You have to know how to close the matches. And they are how they end, not how they begin. The Timberwolves had a lesson to learn in this third game of the tie against the Grizzlies and what they did was underestimate the rival’s power, throw that warning in the trash and make a horrible fool of themselves in front of an audience, theirs, who went from laughing to crying after what happened in the decisive section of the day. The locals wasted an advantage of 25 points with three minutes remaining in the third period and the visitors threw themselves on top of them strongly to beat them in a comeback without concessionssomething that had happened in the first part and of which Minnesota did not take due note.
95-104 and catastrophic defeat, more because of the development than because of the point in that square itself. The feeling is of lack of control in some Wolves who were the ones who started the series ahead and stealing a court factor that now, with this 2-1, is getting out of hand.
LeBron James was commenting on Twitter during the game: when this moment of the season arrives, it matters a lot how you finish each quarter, that tendency has a great impact on how the next one begins. It seems that the man knows something. In the second quarter the Grizzlies recovered from a difference of around twenty and placed themselves on the back of the Timberwolves. History repeated itself in the sleeve that decided the game but with much more virulence, leaving Finch’s men with a meager 12 points in those same minutesand the feeling with which this confrontation goes into the next round, also in Minny, is antagonistic to what was expected by seeing the first and third acts.