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NBA playoffs: Timberwolves exclude warriors to achieve the second finale of the Western Conference

NBA playoffs: Timberwolves exclude warriors to achieve the second finale of the Western Conference

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The Minnesota Timberwolves reached their first final of the Western Conference in 20 years last season and then took one of the most controversial steps in franchise history by acting Karl-Anthony cities.

And now they are back in the conference final.

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The Timberwolves ended the Golden State Warriors with a win from 121-110 on Wednesday in game 5 and ended the series with four wins in a row after Stephen Curry had lost with a knee tendon load. You will compete against the winner of the series between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Denver Nuggets, which the thunder leads 3-2.

Julius Randle, one of the two most important rotary players who received it as an exchange for cities, led Minnesota in Minnesota. He ended an impressive series with 29 points in the 13-of-18 shooting with eight rebounds and five assists. Five other Timberwolves players achieved two figures, including Anthony Edwards with 22 points and a playoff career high of 12 assists.

The Timberwolves led for almost the entire game and took a lead that they never gave up 2 1/2 minutes after the first quarter. The warriors were at a blow for a large part of the first half, but a run in the second quarter brought Minnesota to double -digit digits and left it from there from the coast.

Are these the timber wolves that will break through?

Without the context, it would be an impressive way to a championship, LeBron James, Luka Dončić, Stephen Curry and Jimmy Butler, let alone a conference final.

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With the context, however, the shine fades a little. The Timberwolves set up some serious structural problems with the Los Angeles Lakers and beat a critically hobbled Warriors team. It is not difficult to ignore this run, but that would also be unfair.

Since Minnesota found a groove in early March, he has won 17 out of 21 games of the regular season and eight out of ten playoff games. That should do good teams, and it now seems difficult to deny that the Timberwolves have found something that works. Perhaps you will be exceeded by the thunder or the nuggets will take revenge after the last off -season, but at the moment the Timberwolves are a team that is taken seriously.

In 36 seasons of existence, the wolves did not reach the NBA final. There was the Kevin Garnett era, then the Kevin Love era, then the cities, and now Edwards is leading the team with a competent support display and maybe one that fits better than the twin towers of last season with cities and Rudy Gobert.

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The rest of the off -season works, however, Minnesota has at least reason to assume that this works.

This was hardly a series after Stephen Curry had lost

It really has to be said. The Warriors looked like a candidate when the playoffs started.

Her trade for Butler at the deadline relaxed the remaining potential of Curry, and the result was a results at the end of the season. The combination of Curry, Butler and Draymond Green was very formable and tested, since the Houston Rockets can now confirm.

And then Curry went under and Warriors' crime was much easier to defend. In the first three games of a series against a Timberwolves defense, which took sixth place in the regular season, the team did not break more than 100 points. It looked better than the series went to San Francisco, but even this home advantage did not exaggerate it.

With Curry Out, Golden State also entered game 5, with Butler, according to reports, was fighting against an illness.

Sometimes basketball is just not fair. You look great, then your best player goes down. Of course, this is the risk that the warriors run every time when they put another season on the shoulders of the 37-year-old curry.

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