NBA playoffs: Timberwolves eliminate Lakers for 20-20 games from Rudy Gobert

The Los Angeles Lakers season ended, thanks to the Minnesota team Timberwolves, which had them on the back leg for most of its series in the first round.

On Wednesday, Timberwolves won the Lakers, 103-96, to finish the series in five games, promoted by the best play of playoffs in the career of Rudy Gobert. The four-time defender of the year published 27 points in his career in the playoffs in shooting 12 out of 15 and 24 selection.

Lakers showed some fight in the game that they entered after they launched the five best players in the game 4. They were in two -digit numbers at several points in the first half, but the rally in the third quarter gave them the first leadership in the game. It was close from there until the woodenevolves pulled away with the last run in the fourth quarter.

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Minnesota won the game, despite the cold night from the range of 3 points, shooting at 7 out of 47 at the Deep team. The presence of Gobert, accessible and productive inside, helped replenish this.

Timberwolves will go to a meeting with the winner of the Rockets Golden State Warriors-Houston series in the Western Conference semifinal. Warriors currently lead the 3-2 series, but missed the opportunity to close the series on the road at the beginning of Wednesday.

Rudy Gobert celebrates a ruler against little Lakers

There it is impossible to deny that the center of Timberwolves has entered this game, or to this post -zone, with a reputation, when it comes to a performance in the play -off. Never offensive Dynamo, Gobert had a tendency to be much more valuable in the regular season than the postseson. This spread to this series when Gobert published only 14 points in the first four games with shooting 4 out of 13.

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Then Lakers handed him a rather perfect set of circumstances. The head coach of JJ Redick said before the game that he would not play in the Jackson Hace starting center in the game 5, and the reserve center Alex Len also did not appear in the game. No player in the starting line up Lakers was above 6 feet 8.

With a significant advantage of the size of each player in front of him, Gober 7 feet 1 suddenly became a player in an attack in Minnesota.

Anthony Edwards, however …

While one of the All-Stars’ All-Stars was flourished, the other fought.

After placing 43 points in the game 4, Anthony Edwards fought greatly throughout the game. He finished with 12 points of shooting 5 out of 19, although he also struck 11 rebounds, eight gears and three interceptions.

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On the side of Lakers, this was also not a light night for Austin Reeves, with 12 out of 14 out of 14.

Luke Donchich receives an obvious back injury on a hard foul

Donchich played the second half to some extent pain after the painful end of the first half.

The star Lakers brought a hard foul from Donta Divnchenzo and immediately began to restrain him. The play was examined for scum, but it was considered a common foul, leaving Donchich to take off two penalties, and then go out into the locker room with a minute remaining in the second quarter.

Fortunately for Lakers, Donchich returned there at the beginning of the third quarter, but sometimes he could still grab his back. Donchich finished the game with 28 points, nine gear and selection.

Maxi Kleber debuts in incredibly time

One of the previously forgotten members of Donchich’s trade was Maxi Kleber, shooting a large man Dallas Maveriks, who during trade with a fracture of his legs. Cleber occupied the Lakers side line, recovering until the end of the season … before Wednesday.

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Announced to be accessible to the game, Kleber entered the game in the first quarter, and his team decreased two -digit numbers in the game for liquidation. He finished the game with two glasses in five minutes.

The fact that Lakers played a 33-year-old long-standing player on a bench on any of the members of his central tandem in Heis and Len shows how much the team pushed to the back foot during this series, and Gobert in the game 5.

JJ Redick entered the game with a chip on his shoulder

Another episode showed by the oncoming wind Lakers was the end of the press conference Redick Pregame.

After he showed that Cleber was available, confirming that he would not play Hais and refusing to open the starting lineup, the radish asked if he would discuss the replacements with his assistants of the coaches after he played the same five players for the whole second half in the game 4. The Lakers was not satisfied with the premise of the issue, showing that he always discusses replacements with his assistants during temporary autiodes.