The Timberwolves staved off elimination in Game 4. Can their star duo pull off a historic comeback?
Karl-Anthony Towns made his way to the podium on Tuesday and as he settled into a chair you half expected him to pull a hit list out of his pocket., a pincushion for pundits who watched Towns’s play in the first three games of the Western Conference finals and instantly wanted to forget. As reporters began to question Towns about his play in Game 4, aFor three games Dallas had marginalized Towns
There has always needed to be a balance to Towns’s offense. He’s an elite perimeter player, one of the best three-point shooting big men of all-time. But Minnesota has shooters. Edwards and Mike Conley, Jaden McDaniels and Nickeil Alexander-Walker. They needed Towns to play“Everything came together for him,” Edwards said. “He was super confident. He wasn't worried about any shots previous to the shots that he hit tonight. He played exceptionally well and he came through big time.
Towns kept going and now Minnesota is, too. This wasn’t a game for the Timberwolves as much as a war of attrition. They lost Towns, Edwards and Rudy Gobert to foul trouble in the second quarter but still managed to be tied at the half. All three battled foul problems in the third but timely three-point shooting helped build a five-point lead. When a Kyrie Irving floater cut the lead to three late in the fourth, Edwards hit back with a 22-footer to put the game away.
“I feel like last game I did it early and then as the game kept going, My emotions, my joy started to fall away,” said Edwards. “I think tonight, the entire game, I didn't let anything bother me.”
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