any team in that stretch. For context, we were 6-27 on the road before last year
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RE: Timberwolves 2024/2025 Season - 5/13/2025 4:01:48 PM   
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2. The Curry-less Warriors are more formidable than I thought. The remaining old farts provide stability and accountability and the role players are executing at a high level. Kuminga has stepped into a much bigger role and met the moment.



Warriors are a much better defense without Curry.

Kuminga is going to get an inflated contract after this series. Nice player, but he's exactly the kind of roleplayer we always struggle against. Long athletic tweener forward that is a streaky shooter. See: Rui Hachima, Obi Toppin, Kyle Kuzma...


They are probably the best defensive team in the NBA. We really moved the ball well in the 3rd. Green and Butler are running on fumes---we have to finish it next game.

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RE: Timberwolves 2024/2025 Season - 5/14/2025 4:53:56 AM   
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RE: Timberwolves 2024/2025 Season - 5/14/2025 9:35:27 AM   
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GLWYHAD'S.

Thanks.

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RE: Timberwolves 2024/2025 Season - 5/14/2025 10:10:15 AM   
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2. The Curry-less Warriors are more formidable than I thought. The remaining old farts provide stability and accountability and the role players are executing at a high level. Kuminga has stepped into a much bigger role and met the moment.



Warriors are a much better defense without Curry.

This is very true. Even in his prime, Curry was someone GS wanted to hide on defense. With him out of the lineup, they are a bit longer and more athletic, which helps them with their zone in particular. The Wolves have struggled at times against the GS zone when they would continue to take contested threes against it. This has made GS difficult to play agaist, even without Curry. In the 3rd quarter of game 4, they finally started attacking the gaps in the zone.

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RE: Timberwolves 2024/2025 Season - 5/14/2025 11:41:31 AM   
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Stephen Curry Officially Ruled Out By Warriors For Game 5
May 13, 2025 10:21 PM


Stephen Curry has been officially ruled out by the Golden State Warriors for Game 5 of the Western Conference semifinals against the Minnesota Timberwolves as he continues to deal with a strained right hamstring. The Warriors, who won Game 1 of the series, will have to win Game 5 to give Curry a chance to return for Game 6.


Curry will be reevaluated Wednesday. He sustained the hamstring injury in the second quarter of the Warriors' Game 1 victory on May 6.


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RE: Timberwolves 2024/2025 Season - 5/14/2025 11:54:56 AM   
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RE: Timberwolves 2024/2025 Season - 5/14/2025 12:14:18 PM   
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This feels like a game where we'll fall flat.

Pretty clear motivation. Beat GS tonight, at home, without Curry. Or...

Lose and face GS with Curry (not guaranteed) on the road, GS with momentum and the narrative being a continued Wolves choke to increase the pressure.

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RE: Timberwolves 2024/2025 Season - 5/14/2025 4:45:43 PM   
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This feels like a game where we'll fall flat.


I don’t know. I think the opposite. Win at home, wrap it up and not see Curry again. That should be proper motivation.

Of course there’s a 49.9% chance I’m wrong.

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