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Towns did give us more and we won Game&!!!![;)]

Towns had a very Jekyl and Hyde game. He played good defense on Joker. That's strange to say, give that Joker scored 35. You'll never shut him down, but you can force him to miss some extra shots over the course of the game. Jokic was 13 for 28 and Towns was a big part of that. Towns also hit some big shots in big moments. There was also...as always...the absolute dumb ass fouls. Defensive fouls well away from the basket and offensive fouls. It's like he just can't help himself.

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This game was like the series as a whole.

This is the only game where a team came back from double digits to win though right?

When Wolves got down by 10+ I thought it was over...

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DENVER -- The Minnesota Timberwolves' historic 20-point comeback over the Denver Nuggets in Sunday's Game 7 to earn a trip to the Western Conference finals actually started 13 months ago at bar a few miles away from Ball Arena.

The Timberwolves had just lost to the Nuggets in the first round of the playoffs in April 2023, with Anthony Edwards' potential game-tying 3 coming up empty as time expired in Game 5. Afterward, Edwards and a couple of teammates went to a cocktail lounge, Forget Me Not, in the Cherry Creek neighborhood, with their chartered flight back home not scheduled to leave until the next morning.

Of all of the gin joints in all of the towns in all of the world, Denver point guard Jamal Murray -- fresh off a 35-point showing in the closeout game -- just so happened to walk into the same bar as the Timberwolves.

And Edwards, a budding star yet to have the breakout postseason that has turned him into a bona fide superstar this spring, had a message to deliver to Murray.

"He was talking s---," Edwards told ESPN as he walked down the ramp toward the team bus after his club's 98-90 victory on Sunday. "He was telling Mike [Conley], 'I'm sick of you, you can't guard me,' and all that.

"I told him, 'We'll be back. You'll see us again when we're fully loaded.'"

Edwards' declaration came to fruition Sunday.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/40183232/wolves-storm-back-knock-defending-champ-nuggets-game-7

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Towns did give us more and we won Game&!!!![;)]

Towns had a very Jekyl and Hyde game. He played good defense on Joker. That's strange to say, give that Joker scored 35. You'll never shut him down, but you can force him to miss some extra shots over the course of the game. Jokic was 13 for 28 and Towns was a big part of that. Towns also hit some big shots in big moments. There was also...as always...the absolute dumb ass fouls. Defensive fouls well away from the basket and offensive fouls. It's like he just can't help himself.

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ORIGINAL: TJSweens

In the post game presser, a reporter talked about the idea that you had to suffer the big loss before you can have the big win and the Wolves hadn't suffered the big loss yet. KAT and Ant's reply was great.

KAT: We lost last year.
Ant: We lost 2 the last ears in a row
KAT: We've been losing for the last 20 years. God damn, how much losing do we gotta do?

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Towns did give us more and we won Game&!!!![;)]

Towns had a very Jekyl and Hyde game. He played good defense on Joker. That's strange to say, give that Joker scored 35. You'll never shut him down, but you can force him to miss some extra shots over the course of the game. Jokic was 13 for 28 and Towns was a big part of that. Towns also hit some big shots in big moments. There was also...as always...the absolute dumb ass fouls. Defensive fouls well away from the basket and offensive fouls. It's like he just can't help himself.

It doesn't help that the refs call phantom fouls on him, like the one late in the game where they didn't call anything until after Jokic's shot hit the ground. How is that a foul when Jokic is allowed to just push and shove his way down low damn near every possession? I really do not understand how Jokic is allowed to do that.

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Towns did give us more and we won Game&!!!![;)]

Towns had a very Jekyl and Hyde game. He played good defense on Joker. That's strange to say, give that Joker scored 35. You'll never shut him down, but you can force him to miss some extra shots over the course of the game. Jokic was 13 for 28 and Towns was a big part of that. Towns also hit some big shots in big moments. There was also...as always...the absolute dumb ass fouls. Defensive fouls well away from the basket and offensive fouls. It's like he just can't help himself.

I agree he had at least one offensive and one defensive foul which were bad judgements, that said, I think he made some critical rebounds during the game, which we really needed.

With such a great TEAM effort I don't want to nit-pick too much, but speaking of dumb fouls, Gobert's, wasn't it 3 in rapid succession towards the end of the fourth qt, to foul out, has to be mentioned.

Last thought, like what Ant said, when Gobert hit that turn around jumper (has to be just about the longest shot he made all season) it was a pretty good sign that the Wolves were living right!

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In the post game presser, a reporter talked about the idea that you had to suffer the big loss before you can have the big win and the Wolves hadn't suffered the big loss yet. KAT and Ant's reply was great.

KAT: We lost last year.
Ant: We lost 2 the last ears in a row
KAT: We've been losing for the last 20 years. God damn, how much losing do we gotta do?

The could've added, "And games 3, 4, 5 weren't enough for you?"

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ORIGINAL: TJSweens

In the post game presser, a reporter talked about the idea that you had to suffer the big loss before you can have the big win and the Wolves hadn't suffered the big loss yet. KAT and Ant's reply was great.

KAT: We lost last year.
Ant: We lost 2 the last ears in a row
KAT: We've been losing for the last 20 years. God damn, how much losing do we gotta do?

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ORIGINAL: TJSweens

In the post game presser, a reporter talked about the idea that you had to suffer the big loss before you can have the big win and the Wolves hadn't suffered the big loss yet. KAT and Ant's reply was great.

KAT: We lost last year.
Ant: We lost 2 the last ears in a row
KAT: We've been losing for the last 20 years. God damn, how much losing do we gotta do?

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Can't help but feeling happy for Mike Conley right now. He must be savoring this. In his long distinguished career he's only reached the conference finals once, and they were swept.

He was clutch in the 4th quarter, calmly nailing a dagger 3 with the shot clock running out to put Wolves up 75-72. They did not relinquish the lead after that. Then making a sneaky veteran steal at mid-court feeding Naz who fed Ant for the wide open fast break 3 to give them a 10 point lead with 3 minutes to play. Timeout Denver, game not yet over but fat lady starts warming up backstage.

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Jokic is a good man, but Murray and Braun seem like real punks, was glad to see them lose.

Murray is a punk, but can be a very accurate shooter when he gets hot. Thankfully ANT shut him down pretty much from the 10 minutes left in the 3rd quarter on to the end of the game.

ANT credited his shutting down of Murray as being the reason the T-Wolves won, but I thought he should have worded it, that it was PART of the reason they beat the Nuggets, and the play of Edwards teammates also played a big part.

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Jokic is a good man, but Murray and Braun seem like real punks, was glad to see them lose.

Murray is a punk, but can be a very accurate shooter when he gets hot. Thankfully ANT shut him down pretty much from the 10 minutes left in the 3rd quarter on to the end of the game.

ANT credited his shutting down of Murray as being the reason the T-Wolves won, but I thought he should have worded it, that it was PART of the reason they beat the Nuggets, and the play of Edwards teammates also played a big part.

It was an off the cuff response to a question. Watch the rest of him postgame. When they interviewed him after the buzzer, all the credit was to his teammates. He flat out said McDaniels was the MVP of the game.

He's the only superstar in the game that never does solo pressers after the game. He always has a teammate with him and he deflects the praise to whoever he's with.

He clearly has a huge ego and considers himself to the best player, but I've never seen a superstar that focuses so hard on raising up his teammates. Its the one area where he's the polar opposite of Jordan.

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The Denver Nuggets were a popular pick to repeat as champion, but they were ultimately eliminated in the second round by a Minnesota Timberwolves team with the requisite size and defense to slow down three-time MVP Nikola Jokic.

While Anthony Edwards Karl-Anthony Towns, Jaden McDaniels and Naz Reid were in place before the arrival of Tim Connelly, the former Nuggets' executive traded for both Rudy Gobert and Mike Conley with the roster being particularly well suited to play against Denver.

"I mean, I think they're built to beat us," Jokic said. "Just look at their roster. They have basically two All-Stars, two probably first-team defensive players. Mike Conley is the most underrated player in the NBA, probably.

"From the bench, they have a Sixth Man of the Year. ... [They are] one team that they can do literally everything. They can be big, small."

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Jokic is a good man, but Murray and Braun seem like real punks, was glad to see them lose.

Murray is a punk, but can be a very accurate shooter when he gets hot. Thankfully ANT shut him down pretty much from the 10 minutes left in the 3rd quarter on to the end of the game.

ANT credited his shutting down of Murray as being the reason the T-Wolves won, but I thought he should have worded it, that it was PART of the reason they beat the Nuggets, and the play of Edwards teammates also played a big part.

It was an off the cuff response to a question. Watch the rest of him postgame. When they interviewed him after the buzzer, all the credit was to his teammates. He flat out said McDaniels was the MVP of the game.

He's the only superstar in the game that never does solo pressers after the game. He always has a teammate with him and he deflects the praise to whoever he's with.

He clearly has a huge ego and considers himself to the best player, but I've never seen a superstar that focuses so hard on raising up his teammates. Its the one area where he's the polar opposite of Jordan.

The KAT / ANT postgame pressers are becoming great entertainment.

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Saw that the Wolves overcame the largest deficit in Game 7 ever at halftime in NBA post season history. The record had previously been 11points. Pretty cool especially considering it was on the road against the defending Champs!