If Prince is shooting 8for8 from 3, why did Randle leave him wide open?

I’m not mad at the rebound he should’ve had because he was gassed. He’s a 3 quarter SUPERSTAR when he’s focused. But he uses so much energy in 3 quarters, he doesn’t have enough mental or physical energy to close games. I know he was on fire and breaking records but he should not be the number 1 option in crunch time. Let this be a learning lesson for the team.

Brunson was trying to take over at one point but Randle ran to the ball and took it out of his hands.

Let’s use this as a playoff lesson.

But when finishing games, we need to play to our strengths and that’s Mr 4th quarter himself…………

Jalen Brunson

Ok enough positivity for 1 night

ToddTT wrote:

HofstraBBall wrote:So has Ihart been better than MR lately?
and has JHart been better than RJ since being traded?

Yep.

Yep 100

TPercy wrote:I don't understand why we are respecting their ball handlers in the PNR.

If you mean - why did we continue to go over screens and trail the high screen I agree.

We kept fighting over top but ended up giving up the lane and kick outs to open shooters. Would have preferred an adjustment to contain (drop coverage) and force the ball handler to shoots 3s. The way we played it we gave up EVERYTHING- LAYUPS, DUNKS, 3’S AND FREE THROWS.

Tough night where you are watching and worrying when are we going to make final screw up.

MS wrote:Pathetic effort.

Home court loss with no Edwards.

I don’t know how these guys continue to beat the nbas best and then let these games go.

It was not our night. Defense sucked, Gobert gives us problems and they had a random guy almost make the NBA record for most 3s with no miss. This is one you look past and "get back to work"

But this game was loss in the pregame warmup's and locker room. We were not ready to play. We thought the Wolves would roll over and it was going to be super easy. To give up 42 in the first and 140 total and 24 threes to that team is embarrassing. We are way too arrogant. We haven't accomplished anything to act like this way and it's going to come back to bite us in the ass when we have to play a Game 7 in Cleveland instead of the Garden and get sent home packing. These games matter!

Give the Wolves credit. Prince looked like KD out there. Very impressed with McDaniel, Neil and Nowell too.

This sucks.

martin wrote:Randle looked dead tired right around the time he got 50? I think it was with 2-3 minutes left in 3rd?

I don't know why he wouldn't ask out or why Thibs wouldn't just take him out. Or maybe cause Randle was just at such a historic scoring level so just leave him in?

Thibs has some genetic mutation that forbids him to sub Julius out at any point other than normal rotation schedule. He just won’t do it — Jules could be on life supplant Thibs would keep him in until end of 3rd.
I commented on prior post that I felt he brought Jules/Brunson back in 4th about 3 mins early — just thought bench was defending well and bringing back for last 5-6 mins was enough.