On April 29, Beijing time, the Suns played at home against the Timberwolves, and the Suns lost to the Timberwolves 116-122 at the end of the game. Now the Suns have no way out, the Suns who are 0-3 behind must win, otherwise the Suns will be swept out, and this is obviously not what the Suns want to see, after all, the Suns make up Durant, Beal and Booker's Big Three is the championship, if the Suns are swept out in the first round of the playoffs, then the Suns will undoubtedly face huge trouble, and Allen will continue to miss the game in the G4 game, so at this time, the Suns don't expect other players to give the Big Three much help, Durant, If Booker and Beal can't break out, then the Suns don't want to beat the Timberwolves.
Nurkic scored on a basket at the start of the first quarter, but Gobert, Towns, and McDaniels responded, and then Durant and others attacked and hit the iron, and the Timberwolves led the Suns by four points. However, the Timberwolves' offensive state was not good, Durant and Booker helped the Suns take the lead, but unfortunately the Timberwolves responded soon, and the Suns only led by 1 point at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter of the game, the two teams played fiercely, the Timberwolves were in a three-point slump on the outside, Booker and Gordon once helped the Suns open the score, but unfortunately the Suns couldn't control the mistakes, McDaniels quickly helped the Timberwolves catch up with the score, and the next game The two teams played fiercely, and the Timberwolves kept biting the score under the play of Edwards and Towns, but unfortunately the Timberwolves were in a bad three-point state outside, Durant and Booker took the opportunity to open the score, Towns hit a three-point shot to stop the bleeding, and the Timberwolves fell behind by 5 points at halftime.
At the beginning of the third quarter, Durant was able to help the Suns hold the lead, but then Edwards and others began to hit three-pointers, and McDaniels scored a dunk and the Timberwolves took a two-point lead. After the pause, Booker helped the Suns stabilize the situation, and the next game was a two-team offense, the Timberwolves had Edwards and others played, and the Suns also had Booker, Durant and others to respond, and the scores of the two teams rose alternately, although the follow-up Towns outside three-point flowering, but Booker and others frequently went to the free throw line to help the Suns occupy a slight lead, and Edwards hit the iron at the last moment, and the Suns led by 2 points at the end of the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, Beal scored a layup, but then Conley scored 5 points in a row to help the Timberwolves complete the overtake, fortunately, Booker also scored 5 points in a row to help the Suns keep the lead, after the pause, the Timberwolves played a wave of 7-0, Durant scored at a critical moment to stop the bleeding, but in the later game, Bill's offensive iron also made mistakes, Edwards and Conley helped the Timberwolves open the score, and finally the Suns lost the game, so the Suns also became the first team to be swept out of the game 4-0.
In fact, it is quite difficult for the Timberwolves to win this game, after all, the Suns still brought the Timberwolves a lot of defensive intensity in this game, and the Timberwolves' outside three-point state in this game was very sluggish, and Booker warmed up in this game, so the Timberwolves played very hard, but Edwards' ability is too strong, it can be said that Edwards is able to score at the critical moment, especially in the fourth quarter of the game, the Suns have no way to take Edwards, so Edwards also led the team to take the lead, of course, Towns played very well in this game, if there is no state of his outside three-point, then the Timberwolves will be pulled away by the SunsAt the end of the game, Edwards had 40 points, 9 rebounds and 6 assists, and Towns had 28 points, 10 rebounds and 3 assists.
Beal became a sinner in this game, after all, Beal's offensive state was sluggish, even if Beal was blown up by Edwards at a critical moment in the fourth quarter, and Beal frequently made mistakes when the Suns were behind, at this time the Timberwolves opened the score, and Beal also committed 6 fouls later, it can be said that such Beal became a sinner for the Suns to lose, and finally Beal got 9 points, 1 rebound, 2 assists and 6 turnovers in 4 of 13. And Durant and Booker tried their best in this game, although Durant had an explosive performance, it was useless, after all, there were too few people in this game who could stand up to the Suns, especially Beal's downturn made the Suns very uncomfortable, as for Booker, he also tried his best, after all, Booker had already warmed up in this game, but unfortunately Booker's 49 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists were still difficult to save, and Durant got 33 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists in 12 of 17.