NBA-Playoff's results and snack: Timberwolves defeated Warriors to take the lead in the lead, Celtics Rout Knicks 115-93

Steph Curry's absence remains in San Francisco, where the Minnesota Timberwolves defeated the Golden State Warriors on Saturday evening with 102: 97 to take over a 2-1 lead in the conference semi-final. On Saturday on Saturday, the Boston Celtics defeated the New York Knicks 115-93, won their first victory in the series and narrowed the leadership of the Knicks to 2-1.

Curry went down in game 1 with a thigh pollution and fails to stop. Without him, the warriors did not make a single 3 in the first half. The offensive of the Timberwolves also fought in the first half, and while both teams found their lives in the second half, Draymond Green failed in the fourth quarter, while Anthony Edwards kept away with 36 points, four rebounds and four assists. Julius Randle scored his 15th career with 24 points, 12 templates and 10 rebounds.

The Warriors and Timberwolves will play in San Francisco Spiel 4 in San Francisco on Monday at 10 p.m.

In New York, Celtics's victory came from an all-round team when four of their five starters scored at least 12 points or more and the sixth man of the year Payton Pritchard led all the scorers with 23 points.

Pritchhards 23 points in the 115-93 victory exceed his playoff career-high, which he set in round 1 against Orlando Magic (19 points). Jayson Tatum ended with 22 points, nine rebounds and seven templates, while Jaylen Brown scored 19 points, scored six rebounds and dropped five templates.

The Knicks still lead the series, but Boston found his identity on Saturday and shot 50 percent compared to 3 (20 out of 40). The Celtics have never led and mentioned after 31 points. Boston found a life in this series after taking his first two games at home, and will combine it on Monday at 7:30 p.m. ET in the Madison Square Garden.

Ant is clutch !!

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Timberwolves 102, Warriors 97

(Timberwolves Lead Series 2-1)

Minnesotas offspring increases in the fourth

The timber wolves needed three and a half quarters to find their crime, but it just came in time. The wolves exceeded the Warriors 33-24 in the fourth quarter and overtook Golden State to take the 2-1 lead.

Edwards scored 13 of his 36 points on the fourth point, including a large 3 to record 84-82. Jaden McDaniels added three minutes to play, and Rudy Gobert had a dunk and the free throw with two minutes to achieve a lead of 93-86. Edwards added a corner 3 too late to get started.

It was a very important comeback for Minnesota, which used to be in two digits in the game, but could not hit a shot. The wolves were 8 for 25 out of 3 in the first three quarters and shot 40 percent from the field as a whole, which was seven points behind at the beginning of the fourth.

The Lakers carried the wolves in three of their four victories in the first round. And they founded the Warriors here in game 3. Jimmy Butler had only five points in the fourth quarter with 1: 6 shooting.

The wolves hope to win three games in a row and to prevent curry from being able to see Curry the place in this series again. You did what you had to do in game 3 and will now come back to take the command tour on Monday. – Jon Krawczynski, senior writer

Edwards turns around

With all the conversation that Edwards is the “King Slayer” of the NBA when his shoe company recently crowned him, he did not do justice to this title in the first half. There was no curry on the ground, but Edwards and his Timberwolves were revised and exceeded by the understaffed warriors when they led 42-40. During the break, Edwards only had eight points on 3 von-12 shootings with two rebounds, two assists and a minus 11 rating.

Yikes, in other words.

But Edwards made up well again in the second half and dominated the entertaining, unstoppable way that comes into lightning with the 23-year-old rising star. His dark over the Big Man Kevon Looney, Big Man Kevon Looney, was simply rude and a big spark for Minnesota, when Edwards passed Jonathan Kuminga past Jonathan Kuminga, fell two feet and took the lead in the lead in a fantastic way for a three-point.

Edwards scored three moments later to continue the momentum and went to the races from there. During the night he ended with 36 points (13-von-28 shooting with five 3s in 14 attempts), four rebounds, four assists and a much improved plus-minus mark of minus-4.

Edwards' the latest excursion was not perfect, but it was pretty when it counted. – Sam Amick, Senior Writer

How Golden State was neglected

The Warriors received the hyper-aggressive version of Butler, which they needed in game 3. They probably received the most effective game in Kuminga's career. They defensively walled the edge of the night from the night to be directly in the mixture on the route without curry.

But in the end they could not survive enough without a curry and could not survive defensively without enough green, which had flocced and committed five sales in 29 minutes with a low impact. Green committed his sixth foul with 4:38 left and Minnesota two. The Timberwolves scored 18 points in the last five minutes to push the finish line.

Since Curry burdened his thighs in the opener, it always had the feeling that the warriors had to get at least one of their two home games to deliver enough time to possibly return before removal. They failed on their first attempt. Butler scored 33. Kuminga scored 30 years old. But they only had 97 as a team, their third game in a row under 100 in this series.

The Warriors will get another crack on Monday evening. Coach Steve Kerr will probably transport some of the fat in his fighting rotation. But Butler, who is still sick from this hard fall in Houston, has come to 43 minutes on Saturday evening, and without a curry to offer and help the distance, it is fair to ask yourself whether it is running with tubes. The watch ticks in the season of the Warriors. – Anthony Slater, senior writer

Celtics 115, Knicks 93

(Knicks Lead Series 2-1)

Knicks down 20? No problem. Well, it was in game 3.

After the Knicks had returned in the first two games of 20 points, they were more than 20 points over the Celtics, this time the deficit could not be able when the defending champions found their shootout.

As much as this game felt like a must, which was 0-2 down, it was just as important for New York. No team in NBA history has ever built a lead of the 3-0 series in the off-season.

Now Boston, one of the best street teams ever this season, has the chance to connect the series on Monday in Madison Square Garden before returning home.

Ultimately, the Knicks have to find a way to stop until 8 p.m. It is difficult for every team to regularly return from a hole from a hole, and it feels like New York has applied enough comeback efforts in this post -season until they last for a lifetime.

The defense of New York was not nearly as sharp as possible. It lost all night over Celtics shooters and fought between drops and change. At the other end, the crime continues to endure and does not run out for a long time without rhythm being any form of rhythm. New York's Flainy 3-point shooting in game 3, as well as the bad free throwing shots.

The Knicks have to find a way to create a better offensive with more regularity to compete with Boston. The Celtics are too solid on both sides of the ball, so as not to be able to score or slow down with them when shots fall, and therefore the dominant performance on Saturday evening when Boston found its fireproof. – James Edwards III, Knicks Beat Writer

Boston finds his identity

The Celtics, which restore their ability to produce 3 pointers, will probably do more from media reporting before game 4, but they also did an excellent job to take many of the open looks away from the Knicks.

The Celtics have cleaned up many of the scouting reports with which OG Anunoby and Mikal Bridges were able to make good shots in the first two games. The wings ended 0 to 2 behind the bow.

As a team, New York only shot 2: 17 from the city center in the first three quarters before he was a little successful in the fourth quarter after the game. You will probably not shoot 11.8 percent from the depths, regardless of how they are defended (they ended by 20 percent), but it should make it difficult to find great pictures if the Celtics still restrict some of the transitional errors and half -court connections that they previously violate in the series.

The Celtics were desperate in game 3. You should be back in game 4, but you have to transfer the same focus and the same intensity into the rest of the series. – Jay King, Celtics Beat Writer

3S please

This performance felt inevitable. In each of the first two games in the series, the Celtics sank only a quarter of their 3-point attempts, but they are the most relentless attack in the league history-like in the league-the individual season leader in brands and try. Boston had a 3-point outbreak. Today was the day on which it finally happened.

The Celtics started hot with 6 out of 7 in the first quarter. They ended 20 out of 40 for the game.

You have eaten the inconsistent pick-and-roll resistance of the Knicks right from the start. In particular, Karl-Anthony Towns was not carried out with the precision that he made in the first two games of the series. Instead of switching or daring to the screen of the screen up to the screen on pick-and-rolls, it sagged too far. It made it possible to make a light pull-up jumper for Tatum, who ended 5-of-of-de-8. The wings do not complete enough to disturb Derrick White or Pritchard from the dash of open looks.

After a few appearances when Boston moved into slow motion, the Celtics finally looked like the Celtics. – Fred Katz, Senior NBA writer

Mazzula adjustments

The Celtics met their 3s again, the simplest explanation for why they won so great. But it was all the little things they did with these shots that made it possible for them to actually capture their massive lead. Joe Mazzulla was better to read where his players' weaknesses were early and changed the form of the crime to alleviate them. Kristapaps Porzi ņģ IS still looked terrible and turned it every time he dealt with the ball on the circumference. Mazzulla's answer was to send him deeper into the post, where he could pull a foul with only one or two dribble while protecting the ball.

In the last games it became too tedious to aim at Jalen Brunson in the post and to ward off part of the rhythm from the offensive. So they wasted less time to find it and simply took the game after the matchup they liked and bet that they could end when they catch the ball deep enough. This game was less about maximizing the advantages for which they had hoped for, and rather to use the advantages they could find. This was a statement by the Celtics that they strive for the ideal of perfection, but they can live with the compromises forced by Playoff basketball. – Jared Weiss, Celtics Beat Writer

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