In the past few seasons, the Timberwolves and Bulls have been weak teams in their respective divisions, and striving for a playoff spot is their main goal, but in this season, both teams have made rapid progress, of which the Timberwolves have relied on the three core Towns, Edwards and Russell to cash in on their talents, while the Bulls have relied on heavy reinforcements to greatly improve the overall strength of the team! In this regular season, the Timberwolves and the Bulls met in a narrow way, two talented teams joined forces to provide fans with a wonderful battle of bombardment, in the first three quarters of the game, the two sides played difficult points, the score of the two quarters was drawn, the second quarter of the Bulls also won only 1 point against the opponent, in the key final quarter, DeRozan showed his value, under the close watch of the other side 10 shots 7 points, under his leadership, the Bulls bombed 42 points in the final quarter, In the end, he also got his wish and defeated the Timberwolves 134-122, winning this confrontation battle and winning two consecutive wins to continue to chase the Eastern Conference leaders Heat!
Today's Timberwolves Big Three is their most reliant weapon on the offensive end, this game against the Bulls in the East, Russell is the lowest presence of the three players, only 18 points and 3 assists in the game, there were 3 personal turnovers, but the youngest Edwards, carrying the team's offensive banner, in the 37.1 minutes of his debut, 22 shots hit 12 goals, one person bombed 31 points, 6 rebounds, 8 assists and 1 block.
Inside core Towns this game against the recent heroic Vucevic, is also not at all behind, 19 shots 12 with great efficiency to cut 27 points, 8 rebounds, 8 assists, 2 steals and 1 block of the comprehensive personal data, but the offensive end of the efficient Towns, the defensive end did not show toughness, did not limit the play of the Valkyrie, let the latter 14 shots 11 bombed 26 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists, the two can be said to be each other in the game, None of them had a decisive impact on the movement of the game.
The stronger Bulls, the reason why the game is extremely difficult, a very important reason is that the core Lavine is not in good shape, the whole game used 14 shots only to exchange for 12 points, fortunately, DeRozan continued the previous four consecutive games to score 30+ hot state, in the game 22 shots hit 14 goals, a person cut 35 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists and 1 steal, in addition to White and Green also in good shape on the offensive end to make their own contributions, He scored 22 and 23 points respectively, laying the groundwork for the team's victory.
After winning this game, the Bulls in the Eastern Conference standings and the Heat's win difference narrowed to only 1 game, in the regular season with more than twenty games, the suspense of the regular season Eastern Conference championship is still very large, I hope they can continue to soar under the leadership of DeRozan, but also look forward to the injured can return to the field as soon as possible, before the playoffs come, let the team achieve the best run-in state, and strive to become the biggest dark horse in the Eastern Conference playoffs this season, and go all out to launch an attack on the championship!