The Timberwolves rebounded from a loss at Orlando on Friday night to win for the seventh time in of eight games.
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The Minnesota Timberwolves refused to let one road loss become a streak. Jaylen Nowell scored 16 points, Karl-Anthony Towns and Anthony Edwards each added 15 and the Timberwolves beat the Miami Heat 113-104 on Saturday night. The Timberwolves rebounded from a loss at Orlando on Friday night to win for the seventh time in of eight games.
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”Last season it was tough. If we lost it would became a losing steak,” Malik Beasley said. ”Now, we’re better than that. We wanted to make sure we come out with a new winning streak.”
Tyler Herro scored 30 points for the Eastern Conference-leading Heat. They had 37 points in the second half after scoring 42 in the second quarter. Miami has lost two of three.
”Their speed and quickness, and their ability to play in the passing lanes, make them very disruptive, and they were disruptive at key times in the second half,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said about the Timberwolves. ”Those open windows that you have close really quickly with them.”
Miami’s Markieff Morris had six points and four rebounds in 17 minutes off the bench in his first game in more than four months. He missed 58 games due to a whiplash injury suffered in a Nov. 8 scuffle with Denver’s Nikola Jokic.
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”It felt great, man. It’s been a long process,” Morris said. ”I’m thankful, and I’m grateful to play the game I love again.”
Towns hit an 11-foot jumper with 3:53 left to give Minnesota the lead for good at 102-100.
”We felt like even though we were down by 12 (at halftime), it didn’t feel like we were down 12,” Minnesota coach Chris Finch said. ”We felt like it was a much closer game and we just had to come out with a good start, with great purpose.”
The Heat played without Jimmy Butler (toe irritation), Caleb Martin (knee), and Victor Oladipo (knee). Oladipo’s absence was planned after he played in three games in a five-day span for his first games in nearly a year following surgery.
Herro scored 18 of his 21 first-half points during Miami’s 42-point second quarter that helped build a 67-55 halftime lead. Adebayo added 15 first-half points. Taurean Prince’s 3-pointer at the third-quarter buzzer gave Minnesota an 89-86 advantage. Beasley scored nine points – three 3-pointers – in the third quarter for the Timberwolves.
