Minnesota Timberwolves have been on an excellent run through the first games after the All-Star Break.
In their latest matchup against the Warriors, the T-Wolves rolled past the second-best team in the West 114-129.
Since the start of the final part of the season, the Minnesota Timberwolves are 3-1. They remain seventh in the West, three games behind the sixth-seeded Denver Nuggets. They moved to a season-best five games (34-29) above the .500 mark.
In those four games, the Minnesota Timberwolves are sixth in offensive rating (117.2) and fourth in points per game (119.3). Even with Anthony Edwards away from his usual self, Karl-Anthont Towns is carrying the burden in offense.
Against the Warriors on Tuesday night, he put up 39 points on 14-of-22 shooting, having also 3 made threes and eight free throws. They viciously feasted in the paint with 54 points. The Warriors had only 42, and they could not find a way to limit Towns.
KAT rips through and gets to the basket!
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D’Angelo Russell pitched in 22 points, and Malik Beasley added 20 points on 6-for-9 shooting from 3-point range for Minnesota. The Wolves are shooting 48.9 percent from the field since the All-Star break and 36.2 percent from beyond the arc.
They are sixth (57.2 percent) and seventh (60.5) in TS% in the league during that stint. D’Angelo Russell and Malik Beasley have also been great for Minnesota, who will return to action on Friday to face the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Russell is averaging 26.3 points on almost 54 percent shooting. He also adds 5.5 assists and 3.3 rebounds per game. Towns follows him with 25.8 points on 52 percent shooting.
Last but not least, Malik Beasley has been an important factor in the T-Wolves’ resurgence this season coming off the bench. Beasley has been going off in the last four games, averaging 15.1 points in 21 minutes per game.
He was once again excellent vs the Warriors, putting up 20 points in 27 minutes of play. In addition, he shot 63.6 percent, which translates in 7-of-11 from the field. The Minnesota Timberwolves were without Anthony Edwards, who sat out with a knee tendinitis.
Minnesota will try to ride their momentum in the next few games, having five contests against teams, which are not interested in winning. Starting Friday, the Minnesota Timberwolves will face OKC (2 times), Portland (2 times) and Orlando.
With that in mind, they’re hoping to avoid the play-in and qualify for the playoffs as the sixth seed by the end of the regular season.
